Posted By
Najib
Oct 25, 2024 05:41
Over 1 billion dollars were pledged in humanitarian and military support for Lebanon at the Paris conference yesterday, including $200 million dollars for the security forces. The US pledged to provide $300 million, France and Germany each around $100 million, while Italy will provide $10 million. While Lebanon needs all the help it can get to manage the repercussions of the ongoing war, we don't want to pay once again for Macron's political adventures, and…
Posted By
Najib
Oct 24, 2024 03:12
It's October and once again forest fires are raging and the Civil Defence are not properly equipped to contain them. The Rabweh fire has been ongoing for four days now and the rough terrain is making very difficult to contain the fire, let alone extinguish it. While it's understandable to have difficulties containing a fire in such a rough geographical location, it's unacceptable not to have a proper budget allocated to preventing such fires and…
Critiques
1 year ago
While Israel was bombing Baalbek, a local exploited the situation to destroy a house that was deemed historic by the authorities. Governor of Baalbek & Hermel Bachir Khodr reported the matter and mentioned that the ...
Critiques
1 year ago
UNHCR has reported that over 250,000 Syrian refugees have crossed into Syria ever since the war between Israel and Lebanon had escalated. In addition to that, over 60,000 Lebanese have crossed the border seeking refuge ...
Critiques
1 year ago
An Israeli strike on Baalbeck today was few hundred meters away from the Baalbek Temple, a designated UNESCO World Heritage sites. There are 22 similar sites in Lebanon including Baalbek and they all carry a ...
Critiques
1 year ago
Ever since Israel started bombing Beirut’s suburbs, all airlines have cancelled their flights to Lebanon except for Middle East Airlines. However, one has to wonder if it’s really safe to fly over Beirut skies while ...
Information
1 year ago
Today’s events may have been the largest security breach in Lebanon’s history. Thousands of handheld pagers belonging to Hezbollah members exploded leaving over 3000 injured and killing at least nine people including a child. The ...
Critiques
1 year ago
I have no idea who started this silly rumor, but Coldplay is not coming to Lebanon this summer and no matter how hard the ministry of tourism is presumably working to make it happen, you ...
Critiques
1 year ago
A gas leak at a pizza place on Bechara El Khoury Street led to the death of at least night people yesterday. The victims did not die from the explosion but suffocated from the fumes ...
Critiques
1 year ago
Lebanese-Canadian writer and actor Wajdi Mouawad was hosting the world premiere of his latest play “Wedding Day at the Cromagnons” at the Monnot Theater in Beirut, however the play was cancelled after activists lodged a ...
