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Najib
Oct 08, 2021 04:33
Kuwait was among the first countries to provide a humanitarian aid to Lebanon following the Beirut port explosion in August 2020, and has most recently sent an airplane carrying three tons of baby formula as a gift from the Kuwaiti people to the Lebanese people. This is one of 18 Kuwait airplanes that were dispatched to Lebanon carrying over 820 tons of basic needs to Lebanon. The baby formula was provided by in cooperation with…
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Najib
Oct 08, 2021 04:15
The Lebanese parliament could not be bothered today to allocate more than two minutes to discuss a women’s quota in the upcoming 2022 elections. The proposal to amend Article 2 of the electoral law which secures 26 seats for women in the parliament and forces electoral lists to include 40% of female candidate was quickly dismissed. This is the second time that the parliament has failed to include a women’s quota in the law and…
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Najib
Oct 06, 2021 10:31
We've had tons of new movements popping left and right ever since the revolution started, including a group whose logo has the "Avengers" on it with the Thawra first in the background. Those "Thawra Avengers" made an appearance in today's protest against the visit of Iran's Foreign Minister to Lebanon, but I still can't find any page or website linking to the group. In fact, looking at the invitation below, I haven't heard of 90%…
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Najib
Oct 06, 2021 04:53
The online registration for Lebanese expats begun a week ago, but it's still not clear whether expats will have the right to vote in their respective electoral districts or be restricted to only 6 seats. Kulluna Irada and The Lebanese Diaspora Network have launched today a joint initiative aimed at voicing out the Lebanese expatriates demand to exercise their full democratic right of electing their deputies based on their place of registration. All expats are…
Events
4 years ago
The French Embassy in Lebanon & l’Institut Français du Liban are organizing the first edition of the Beirut Comic Art festival from October 6 till October 10 2021. The festival will start with a concert ...
Baladi
4 years ago
Magnum Photos is an international photographic cooperative owned by its photographer-members, with offices in New York City, Paris, London and Tokyo. This year, at the 74th Annual General Meeting (AGM), two new nominees were selected ...
BeirutBlast
4 years ago
The Beirut port explosion killed 218 people including including nationals of Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Ethiopia, Bangladesh, Philippines, Pakistan, Palestine, the Netherlands, Canada, Germany, France, Australia, and the United States. However, the number of non-lebanese killed ...
Baladi
4 years ago
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded jointly yesterday to two US scientists, David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian. Dr. Julius is a professor of physiology at the University of California in San Francisco ...
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