News Lebanon Akkar: Grand Mufti Derian calls for protecting military and security institutions in Lebanon
Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdel Latif Derian has called for the protection of military and security institutions in Lebanon by filling vacancies in some of their ranks to enhance their renowned work and ...
News Lebanon Akkar: Assad lets narco-traffickers, militias run wild in Syria - analysis
Yet it is also destabilizing the regime by empowering narco-militias, effectively outsourcing Syria’s economy to drug mafias at the highest levels.According to the Associated Press, “Captagon is ...
News Lebanon Akkar: Live updates: Violence flares in Israel amid tension along Lebanon border
Israel carried out airstrikes in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip early Friday in retaliation to a barrage of rockets that was fired from southern Lebanon toward northern Israel, as the risk of a wide-scale ...
News Lebanon Akkar: Lebanon's cabinet reverses decision to delay daylight savings time
BEIRUT :Lebanon's caretaker premier said the cabinet had voted to move clocks one hour ahead on Wednesday night, reversing his decision to postpone the move to daylight savings time by a month that had sparked uproar across the country.Prime Minister Najib Mikati said on Monday the decision had been taken aft
News Lebanon Akkar: Lebanon's million-dollar airport terminal deal in the hot seat: why the controversy?
An agreement between Lebanon and private companies to build and operate a new terminal worth $122 million at Beirut's Rafik Hariri International Airport has stirred controversy after critics said it ...
News Lebanon Akkar: Lebanon has 'no other way out' than IMF deal, U.S. official says
BEIRUT (Reuters) -Lebanon has no alternative for economic recovery but to make progress on a deal with the International Monetary Fund, a senior U.S. official said on Thursday. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Barbara Leaf visited Lebanon, which is suffering one of the world's worst financial meltdowns, according to the World Bank, on a regional trip earlier this month. Leaf said in an online briefing she had urged Lebanese officials to make progress on the full deal and to end a months-long vacuum in the presidency.
News Lebanon Akkar: US slaps sanctions on two brothers in Lebanon for corruption
As Lebanon's economy deteriorated, the US Treasury said Lebanese businessmen Raymond Zina Rahme and Teddy Zina Rahme profited from public corruption.
News Lebanon Akkar: 85% of Lebanese People Suffer from Multidimensional Poverty
Rabih, a father of three, lamented that the economic crisis in Lebanon now means that he can no longer feed his children enough. He also has to support his sick mother, saying providing her with medical care is his top priority. “We can no longer afford hospital treatment. We can barely afford to buy medicine without being humiliated in the process,” he told Asharq Al-Awsat. Mirielle, another parent of three, said the situation had grown more...
News Lebanon Akkar: Lebanon's audit of gold completed 'successfully', says central bank
LEBANON CENTRAL BANK Riad Salameh, governor of Lebanon's Central Bank, where an audit of gold assets has been conducted. Reuters . An audit of Lebanon's Central Bank's gold res ...
News Lebanon Akkar: UN boosts food aid budget to feed a third of Lebanon
“Food prices in Lebanon are 16 times higher than they were in October 2019 before the onset of the current deep financial crisis,” WFP spokesperson Rasha Abou Dargham told The Associated Press ...
News Lebanon Akkar: Lebanon’s crisis-fuelled cholera outbreak spreads across the country
It has been fewer than two months since Lebanon reported a single case of cholera, the first in the country since 1993. That was on October 6. Since then, cases have continued to climb, sparking ...
News Lebanon Akkar: Lebanon arrests 23 Syrians for illegal entry
Lebanese security authorities have arrested 23 Syrians for illegally entering the country, according to authorities. The Syrians, who were arrested on Friday in the northern district of Akkar, have ...
