Former MP Camille Ziade passes away aged 79
Former Kesrouan MP Camille Ziade passed away on Sunday at the age of 79. Originally from the village of Herehraya al-Qattine, he was elected MP for Kesrouan-Ftouh in 1992 and 1996. In Parliament,...
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Cancer patients protest in Beirut, call for solution to medicine shortages
"We don't want monuments to be lit up in pink in October, we want our medicine." "Cancer patients have the right to uninterrupted treatment." "Our government is killing us." On Sunday, dozens of...
Layal Dagher/L'Orient-Le Jour, 2 October 2022
Protest-hit Iran’s Raisi says enemy ‘conspiracy’ has failed
Iran’s ultra-conservative President Ebrahim Raisi said Sunday that a “conspiracy” by the country’s enemies had “failed,” as anti-government protests spill into a third week. “At a time when the...
2 October 2022
Demonstrators in Beirut show solidarity with Iran's Mahsa Amini protests
BEIRUT — Several dozen protesters gathered at the National Museum in Beirut Sunday to show solidarity with Iranian women following the death more than two weeks ago of 22-year-old woman Mahsa Amini...
2 October 2022
More than 40 bodies found in Libya mass grave: Authorities
Forty-two bodies have been found in a mass grave in the Libyan city of Sirte, an ex-stronghold of the ISIS extremist group, the country’s missing persons authority said Sunday. Exhumation teams...
2 October 2022
At least 92 people killed in Iran crackdown on Mahsa Amini protests: Norway-based NGO
At least 92 people have been killed nationwide in Iran's crackdown on two weeks of protests that erupted following the death of Mahsa Amini who had been arrested by the morality police, the...
2 October 2022
Death toll of guards killed after clashes in Iran’s southeast rises to five: Agency
TEHRAN — Clashes in Iran’s southeast claimed the lives of five members of the Revolutionary Guards, state media reported Sunday, raising the death toll from violent unrest there two days earlier....
2 October 2022
Israel says satisfied with US envoy's proposal on maritime border with Lebanon
BEIRUT — US mediator Amos Hochstein’s proposal on the maritime border between Lebanon and Israel "protects" and "strengthens" the latter’s interests, Israeli Prime Minister...
2 October 2022
Rai to MPs: Elect a 'sovereign' president
BEIRUT — Maronite Patriarch Bechara al-Rai expressed his fear Sunday that parliamentary sessions to elect a new president would continue to face impasse as members of Parliament still have not...
2 October 2022
American held In Iran allowed to leave, son freed from detention
The United Nations said Saturday that an Iranian-American blocked from leaving Iran can now depart and that his son was released from detention. The United States has been pressing for the release...
2 October 2022
ISF arrests three escapees from Nabatieh prison
BEIRUT — Lebanon's Internal Security Forces arrested on Saturday all three fugitives who had escaped the same day from a prison in Doueir, in the region of Nabatieh in south Lebanon, the state-run...
