Lebanese discrimination after UAE visa ban?
Is the UAE more likely to reject the visa applications of Lebanese Muslims than Christians? While some Lebanese travel agencies in charge of processing UAE visa applications have claimed this to...
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Canada now has a Lebanese Heritage Month
BEIRUT —In Canada, the month of November will now be designated as Lebanese Heritage Month each year. The legislation was unanimously approved by the House of Commons on June 14 and given Royal...
26 June 2023
Israel approves thousands of building permits in West Bank
JERUSALEM — Israel's nationalist-religious government approved the construction of approximately 5,700 additional housing units for Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank on Monday, despite...
26 June 2023
Saudi Arabia revises references to Israel in school textbooks
According to a recent report by the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (Impact-se), references to Christians and Jews were recently amended in Saudi school...
26 June 2023
EDL promises 6 hours of power per day in Beirut, starting Wednesday
BEIRUT — Électricité du Liban (EDL) announced Monday that it will increase the supply of electricity to several Beirut neighborhoods by an additional two hours per day following the end of an...
26 June 2023
Massive Akkar wildfire extinguished, more than 90 hectares burned
BEIRUT — At least 90 hectares of forest burned, centuries-old trees ravaged, homes affected, and more than 200 tired volunteers. After more than two days of fighting the massive wildfire...
26 June 2023
The Wagner mutiny: A Middle Eastern perspective
The sequence only lasted 24 hours, a brief period that provided ample space for a myriad of opinions to form. Despite the fact that certain Middle Eastern countries maintain favorable ties with...
Noura DOUKHI, 26 June 2023
Teachers criticize cancellation of Brevet exams
BEIRUT — A public middle school teachers' union on Monday denounced cabinet's decision last week to cancel this year's Brevet exams, calling the move a "sacrifice on the altar of destroying...
26 June 2023
Iran's Raisi speaks to Putin, expresses 'full support': Kremlin
Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi on Monday spoke by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin and expressed his "full support" following the aborted mutiny of a mercenary chief, the Kremlin said....
26 June 2023
Public administration employees prolong strike
BEIRUT — Public administration employees announced Monday morning that they would extend their month-long strike "on Monday, June 26 and Tuesday, June 27," while other state institutions, including...
26 June 2023
Hezbollah says it shot down Israeli drone in south Lebanon
Hezbollah said it downed an Israeli drone near the border in southern Lebanon on Monday. The Iran-backed group "shot down an Israeli drone that entered Lebanese airspace ... near Zibqin in the...
26 June 2023
School buses burnt in Akkar village in revenge for sheikh's killing
BEIRUT — Unidentified people burnt school buses early Monday morning in a Karkaf, Akkar village school belonging to the former mayor, Yehya Rifai, who is suspected of orchestrating the murder of...
26 June 2023
Huge crowds swarm from Mecca for hajj climax
Hundreds of thousands of Muslim pilgrims walked or rode buses Monday to a giant tented city near Mecca for the climax of the annual hajj that Saudi officials say could break attendance records....
26 June 2023
FEMALE feminist collective celebrated 10th anniversary despite threats
The FEMALE collective held a festival marking its 10th anniversary between June 23- 24 at the Beirut Hippodrome, despite online threats. The event, which included concerts, panels and dialogue...
Angela Khalife, 26 June 2023
US to test its Palestinian dual nationals' Israeli access in July
JERUSALEM — The United States will test Palestinian-Americans' freedom of travel in Israel next month as part of preparations for proposed US visa exemptions for Israelis, an official briefed on...
26 June 2023
Sudan civilians killed in battle for Khartoum police HQ
At least 14 civilians have been killed in war-torn Sudan's capital as rival forces are locked in a key battle over control of the Khartoum police headquarters, activists said Monday....
26 June 2023
Bassil launches new criticism of Hezbollah, Amal over presidential deadlock
BEIRUT — Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) head Gebran Bassil launched a new dig Sunday evening at the Hezbollah-Amal tandem amid increasingly strained relations. During a meeting with FPM...
26 June 2023
Judge's car hit by stray bullet at Beirut airport
BEIRUT — A stray bullet hit the car of Roland Chartouni, Government Commissioner to the Military Court, as it entered the parking lot of Beirut's international airport on Monday the state-run...
26 June 2023
Russian strikes kill 13 in rebel-held Syria
Russian air strikes killed at least 13 people in rebel-held northwest Syria on Sunday, the deadliest attack on the country this year, a war monitor said. At least nine...
26 June 2023
Teymour Joumblatt succeeds father, Akkar wildfire, shark poaching: Everything you need to know to start your Monday
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Teymour Joumblatt officially succeeded his father , Walid Joumblatt, as head of the Progressive Socialist Party on Sunday. “If...
