Berri welcomes Syria's reinstatement in the Arab League
BEIRUT — Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri on Sunday welcomed Syria's reintegration into the Arab League , announced hours earlier after a meeting of the pan-Arab institution's foreign...
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Top UN humanitarian official in Saudi for Sudan talks: spokesperson
The UN's top humanitarian official arrived in the Saudi coastal city of Jeddah on Sunday for talks aiming for a cease-fire between Sudan's warring generals, a spokesperson said. ...
7 May 2023
Israel demolishes Palestinian school, drawing EU rebuke
Israeli forces on Sunday demolished a Palestinian primary school in the occupied West Bank citing safety issues, drawing sharp criticism from the European Union which had funded the project....
7 May 2023
Sports boss quits after women compete unveiled: Iranian state media
The head of Iran's athletics federation resigned Sunday over a sporting event featuring women without the mandatory headscarf, state media reported, as the Islamic Republic toughens enforcement of...
7 May 2023
Rai to the international community: Give aid to Syrian refugees on their own territory
BEIRUT — In his Sunday homily, Maronite Patriarch Bechara al-Rai called for aid to be given to Syrian refugees "on their own territory," accusing the international community of being against the...
7 May 2023
California police arrest young Lebanese man’s alleged killer
BEIRUT — The suspected murderer of Karim Abou Najm, a Lebanese student at the University of California, who was stabbed to death on April 29 in a park in the city of Davis, California, has been...
7 May 2023
Arab League readmits Syria as relations with Assad normalize
CAIRO — Arab League foreign ministers adopted a decision to readmit Syria after more than a decade of suspension on Sunday, a spokesperson for the League said, consolidating a regional push to...
7 May 2023
Excavation works resume near endangered seal cave in Amchit
BEIRUT — Excavation work at a private construction site above a natural littoral cave that is home to endangered Mediterranean monk seals in Amchit, north of Jbeil, has resumed, TERRE Liban, an...
Ghadir Hamadi, 7 May 2023
Ghada Aoun tweets: 'Free the judiciary'
After being dismissed by the disciplinary council of magistrates on Thursday, the public prosecutor at the Mount Lebanon Court of Appeal, Ghada Aoun, on Sunday called for the liberation of the...
7 May 2023
Israel hands over to Jordan lawmaker held in gun-running case
JERUSALEM — Israel on Sunday handed over to Jordan a member of the Jordanian parliament who had been held on suspicion of trying to smuggle weapons into the occupied West Bank....
7 May 2023
Lebanon crisis mutes national music conservatory
At Lebanon's national music conservatory, pianos collect dust and classrooms sit empty, making the institution another casualty of an economic collapse that has crippled the public sector and...
7 May 2023
Bukhari to Joumblatt: 'Solutions come from within Lebanon, not from outside'
BEIRUT — "Lasting solutions [will] come from within Lebanon, not from outside," Saudi Arabia's ambassador to Lebanon Waleed Bukhari said Saturday in reference to the country's unresolved...
7 May 2023
Turkey's Erdogan doesn't flinch in fight for political life
ANKARA — With his two-decade rule in the balance, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has pulled out all the stops on the campaign trail as he battles to survive his toughest political test...
