BEIRUT, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) — Lebanon’s parliament on Tuesday endorsed the 120-million-U.S.-dollar World Bank loan for the health sector after a heated debate. “We should benefit from these loans at low interest rates since our revenues are very limited,” caretaker Finance Minister Ali Hassan Khalil was quoted as saying by the National News Agency. This […]

By Marisa Fernandez – Axios Facebook rolled out its new dating vertical, called Facebook Dating, in Colombia on Thursday. Why it matters: Its potential is huge — Facebook says 200 million users identify as single on their profiles, per Recode. The details: CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants the dating service to be for meaningful relationships, not […]

Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun has blamed Israel for attempts to split the Middle East along social and religious lines. “In the Middle East Israel is trying to carve up the region into a patchwork of secular and religious entities, quasi-states, in a bid to put together a sectarian puzzle,” Aoun said in an interview with […]

  ‘Capharnaum’, a snap shot of poverty in Beirut, has been nominated for Best Foreign Film Acclaimed Beiruti writer-director, Nadine Labaki — most notable for her work in Where Do We Go Now? (2011) and Caramel (2007) — will be representing Lebanon in the 2019 Oscar’s for ‘Best Foreign Film’. Her nominated movie and regional […]

(MENAFN) Mohamed Choucair, head of the Chamber of Commerce, stressed the significance of eliminate all the difficulties that stand against the process of exporting Lebanese goods to Brazil shop. Choucair said, “The presence of Lebanese businessmen in Brazil, already facilitates the increase in trade between the two countries, but more efforts should be done, to […]

BEIRUT, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) — A group of the maritime Lebanese army rescued Saturday 30 Syrian refugees trying to escape Lebanon illegally off Akkar shore, local media reported. After being rescued, the escaping refugees were transferred to one of the army centers in El Abde, according to Elnashra, an independent online newspaper. Meanwhile, Al Mustaqbal […]

by AP — Lebanon says FBI Director Christopher Wray has expressed support to the Lebanese army during a visit to Beirut. A statement released by the presidential palace in Beirut said President Michel Aoun received Wray on Friday and told him that Lebanon has succeeded in fighting terror groups thanks to U.S. support and that […]

BEIRUT, (Xinhua) — Lebanese caretaker Finance Minister Ali Hassan Khalil said the ministry aims to address the housing loans crisis in the country through subsidies, an independent online newspaper reported. The government will allocate 100 billion Lebanese pounds (66.3 million U.S. dollars) to subsidize part of the interest rate on housing loans valued at 1,500 […]

by Matthew Davis — thecatholicspirit.com — Before the turn of the 20th century, Catholic immigrants fleeing persecution in Lebanon were settling in St. Paul, but they had no church of their own. They were members of the Maronite Church, an eastern rite of the Catholic Church. They initially worshipped with Roman Catholics at St. Michael on the […]

(MENAFN) Lebanon’s transport plan failed to be executed as of yet as a result of financing shortage, as explained Lebanese caretaker Minister of Public Works and Transport Youssef Fenianos. The remark has been made by the Lebanese minister after being hit with a blast by Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil. The Lebanese foreign minister claimed that […]