By emirateswoman.com –She’s ninth in line to the throne of Monaco, an established writer, and a darling of the fashion scene—and it looks like Charlotte Casiraghi can now add bride-to-be to her CV. The style icon, who is the granddaughter of Prince Rainier III and Grace Kelly, is rumoured to be engaged to French-Lebanese film producer […]

By Paula Astih — aawsat.com Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri successfully rallied people behind him after targeting in his speech Hezbollah, making it clear that voters have a choice to make between two very different political atmospheres. “The choice in the elections will be easy: stability, security, economic drive and jobs, or God forbid, economic and […]

By Claudia Carpenter A Patek Philippe watch made for King Farouk of Egypt in 1944 sold to an unidentified buyer for $912,500 at Christie’s in Dubai on Friday, a record sum for a timepiece auctioned in the Middle East. The 18-carat gold Patek Philippe Ref. 1518 was estimated to be worth as much as $800,000 […]

by  Shana Lebowitz – Business Insider  Millennials can stay in touch with family and friends on social media There’s a lot of griping out there about how social media is ruining our attention spans, our ability to sit still, our self-esteem, and our lives in general. But one of its most basic functions is to keep us […]

by Alex Lockie – Business Insider – Article represents opinion of the author Iran’s navy made a point of harassing and humiliating the US Navy in 2016 after then-President Barack Obama had sealed the Iran deal, but since August 2017, the US Navy says things have changed. “It seems like they’ve absolutely made a conscious […]

Nadim Munla, Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri’s senior adviser, gestures as he speaks during an interview with Reuters in Beirut By Lisa Barrington and Tom Perry BEIRUT (Reuters) – The Lebanese government will raise $700 million soon by issuing special bonds that will help it unlock a further $4 billion of international funding for infrastructure […]

 John Bolton new National Security Adviser 9 quotes that show his stands  “The Secretariat building in New York has 38 stories; if you lost 10 stories today, it wouldn’t make a bit of difference,” Bolton said in a 1994 speech, referring to the UN’s headquarters. He added later: “There’s no such thing as the United […]

by Kif Leswing – business insider — The Tesla and SpaceX Facebook pages have vanished, minutes after Elon Musk — the CEO of both companies — said that he had never seen the SpaceX Facebook profile and planned to delete it. It started when Musk replied to a tweet earlier in the week from WhatsApp cofounder Brian […]

by Elliott Abrams & Zachary Shapiro — Politico — the 2006 evacuation was an overall success. But according to a 2007 assessment from the Government Accountability Office, the internal federal government watchdog, the operation demonstrated a number of difficulties that called for changes that would be even more important in a larger and more complex future conflict. The report […]

By hrw.org (Beirut) – Nabih Berri, Lebanon’s speaker of parliament, should schedule a vote on a draft waste management law before parliamentary elections on May 6, 2018, Human Rights Watch said today. The law has been stuck in parliament since 2012, but came before the joint committees of parliament in January, the final step before […]