by Mxolisi Mngadi – mg.co.za – Two Lebanese citizens are expected to appear at the Kempton Park Magistrate’s Court on Monday for allegedly illegally exporting components of drones to Hezbollah in Lebanon. Johannesburg-based businessman Usama Darwich Hamade, 53, was arrested at his Kempton Park home, while his brother Issam Hamade, 55, was arrested at OR Tambo International Airport after he […]

BY KARISSA BELL – Mashable – Vero, a photo-sharing app that launched in 2015, is the latest app to benefit from ongoing frustration with Instagram’s hated algorithm. A week ago, the app was ranked so low it didn’t even appear in the App Store’s top 1,500 apps; today it’s the most popular app in the entire App […]

BEIRUT – Arabnews – In a message from King Salman to Lebanese President Michel Aoun, Saudi envoy Nizar Al-Aloula reaffirmed his country’s “support for Lebanon and its sovereignty and stability,” the presidential palace said in a statement. Al-Aloula, who arrived in Beirut on Monday, also reaffirmed “the strong relations between Lebanon and Saudi Arabia, while […]

BEIRUT(Xinhua) — Lebanese President Michel Aoun said Monday that Lebanon sought stability in the south, but was ready to defend itself if attacked by Israel, in a meeting with the top UN peacekeeper Monday at the presidential palace in Baabda. United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix over the weekend made his first visit to […]

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Church leaders in Jerusalem shut the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Sunday in protest at a new Israeli tax policy and a proposed land expropriation law which they called an unprecedented attack on Christians in the Holy Land. Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox and Armenian church leaders said the holy site, a […]

  by Rami Rayees – Thearabweekly.com Energised by a new electoral system of proportional representation, Lebanon continues to push towards its parliamentary elections in May. However, weighed down by a bloated public sector and an economic system that prioritises tourism and services at the expense of the wider economy, electoral reform is unlikely to have much of an […]

by ctvnews.ca — Residents of the Lebanese city of Tripoli donned bright, curly wigs and dark body paint last Sunday for Zambo, a festival on the eve of the start of the Orthodox Christian period of Lent. The origins of the annual celebration remain unclear and it only seems to take place in a seaside suburb of Tripoli, […]

by businessweekme.com- Donna Abu-Nar-  Lebanon’s foreign-currency reserves have recovered from the shock of Prime Minister Saad Hariri’s surprise resignation, proving the resiliency of the country’s financial system, Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh said. Reserves fell to about $41.5 billion from more than $43 billion at the end of October after Hariri’s Nov. 4 resignation from […]

By panorama.am  Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan and President of Lebanon Michel Aoun, who is in Armenia on an official visited, issued a jointed statement summing up the results of their talks held on Thursday. In his speech, the Lebanese leader assessed the talks with President Sargsyan as positive and constructive, the presidential press office said. […]

  by CHRISTOPHER DAVIS– Thecelebritycafe.com On Sunday, Netflix revealed the launch of the comedy special Adel Karam: Live from Beirut, the first local production from out of the Middle East. The special will launch Thurs., March 1 as an exclusive release to all its members on all Netflix platforms around the globe. Adel is a mega-star in […]