Abducted child Ricardo Jaara was released Monday after a three-day kidnap ordeal, media reports said. “Jaara was freed this afternoon after he was kidnapped two days ago near his house in Amchit,” LBCI television reported. “His father headed to (the northern border district of) Wadi Khaled, where he handed $50,000 to a man riding […]

  Health Minister Wael Abou Faour referred to the General Prosecution four doctors for issuing fake medical reports used to help people obtain drivers licenses, reported the National News Agency on Tuesday. It said that the doctors were issuing the reports without performing a medical examination of the applicants. They were identified as Joseph H., […]

  For the third year in a row Naharnet is hosting the official exam results for the four sections of Baccalaureate and the Brevet (BR). Results for the sections of Humanities (LH), Sociology and Economics (SE) and Life Science (SV) were released Wednesday and Thursday. They can be accessed through the files below. Only the […]

  BEIRUT: Financial Prosecutor Ali Ibrahim Friday charged 11 people, including a doctor and a pharmacist, with healthcare fraud. A judicial source told The Daily Star the charges included prescription fraud and embezzlement of funds belonging to the National Social Security Fund. Ibrahim referred the detainees to the investigative judge in Sidon, south Lebanon, where […]

  BEIRUT: Prime Minister Tammam Salam Friday scheduled a Cabinet meeting for next week despite the conflict that arose with Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun after the government passed a decree before discussing the appointment of new security officials. Divisions emerged when Cabinet convened its first session in nearly a month Thursday, with Aoun […]

  The cabinet convened on Thursday following a three-week suspension but the session witnessed arguments among ministers on several controversial issues, infuriating Prime Minister Tammam Salam. “We couldn’t agree during the cabinet session today. In the absence of a president there is no clear mechanism on the authorities of each minister,” Education Minister Elias Bou […]

  BEIRUT: Health Minister Wael Abu Faour is seeking charges against two physicians accused of forging birth certificates, a ministry statement said Thursday. The statement said Abu Faour asked the Mount Lebnon judiciary to investigate each case separately. In one case, a birth certificate belonging to child Thomas Anthony David, approved at a mukhtar’s office […]

  BEIRUT: Military Investigative Judge Fadi Sawwan Thursday charged three Syrians of belonging to ISIS and attacking the Lebanese Army. Khaled Mohammad Abu Saad was charged in absentia with belonging to ISIS, attacking the Army, attempted murder of soldiers and burning military posts in the northeastern border town of Arsal. An arrest warrant was issued […]

  The Lebanese army has thwarted a terrorist plot to target areas in North Bekaa with dozens of rockets, An Nahar daily reported on Thursday. The newspaper said that the army arrested 30 people, three of them holding the U.S. nationality, after it received information about the plot. Three of the suspects are Koreans and […]

  Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Monday described extremist groups as intruders, vowing to spread the culture of tolerance along with Muslims. “We lived with Muslims for 1,400 years in the Orient and all the terrorist organizations that threaten and kill are aliens,” al-Rahi told a delegation of youth from several bishoprics across the world. […]