BEIRUT: Despite reports that the government had renewed its interest in rebuilding the rail line between Beirut and Tabarja, the closest anyone is likely to come to buying a ticket is still an evening drinking $9 vodka tonics at an exclusive bar that opened recently in the historical Mar Mikhael train station. “This is […]

  The father of the child who was filmed abusing a Syrian boy has been arrested, announced the Internal Security Forces Intelligence Bureau on Sunday. It said that the father, identified as A.Aa., was arrested from inside the van he owns in the al-Raml al-Ali area in Beirut’s southern suburbs of Dahieh at 2:30 am […]

Christians were fleeing Iraq’s jihadist-held city of Mosul en masse after mosques relayed an ultimatum giving them a few hours to leave. Messages telling Christians to leave the city by today were blared through loudspeakers from the city’s mosques yesterday. The Islamist State jihadist group took over the city last month. A statement was issued […]

  Just days after the militant group the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria said they killed hundreds of Syrians, dozens of Iraqi Christian families are now fleeing the ISIS-controlled city of Mosul, hoping to avoid a similar fate. On Friday, the al Qaeda splinter group issued an ultimatum to Iraqi Christians living in Mosul […]

  A video of a child beating up another minor, who is a Syrian national according to some reports, went viral online, prompting the Ministry of Social Affairs and the judiciary to act and demand an investigation in the incident. The video that was posted on YouTube shows Abbas, a Lebanese child who hails from the […]

  BEIRUT: The city’s food and beverage offerings are a pesky subject to document as Beirut’s hip – and foreigner-rich – neighborhoods come and go every two years, almost like clockwork. A 5-year-old guide hailing Monnot as the epitome of nightlife is as much of a relic as a travel diary from the Civil War […]

  Two Lebanese nationals, holding the Australian citizenship, were among the 298 people on board the Malaysian jetliner that was shot down over Ukraine. According to Voice of Lebanon radio (100.5), Albert and Mary Rizk are among the victims who died along with dozens of others in the tragedy on Thursday. They live in Melbourne, […]

  Authorities have updated the death toll to 298 people killed when Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down over Ukraine, near the Russian border, to include three infants not counted earlier. That number includes: 189 Dutch nationals, 44 Malaysians, 27 Australians, 12 Indonesians, nine passengers believed to be from the UK, four each from […]

  The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday filed a complaint with the United Nations Security Council over “the numerous and dangerous Israeli violations of Lebanese sovereignty and of resolution 1701.” "The Israeli daily aerial, naval, and territorial violations against Lebanon, of Lebanese sovereignty and resolution 1701 have exceeded 516 since the beginning of this […]

  BEIRUT: Education Minister Elias Bou Saab called on Lebanese educational institutions Thursday to respect freedom of expression and religious practice, a month after SABIS School announced new regulations banning crosses while allowing hijab. “We call on… public and private schools…to adhere to the content of Articles 9 and 10 of the Lebanese Constitution,” Bou […]