Beirut News

The head of a leading Lebanese social justice organization on Friday lamented the absence from the Ministerial Statement any efforts toward reforming the country’s sexist nationality law. Lina Abou-Habib, executive director of the Collective for Research, Training and Development-Action,...

Kataeb Party leader Amin Gemayel told Al-Massira magazine on Friday that bilateral dialogue, a reference to that between Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblatt and Marada Movement leader MP Sleiman Franjieh, which took place in Baabda on Wednesday, is...

The conference aimed to discuss the potential of carrying out a variety of projects in the Euro-Mediterranean region in the near future.  Hariri also emphasized the important role that the private sector plays in the activation of economic and commercial...

The new Lebanese government would do well to put high on its agenda one of the chronic stress points in the country, but one that now shows glimmers of hope of being resolved: Palestinian-Lebanese relations. This is one of the...

Officials from the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) tasked with prosecuting suspects in the 2005 assassination of former Premier Rafik Hariri visited Lebanon last week, the court’s Defense Office said Wednesday. François Roux, head of the Defense Office, and his team...

The United Nations remains committed to monitoring the security situation along the southern border with Lebanon, top peacekeepers said...Interim Force in Lebanon, met with Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri to discuss his the collaboration of the peacekeeping mission and the...

An informed source in Hezbollah told NOW’s correspondent on Thursday that the new political document that was adopted during Hezbollah’s general conference would be an important development in the party’s “political and intellectual visions,” adding that the document includes the...

Twenty years ago this Friday, the UN adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon.   The results of this most recent survey made it clear that the organization’s work was far from done. ...

Judicial Police Commander General Anwar Yehya told Al-Manar television on Friday that evidence in the death of a mother, Grace Jalkh, and her three daughters in Bhersaf-Metn on Wednesday night points, until now, to a suicide. According to Yehya, the...

It added that not enough was being done by regional governments to tackle the threats posed by sea level rise and pollution.  Garabed Kazanjian, Oceans Campaigner for Greenpeace in Lebanon, said that climate change posed a risk to marine life...