Sep 12 Lebanon’s Central Bank lifts all expensive fuel subsidies amid economic crisis By Kareem Chehayeb, Associated Press The spokesman of the crisis-hit country's Gas Station Owners' Syndicate told The Associated Press on Monday that fuel will now be priced in U.S. dollars to the country's black market exchange rate. Continue reading
Aug 23 Remaining northern section of Beirut port silos collapses By Kareem Chehayeb, Associated Press No injuries were reported — the area had been long evacuated — but the collapse was another painful reminder of the horrific August 2020 explosion. Continue reading
Aug 14 Salman Rushdie ‘on the road to recovery’ from stabbing, agent says By Hillel Italie, Carolyn Thompson, Associated Press Salman Rushdie is “on the road to recovery,” his agent confirmed Sunday, two days after the author of “The Satanic Verses” suffered serious injuries in a stabbing at a lecture in upstate New York. Continue reading
Aug 07 1st grain ship to leave Ukraine delayed before reaching Lebanon By Bassem Mroue, Associated Press The scheduled arrival Sunday of the first grain ship to leave Ukraine and cross the Black Sea under a wartime deal has been delayed, a Lebanese Cabinet minister and the Ukraine Embassy said. Continue reading
Aug 04 2 years after blast, part of Beirut’s giant silos collapses By Bassem Mroue, Associated Press A large section of Beirut's giant port grain silos, shredded by a massive explosion two years ago, has collapsed as hundreds marched in the Lebanese capital to mark the second anniversary of the blast that killed scores. Continue reading
Jun 07 Watch 8:07 Lebanon’s economic and humanitarian disasters leave citizens to fend for themselves By Leila Molana-Allen, Leena Saidi, Teresa Cebrian Aranda For the past several years, Lebanon has been in economic freefall. Its currency is close to worthless; its government is fractured and ineffective; there is almost no electric power, and there is less security. Lebanon's people are suffering. Special correspondent… Continue watching
May 17 Watch 5:24 News Wrap: FDA approves Pfizer’s COVID-19 booster for children age 5 to 11 In our news wrap Tuesday, the FDA authorized Pfizer's low-dose COVID booster for kids 5 to 11 years old, China restricted more Beijing residents to their homes to help control a small outbreak, U.S highway deaths shot up last year… Continue watching
May 17 Hezbollah and allies lose parliamentary majority in Lebanese election By Bassem Mroue, Associated Press Final results in Lebanon's weekend parliamentary elections show that the militant Hezbollah group and its allies have lost the majority of parliament seats they had held since 2018. Continue reading
Apr 25 Watch 5:00 News Wrap: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy denies asking Trump to resign By PBS NewsHour In our news wrap Monday, the top Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, again denied asking former President Trump to resign over the Capitol attack. Also, a New York state judge found Trump in contempt of court… Continue watching
Sep 24 WATCH: His country mired in crises, Lebanese leader calls for help By Zeina Karam, Associated Press Lebanon's president is asking the international community for assistance to help the country recover from one of the worst financial crises the world has seen in modern history. Continue reading