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Fans and stars paid tribute to Jean-Paul Belmondo on Tuesday, saying the charismatic French actor, who died on Monday aged 88, would live on forever in people’s minds and on … Read More
Lebanon suffered their first defeat of the final round of World Cup qualification Tuesday following a narrow 1-0 defeat away to South Korea.
Syria has no technical or logistical problems in resuming the shipment of Egyptian gas through its territories to Lebanon since all the pipelines remained intact and serviceable despite the 10-year-old … Read More
Israel launched airstrikes against Gaza on Monday night, the army said, retaliating after incendiary balloons launched from the blockaded Palestinian enclave had started fires.
Musician Ahmed Mahdy says the increased freedoms allow his rap group Ijraat, ‘procedures’, to better reflect the issues they see still plaguing Sudan, which is still in the grip of … Read More
Framed by an environmental and economic crisis, Mounia Akl’s debut feature ‘Costa Brava, Lebanon’ follows a family that has relocated to the mountains to escape Beirut’s troubles. Production began 3 … Read More
Within weeks of the Islamists taking the capital, many of the colourful street art pieces painted on Kabul’s labyrinth of concrete blast walls have been painted over, replaced by drab … Read More
France’s highest court on Tuesday dismissed a previous legal ruling that struck out a charge for complicity in crimes against humanity against cement firm Lafarge over its dealings in Syria, … Read More
A group of European Parliament members Tuesday called on Lebanon’s authorities to take immediate action to solve the worsening economic crisis
Owners of the private electricity generators started hiking their prices by more than two to three times this month under the pretext that the rates of the diesel fuel in … Read More