(CNN) Iraqi social media star and model Tara Fares has been shot dead in Baghdad, security officials confirmed to CNN. The death of Fares and other recent killings prompted Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to order an investigation on Friday. The former Miss Baghdad, and first runner-up for Miss Iraq, was killed on Thursday after gunmen opened […]

by arabnews.com — Al-Anwar is the latest victim of the country’s media crisis. Founded in 1943 by Lebanese writer Said Freiha, Dar Al-Sayyad has offices in London, BEIRUT: Lebanon newspaper Al-Anwar on Friday said its publisher was suspending its print version, as it became the latest victim of the country’s media crisis. “Dar Al-Sayyad has […]

by bytheeast.com — Tina Abou Rizk— Sidon is almost a six thousand year old city in Lebanon which reaped benefit this summer from the international tourism boom, whereby tourists flocked to the city rich with its historical links. The National News Agency reported that the “caretaker Tourism Minister Avedis Guidanian” commented that in 2018 Lebanon witnessed […]

The president of Lebanon is accusing the international community of a double standard when dealing with the Middle East. In his address to world leaders at the U.N. Wednesday, President Michel Aoun criticized the Trump administration’s decision to recognize Jerusalem and the capital of Israel while cutting aid to Palestinians and to the U.N. agency […]

by catholicnewsagency.com — Pope Francis took responsibility Tuesday for the agreement between the Holy See and the People’s Republic of China, noting that in any such negotiation, “both sides lose something.” He was asked about the agreement Sept. 25 during the flight from Tallinn to Rome by Antonio Pelayo of Vida Nueva. The agreement on […]

BEIRUT, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) — Lebanon’s parliament on Tuesday endorsed the 120-million-U.S.-dollar World Bank loan for the health sector after a heated debate. “We should benefit from these loans at low interest rates since our revenues are very limited,” caretaker Finance Minister Ali Hassan Khalil was quoted as saying by the National News Agency. This […]

By Marisa Fernandez – Axios Facebook rolled out its new dating vertical, called Facebook Dating, in Colombia on Thursday. Why it matters: Its potential is huge — Facebook says 200 million users identify as single on their profiles, per Recode. The details: CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants the dating service to be for meaningful relationships, not […]

Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun has blamed Israel for attempts to split the Middle East along social and religious lines. “In the Middle East Israel is trying to carve up the region into a patchwork of secular and religious entities, quasi-states, in a bid to put together a sectarian puzzle,” Aoun said in an interview with […]

  ‘Capharnaum’, a snap shot of poverty in Beirut, has been nominated for Best Foreign Film Acclaimed Beiruti writer-director, Nadine Labaki — most notable for her work in Where Do We Go Now? (2011) and Caramel (2007) — will be representing Lebanon in the 2019 Oscar’s for ‘Best Foreign Film’. Her nominated movie and regional […]

(MENAFN) Mohamed Choucair, head of the Chamber of Commerce, stressed the significance of eliminate all the difficulties that stand against the process of exporting Lebanese goods to Brazil shop. Choucair said, “The presence of Lebanese businessmen in Brazil, already facilitates the increase in trade between the two countries, but more efforts should be done, to […]