BEIRUT: Walking along a coast carpeted with bottles and household containers, the only audible sounds are the crackling of plastic under foot and the lull of...
BEIRUT: The United States’ decision earlier this year to cut tens of millions of dollars of aid money to the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency has left...
BEIRUT: A self-described son of farmers who spent his early years cultivating the land in Brazil, the current United Nations Development Program administrator...
BEIRUT: A new conflict between Israel and Hezbollah “could be one miscalculation away,” a report released Thursday by the International Crisis...
BEIRUT: In the spring of 2017, researchers at the San Francisco-based mobile security firm Lookout were toiling over heaps of data, investigating a campaign...
BEIRUT: The body of 23-year-old Zarifa Z. was found buried on a Jiyyeh beach on Jan. 11. She had been stoned to death and her husband was the main suspect. A...
BEIRUT: Members of the British Parliament concluded a cross-party parliamentary debate this week aimed at ramping up pressure on the government to extend a...
BEIRUT: Top donor countries pledged Wednesday to devise new strategies and discuss long-term humanitarian assistance for the Syrian crisis during their 12th...
BEIRUT: Once the setting of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales, the skyline of the Danish city of Odense is now characterized by a heavy plume of...
BEIRUT: Responsibility for the closure of a Tripoli sorting and composting plant, inaugurated in June 2017, appeared unclear as the operating company AMB...
BEIRUT: Ghada Ahmedi cannot recall life in Beirut’s Palestinian refugee camp of Mar Elias without the services of the United Nations agency for...
BEIRUT: The charges recently leveled against political talk show host Marcel Ghanem have reignited the discussion on the guarantees to press freedom in...
BEIRUT: A sorting facility built with a $1.63 million grant from the European Union in Tripoli was shut down Thursday, following residents’ complaints...
BEIRUT: A cut to American funding for UNRWA, recently threatened by Nikki Haley, could have a dire impact on the tens of thousands of Palestinians living in...
BEIRUT: As a nurse, Ibrahim Fakih knew that the spike in blood pressure his father was experiencing required swift medical attention. He frantically called...
BEIRUT: Despite a promising inauguration in June, a sorting plant in Tripoli financed by the European Union is set to close temporarily following a decision...
BEIRUT: The global Plan of Action to Prevent Violent Extremism launched by the United Nations in 2015 has reached its first milestone in Lebanon, but the road...
BEIRUT: Lebanese mobile phone users received in the past few days a multitude of calls from numbers bearing Russia’s country code (0079), prompting a...
BEIRUT: In the countryside of eighth century Germany, an English bishop named Winfrid – later known as St. Boniface – surprised a group of young men making a...
BEIRUT: At the closing event for first UNICEF-sponsored social impact startup accelerator, Zakaria Seifeddin began his presentation by recounting a personal...
BEIRUT: When the doorbell rang one November evening at around 9 p.m., Ghadir knew it wouldn’t be a courtesy call. A few minutes earlier, the noises...
BEIRUT: Prime Minister Saad Hariri Wednesday put the onus on the international community for failing to take action on conflicts in the Middle East, adding...
BEIRUT: A controversial law passed in March that formally put an end to old rent agreements has been largely suspended, lawyers and syndicates say, due to the...
BEIRUT: Environment Minister Tarek Khatib denied Monday the existence of a trash crisis in Lebanon, after a Human Rights Watch report raised alarm on the...
BEIRUT: “It starts with the smell, and then this white smoke begins rising and it encircles our building,” Leila said, describing to Human Rights...