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Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah warned Friday that war between Israel and Hamas could turn into a regional conflict if attacks on Gaza continue, placing
Pope holds open-air mass for 30,000 worshippers in Bahrain
By Layal Abou RahalAgence France-PresseBEIRUT — Two years after a now-defunct protest movement shook Lebanon, opposition activists are hoping parliamentary polls will challenge the ruling elite's stranglehold on the country.Hundreds of thousands of Lebanese took to the streets from October 17, 2019, in an unprecedented countrywide and cross-sectarian uprising.
By Layal Abou RahalAgence France-PresseBEIRUT — By challenging Lebanon’s national passion for automobile ownership, and driving growing numbers towards greener or more collective transport, the economic crisis is succeeding where everything else failed.In the absence of a functioning public transport system, car culture has thrived and many households, even modest ones, boast
Search A woman, draped in a black-striped Lebanese flag, looks at the site of the massive explosion at Beirut's port area, during a demonstration to mark one month since the cataclysmic August 4 explosion that killed 191 people, in the Lebanese capital Beirut on September 4, 2020. - The explosion piled on new misery for Lebanese already reeling from the coronavirus pandemic and the country's worst economic crisis in decades. As well as killing more than 190 people, the explosion injured at least 6,500 and left 300,000 homeless. (Photo by ANWAR AMRO / AFP) (AFP / Anwar Amro) Broken-hearte...