By: Richard Hooper During the 1960s, the US and the Soviet Union competed for supremacy in space. But there was another contestant in the race – the Lebanese Rocket Society, a science club from a university in Beirut and the subject of a recently released film. “My vision was to explore space – Lebanon could have done that.” Manoug Manougian’s ...

Nabih Berri has become an unlikely contender in the US election. A photo shared to social media shows someone voted for the Lebanese politician instead of Donald Trump or Joe Biden. ‘الانتخابات منتهية من قلب أميركا’ the person tweeted. In English this translates to, “The election is over from the hearts of America”.  Americans will head to the polls today ...

Beirut: Explosion The Hon.Jason Clare MP Anyone with Lebanese blood in their veins lives with the heartache of what’s happened to Lebanon over the last few decades—the civil war, the bombings, the violence, the assassinations, the interference of foreign powers, the influx of refugees, the corruption, the virus and now this. Anyone with Lebanese blood in their veins won’t forget ...

Former Lebanese premier Tammam Salam has denied receiving correspondence or information about the arrival of hazardous chemical materials shipment in Beirut, which allegedly caused a deadly blast in the capital on Tuesday. In a statement on Sunday, Salam’s media office said reports alleging that he was aware of the arrival of a ship carrying chemical materials to Beirut were “false ...

Lebanon’s Christian Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros al-Rai has called for an international investigation into Tuesday’s Beirut port explosion. “It is a right for countries that provide Lebanon with generous assistance to know the mysterious causes, and the body that kept this big quantity of explosive material for six years at the most dangerous place in the capital [Beirut], and the ...

Lebanon’s protesters stormed several government ministries as violent protests gripped Beirut on Saturday night. The foreign ministry, the environment ministry and the economy ministry were occupied by angry demonstrators who called for the downfall of Lebanon’s ruling elite five days after a blast ripped through the Lebanese capital causing widespread destruction. The Banking Association, which protesters blame for the country’s worsening banking ...

Even before a pair of explosions in Lebanon’s capital of Beirut tore a vicious streak of death and damage through the city last week, the country was already grappling with a severe economic and political crisis. Now, the blasts combined with the coronavirus pandemic, rampant unrest and political corruption have created what one expert in an interview with The West Block is calling a “perfect storm” ...

International leaders are meeting to discuss aid for Lebanon in a donor conference organised by French President Emmanuel Macron and the United Nations. The conference aims to support the Middle Eastern country following an explosion in capital city Beirut that killed 158 people. “The objective of this conference is for us to unite today to definitively pool our resources in ...

Lebanese security forces fired tear gas Saturday at thousands of demonstrators who gathered in Beirut’s main square to protest the government’s management of the recent explosion that devastated large parts of the city. At the beginning of a planned protest, a small group of men started throwing stones at security forces as they tried to jump over barriers that were ...

Lebanese officials announced more measures to stabilize the nation’s plunging local currency and rein in soaring food prices that have triggered nationwide protests. The government will expand the list of subsidized goods, such as wheat, fuel and medicine, to include more than 200 food items, Economy Minister Raoul Nehme said at a joint briefing with central bank Governor Riad Salameh ...