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Lebanon on Monday launched an online platform to facilitate employment for its nationals in Qatar as the Gulf state prepares to stage the World Cup. The move, just weeks before the World Cup kicks off on November 20, is…

France and Lebanon have confirmed their first cases of the new coronavirus variant recently discovered in the United Kingdom, health authorities said. The new strain of the virus, which experts fear is more contagious, has prompted more…

Lebanon's acting prime minister and three former ministers have been charged with negligence in connection with the deadly blast at Beirut's port in August. The August 4 explosion at Beirut port killed more than 200 people, injured…

Lebanon has started a new two-week lockdown on Saturday after coronavirus infections crossed the 100,000 mark in a country where hospital capacity has become saturated. The capital’s roads were largely empty and police checkpoints…

A huge fire has broken out at an oils and tires warehouse in the duty-free market of Beirut's port in Lebanon on Thursday, September 10. The director general of the Beirut port told the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation that the…

Federal Government has evacuated 27 stranded ladies from Lebanon through the help of the Lebanese Government as well as its community in Nigeria. The evacuees arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja on Sunday,…

World Bank has said the estimated value of physical damage caused by the explosion that rocked Beirut port on August 4 is between 3.8 billion dollars and 4.6 billion dollars. According to an initial assessment led by the World Bank, in…

A United Nations agency has said that more than half of Lebanon’s population risk facing a food crisis in the aftermath of a Beirut port blast that compounded the country’s many woes. UN Economic and Social Commission for…

Pastor Said Deeb of Life Center Church in Lebanon has said an overwhelming feeling of anxiety, anger, and sadness on the day of the massive explosion in Beirut led him to send home worshippers early. Life Center Church, Beirut situated…

A US official has said a team of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are to arrive in Lebanon this weekend to take part in the probe of Beirut’s massive explosion. David Hale, US undersecretary of State for political affairs, called…

Lebanon’s government has resigned amid mounting anger over the explosion that devastated parts of Beirut and left more than 200 people dead. Read Also: Beirut Explosion Death Toll Rises To 100 And Over 4000 Wounded The…

Lebanon’s information minister Manal Abdel Samad has resigned following the deadly port blast that killed more than 150 people and destroyed swathes of the capital. In a statement reported by local media, Samad apologised to the…

Sixteen staff members at Beirut’s port, the site of a massive explosion in Lebanon, have been detained over the deadly blast that devastated large parts of the city. A military prosecutor made this known on Thursday following…