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WHITE HOUSE: REVIEWING RELATIONS WITH SAUDI ARABIA DOES NOT MEAN SEVERING THEM

WHITE HOUSE: REVIEWING RELATIONS WITH SAUDI ARABIA DOES NOT MEAN SEVERING THEM - The News LB The White House said today that the US review of relations with Saudi Arabia does not aim to sever them, according to “Russia Today” news agency. “It’s about reviewing the relationship to make sure it’s in our interests, but it’s not about severing it,” said John Kirby, a spokesman for...

BEIRUT PORT VICTIMS’ FAMILIES DENY ANY CONNECTION TO CIRCULATED INVITATIONS TO GATHER OUTSIDE JUSTICE PALACE: THEY AIM TO SHED BLOOD IN THE STREET

BEIRUT PORT VICTIMS' FAMILIES DENY ANY CONNECTION TO CIRCULATED INVITATIONS TO GATHER OUTSIDE JUSTICE PALACE: THEY AIM TO SHED BLOOD IN THE STREET - The News LB The families of the Beirut Port victims confirmed in a statement today, that they have nothing to do with the invitations circulated to gather at 11 o’clock in front of the Palace of Justice in Beirut, some in favor of Judge Ghassan Oweidat and some calling for his dismissal. “It is important fo...

Stunning performance by "Mayyas" in Saudi Arabia ! (Photos)

Stunning performance by "Mayyas" in Saudi Arabia ! (Photos) - The News LB The Lebanese “Mayass” band held an amazing show within the ongoing “Riyadh Season” under the slogan “Above Imagination”, which is the largest season in the Middle East and the Arab world, through 15 entertainment areas with a distinctive entertainment character for each. The party, which...

Musk testifies at trial over his $50 billion Tesla compensation

Musk testifies at trial over his $50 billion Tesla compensation - The News LB Tesla tycoon Elon Musk took the stand on Wednesday as part of a trial over his $50 billion pay package as CEO of the electric car giant. The arrival was discreet, with the world’s richest person arriving in a black Tesla, which parked at the back of the courthouse in a tent set up for […]

Kuwait executes seven people, first since 2017

Kuwait executes seven people, first since 2017 - The News LB Kuwait put seven people to death for murder on Wednesday, the public prosecutions service said, as the first executions since 2017 went ahead despite appeals from a prominent rights group. One Ethiopian woman and one Kuwaiti woman were among those hanged, along with three Kuwaiti men, a Syrian and a...

Poland says blast likely caused by Ukraine missile in accident

Poland says blast likely caused by Ukraine missile in accident - The News LB Ex-president Dmitry Medvedev, deputy head of Russia’s security council, said on Twitter that the incident “proves just one thing: waging a hybrid war against Russia, the West moves closer to the world war.” Poland is protected by NATO’s commitment to collective defense — enshrined in Artic...

Elon Musk Deletes Tweet That Hinted at Collaboration With Kanye West

Elon Musk Deletes Tweet That Hinted at Collaboration With Kanye West - The News LB The Independent published this article: Tesla billionaire and potential Twitter owner Elon Musk has deleted a tweet that teased a possible business collaboration with Kanye West, despite the rapper’s recent antisemitic rants and attacks on George Floyd. On Monday, Mr Musk shared an image playing o...

Ballon d'Or 2022: Real Madrid Rage at Placing after Champions League Success

Ballon d'Or 2022: Real Madrid Rage at Placing after Champions League Success - The News LB Their striker Karim Benzema did, however, end his long wait for the Ballon d’Or at the glittering awards ceremony in Paris on Monday night. He beat Bayern Munich’s Sadio Mane, who was a Liverpool player until the summer, and Man City’s Kevin De Bruyne in the voting for the prestigious award. S...

Efforts ongoing to form 11th hour govt., says mediator

Efforts ongoing to form 11th hour govt., says mediator - The News LB The government formation efforts are nearing conclusion and we are in a race with time, a mediator said. “There is an ongoing attempt to form a government and things are not totally deadlocked. There is still hope that a government will be formed in the eleventh hour and I don’t believe that the...

QATARENERGY AIMS TO BECOME TOP LNG TRADER, SAYS CEO

QATARENERGY AIMS TO BECOME TOP LNG TRADER, SAYS CEO - The News LB QatarEnergy aims to become the world’s biggest trader of liquefied natural gas (LNG) through organic growth and is already building trading teams, CEO Saad al-Kaabi said on Tuesday. Kaabi, who is also Qatar’s state minister for energy, told reporters that Qatar Energy has no plans to acquire ano...

PRESIDENT AOUN MEETS TOTAL ENERGY DELEGATION, EMPHASIZES NEED TO START EXCAVATION IN "BLOCK NO. 9" QUICKLY

PRESIDENT AOUN MEETS TOTAL ENERGY DELEGATION, EMPHASIZES NEED TO START EXCAVATION IN "BLOCK NO. 9" QUICKLY - The News LB President of the Republic, General Michel Aoun, met a delegation from Total Energy. The delegation included: Director of the Middle East and North Africa in the company, Mr. Laurent Vivier, Vice President of the company in the Middle East, North Africa and Yemen Jean Jaylet, and Director In the comp...

TWENTY LEBANESE ENTREPRENEURS WIN ILO COMPETITION FOR BEST BUSINESS IDEA

TWENTY LEBANESE ENTREPRENEURS WIN ILO COMPETITION FOR BEST BUSINESS IDEA - The News LB was a great opportunity for women entrepreneurs to show their talents, knowledge and skills gained through the training provided by ILO and The LEE Experience. It was challenging for the members of the jury to select the 20 winners since all the participants showed Excellency and professionalism in....

Fayyad says Qatar interested in gas exploration in blocs 4, 9

Fayyad says Qatar interested in gas exploration in blocs 4, 9 - The News LB Qatar is interested in gas exploration in Lebanon, caretaker Energy Minister Walid Fayyad said Friday, a day after President Michel Aoun announced Lebanon’s official approval of a U.S.-brokered border demarcation deal with Israe, unlocking significant offshore gas production. Fayyad said that Qata...

Strikes continue in French refineries, disrupt fuel supplies

Strikes continue in French refineries, disrupt fuel supplies - The News LB Continuing strikes at TotalEnergies group refineries in France seriously disrupted fuel supplies Friday after the left-wing CGT union rejected a deal over a pay increase that two other unions had agreed to. The CFDT and CFE-CGC unions, which together represent a majority of the group’s French work...

PSG troubled as Mbappe future up in the air again

PSG troubled as Mbappe future up in the air again - The News LB Less than five months after Kylian Mbappe signed a new three-year contract to supposedly end the uncertainty about his future, Paris Saint-Germain are once again facing up to the possibility of losing the France superstar. The Qatar-owned club sit top of Ligue 1 and their Champions League group, but...

MoPH: 5 new Cholera cases

MoPH: 5 new Cholera cases - The News LB The Ministry of Public Health on Friday announced, in a report on Cholera cases in Lebanon, that 5 new Cholera cases have been registered in the past 24 hours, thus raising the cumulative number of confirmed cases to-date to 34 in the northern regions. The report added no death cases were recorded t...

Today’s Lebanese Lira/US Dollar Exchange Rate

Today’s Lebanese Lira/US Dollar Exchange Rate - The News LB The dollar in Lebanese black market recorded a rise. The dollar is currently touching about 40000 LBP, as the price ranges today, between 39750 and 39800 LBP .

Putin hosts United Arab Emirates leader for economic talks

Putin hosts United Arab Emirates leader for economic talks - The News LB Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday hailed a recent decision by OPEC, Russia and other oil producing nations to limit production as key to stabilizing the global energy market, as he met the leader of the United Arab Emirates for talks on fostering economic ties. Speaking at the start of his...

IRAN RACING TO EXPAND ENRICHMENT AT UNDERGROUND PLANT, IAEA REPORT SHOWS

IRAN RACING TO EXPAND ENRICHMENT AT UNDERGROUND PLANT, IAEA REPORT SHOWS - The News LB Iran is rapidly expanding its ability to enrich uranium with advanced centrifuges at its underground plant at Natanz and now intends to go further than previously planned, a confidential U.N. nuclear watchdog report seen by Reuters showed on Monday. While indirect talks between Iran and the United S...

PRESIDENT AOUN RECEIVES FPM’S “PRESIDENTIAL PRIORITIES” PAPER FROM “STRONG LEBANON” BLOC

PRESIDENT AOUN RECEIVES FPM’S “PRESIDENTIAL PRIORITIES” PAPER FROM “STRONG LEBANON” BLOC - The News LB Chairman of the “Strong Lebanon” bloc, MP Gebran Bassil, affirmed that President Michel Aoun supports any movement that leads to the election of a new president, and he has a strong adherence to this priority before anything else. “We will strive to intensify our movement in this direction” ...

UK NURSES BEGIN BIGGEST STRIKE BALLOT IN MORE THAN 100 YEARS

UK NURSES BEGIN BIGGEST STRIKE BALLOT IN MORE THAN 100 YEARS - The News LB More than 300,000 members of Britain’s largest nursing union will begin voting on Thursday over a strike to demand a pay rise that keeps up with soaring inflation, the biggest ballot in its 106-year history. The Royal College of Nursing said it had been forced into the move after years of real-ter...

KREMLIN SAYS OPEC+ DECISION TO CUT OIL OUTPUT IS AIMED AT MARKET STABILIZATION

KREMLIN SAYS OPEC+ DECISION TO CUT OIL OUTPUT IS AIMED AT MARKET STABILIZATION - The News LB The decision of the OPEC+ group of leading oil producers to reduce output by 2 million barrels per day is aimed at market stabilization, a Kremlin spokesman said on Thursday. The Saudi Arabia-led OPEC+ cartel at a Vienna meeting on Wednesday ignored pleas from the White House to keep oil flowing and...

WEATHER: SIGNIFICANT TEMPERATURE DROP, SCATTERED DRIZZLES

WEATHER: SIGNIFICANT TEMPERATURE DROP, SCATTERED DRIZZLES - The News LB Friday’s weather is expected to be partly cloudy to cloudy with a significant decrease in temperature degrees and scattered drizzles in the north, according to the Beirut airport-based meteorology department. Coastal temperatures: 22 to 28 degrees Celsius Mountainous temperatures: 9 to 18 degrees ...

Lebanon sets October 13 session to again try to elect a head of state

Lebanon sets October 13 session to again try to elect a head of state - The News LB Lebanese House Speaker Nabih Berri has set a new parliament session to elect a head of state on October 13, just a few weeks before President Michel Aoun’s six-year term ends, though it is not expected to yield results. In the first such session last week, lawmakers failed to elect a president, wi...

Israel rejects Lebanese revision requests on US-brokered maritime deal

Israel rejects Lebanese revision requests on US-brokered maritime deal - The News LB Israel on Thursday rejected revisions requested by Lebanon to a US.-mediated border demarcation proposal, throwing into doubt years of diplomatic efforts to enable both enemy countries to extract gas in or around a disputed Mediterranean prospect. The draft deal, which has not been made public, had....

Today’ Lebanese Lira/US Dollar Exchange Rate

Today’s Lebanese Lira/US Dollar Exchange Rate - The News LB The dollar in Lebanese black market recorded a rise. The dollar is currently touching about 40000 LBP, as the price ranges today, between 39650 and 39750 LBP .

Report: 5 ministers to be changed, new govt. will be formed

Report: 5 ministers to be changed, new govt. will be formed - The News LB The expected governmental reshuffle might expand to target five portfolios, informed sources have said. The reshuffle “will not stop at replacing the economy and displaced ministers but will also target three other portfolios: youth and sports, social affair and foreign affairs,” the sources tol...

OPEC+ mulling largest cuts since 2020 crisis, sources say

OPEC+ mulling largest cuts since 2020 crisis, sources say - The News LB The OPEC+ group of oil producers is discussing output cuts of more than 1 million barrels per day (bpd), OPEC sources said, and voluntary cuts by individual members could come on top of that, making it their largest cut since 2020. The group is set to meet on Oct. 5 in Vienna — in person […]

Today’s Lebanese Lira/US Dollar Exchange Rate

Today’s Lebanese Lira/US Dollar Exchange Rate - The News LB The dollar in Lebanese black market recorded a rise. The dollar is currently touching about 39000 LBP, as the price ranges today, between 38900 and 39000 LBP .

HAILEY BIEBER: I DIDN'T STEAL JUSTIN AWAY FROM SELENA ... Here's the Truth, Fans

HAILEY BIEBER: I DIDN'T STEAL JUSTIN AWAY FROM SELENA ... Here's the Truth, Fans - The News LB Hailey Bieber is clearing the air about the fan-fueled notion she stole Justin Bieber from Selena Gomez — saying that couldn’t be further from the truth. Her appearance on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast dropped Wednesday, and they got right into the subject — with host Alex Cooper directly a...