Tag: Beirut
Xinhua Middle East News Roundup at 2200 GMT, 23 January
ANKARA — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned Sweden on Monday that it should not expect Turkey’s support to join NATO after the Koran was burned outside the Turkish embassy in Stockholm. “Those who allow such shameful acts in front of the Turkish embassy in Stockholm cannot expect good news from us about NATO membership,” […]
Alone in the face of cancer: Immigration sensitively rejects caring son’s visa application
A woman with limited vision has been denied visitation by her children as she battles life-threatening cervical cancer. Based overseas, they may be denied a chance to see their mother before it’s too late. Spread to lymph nodesSamia Farhat, who is in her 50s, moved to Denmark in 2013 from Lebanon. She was diagnosed with […]
Correspondent Agneta Ramberg in civil war Lebanon 1982
32 years old and new Middle Eastern correspondent for SR: now Agneta Ramberg must tackle the incomprehensible civil war. One night in September, she takes the boat from Cyprus to Beirut. Once there, the massacre in Sabra and Shatila is a fact. Israel wants to drive the Palestinian Liberation Organization PLO out of Lebanon and […]
The Lebanese president promises to work on border talks with Israel
BEIRUT, June 9 (Xinhua) – Lebanese President Michel Aoun promised on Thursday to continue working on the issue of demarcation at sea in the hope of achieving favorable results during his planned talks with US mediators, the Lebanese presidency said in a statement. Aoun’s comments came after Israel sent an Energean Power ship to enter […]
* NEW * The massacre in the Palestinian refugee camps Sabra and Shatila
At dusk on September 16, 1982, a group of heavily armed men marched into the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila in western Beirut, Lebanon. They belong to the Christian party, the armed militia of the Falangists, and they want to demand blood revenge. Despite international promises, the civilian population is unprotected – and […]
UN-Habitat inaugurates restored facilities damaged in the port blasts in Beirut
BEIRUT, March 3 (Xinhua) – The United Nations Human Resources Program (UN-Habitat) on Thursday inaugurated restored facilities and neighborhoods damaged in the 2020 Beirut explosions, the National News Agency reported. The National HIV and Tuberculosis Center in Karatina, as well as a public park and sidewalks in the northeastern neighborhood, were restored with the support […]
Inherited from Usama Bin Laden
On the rise, fall and return of global jihadism. Hear how our correspondent ended up with al-Qaeda by mistake and thought he was going to die, about getting a lift with the Taliban to the bathing lake and why the ideas of holy war live on despite the terrorist groups being crushed militarily. Also hear […]
Copenhagen among the most expensive cities for expats
Certain cities have a high price. Living and working in Copenhagen can be a costly affair for expatriates. A new report from Mercer has named Copenhagen as the 16th most expensive city for expats to live in – a huge increase in nine places compared to last year, when Copenhagen came in as number 25. […]
Helsinki rises 18th in the world’s cost of living rankings
investment Ashgabat, the capital of Turkmenistan, is currently at the forefront of the economic crisis and accelerating inflation, raising the cost of posted workers. The Lebanese capital, Beirut, also made it into the top ten due to a severe shortage of goods and services as a result of years of recession, exacerbated by last year’s […]
Everyone gets poor: Caroline Kernen, Stockholm
Stockholm Friday, For a few weeks then I was in Lebanon. I am standing with a friend who lives in Beirut outside a restaurant to buy food. We order through a gap in the wall due to corona restrictions. I take a kind of roll. French fries, mayonnaise, ketchup and vegetables rolled in a loaf […]
Lebanon’s currency continues to fall – people in desperation
Every day, people set fire to garbage cans and car tires and block roads in central Beirut. They are protesting against the political and economic crisis that is going on in the country. The Lebanese pound has quickly lost value against the dollar, on Tuesday it was reported to go 15,000 Lebanese pounds on a […]
The Foreign Chronicle
Beirut Wednesday, I’m trapped in a hotel room in Beirut. 3 days after landing, and three negative Covid tests later, I can go out and do my job. I have time to think a little there, and think of the other day at home in Stockholm when I was out and about. I passed an […]
Witness the good and bad sides of the world
For by that time she had already spent more than a decade in various branches of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Among other things, she had witnessed the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001 with her own eyes. As embassy secretary in Washington DC – by the way, also as the […]
The government crisis in Lebanon is worsening
In Lebanon, Mustafa Adib gives up attempts to form a new government – a mandate he was given a month ago. The government in the country is based on a narrow division of power according to religious affiliation and the crises in Lebanon have replaced each other. The latest government, which continues to rule for […]
Suspected arson at restaurant
At half past ten last night, the rescue service and police were alerted to a fire at the Beirut restaurant in the Ersboda shopping area. The fire probably started directly outside the restaurant. The site is now cordoned off pending a technical investigation and the police have drawn up a report regarding suspected arson.
The caption: “The rescue operation has ended”
In Lebanon, intensive rescue work has been going on all day after signs of life were discovered in the landslides – a month after the huge explosion in the capital Beirut. – The rescue operation ended at nine o’clock on Friday night, Swedish time, says Swedish Radio’s Middle East correspondent Cecilia Uddén.
A life of martyrs and Islam
Hassan Nasrallah has been at the forefront of the last 30 years of wars and political upheavals in Lebanon. Longer time than most other leaders in the area. And that even though Nasrallah only turns 60 on August 31st. He has been the leader of the militant Shiite Muslim group Hezbollah (Party of God) since […]