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Lebanese Cabinet Priorities: Naturalizing Basketball Player Omar Spellman

In the midst of all the problems we’re currently facing in Lebanon, the Lebanese cabinet found time to secure the necessary constitutional measures to naturalize 25-year-old previous NBA player Omar...

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Energy Ministry Launched a Useless App To Track Fuel & Gas Prices

We have 4 or 5 different rates for the Lebanese Lira in the market and no one, including the Central Bank, is capable of controlling the fluctuations, but the genius minds behind the Energy Ministry...

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Fatal Accident in Chouf Raises Concerns on Zip Line Safety

A young man fell to his death from a high altitude while zip lining in Mazraat El Chouf. The victim is Jad Thebian, a first sergeant in the Lebanese Army. The zip line in question was recently featured...

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What does an Interpol Arrest Warrant for Salameh Mean?

The French Judiciary issued an international arrest warrant for Lebanon’s central bank governor Riad Salameh after failing to appear at a hearing in Paris. Salameh was being investigated for his...

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The Saida Public Beach Incident is Not About Religion

As much as the Bikini vs Burkini clash is being portrayed as a religious one following the Saida public beach incident, the real problem is the absence of the rule of law and the incompetence of the...

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Lebanon Voted AGAINST a UN Resolution To Reveal Fate of Missing or Forcibly...

Our Foreign Minister Abdullah Bou Habib was bragging earlier today that he will abstain from voting in favor of establishing a UN commission to reveal the fate of the missing and forcibly disappeared...

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BDL Vice Governors Plot to Renew Riad Salameh’s Term

BDL Governor Riad Salameh’s term is ending soon but it looks like there’s no other way but to renew for Salameh as Deputy Governor Wassim Mansouri refuses to take over and BDL Vice Governors released a...

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Animal Rights Activist Ghina Nahfawi Summoned For Reporting Animal Abuse

I don’t recall ever seeing an animal rights activist as devoted & committed as Ghina is. I’ve been following her for years and she’s almost always relentlessly trying to solve every animal abuse...

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Palms The Legend: Who Authorized This Monstrosity?

The Archaeological Site of Nahr el-Kalb has on Lebanon’s Tentative List for potential future World Heritage nomination since 2019 yet the Lebanese authorities don’t seem too adamant to include it....

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Energy Ministry Fined for Refusing To Hand Over Mseilha Dam Documents

Three years ago, I posted about the Mseilha dam asking why wasn’t it completed yet; the Energy Ministry claimed back then works are still underway and that we have to wait till 2021 for the dam to be...

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“The Creator” Trailer Includes Real Footage From The Beirut Explosion

The director behind an upcoming movie called “The Creator” has decided to use real footage of the Beirut port crime to simulate a nuclear explosion. Footage of the Beirut port was modified to conceal...

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Lebanon Just Cut Cultural Ties with Sweden & Denmark

Lebanon’s Minister of Culture tweeted today that Lebanon will suspend cultural coordination with Denmark and Sweden and their corresponding embassies in Beirut. The decision comes after the Koran...

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Pain D’or Issues Statement on the Rainbow Cake Controversy

An old picture showing rainbow cakes sold at Pain D’or resurged online few weeks ago, triggering an Anti-LGBTQ campaign against pastry shops selling rainbow cakes. The campaign even extended to include...

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7-Year Old Naya Fighting For Her Life After Being Hit By a Stray Bullet

How many times are we going to hear such tragic stories? How many children and innocent civilians have to pay the price of dumbasses firing their guns in the air? The answer is unfortunately not...

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Kahaleh Tensions: The Problem is Not Who Took The First Shot

The Kahaleh incident will probably take few days to cool down and no serious investigation will be conducted, as usual, until we get another similar incident, followed by tensions then a cooldown and...

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Media Covering Amr Diab Concert Forbidden to Criticize The Event

Media people invited to cover the Amr Diab Concert apparently had to a sign a memo forbidding them from sharing any negative comments on the event, on Amr Diab, Rodge and the organizers. The memo...

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Ashraf Rifi Has a Problem With Lesbians

Back in 2014, a judge bravely dismissed a case against a transgender woman on the basis that article 534, which prohibits sexual relations that “contradict the laws of nature”, cannot be used against...

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Jnoud el Rab Are Ok But Stand-up Comedy is a National Threat

Hundreds of thugs identifying themselves as soldiers of God (“Jnoud El-Rab”) attacked partygoers at a bar, beating them up, threatening the owner and destroying furniture. How did the security forces...

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So Long Sayrafa, Hello Bloomberg!

Riad Salameh is gone and so is his shady exchange platform “Sayrafa”. Instead, the Council of Ministers has agreed to adopt a new Bloomberg-operated platform for dollar trading, which is expected to...

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FALSE: A Lebanese Student DID NOT Score the Highest IQ in The World

I really hope we don’t have of the Ali Tleiss story this year but there’s a Lebanese student who claims to have scored the highest IQ in the World of 285/300, ahead of a Russian & Japanese student....

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