Asia Lebanon Employees of the two Lebanese state-owned news organisations, National News Agency (NNA) and Radio Lebanon, have launched a two-day strike to protest against deteriorating working and living conditions
Asia Lebanon Sixteen teenage cancer patients currently receiving or having completed treatment have been celebrating passing baccalaureate exams, with achievements marked by Children’s Cancer Center of Lebanon at the American University of Beirut Medical Center
Asia Lebanon The UN on Friday called on Palestinian groups in the Ain Al-Hilweh refugee camp in southern Lebanon to cease fire and leave the United Nations Relief and Works Agency schools immediately
Asia Lebanon Exploratory drilling for oil and gas, organised by the country with international partners, is starting; experts warn that without structural reforms, the new marine gas field will not end country's economic malaise
Asia Lebanon Hyperinflation continued for the 37th consecutive month and inflation hit an annual 252% in July; the term of central bank governor Riad Salameh, the longest-serving central bank governor in the world, ended amid political impasse over his successor