Tag Archives: Lebanon

JERUSALEM (AP) – Christians in the Holy Land celebrated Good Friday without the mass pilgrimages typically seen in the days leading up to Easter due to the coronavirus, and worshipers in many …

BEIRUT (AP) – Stores closing, businesses bankrupt and pharmacies with empty shelves: In Lebanon these days, fistfights break out in supermarkets as shoppers scramble for subsidized milk powder, rice and cooking oil. …

BEIRUT (AP) – Lines stretch for miles outside gas stations in Syrian cities, with an average wait of five hours to fill a tank. In bakeries, people push and shove during long …

BAR ELIAS, Lebanon (AP) – Mohammed Zakaria has lived in a plastic tent in the Bekaa Valley of eastern Lebanon for almost as long as war has raged in his native Syria. …

BEIRUT (AP) – It’s an expression of anger but also helplessness: Anti-government protesters in Lebanon are burning tires to block key roads, releasing dense clouds of smoke that rise over the capital …

BEIRUT (AP) – The World Bank threatened Tuesday to suspend funding for coronavirus vaccines in Lebanon as it investigated suspicions of favoritism amid allegations that lawmakers were vaccinated in parliament without prior …

BEIRUT (AP) – Snow covered parts of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Israel on Wednesday, covering areas it hadn’t reached in years, disrupting traffic and postponing COVID-19 vaccination drives and even exams at …

BAGHAD (AP) – From the outside, the building is one of many in central Baghdad that have been decaying for years of abuse – silent, windows closed. Just after 6 pm, a …

BEIRUT (AP) – Death spreads in the corridors of Rafiq Hariri University Hospital in Beirut, where COVID-19 is the new norm to lose many patients in one day. The mood among the …

BEIRUT (AP) – It was a choice between a zealous virus outbreak and reviving a dying economy in a country that has been in a constant financial and economic downturn over the …