Man hospitalised after drive-by shooting near popular dining strip
A young man has been shot in a drive-by shooting on Melbourne’s popular Carlton dining strip. The 21-year-old victim was shot in the early hours…
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Lebanon’s Central Bank Governor’s UK Assets Under Review
British MP and anti-corruption advocate Margaret Hodge reported Lebanon’s central bank governor Riad Salame and his associates to the U.K. National Crime Agency (NCA) for…
Justice in Lebanon is a Prima Donna
What Judge Ghada Aoun is attempting to do in Lebanon is nothing less than heroic–a true act of valiance (curly hair and all). In other…
Exclusive: Mogherini under fire over stink in Lebanon from EU cash
Members of the European Union parliament are starting to get a whiff that EU waste management schemes in Lebanon are bogus, and the former EU…
Anti-corruption crusader or political lackey? The controversial judge at the heart of Lebanon’s latest judicial saga
BEIRUT — Amid the raft of mid-level appointees who make up the Lebanese judiciary, Judge Ghada Aoun has established herself as a widely recognizable public…
Lebanon: stop removal of investigative authorities overseeing high-level corruption and criminal negligence cases
May 4, 2021 The removal of Lebanese public prosecutor Ghada Aoun from financial cases she had been overseeing constitutes a further attack on the independence…
Lebanon’s President Aoun holds central bank responsible for crisis
Aoun accused Lebanese banks of squandering people’s savingsCentral Bank’s governor refused to answer 73 out of 133 questions consultancy Alvarez & Marsal had sent for…
What is really happening in Beirut – far from revolution (Robert Bekhazi)
The tragic event last week in Beirut, where a warehouse filled with many tonnes of ammonium nitrate exploded and the tragic effect of this explosion,…
WHAT TO EXPECT AT THIS WEEKEND’S PROTESTS IN LEBANON
In Lebanon, there is a lot to protest about; the deteriorating economic situation, limited government services, sky rocketing prices, a banking sector meltdown and a…
AOUN AFTER MEETING AUSTRALIA GOVERNOR: WE FOCUSED ON THE IMPORTANCE OF SOLVING SYRIAN REFUGEES’ ISSUE
President of the Republic, Michel Aoun, indicated that the talks he held with Governor-General of Australia, Peter Cosgrove featured high on the importance of reaching…