Lebanese News and Updates
🇱🇧🇧🇭 After the MFA and PM's office, the 3rd top Lebanese official Judge Bassam Al-Mawlawi, Interior Minister, issued a statement condemning the Bahraini opposition group's press conference, calling for an investigation and possible arrests, stressing on support…
Bahrain's top opposition bloc, Al-Wefaq, issued a report on the abuses of the Kingdom of Bahrain that rules the country against the Bahraini people.
The report is of 158 pages, and can be downloaded from this link:
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The report is of 158 pages, and can be downloaded from this link:
thealtworld.com/sondoss_al…
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Banque du Liban exchange platform SAYRAFA has reached a trading volume of $12 million today, at a rate of 21,300 LBP/USD.
The actual “black market” exchange rate in Lebanon is 26,950 LBP/USD. That's a 23.4% difference.
SAYRAFA is the central bank's trading platform, which is used by importers to procure dollar bills. However, what is unclear to most, is why shops are pricing food and goods at black market rates when their importers are obtaining USD at cheaper rates. Huge profit margins.
The actual “black market” exchange rate in Lebanon is 26,950 LBP/USD. That's a 23.4% difference.
SAYRAFA is the central bank's trading platform, which is used by importers to procure dollar bills. However, what is unclear to most, is why shops are pricing food and goods at black market rates when their importers are obtaining USD at cheaper rates. Huge profit margins.
Saudi Arabia: Many of the 200+ artists booked for electronic music festival “Soundstorm” (Dec16-19) use social media “to regularly champion issues like feminism”.
Even though the Saudi General Entertainment Authority pays performance fees of “at least triple the usual rate”, Saudi women's rights activists are imprisoned (“raped in prison”, according to Rana Ahmad), and evidence shows that Loujain Al-Hathloul was even subjected to “electric shocks, beatings, whipping”.
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Even though the Saudi General Entertainment Authority pays performance fees of “at least triple the usual rate”, Saudi women's rights activists are imprisoned (“raped in prison”, according to Rana Ahmad), and evidence shows that Loujain Al-Hathloul was even subjected to “electric shocks, beatings, whipping”.
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These DJs promote human rights. Why are they playing in Saudi Arabia?
Over 200 musicians will perform at a music festival that activists say only exists to whitewash the kingdom’s image abroad.
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Lebanese Minister of Agriculture Abbas Al-Hajj Hassan: The Yemeni war must end today. No person can see hundreds of thousands of casualties, homeless, hungry and searching for hope but not see the need to end it.
CC: Saudi Arabia
CC: Saudi Arabia
Like WTH happened. 28,000 and 30,000 by this week's end.
How are we going to afford to live. twitter.com/LebUpdate/sta…
How are we going to afford to live. twitter.com/LebUpdate/sta…
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Massive and unprecedented hike in the exchange rate, reaching a new all time high of 28,100 LBP/USD. This is beyond what is bearable !!
🚨 No more internet? The head of the communication file in the Lebanese parliament, Hussein Hajj Hassan, stated that the Central Bank stopped transferring dollars abroad to pay the internet subnoscriptions to foreign companies, putting Lebanon at risk of losing internet connection.
This is likely blackmail by the bank to raise internet prices
This is likely blackmail by the bank to raise internet prices
Deputy Prime Minister Al-Shami: "The government agreed to estimate the size of the financial sector's losses at 68-69 billion dollars."
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An "electricity post" exploded in the town of Dahour El-Hawa - Koura due to overload and short circuit.
The transmission of the Touch cellular network is offline in the city of Hermel and the surrounding villages, for undeclared reasons.
Note: They probably don't have diesel for the cell towers.
Note: They probably don't have diesel for the cell towers.
That's the issue with Zionists. They are hypocrites.
Same-sex marriage in Israel is still illegal, there is no civil marriage in Israel. They are legally barred from starting a family.
Those pride parades are a a theatric show. Why not, and the Hebrew Bible is clear on sodomy. twitter.com/YoniMichanie/…
Same-sex marriage in Israel is still illegal, there is no civil marriage in Israel. They are legally barred from starting a family.
Those pride parades are a a theatric show. Why not, and the Hebrew Bible is clear on sodomy. twitter.com/YoniMichanie/…
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Okay Twitter, are we ready to talk about this?
⋯ And not to Muslim liking, same-sex marriage was legal in the west bank (Palestine) since 1951. Israel is decades late to the progressive talking points.
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Thieves stole the metal railing of the sea corniche in Northern Lebanon.
"Instead of holding their forces (IDF) accountable for the killing of 86 Palestinian children this year, Israeli authorities have decided to criminalize the NGO that monitors children murders"
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This was the deadliest year for Palestinian children since 2014
Instead of holding perpetrators accountable, Israel is criminalizing the work that NGOs like mine are doing to protect Palestinian kids.
In 2016, Saudi Arabia classified Hezbullah as a “terrorist organization” and issued a decision to arrest those who support or sympathize with it.
Ayatollah Sheikh Hussein Al-Radi, days after: “If Hezbollah’s crime is fighting Israel and the takfiris, I am with them.”
The 70-year-old Islamic scholar is still imprisoned in Saudi dungeons for the crime of voicing support to those fighting Israel and terrorists, and asking to end the Yemen war.
Ayatollah Sheikh Hussein Al-Radi, days after: “If Hezbollah’s crime is fighting Israel and the takfiris, I am with them.”
The 70-year-old Islamic scholar is still imprisoned in Saudi dungeons for the crime of voicing support to those fighting Israel and terrorists, and asking to end the Yemen war.
A day in the life of a Palestinian:
My friend got a job offer in Canada and was supposed to travel, he's a very smart engineer, however today at dawn, a West Bank IDF commander raided his house and handed him a "Travel ban" order valid for a 100 years. twitter.com/Helanpal/stat…
My friend got a job offer in Canada and was supposed to travel, he's a very smart engineer, however today at dawn, a West Bank IDF commander raided his house and handed him a "Travel ban" order valid for a 100 years. twitter.com/Helanpal/stat…
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أحد رفاقنا أسير محرر، مخلّص ماستر بالهندسة وشخصيًا بشوفه عبقري بمجاله، من يومين وقع عقد مع شركة أجنبية على أساس من هون لآخر الشهر يكون بكندا ويبلش شغل، وقف التنفيذ ومنع السفر راح عنه من أشهر، فجر اليوم كابتن منطقته اقتحم بيته وسلمه منع سفر جديد ل ١٠٠ سنة.
🚨 Lebanon's interior minister ordered the deportation of Bahraini nationals from Al-Wefaq opposition bloc back to Bahrain where they face prison and death penalty.
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🇱🇧🇧🇭 Bahrain issued a statement condemning a press conference in Lebanon that involved alleged anti-Bahrain rhetoric, held by Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, a Bahraini opposition group.
Lebanon's PM Mikati then directly issued a statement condemning…
Lebanon's PM Mikati then directly issued a statement condemning…