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From ashes and debris, iconic Beirut museum reopens 3 years after massive damage from port blast

Lebanon’s Sursock Museum has reopened to the public, three years after a deadly explosion in the nearby Beirut port reduced many of its treasured paintings and collections to ashes

The Independent UK

World Bank approves $300 million financing to help poor people in Lebanon

The World Bank has approved a $300 million additional financing to Lebanon's poor, giving cash to families struggling in the country’s historic economic meltdown

The Independent UK

Lebanon's central bank governor set to end his tenure a wanted man

Once celebrated as a financial wizard, Lebanese central bank governor Riad Salameh is spending his final weeks in office a wanted man, faced with French and German arrest warrants that have been prompted by long-running corruption probes.

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Hezbollah chief calls on Lebanon's central bank governor to resign amid mounting legal troubles

The chief of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group is calling on the country's central bank governor to resign amid mounting legal troubles

The Independent UK

Tragic Irish soldier Sean Rooney honoured at United Nations ceremony

Private Rooney, 23, was shot in the head as he drove an armoured jeep away from a crowd of attackers in southern Lebanon in December.

Irish Mirror

Lebanon’s Druze leader Jumblatt resigns as political party chief

After stepping down at 73, Walid Jumblatt calls for elections to choose the Progressive Socialist Party’s next leader.

Al Jazeera

Israel shoots down drone from Lebanon, military says

Israel shot down a drone that had crossed over from Lebanon on Thursday, its military said in a statement.

Reuters

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Lebanon imposes travel ban on central bank chief, blocking French arrest warrant

A Lebanese judge has banned central bank governor Riad Salameh from travelling, following an Interpol Red Notice filed by France requesting his extradition so he can be questionedas part of an investigation into his allegedly illicit accumulation of wealth.

Radio France Internationale

Judiciary confiscates passports of Lebanon's central bank chief after French arrest warrant

Lebanese judicial officials say a udge has questioned the country’s embattled central bank governor and confiscated his Lebanese and French passports following an arrest warrant from France over corruption charges

The Independent UK

Lebanon central bank chief faces travel ban after Interpol red notice

Lebanon's central bank governor Riad Salameh attended a judicial hearing in Beirut on Wednesday where his Lebanese and French passports were confiscated following an Interpol red notice against him over embezzlement and money-laundering charges.

Reuters

Explainer-The probes into Lebanese central bank chief Salameh

Lebanon has been verbally informed of a German arrest warrant against Lebanese central bank governor Riad Salameh, who is being investigated for money laundering and embezzlement in his home country and abroad but denies any wrongdoing.

Reuters

Germany issues arrest warrant for Lebanon's central bank chief - sources

Germany has informed Lebanon it has issued an arrest warrant for Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh on corruption charges, including forgery, money laundering and embezzlement, a senior judicial source told Reuters on Tuesday.

Reuters

Lebanese prosecutor summons central bank chief following Interpol warrant over corruption charges

Judicial officials say the office of the Lebanese public prosecutor has summoned the country’s embattled central bank governor for questioning

The Independent UK

Lebanese feminists protest after woman harassed over swimsuit

Incident renews debate about modesty and women in public spaces under the hashtag #Sidon.

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France summons brother, assistant of Lebanon central bank boss in fraud probe

France's judiciary has summoned the brother of and an assistant to Lebanon's central bank governor, two sources close to the matter told Reuters on Monday, as it continues its probe into alleged embezzlement and money-laundering by the bank chief.

The Independent UK

Hezbollah stages wargames for media, asserts readiness to confront Israel

Lebanese militant group Hezbollah put on a show of force, extending a rare media invitation to one of its training sites in southern Lebanon, where its forces staged a simulated military exercise

Al Jazeera

Bahrain to restore full diplomatic relations with Lebanon

The Gulf nation has ended a year-and-a-half-long impasse as it looks to strengthen ‘fraternal relations’ with Lebanon.

The Independent UK

Lebanon receives Interpol notice for its central bank governor who was no-show at Paris questioning

Lebanon has received an Interpol notice for the country’s embattled central bank governor who failed to answer summons and show up in Paris earlier in the week for questioning in a graft case, officials said

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Al Jazeera

Lebanon gets Interpol notice for central bank boss Riad Salameh

Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi says he will arrest Salameh if the judiciary instructs him to do so.

The Independent UK

Top Lebanese official in IMF talks calls for central bank head to resign amid corruption allegations

The Lebanese official heading talks with the International Monetary Fund to bailout Lebanon’s tanking economy has called for the country’s embattled central bank chief to resign

Reuters

Lebanon’s central bank boss urged to resign after French arrest warrant

Lebanese Deputy Prime Minister Saadeh al-Shami called on Thursday for Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh to resign following France’s issuing of an arrest warrant against him as part of a fraud investigation.

Al Jazeera

In Haifa, Israel sells Palestinian homes as luxury real estate

Only a few signs of Palestinian life remain in Haifa 75 years on from the Nakba, and they are disappearing.

Al Jazeera

Syrian refugees in fear as Lebanon steps up deportations

An increase in raids by the Lebanese Armed Forces has left Syrian refugees in hiding, worried about being forced back.

France 24

France issues international arrest warrant for Lebanese central bank chief

A French investigating magistrate on Tuesday issued an international arrest warrant for Lebanon's central bank chief Riad Salameh, a source close to the case said.

Reuters

Lebanon cenbank governor says he will appeal against French arrest warrant

French prosecutors have issued an arrest warrant for Lebanon's central bank governor Riad Salameh, a person familiar with the matter said on Tuesday, a move the governor said he would challenge through an appeal, calling it a violation of law.

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