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Lebanon reverses ban on Spielberg film

Beirut - Al Maghrib Today

The Lebanese government has allowed the release of Steven Spielberg's latest film, "The Post", overturning a ban by the General Security authority, a ministry said Wednesday. The security body had on Monday announced it was banning the Hollywood thriller to comply with an Arab League boycott targeting supporters of Israel. In a rare move, the interior ministry chose not toRead more

Car bomb wounds Hamas official in Lebanon: military source

Sidon - Al Maghrib Today

An official in the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas was wounded in a car bomb blast in southern Lebanon on Sunday, military and medical sources told AFP. "A bomb placed in a BMW in Sidon detonated, wounding Hamas official Mohammed Hamdan," a military source said. An AFP journalist in Sidon saw the burnt-out vehicle in a parking lot. A medical sourceRead more

Syrian refugee sets himself ablaze at UN office in Lebanon

Tripoli - Al Maghrib Today

A Syrian refugee in Lebanon set himself on fire Wednesday outside a UN office in desperation at aid getting cut off to his family, suffering serious burns. Refugee agency UNHCR and the World Food Programme told AFP that the man -- named by family as 43-year-old father of four Ryad Khalaf Zibou -- "set himself alight" at a UN compoundRead more

Syrian refugees in Lebanon drop below one million

Beirut - Al Maghrib Today

The number of registered Syrian refugees in Lebanon has dropped to below one million for the first time since 2014, the United Nations told AFP on Tuesday. As of the end of November, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) counted 997,905 Syrian refugees -- a vast majority of them women and children -- registered in Lebanon. "The number reached one millionRead more

A big year for women in the Arab world

London - Al Maghrib Today

Reforms came in quick succession across Middle East countries this summer, sparking renewed optimism in the women’s rights community after years of setbacks. In July, Tunisia passed a landmark law criminalizing violence against women and soon afterward governments in Jordan and Lebanon abolished legal loopholes enabling rapists to escape punishment by marrying their victims. In the Gulf, Saudi Arabia’s decisionsRead more

Syrian refugees in Lebanon drop below one million

Beirut - Al Maghrib Today

The number of registered Syrian refugees in Lebanon has dropped to below one million for the first time since 2014, the United Nations told AFP on Tuesday. As of the end of November, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) counted 997,905 Syrian refugees — a vast majority of them women and children — registered in Lebanon. “The number reached one millionRead more

Syrian, Iranian backed forces advance in border area near Israel

Amman - Al Maghrib Today

Syrian army forces backed by Iranian-backed militias pushed deeper into the last rebel-held enclave near a strategic border area with Israel and Lebanon in a new expansion of Tehran's influence in the war-torn country. The army and the Shi'ite forces advanced east and south of the Sunni-rebel held bastion of Beit Jin backed by some of the heaviest aerial bombingRead more