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In this photo released by Lebanon's official government photographer Dalati Nohra, Lebanese president Michel Aoun meets with Lebanese Maronite archbishop Moussa el-Hajj, at the presidential palace, in Baabda east of Beirut, Lebanon, July 22, 2022. The brief detention of el-Hajj who was caught with more than $450,000 in cash as he crossed from Israel to Lebanon is further stoking sectarian tensions in his crisis-hit homeland. (Dalati Nohra via AP)

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Clergy, bags of cash set off new sectarian brawl in Lebanon
By KAREEM CHEHAYEB - Associated Press
Wed,08/03/22-2:23AM , 1,317 Reads
BEIRUT (AP) — A Lebanese archbishop who carried more than $460,000 from Israel to Lebanon is at the center of the latest sectarian showdown in crisis-hit Lebanon, and the case could even spill over into presidential politics.
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This frame grab from video shows dust rising from silos in the port of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, July 31, 2022. A section of Beirut's massive port grain silos, shredded in the 2020 explosion, collapsed on Sunday after a weekslong fire triggered by grains that had fermented and ignited in the summer heat. (AP Photo)

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Part of Beirut port silos, damaged in 2020 blast, collapses
By KAREEM CHEHAYEB - Associated Press
Sun,07/31/22-9:19AM , 1,145 Reads
BEIRUT (AP) — A section of Beirut's massive port grain silos, shredded in the 2020 explosion, collapsed in a huge cloud of dust on Sunday after a weekslong fire, triggered by grains that had fermented and ignited in the su
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Syrian children play soccer by their tents at a refugee camp in the town of Bar Elias in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, July 7, 2022. The Lebanese government’s plan to start deporting Syrian refugees has sent waves of fear through vulnerable refugee communities already struggling to survive in their host country. Many refugees say being forced to return to the war shattered country would be a death sentence. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

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Syrian refugees anxious over Lebanon's plans to deport them
By KAREEM CHEHAYEB - Associated Press
Thu,07/21/22-1:06AM , 160 Reads
BAR ELIAS, Lebanon (AP) — Sitting outside her tent in a camp in eastern Lebanon, a 30-year-old Syrian refugee contemplated the sunset and her worsening options.
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