Issued on: 19/05/2022 – 01:50 The US government will fly in baby formula on commercial planes contracted by the military in an airlift aimed at easing the major shortage plaguing the country, the White House said on Wednesday. The Department of Defense “will use its contracts with commercial air cargo lines, as it did to
Issued on: 15/05/2022 – 07:05Modified: 15/05/2022 – 07:08 Polls opened on Sunday in Lebanon’s first election since the deadly Beirut port blast and the country’s economic collapse, making it a test of whether Iran-backed Hezbollah and its allies can preserve their parliamentary majority amid soaring poverty and public anger. The parliamentary election is a first
Issued on: 26/04/2022 – 08:35 Almost three years into Lebanon’s trifecta of economic, social and political crises, Lebanese youths are desperate to move abroad. For them, leaving the country means finding better opportunities for the future. Studies show that this belief is on the rise among youth – and this, in turn, is expected to
Issued on: 12/04/2022 – 04:45 Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa pleaded for “patience” Monday as thousands continued to take to the streets to protest his family’s rule, with public anger at a fever pitch over the country’s crippling economic crisis. Sri Lanka’s 22 million residents have seen weeks of power blackouts and severe shortages
Issued on: 04/04/2022 – 08:47Modified: 04/04/2022 – 08:49 Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa called for a unity government on Monday to deal with the country’s economic crisis, as cabinet ministers and the central bank governor offered to resign and stock trading was halted twice because of a plunge in share prices. The debt-laden country is
The seizures are connected to a probe introduced by French detectives last year into the individual wealth of Riad Salameh, the reserve bank chief in crisis-hit Lebanon.” Five properties in Germany and France were taken in addition to a number of bank accounts” were frozen, Eurojust stated in a statement.The Hague-based Eurojust stated the operation
