Best of PGH 2025: Business + Services

Business & Services Best Alterations Shop/Tailor 1st: Kaits Craftations and Alterations instagram.com/kaits_craftations 2nd: Thuy Dang 3rd: Alterations by Rina Best Art Studio/Artist Co-op Space 1st: Songbird Artistry 4316 Penn Ave., Bloomfield....

Rights Groups Warn Proposed Lebanese Media Law Could Roll Back Press Freedoms

As Lebanon’s Parliament resumes debate on a new media law, rights groups are urging lawmakers to ensure the legislation protects, rather than curbs, freedom of expression. In a joint statement Tuesday, 14 Lebanese and international organizations...

Cornwall-Lebanon votes to move ahead with Cornwall Elementary paving project

When: Cornwall-Lebanon school board meeting, Sept. 15. What happened: The board ratified a contract with Steckbeck Engineering & Surveying to provide engineering services for the Cornwall Elementary School paving project and authorized the...

Heya ride – “A taxi for women and by women”, a first in Lebanon

🔊 Listen to Post Heya ride app offers girls and women in Lebanon taxis driven exclusively by female drivers. The initiative responds to a growing demand for safer transportation options, especially for young women travelling around the city In...

A year on, some Lebanese bystanders hurt in Israel’s pager attack still recovering

Zainab Mustarah once spent her days running an events planning firm in Beirut. But for the last year, she has been in and out of surgery to save the remnants of her right hand and both eyes, maimed when Israel detonated booby-trapped pagers in...

MP Fadlallah: Lebanese Government Endeavors to Disarm Resistance, but Resorts to Silence about Israeli Attacks

Member of Loyalty to Resistance Parliamentary Bloc in Lebanon, Dr. Hasan Fadlallah, Wednesday stressed on the first anniversary of the Pagers massacre, committed by the Zionist enemy against a large number of Lebanese citizens, including youth,...

Boycotts, Downgrades, and Protests Test Israel’s Economy as War Nears 2 Years

The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange fell after the prime minister’s remarks, while governments weighed recognition of a Palestinian state and new restrictions The Israeli military intensified operations in Gaza City on Tuesday, pushing tanks toward the...

Retired servicemen block roads in Beirut over living conditions

by Naharnet Newsdesk 17 September 2025, 13:04 The Finance Ministry said Wednesday afternoon that active and retired servicemen can receive their monthly financial aid as of Thursday, after retired servicemen blocked the Saifi and Beshara al-Khoury...

Struggle For Water Continues Following Israeli Attacks on Lebanon

Armed Conflicts, Civil Society, Development & Aid, Editors' Choice, Featured, Headlines, Health, Human Rights, Humanitarian Emergencies, Middle East & North Africa, Sustainable Development Goals, TerraViva United Nations Water & Sanitation Damage...

Liberia: Gov’t Confirms One Dead, 20 Injured in Oxygen Tanker Explosion; Preliminary Probe Points to Company’s Negligence  

Monrovia – The Government of Liberia has blamed gross negligence on the part of MIRA Gas Incorporated for a deadly explosion that rocked the company’s oxygen production facility near the Freeport of Monrovia on Monday, leaving one person dead and...

Bulgaria arrests Russian owner of ship at centre of Beirut port blast that killed 218

Published on 15/09/2025 - 20:47 GMT+2 The Russian owner of a cargo ship linked to a supply of ammonium nitrate at the centre of the massive Beirut port explosion in 2020 has been arrested in Bulgaria, Lebanese judicial officials said on Monday....

Netanyahu Clarifies Isolation Remarks, Reaffirms Strength of Israeli Economy 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday sought to clarify remarks he made a day earlier about Israel’s growing diplomatic and economic isolation, stressing that the country’s economy remains strong and attractive to investors. At a press...

EAA, QFD and TFL partner to empower 23,425 vulnerable students in Lebanon

Tribune News Network Doha The Education Above All (EAA) Foundation, in collaboration with Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD), has partnered with Teach For Lebanon (TFL) to launch a groundbreaking initiative titled “Resilience Through Education:...

"Armenian Banking Days" were held in the capital of Austria

ArmInfo. The day before, "Armenian Banking Days" were held for the first time in the capital of Austria. The initiator of the Vienna event was the Union of Armenian Banks together with Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI). Raiffeisen Bank...

Lebanon: Saints-Coeurs, a school of hope and reconciliation beyond war

Beirut (AsiaNews) - As every year, shortly before the start of the school year, which officially begins on 23 September, the secretariat of Catholic schools chaired by Fr. Youssef Nasr organised a conference during which he highlighted the...

Sex work, captagon and currency

The captagon trade has slowed but not stopped. Security forces burn seized pills in Damascus, January 2025. (Photo: picture alliance/Anadolu/Hisam Hac Omer) Having grown significantly during the war, Syria's informal market for sex, drugs and...

The Central Bank of Syria: Remittances are the economy’s “lifeline”

Abdul Qader Hasriyeh, governor of the Central Bank of Syria, described remittances to Syria as a “lifeline” for the Syrian economy, noting that transfers from the United Arab Emirates alone range between $700–800 million annually. In an interview...

Groundbreaking Set for New Coca-Cola Facility in Lebanon County

Construction is set to begin on a new Coca-Cola facility in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, with a groundbreaking ceremony scheduled for Wednesday (September 17). The 240,000-square-foot sales and distribution center, located at 12 Ritter Way in...

areeba Partners With Entrust to Become First-to-Market With Google Pay™ Enablement in Lebanon

Entrust, a global leader in identity-centric security solutions, today announced the expansion of its strategic partnership with areeba, a global leader in payment infrastructure. Now, areeba’s bank and fintech customers can enable Google Pay for...

Abraham Accords at 5: Trade Soars, Politics Hardens, Ties Hold

Felice Friedson walks readers through the Abraham Accords at five years—part progress report, part stress test—as veteran insider Asher Fredman weighs what has endured and what must change. Brokered by President Donald Trump in 2020, the accords...