World News in Brief: Haiti aid response, strikes across Lebanon’s Blue Line, UNEP welcomes Iran prisoner release, healthcare for the displaced

adminApril 8, 2024September 19, 202408 mins

Since early March, the World Food Programme (WFP) has reached more than 500,000 people, providing school meals, social protection and emergency activities nationwide. The agency has also served some 500,000 hot meals to over 76,000 internally displaced persons in 57 sites in the greater Port-au-Prince metropolitan area. Aid partners have also delivered nearly four million…

Justice served: Lebanon’s Special Tribunal closes

adminDecember 31, 2023September 18, 202403 mins

Established by Security Council resolution 1757 in 2007, the Special Tribunal’s jurisdiction also extended to other attacks that were judicially determined to be connected to the Beirut attack on 14 February 2005. The assassination of Mr. Hariri involved explosives equivalent to 2,500 to 3,000 kilograms of dynamite, detonated as his motorcade travelled across downtown Beirut…

Hezbollah claims to have shot down an Israeli drone in Lebanon’s airspace

adminJune 26, 2023September 14, 202402 mins

A scene from a Hezbollah armed exercise, file photo Hezbollah has claimed to have shot down an Israeli drone in Lebanon’s airspace. According to a foreign media report, Hezbollah says that it has shot down an Israeli drone in Zabqin area of South Lebanon. On the other hand, the Israeli army also issued a statement…

Lebanon’s parliament failed to elect a president for the 12th time in a row

adminJune 14, 2023September 13, 202403 mins

There is no constitutional government in Lebanon; Photo: Twitter Beirut: Lebanon’s parliament failed to elect a president for the 12th time in a row. According to the international news organization, in the voting for the election of the president in the Parliament of Lebanon, not a single candidate could get a clear majority in the…