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Lebanon repatriates nationals in rare flights despite virus

Lebanon on Sunday started repatriating nationals stranded abroad in its first flight in weeks since it closed its international airport to stem the novel coronavirus. The first of four planes touched down at the Beirut international airport late Sunday morning bringing in 78 passengers from...

Senior Hezbollah commander killed in Southern Lebanon

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A senior commander in Hezbollah militia was stabbed and gunned to death in southern Lebanon, the National News Agency reported Sunday, saying a suspect ha been arrested. Younis was found dead in his car on the road connecting the towns of Qaaqaaiyet El Jisr and...

Hidden suffering of coronavirus: Stigma, blaming, shaming

No one should have known Bella Lamilla’s name.  But within hours of her diagnosis as Ecuador’s first coronavirus case, it was circulating on social media along with photos showing the retired schoolteacher unconscious and intubated in a hospital bed. Her large, close-knit family...

New York gets ventilators in China; Trump wants more thanks

The New York governor said Saturday the Chinese government was facilitating a shipment of 1,000 donated ventilators to his state, highlighting the extreme measures leaders are taking in what has become a cutthroat scramble to independently secure enough lifesaving devices during the coronavirus...