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MENA Newswire: Winners in the third annual Middle East & North Africa Stevie® Awards, the only awards program to recognize innovation in the workplace throughout 17 nations in the Middle East and North Africa, were announced today.  The awards are sponsored by

Known as the first female US secretary of state and a pop culture feminist icon, Madeleine Albright died yesterday at the age of 84, her family said. Albright fled Nazis as a child in Czechoslovakia during World War Two, but

Japan’s Ambassador to Lebanon, H.E Mr. Takeshi Okubo, attended the ceremony to mark the completion of a project that saw solar panels installed in 122 public schools around Lebanon, funded by a donation from Japan and coordinated by the Ministry

Bahrain achieved the highest ranking among Arab countries in the World Happiness Report 2022, published by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network at the United Nations. In the report, the Kingdom is ranked 21st out of 146 countries, an improvement of

Early Thursday, an earthquake hit south Iran, according to a research center. In social media posts, people in the United Arab Emirates reported feeling tremors. According to GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences, the earthquake took place at a depth

The Lebanon government has asked Minister of Economy and Trade, Amin Salam to intensify his foreign contacts to secure donations in the form of essential food stocks in order to enable the country to face the ongoing food security crisis

Delegate Jean-Baptiste Djebbari, from the French Transport Ministry, arrived in Beirut to sign an MOU for France to donate buses to Lebanon. Ali Hamiyeh, Minister of Public Works and Transport, signed the agreement with Djebbari. As part of an integrated

Prime Minister Najib Mikati met with the Minister of Industry and Minerals of Iraq, Manhal al-Khabbaz, at the Grand Serail in the presence of Industry Minister Georges Bouchikian, Lebanon’s Ambassador to Iraq Ali Habhab, and Iraqi Ambassador in Beirut Haider

Lebanon is experiencing yet another fuel shortage, with queues forming outside fuel stations and shops running out of flour and cooking oil amid growing concerns about the country’s food security. In the immediate aftermath of the Beirut port explosion in

According to Lebanon’s Nutrition Sector group, over 94 percent of children aged six to 23 months were not fed adequate diets, potentially leading to adverse life-long consequences. According to the report Nutrition in Times of Crisis, there are 200,000 malnourished