Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants, Abdullah Bou Habib, is scheduled to receive today Vatican’s Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, at Beirut International Airport, at 3:50 this afternoon.
Source:National News Agency – Lebanon
AL-RAHI CRITICIZES VACANCY IN MILITARY ACADEMY
Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros Al-Rahi stressed, during Sunday’s mass, that ‘the President of the Republic is the one authorized to demand the implementation of international resolutions.’
Patriarch Al-Rahi added: ‘We have always warned against the continued vacancy in the presidential position as it is a political assassination of the consensual system.’
Al-Rahi pointed to another vacancy in the state, saying: ‘There is another vacancy in the Military Academy as there will be no students for the second year, and who will protect the rights of those accepted?”
Al-Rahi concluded by calling on those concerned to open the Military Academy so that there is no vacancy greater than that of the Presidency of the Republic.
Source:National News Agency – Lebanon
RESISTANCE TARGETS AL-SAMAQA SITE
The Islamic Resistance announced this evening that its fighters targeted, at 5:25 pm on Sunday, June 23, 2024, Al-Samaqa site in the occupied Lebanese hills of Kfar Shuba with rocket weapons, causing direct hits.
Source:National News Agency – Lebanon
BTA TO HAVE PRESS CLUBS IN ALL REGIONAL CITIES IN BULGARIA WITH OPENING OF NATIONAL PRESS CLUB IN MONTANA ON JUNE 24
The Bulgarian News Agency (BTA) will open a National Press Club in Montana on June 24. This would be the agency’s 40th press club.
With the opening of the press club in Montana BTA, there will be press clubs in all regional cities of the country.
BTA Director General Kiril Valchev will open the new press club on Monday, and the event will be attended Montana Mayor Zlatko Zhivkov, MPs from the region, Montana Regional Governor Ivaylo Antonov, directors of state and cultural institutions, journalists, citizens.
The regional cities where BTA has opened its press clubs include Sofia, Blagoevgrad, Burgas, Varna, Veliko Tarnovo, Vidin, Vratsa, Gabrovo, Dobrich, Kardzhali, Kyustendil, Lovech, Pazardzhik, Pernik, Pleven, Plovdiv, Razgrad, Ruse, Silistra, Sliven, Smolyan, Stara Zagora, Targovishte, Haskovo, Shumen and Yambol. The non-regional cities with BTA press clubs are Kazanlak, Petrich, Samokov and Svishtov.
BTA also has a press club at the Bulgarian base on Livingston Island in Antarctica.
Outside the coun
try, BTA has press clubs in Ankara (Turkiye), Bosilegrad (Serbia), Bucharest (Romania), Odesa (Ukraine), Skopje (Republic of North Macedonia), Taraclia (Moldova).
The agency also has two mobile press clubs, one on the the Bulgarian naval research ship Sv. Sv. Kiril i Metodii (RSV 421) and one at the International Book Fair in Sofia.
The agency’s policy is to have its own media centres in all neighboring countries, as well as in countries with large Bulgarian communities. The press clubs are a preferred place for communication between the media and representatives of business, politics, culture, sports. Press conferences, discussions, exhibitions and other events are hosted there, and institutions, organizations and citizens share news from the respective region, spreding through BTA at the national level, and through BTA’s English service internationally as well.
Source:National News Agency – Lebanon
King returns to Jordan after private visit
His Majesty King Abdullah II returned to Jordan on Sunday after a private visit, according to a royal court statement.
Source:Jordan News Agency
BOU HABIB ARRIVES AT BEIRUT AIRPORT TO RECEIVE PAROLIN
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants, Abdallah Bou Habib, arrived a while ago at the VIP building at Beirut International Airport, where he will receive the Vatican’s Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, who is visiting Lebanon for the first time.
Following the official reception at the airport and a short closed meeting with Foreign Minister Bou Habib, Cardinal Parolin gave a brief statement at the airport, saying:
“Good evening everyone…It is a pleasure for me to be here in Lebanon…I will stay in this beautiful country for a few days. I thank the government and all concerned for their warm welcome…I came here following an invitation extended to me to have a look at the works and activities of the Knights of Malta. This is the reason for my presence here…Surely, there is great concern in terms of politics in Lebanon and the economic crisis that affects the poor, namely the political crisis, the institutional crisis, and the problem of electing the president…We will try as much as pos
sible to help and move forward in this direction…We may not succeed, but I hope at least to help in some way.’
Source:National News Agency – Lebanon