At midday GMT on Friday 27 January, the BBC’s Arabic radio station closed down with the same words with which it launched its first broadcast 85 years earlier: ‘This is London, the British Broadcasting Corporation’. The closure brought a wave of nostalgia and regret from many throughout the region who had been brought up listening to BBC Arabic and saw it as the only credible source of objective news in a contentious area. One day in the troubled 1980s I was driving towards Sidon in South (.)
Lebanon’s president has begun consultations with members of parliamentary blocs to name a new prime minister following last month’s parliamentary elections
Get latest articles and stories on World at LatestLY. Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati won the support of more than 50 legislators on Thursday to keep his post following last month s parliamentary elections as the country s multiple crises deepen with no solution in sight. World News | Incumbent Lebanese PM Keeps Post as Economic Crisis Deepens.