Future-Hezbollah verbal sparring raises stakes
A war of words erupted over the weekend between the Future Movement and Hezbollah, signaling a major political...
Monday, 17 November 2014
A Toolkit to Help Communities Respond to a Changing Climate
It’s been a big week for the United States’ efforts on climate change. On November 12, President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping announced historic actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Today, we’re announcing important steps that the Administration is taking here at home to help communities respond to and prepare for a changing climate.
Today, the State, Local, and Tribal Leaders Task Force on Climate Preparedness and Resilience – a group of leaders from across the country who are working to boost resilience efforts in their communities – released recommendations on ways in which the federal government can support actions to address the impacts of climate change.
In response to early input from the Task Force, the Administration has developed the Climate Resilience Toolkit, a website that provides centralized, authoritative, easy-to-use information, tools, and best practices to help communities prepare for and boost their resilience to the impacts of climate change.
You can access the toolkit here: toolkit.climate.gov
Husband in Btedaai attack succumbs to wounds
Weekend murder stirs tensions in Baalbek
The killing of Nadimeh Fakhri and the wounding of her son and husband in Btedaai, west of Baalbek have opened the door...
ISIS threatens to kill Lebanese captives in 2 hours
BEIRUT: ISIS will execute the Lebanese servicemen it is holding captive along the northeastern border of Lebanon in just hours if the government doesn't revoke sentences handed down to Islamist Prisoners in Roumieh Prison, a brother of one of the captives said.
Ibrahim Mgheit, whose brother is being held captive along with 26 other Lebanese soldiers and policemen by the Nusra Front and ISIS in the outskirts of Arsal, told local TV that ISIS had called the families and given a two-hour ultimatum for the government to act.
The hostages’ families burned tires, escalating protests in their sit-in camp erected outside the Grand Serail in Beirut’s downtown district.
ISIS and Nusra Front are still holding 27 hostages that they took during clashes with the Army in the border town of Arsal in August. They have executed three and released seven so far.
The threat from ISIS came after the Judiciary Council issued life sentences with hard labor against five Islamist prisoners in Roumieh, including Saudi prisoners, judicial sources said Monday.
The sentences, which were issued Friday evening, were not divulged publicly. However, the jihadi group was informed of the rulings and first issued threats to kill the servicemen Sunday, the sources said.
The hostages’ families burned tires, escalating protests in their sit-in camp erected outside the government’s Serail in Beirut’s downtown district.
The fate of the hostages is reportedly no longer in the hands of the ISIS militants in Qalamoun where the captives are held but is decided by group’s central command, according to daily Al-Akhbar.
The paper suggested in a report published Monday that “the decision to slaughter” the captives is in the hands of ISIS leader and self-proclaimed “Caliph” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Geagea: Stronger bid to reach a new election law
Jumblatt hails 'Hajj Kerry' over Aqsa opening
Progressive Socialist Party head Walid Jumblatt hails Secretary of State John Kerry for brokering an agreement that...
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