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Lebanon In Talks With Elon Musk’s Starlink To Enhance Internet Services

The government has initiated discussions to bring satellite internet to the country, aiming to boost connectivity and attract international investment.

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1 year ago

May 30, 2025

Nour Nasir

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Lebanon’s government has entered formal discussions with Elon Musk’s satellite internet provider, Starlink, to explore bringing the high-speed service to the country. The talks were confirmed on Thursday following a meeting between Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, Starlink’s Director of Licensing and Development Sam Turner, and U.S. Ambassador Lisa Johnson, according to a statement shared via Musk’s social platform X.

President Joseph Aoun also met separately with Turner, receiving updates from Telecoms Minister Charles Hage about the ongoing negotiations with SpaceX, Starlink’s famous parent company. The introduction of Starlink would position Lebanon among the 136 countries globally benefiting from the company’s satellite-driven connectivity, enhancing internet services across various sectors.

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Minister Hage emphasized the potential for Starlink’s presence in Lebanon to transform the country into a regional communications hub, stating this could significantly boost the nation’s attractiveness to global businesses and investors. Starlink’s services, known for their reliability and speed, promise substantial improvements to connectivity in critical areas such as banking, industry, education, and government operations, according to the Lebanese presidency.

Lebanon’s telecom infrastructure has faced persistent challenges, plagued by outdated technologies, high costs, and systemic issues linked to years of economic turmoil and mismanagement. Starlink’s entry could provide a much-needed upgrade, delivering faster and more dependable internet at a time when mobile data plans in Lebanon are among the most expensive in the world.

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Previous efforts to bring Starlink to Lebanon stalled under former Telecoms Minister Johnny Corm, who cited security concerns and commercial disagreements as significant hurdles. Specifically, negotiations encountered legal and technical barriers relating to data storage and privacy. SpaceX initially requested data servers to be based in Qatar or Germany, a demand incompatible with Lebanon’s personal data protection laws (Law No. 81).

If current talks overcome these challenges, the successful integration of Starlink’s satellite internet could mark a pivotal shift in Lebanon’s digital landscape, opening new avenues for economic recovery, innovation, and global investment.

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A Three-Clinic Network Bets Dubai Is Ready For Longevity Medicine

Longevium has enlisted nearly 100 clinicians and created an AI platform in a bid to sell biological-age tracking as a medicine, not a wellness service.

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2 days ago

July 13, 2026

Dana Saadeh

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Dubai has been busily creating the scaffolding for a longevity industry, including a dedicated regulatory authority and a health market deep enough to sustain it. Now the clinics are arriving.

Longevium, a longevity clinic network, has opened three locations across the city: a flagship at Triple Seven Mall on Jumeirah 3, and branches in Jumeirah Lake Towers and Jumeirah Village Circle. Together they house a multidisciplinary team of nearly 100 physicians and specialists offering what the company bills as “a measurable medical system for longevity”.

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The pitch is that longevity medicine should look less like a wellness menu and more like continuous clinical care. Each patient’s biological age assessment, laboratory results, body composition, cardiovascular risk factors, metabolic markers, and lifestyle data feed into a single profile, with a proprietary AI platform helping physicians track progress and adjust protocols against the patient’s own biomarkers.

“Healthy aging must be approached clinically through diagnostics, biomarkers, physician supervision, longitudinal tracking, and protocols tailored to the individual,” said Dr. Ksenia Butova, Longevium’s founder and CEO. “Our goal is to help patients understand their health trajectory before disease develops, and then actively change that trajectory”.

The treatment list spans peptide-based protocols, exosome therapies, stem cell approaches, GLP-1 metabolic optimization, hormone balance programs, cardiovascular prevention, and regenerative aesthetics — a model built for the entrepreneurs, executives, and international patients the clinic says want measurable results rather than generic wellness. A signature offering, Longevity Day, compresses biomarker testing, ultrasound and vascular imaging, specialist consultations, IV therapy, and a personalized optimization roadmap into a single three-hour visit.

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“Here, longevity, biotechnology, AI, prevention, and regenerative medicine are converging into a single ecosystem,” said Butova. “This is why Longevium was built in Dubai, and why we believe the UAE can become a global reference point for longevity medicine”.

The emirate established the Dubai Longevity Authority in 2026 to oversee its longevity, wellness, and advanced health sectors, and the Dubai Health Authority reported insured beneficiaries exceeding 4.9 million in 2025, up around 6.5%, with insurance claims reaching approximately 49.6 million, up around 13.5%.