JERUSALEM — Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was set to return to power in one of the most right-wing coalitions in Israel's history, causing jitters among Palestinians and Arab neighbors...
The United States is concerned about threats from Iran against Saudi Arabia and will not hesitate to respond if necessary, a White House spokesperson said Tuesday. "We are concerned about the...
BEIRUT — Banque du Liban (BDL) has reportedly decided to halve the interest it pays to banks on dollar deposits, two banking sources, including a senior executive, confirmed to L'Orient-Le Jour...
BEIRUT — Saudi Arabia's ambassador to Lebanon, Walid Bukhari, said Tuesday that his country will reconsider its relationship with Lebanon if a "sovereignist" and "moderate" president is elected, in...
Although he has been in Lebanon for barely four months, Edouard Beigbeder, UNICEF’s representative in the country, is already facing a major crisis: a cholera outbreak with more than 1,447...
BEIRUT — Reporters Without Borders, the National Union of Journalists (SNJ), the Franco-German channel Arte and the Ecole Supérieure de Journalisme (ESJ) in Lille, northern France, called on...
BEIRUT — Arab League Secretary-General Ahmad Aboul Gheit warned Tuesday that a prolonged presidential vacancy in Lebanon "will have negative consequences" for the country. Lebanon entered an...
BEIRUT — A waterspout was observed on Tuesday afternoon off the coast between the towns of Amchit and Batroun, in North Lebanon, our correspondent in the region reported. No injuries or damage...
CAIRO — Egyptian security forces have arrested nearly 70 people in connection with calls for protests to coincide with the COP27 climate summit, a rights group said Tuesday. They also...
Iranian authorities announced Tuesday that they released eight journalists detained amid protests sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini last month. Amini died in custody on Sept. 16...
BEIRUT — Baabda Palace closed the wings of the President of the Republic, lowered the Lebanese flag, and the official portraits of President Michel Aoun were taken down two days after Aoun's...
On Feb. 6, 2006, Michel Aoun and Hassan Nasrallah convened in Beirut’s southern suburb of Mar Mikhael to sign a memorandum of understanding that radically changed the political landscape and course...
ALGIERS — Algeria aims to demonstrate diplomatic clout this week as it hosts the first Arab League summit since before the COVID-19 pandemic, but political divisions mean any show of...
PARIS — Iranians staged new protest actions to denounce the country's theocratic regime in defiance of a crackdown that is now seeing those arrested put on trial and facing the death...
ABU DHABI — The United Arab Emirates and the United States have signed a partnership to spur $100 billion of investments in clean energy projects and add 100 gigawatts of clean energy...
BEIRUT — Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati said on Tuesday that his goal is the election of a new president "as soon as possible," while the country faces an unprecedented total...
BEIRUT — More than 5 million Captagon pills were seized by the Internal Security Forces (ISF) in Ghazieh, South Lebanon, caretaker Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi announced Tuesday on Twitter....
Caretaker Finance Minister Youssef Khalil announced at the end of September that the lira exchange rate, which had been pegged at LL1,507.5 to the dollar since the late 1990s, would increase...
CAIRO — Global events may temporarily affect Egypt's wheat supply but the country can adjust to them, Egypt's supply minister Ali Moselhy told Reuters on Tuesday when asked whether Russia's...
BEIRUT — European Union Head of Diplomacy Josep Borrell in a Tuesday statement calls on Lebanese authorities to elect a new president and form a government "with the utmost urgency,"...
President Michel Aoun focused a large part of his speech on Sunday on the head of the Higher Judicial Council Souheil Abboud, on whom he unleashed a direct attack.“Our innocent people are...
BEIRUT — Brigadier General Khalil Ali Jaber was appointed on Tuesday as president of the Military Court in charge of criminal cases, by a decision from the caretaker Minister of Defense Maurice...
Major stock markets in the Gulf retreated on Tuesday, with Saudi Arabia leading the declines following a string of disappointing corporate earnings. Saudi Arabia's benchmark stock index ...
BEIRUT — The Energy Ministry on Tuesday announced an increase in fuel prices, while the price of diesel oil for private generators has decreased. Here are the new prices: •...
BEIRUT — Army intelligence arrested several people early on Tuesday morning as they were allegedly making an illegal migration attempt from al-Abdeh beach in North Lebanon, L’Orient Today’s...
BEIRUT — The military intelligence arrested a man in Beirut's southern suburbs, suspected of escaping from the Beirut Justice Palace prison in August, the Lebanese Army said in a Monday evening...
DUBAI — Saudi Arabian state oil producer Aramco (2222.SE) on Tuesday posted a 39 percent jump in its third-quarter net income that beat analysts' forecasts, boosted by...
BEIRUT — The Ministry of Public Health announced Monday night that Lebanon recorded two new cholera cases in 24 hours, raising the total case count to 390. The report did not record a new death,...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Michel Aoun’s term as president ended yesterday, making today the first day of a governance vacuum at both the cabinet and...
Unpaid wages dominate a growing number of complaints by migrant workers in Qatar, the UN labor agency said Tuesday, less than 20 days before the football World Cup begins. The International Labor...
JERUSALEM — Israelis voted for the fifth time in under four years on Tuesday, with former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu bidding for a comeback in a race likely to turn on a...
Lebanon stuck between a rock and a hard place: A US disarmament plan, or an extended expansion to the war?
Lebanese, Israeli delegation to meet in Washington; Lebanon files UN complaint against Iran: Everything you need to know this Thursday
