The Lebanese lira, which reached a depreciation record of LL90,000 against the dollar on the parallel market Wednesday afternoon, suddenly reappreciated value Wednesday evening following a series...
“Don't travel, dad. Not this time.” Trapped under the rubble of the Ozcan Hotel in Antakya, Turkey, Bassel Habkouk recalled the words his eldest son, Bechara, said to him the day...
Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo on Wednesday urged Iran's president to "immediately" set free an aid worker held by Tehran in a case denounced as hostage diplomacy....
Six Moroccan activists targeted by spy software Pegasus said Wednesday they would join a class action lawsuit in California against the software's Israeli maker NSO. ...
JERUSALEM/ HUWARA — Israeli security forces on Wednesday killed one Palestinian and arrested three others suspected of involvement in the fatal shooting of an Israeli-American in the occupied West...
Last week Al-Akhbar daily, which is seen to be pro-Hezbollah, made revelations that once again seem to be pitting Lebanese Army commander Joseph Aoun against Defense Minister Maurice Slim.The...
QAMISHLI — Local authorities in northeast Syria have suspended operations at a hydroelectric dam for a week due to low water levels, two officials said Wednesday, leaving several million people at...
BEIRUT — Thursday, March 23 will mark the first day of the month of Ramadan, the office of Shiite cleric Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah announced in a Wednesday statement. Dar al-Fatwa, the highest...
Egypt has decided to reinstate daylight savings time after a nine-year hiatus as part of the cash-strapped government's efforts to "ration energy use," the cabinet said Wednesday in a statement....
BEIRUT — Lebanon's caretaker Minister of Interior Bassam Mawlawi reiterated Lebanon's commitment to the fight against drug trafficking Wednesday. He addressed his comments to Gulf countries,...
The collapse of the Lebanese lira continued its accelerated fall this week, with the national currency reaching a new low of LL90,000 to the dollar on Wednesday afternoon. According to the online...
BEIRUT — Almost a month after the catastrophic earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria, the death toll rises, and questions persist concerning how better building practices would have saved more...
BEIRUT — The Mouttahidoun collective announced Wednesday that the first investigating judge of Mount Lebanon, Nicolas Mansour, scheduled a hearing for April 3 for suspects implicated in...
Iran's president stepped in after more than 100 students were hospitalized Wednesday, the latest in a spate of poisonings at girls' schools that has gripped the country....
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged Iraq to "break cycles of instability and fragility" after talks with senior officials in Baghdad on Wednesday, following a drawn-out political crisis in...
ISTANBUL — Turkish authorities have fined TikTok 1.75 million lira ($93,000) for not taking sufficient measures to protect users from unlawful processing of their data, the Personal Data Protection...
DUBAI — The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency Rafael Grossi will visit Iran on Friday for high-level meetings, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Wednesday. The visit...
Lebanon's Maronite bishops called on Wednesday for a "final end to the destructive conflict" between the judiciary and banks, after a series of lawsuits filed by Mount Lebanon Public Prosecutor...
BEIRUT — Yehya Rifai was dismissed and stripped of his position as vice president of the Union of Central and Coastal Qaitaa Municipalities, Wednesday, L'Orient Today 's correspondent in the...
Prosecutor General at the Court of Cassation Ghassan Oueidat sent a circular on Tuesday to Mount Lebanon Public Prosecutor Ghada Aoun, enjoining her to suspend her investigations into the banks she...
More than 100 students were hospitalized in Iran after a new spate of suspected gas attacks on girls' schools Wednesday, media outlets in the Islamic Republic reported....
On the eve of the expiration of his mandate, the director of Lebanon's General Security, Abbas Ibrahim, alluded to his potential pursuit of a political career by stating that "retirement is not on...
World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday urged the international community to help earthquake-hit northwest Syria, on his first-ever visit to rebel-held areas...
Demonstrators and members of the Cry of the Depositors association held a sit-in Wednesday morning in front of Beirut Palace of Justice, demanding the return of bank deposits of Lebanese residents,...
A Turkish drone strike in northern Iraq killed two Yazidi fighters affiliated with the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on Wednesday, the second such action this week, Iraqi Kurdish officials...
Iran ordered the expulsion of two German diplomats Wednesday in a tit-for-tat move after Berlin took similar action in response to a death sentence handed down against a dual national. Foreign...
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday ruled out any delay in elections after the devastating earthquake in February and said the vote would be held on May 14. "[Turkish] people will do...
TEL AVIV — Israeli police fired stun grenades and scuffles broke out in Tel Aviv on Wednesday during a nationwide "day of disruption," raising the intensity of weeks of protests against a...
BEIRUT — The Energy Ministry on Wednesday morning announced a slight increase in all fuel prices, except fuel oil. The new prices come as the Lebanese lira's continued depreciation approaches the...
A senior Al-Qaeda figure was killed in a suspected US airstrike in war-torn Yemen, security and local government sources told AFP on Wednesday. Hamad bin Hamoud al-Tamimi,...
A customer armed with a gas canister, with which he threatened to start a fire, managed to withdraw funds from his savings account after holding a brief sit-in Wednesday morning at a Creditbank...
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was in Iraq on Wednesday for talks with senior officials in a show of "solidarity" after a drawn-out political crisis. The UN chief's visit, his first to Iraq...
The Security Council has an obligation to find ways to "provide protection" for Palestinian civilians, the population's ambassador to the United Nations pleaded Tuesday after Israeli settlers...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up. A new, and unexpected , “customs dollar” rate comes into force today, the Finance Ministry confirmed to L’Orient-Le Jour ....
It had to be leaked to the media to be noticed before it was implemented. Following a joint decision by caretaker Finance Minister Youssef Khalil and Banque du Liban Governor Riad Salameh, the...
The Lebanese Army has reported that its intelligence services conducted two operations on Monday as part of the investigation into the murder of Sunni Sheikh Ahmad Rifai in Akkar in northern...
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
