KSA approves $1.2 bn aid for war-scarred Yemen
Saudi Arabia, which has led a years-long military coalition in Yemen, announced on Tuesday a $1.2 billion grant for the war-scarred country's internationally recognised government, the latest...
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FPM conditions participation in parliament session on approving structural reforms
BEIRUT — Free Patriotic Movement on Tuesday announced they will attend a potential legislative parliamentary session if structural reforms that are demanded by the International Monetary Fund...
1 August 2023
Palestinian killed after wounding six Israelis in gun attack
One Palestinian was killed by Israeli forces, Palestinian health officials said, after committing a shooting attack that wounded six Israelis outside a shopping mall in the settlement of Ma' ale...
1 August 2023
Nasrallah calls all factions in Ain al-Hilweh to stop fighting
BEIRUT — Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Tuesday called on "everyone" involved in the clashes at the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp to do their part to stop the fighting. The clashes in the...
1 August 2023
Mikati calls for bill to borrow money from BDL
BEIRUT — At the Grand Serail on Tuesday, Najib Mikati's caretaker government discussed the issue of borrowing foreign currency from the Banque du Liban (BDL) during a session devoted to the 2023...
1 August 2023
UAE to allow 'peaceful' assembly of climate activists at COP28
The United Arab Emirates said Tuesday it would allow environmental activists to "assemble peacefully" at this year's UN climate talks, despite its prohibition of unauthorized protests....
1 August 2023
No man’s land: Lebanon's major property disputes
A regular source of tension that sometimes degenerate into deadly armed clashes, land disputes in Lebanon have been going on for years. The disputes typically involve plots lands that were never...
Zeina ANTONIOS, 1 August 2023
Health Minister: Sample results of Zahle restaurant revealed water contamination
BEIRUT — Health Minister Firas Abiad announced Tuesday that the results of samples taken from a restaurant in the Berdawny area in Zahle, where some 60 people got food poisoning in July, confirmed...
1 August 2023
Bassil warns of a "security disorder' amid fighting in Ain al-Hilweh
BEIRUT — On Tuesday, Free Patriotic Movement leader Gebran Bassil said the situation in the Palestinian refugee camp Ain al-Hilweh "opens the way to a security disorder, even if limited." Since...
1 August 2023
Beirut port explosion: 15 Ambassadors express 'concern about ongoing obstruction' of the probe
BEIRUT — On Tuesday, 15 ambassadors from countries that signed the joint statement on the Beirut Port explosion at the UN Human Rights Council urged Lebanese authorities to speed up judicial...
1 August 2023
IS attack on Syria oil convoy kills 7
Islamic State group jihadists attacked a convoy of oil tankers guarded by the army in the Syrian desert on Tuesday, killing seven people including two civilians, a war monitor said....
1 August 2023
Chami warns: State cannot repay BDL loan
BEIRUT — The Lebanese state "will not be able to pay back the money borrowed" from Banque du Liban (BDL), caretaker Deputy Prime Minister Saade Chami said Tuesday, a day after caretaker Prime...
1 August 2023
'Suspicious timing' for the Ain al-Hilweh clashes
“Suspicious timing.” Commenting on the deadly clashes among Palestinian factions in Ain al-Hilweh, caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati did not mince his words. According to Mikati, the clashes...
Salah HIJAZI, 1 August 2023
US quietly inspects Israeli crossings for its Palestinian dual-nationals
US observers are in Israel this week to discreetly assess conditions at its border crossings for Palestinian-Americans as part of an emerging Israeli-US visa waiver deal, four officials said....
1 August 2023
UK recognizes 'acts of genocide' against Yazidis by Islamic State
The British government on Tuesday officially acknowledged that the Islamic State group committed "acts of genocide" against the Yazidi people in 2014, the foreign ministry said in a statement....
1 August 2023
Ain al-Hilweh: Efforts to enforce ceasefire
SAIDA — Efforts were well underway late Tuesday afternoon to enforce a ceasefire in the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp for Palestinians, located on the outskirts of Saida in South Lebanon. Clashes...
1 August 2023
Outcry after American movie uses apparent footage of the Beirut port blast
BEIRUT — At first glance, it's just another blockbuster trailer. Epic music by Hans Zimmer, futuristic settings, serial explosions — except that one of these explosions looks strikingly similar to...
1 August 2023
Increase in all fuel prices
BEIRUT — The Energy Ministry on Tuesday announced an increase in all fuel prices. Here are the new prices: • Twenty liters of 95-octane gasoline: LL1,712,000, up by LL16,000 • Twenty...
1 August 2023
Ain al-Hilweh ceasefire, Riad Salameh steps down, Joseph Aoun nears retirement: Everything you need to know to start your Tuesday
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign u p . The Ain al-Hilweh camp outside Saida is in a state of relative calm after rival Fatah and Islamist factions agreed to a...
