Salam signed decree on judicial appointments
Prime Minister Nawaf Salam announced on X that he signed this afternoon the decree on judicial appointments. “I signed this afternoon the decree on judicial appointments, as established by the...
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UNIFIL says cleared mines from access to 1 of its posts in south Lebanon
The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) announced it had launched a "joint operation ... involving engineering units from the Cambodian component and Italian peacekeepers from the...
1 August 2025
Sirens sound in Israel after Yemen 'projectile' launch: Army
Sirens sounded in several Israeli cities, including Jerusalem, on Friday as the military said it had identified a projectile launched from Yemen, and AFP journalists reported hearing booms over...
1 August 2025
Michel Pharaon launches initiative to disarm Beirut militias
Former Minister Michel Pharaon launched an initiative Friday to disarm militias in Beirut, ahead of a Cabinet meeting scheduled for Tuesday that will focus on restoring the state's monopoly...
1 August 2025
Hamas armed wing publishes video of Gaza hostage
The armed wing of Palestinian militant group Hamas released a minute-long video Friday of an Israeli hostage held in Gaza looking weak and malnourished, inside a narrow concrete tunnel. The...
1 August 2025
5 years since Aug. 4 tragedy: Planned commemorations
Five years after the deadly explosions at the port of Beirut, the families of the victims, civil society, and some Lebanese authorities will observe the remembrance of the tragedy in the capital....
L'Orient Today staff, 1 August 2025
Meeting between Yassine Jaber, Midel entrepreneurs
A delegation from the board of directors of the International Union of Lebanese Businessmen and Businesswomen (Midel) met with Finance Minister Yassine Jaber to discuss several issues of concern to...
1 August 2025
Beirut's port handled 100,000 containers in July, record since 2019
Nearly 100,000 standard containers (TEU) passed through the Port of Beirut in July, marking a new record since 2019, the last year the port operated at full capacity before the economic crisis and...
1 August 2025
Baccalaureate results released, south Lebanon records highest success rates
BEIRUT — The Education Ministry published on Friday the results of the Baccalaureate covering all four streams (General Sciences, Life Sciences, Economics & Sociology and Humanities). Southern...
1 August 2025
US promises Gaza food plan after envoy visit
President Donald Trump's special envoy promised a plan to deliver more food to Gaza after inspecting a U.S.-backed distribution center on Friday, as the U.N. human rights office said Israeli...
1 August 2025
France carries out first aid airdrop in Gaza
President Emmanuel Macron said Friday France had carried out its first airdrop of humanitarian supplies into Gaza, after U.N.-backed experts warned the Israeli-blockaded Palestinian territory was...
1 August 2025
Hacking Lebanese Politics #18: Inside the victims’ families’ fight for justice after Aug. 4
Almost five years have passed since the Beirut port explosion . Nearly 250 people were killed. Thousands were injured. A city was torn apart. The fight for justice is still dragging. While the...
By Sahar Ghoussoub and Joelle El-Khoury, 1 August 2025
US envoy Witkoff says Gaza visit to help craft aid plan
U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff said Friday that his visit to U.S.-backed aid stations in Gaza would help Washington draw up a plan to deliver more aid to the Palestinian territory. "Today,...
1 August 2025
Egyptian ambassador congratulates Aoun for his speech on Lebanese Army Day
Egypt’s ambassador to Lebanon, Alaa Moussa, congratulated President Joseph Aoun on Friday for his speech delivered the previous day on the occasion of Army Day, emphasizing the role of the military...
1 August 2025
Tripoli conference dedicated to corporate ecological transition
The city of Tripoli, in northern Lebanon, hosted the Green Forward 2025 conference this week, dedicated to the ecological transition of Lebanese businesses, organizers said. The event, which was...
1 August 2025
Large fire breaks out inside 'Hotel Pearl' in southern suburbs of Beirut
BEIRUT — A large fire broke out on Friday inside "Hotel Pearl" in the Mouawad area in the southern suburbs of Beirut, sending thick plumes of smoke into the sky, according to local media...
L'Orient Today staff, 1 August 2025
Aoun promises to be 'at the forefront' in defending the rights of retired military personnel
BEIRUT — President Joseph Aoun promised on Friday, while receiving a delegation from the "League of Lebanese Armed Forces Veterans" led by former general and MP Shamel Roukoz, that he...
L'Orient Today staff, 1 August 2025
After Paris, can growing recognition of Palestine shift Israel’s stance?
A few days after French President Emmanuel Macron announced on July 24 that France would recognize a Palestinian state, the United Kingdom, Canada and Portugal signaled they may follow suit.British...
Amélie ZACCOUR, 1 August 2025
'A solid bulwark for our security': Salam, Haykal, politicians congratulate army for its 80th anniversary
BEIRUT — For the 80th anniversary of the Lebanese Army on Friday, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, Lebanese Army Commander, General Rodolph Haykal, and other politicians and personalities, congratulated...
L'Orient Today staff, 1 August 2025
Tribute to Ziad Rahbani
1 August 2025
After seven years, the judicial independence law was finally enacted
The law organizing the judiciary was finally passed on Thursday evening, seven years after it was first proposed in 2018 by the Independence of the Judiciary Collective, a collective of dozens of...
Claude ASSAF, 1 August 2025
Putin, facing Trump deadline, says he hopes Ukraine peace talks will continue
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that he hoped peace talks between Russia and Ukraine would continue and that working groups could discuss potential compromises, but said...
Reuters, 1 August 2025
US special envoy visits Gaza food site, ambassador says
U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff on Friday visited an aid distribution site in Gaza run by the American privately-owned Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). Witkoff appeared in a number of photos...
AFP, 1 August 2025
Hezbollah stuck between Aoun’s speech and Barrack’s demands
Hezbollah followed President Joseph Aoun’s speech marking the 80th anniversary of the Lebanese Army with close attention. The group was keen to hear what the president would say ahead of Tuesday’s...
Scarlett HADDAD, 1 August 2025
Aoun congratulates Regie one day after anti-smuggling military operation in al-Buss camp near Sour
BEIRUT — During a visit to the Régie Libanaise de Tabacs et Tombacs (Lebanon’s tobacco authority)'s headquarters in Hadath on Friday, President Joseph Aoun congratulated the members of the...
L'Orient Today staff, 1 August 2025
Israel evacuates diplomatic staff in the UAE, Israeli media say
Israel is evacuating most of its diplomatic mission staff in the United Arab Emirates, Israeli media reported late on Thursday, after Israel's National Security Council sharpened its travel...
Reuters, 1 August 2025
Slight drop in fuel prices, gas cylinder price remains stable
BEIRUT — Fuel prices recorded slight drops at the end of the week in Lebanon, while the price of gas remains constant, according to the price list published Friday by the Energy Ministry. Here are...
L'Orient Today staff, 1 August 2025
Four killed in series of Israeli strikes Thursday night in Lebanon
SOUTH LEBANON — At least four men, all identified as Hezbollah fighters by the party, were killed Thursday night in a series of airstrikes carried out by the Israeli air force on several areas of...
L'Orient Today staff, 1 August 2025
Gaza Civil Defense reports 11 dead in Israeli attacks
Gaza Civil Defense said Friday that 11 people were killed by Israeli airstrikes and gunfire in the Palestinian territory, including two who were waiting near an aid distribution site. According to...
AFP, 1 August 2025
Bassil: "We have heard nothing reassuring" from Syria regarding its relations with Lebanon
BEIRUT — The head of the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM, Aounist), Gebran Bassil, expressed his concerns Thursday night in a television appearance on MTV about the new Syrian regime of Ahmad...
L'Orient Today staff, 1 August 2025
Israeli writer David Grossman denounces 'genocide'
The renowned Israeli writer David Grossman has called the way his country is conducting war in the Gaza Strip "genocide," saying his heart is "broken," in an interview published...
AFP, 1 August 2025
With 'The Widows,' Alfred Tarazi casts light on the repressed and launches Blue Rose space
The place is tiny, about 30 square meters with a mezzanine. It sits on the west side of Shehadeh Street, which climbs up from Tabaris, across from the Wine Bar that is struggling to regain its...
Fifi ABOU DIB, 1 August 2025
Canadian prime minister says he is 'disappointed' by new US tariffs
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday that Ottawa was "disappointed" by Washington's decision to increase tariffs to 35 percent on Canadian products not covered by a...
AFP, 1 August 2025
Aid set up by Israel is a 'deadly trap,' HRW says
Israeli forces have set up in Gaza a "defective and militarized" aid distribution system, turning this humanitarian operation into "real bloodbaths" and a "deadly...
AFP, 1 August 2025
Barrack: Washington to observe Sharaa before removing Syria from list of terrorism-supporting states
U.S. envoy Tom Barrack said Thursday that Syria will remain on the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism until interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa takes concrete steps, local media reported. This...
L'Orient Today staff, 1 August 2025
France freezes evacuations of Gazans during investigation into student accused of antisemitic remarks
France will no longer accept evacuated Gazans into its territory until the conclusions of an investigation into the failures that allowed a student accused of antisemitic remarks to enter the...
AFP, 1 August 2025
Like Rana Hatem Slim, choose happiness
It was after the tragedy of Aug. 4, 2020, that Rana Hatem Slim began to paint. "The desire to start came to me suddenly. No doubt, to externalize the excess of emotion in which the double...
L'Orient Today staff, 1 August 2025
Yvonne and Edmond in Beirut: Four photos, two stories. Which do you want to believe?
In the album where their photos were carefully stored, our lovers left us a location and a date in white pencil. A feminine handwriting whispers: Beirut, 1935. Lebanon was then at the height of the...
Georges BOUSTANY, 1 August 2025
Tehran calls Western accusations of 'assassination' attempts abroad 'baseless'
Iran has rejected accusations of attempted "assassinations and kidnappings" abroad made by the United States and more than a dozen Western allies, calling them "baseless." In a...
AFP, 1 August 2025
Salam's wishes for the army's 80th anniversary: 'One army for one people in one homeland'
In the early hours of a day marking the 80th anniversary of the Lebanese Army, against a backdrop of political discussions on the state's monopoly on arms, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam on Friday...
L'Orient Today staff, 1 August 2025
In 'Fragile' Tania Saleh voices her worry about a world in peril
Inspired by her forced departure from Lebanon after the political and financial crises and the Beirut port explosion in August 2020, the artist explores, in "Fragile," questions that...
Stéphanie GHACIBEH, 1 August 2025
Stocks drop as Trump's new tariff sweep offsets earnings
Stock markets fell Friday as Donald Trump announced tariffs on dozens of trading partners ahead of a self-imposed deadline, offsetting strong earnings from tech giants. With hours to go before the...
AFP, 1 August 2025
Airdropping aid, a false solution for the humanitarian crisis in Gaza
Humiliating. The word comes up almost systematically in the mouths of the Gazans interviewed and in the reports of humanitarian organizations present in the Palestinian enclave. After the chaotic...
Clara HAGE, 1 August 2025
Israel will 'intensify, expand' attacks on Gaza if there's no agreement on hostages: Military command | LIVE
21:04 Beirut Time We are now closing our LIVE coverage of the region for the night. We will be back tomorrow morning with more news updates in our live news section. 20:30...
Renee Davis Muntasser Abdallah Sarah Abdallah, 1 August 2025
Is Hezbollah preparing reception centers in anticipation of a new war?
As Nawaf Salam's government prepares to address the thorny issue of Hezbollah's disarmament next Tuesday, information is circulating in recent days about the party making preparations to...
Zeina ANTONIOS, 1 August 2025
Aoun's (last?) advice to Hezbollah and its base: Bet on the state
In a speech given for Army Day, President Joseph Aoun on Thursday called for the armed forces and security services to have the sole monopoly on weapons "across all Lebanese territory,"...
L'Orient Today staff, 1 August 2025
US envoy to visit Gaza, Israel carries out a series of strikes on south Lebanon and Bekaa: Everything you need to know this Friday
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Friday, Aug. 1, 2025Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz.Some key things to watch today:Updates on U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff's visit to Gaza...
Abbas Mahfouz, 1 August 2025
Minister Makki to L'Orient Today: We're not reforming a flawed state, we're rebuilding one that has collapsed
BEIRUT — Appointed in February as Minister of State for Administrative Reform, Fadi Makki marks a return to Lebanese politics after a two-decade hiatus. A former partner and director at management...
