Up to 5.3 million may be homeless in Syria after quake: UN
Up to 5.3 million people in Syria may have been made homeless by the devastating earthquake that rocked the region this week, a United Nations official said Friday. ...
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Turkey detains contractor after building collapses in quake
Turkish police detained a contractor Friday who had been trying to flee the country after his building collapsed in Turkey's catastrophic earthquake, state media reported....
10 February 2023
Mother and son rescued by Lebanese Civil Defense in Syria four days after quake
BEIRUT — Lebanese Civil Defense volunteers working in Jableh, Syria, Friday rescued a mother and son alive from the rubble of a building, four days after the deadly earthquake that struck Turkey...
10 February 2023
White Helmets slam UN quake response in rebel areas of Syria
The White Helmets rescue group Friday accused the United Nations of botching its earthquake response in rebel-held areas of northwestern Syria. Leveraging years of...
10 February 2023
Kurdish militants halt 'operations' after Turkey quake
Kurdish militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) announced a temporary halt in fighting to ease recovery work in the wake of a massive earthquake that struck southeastern Turkey...
10 February 2023
Morocco jails migrants after Casablanca clashes
Six migrants from sub-Saharan Africa have been sentenced to two years in prison after an operation to clear camps in Casablanca last month, media reports said Friday. The...
10 February 2023
Amnesty denounces ‘unimaginable suffering’ of Lebanese patients
In a Feb. 9 report, Amnesty International denounced widespread medication shortages in Lebanon, especially for those used in treating illnesses like cancer. The report also criticized the...
L'Orient Today, 10 February 2023
Iran says 'main actors' behind drone attack arrested
Iran's intelligence ministry said Friday it has arrested the "main actors" involved in last month's drone attack on a defense ministry site in central Isfahan province. "The main actors of the...
10 February 2023
Quake-hit Syria approves aid delivery to rebel-held areas
Rescuers pulled four people, including a six year old, alive from the rubble in Syria Friday, four days after a devastating earthquake killed more than 22,700 people in Syria and neighboring...
10 February 2023
Six-year-old rescued in Syria, four days after quake
Rescuers found a six-year-old boy alive under the rubble Friday four days after a devastating earthquake killed more than 22,000 people in Syria and Turkey, an AFP correspondent reported....
10 February 2023
Lebanese court auxiliaries will strike on Monday
BEIRUT — Lebanon's auxiliary employees announced Friday they will go on strike starting Monday, saying they would only attend hearings of detainees, the state-run National News Agency reports....
10 February 2023
Two injured as Beirut generator owners exchange gunfire
BEIRUT — Shots were heard Friday afternoon in the Beirut neighborhood of Aisha Bakkar, prompted by a dispute between private owners of electricity generators, the state-run National News Agency...
10 February 2023
Salameh: At the end of my mandate at BDL, I will turn a page in my life
Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh said Friday he was ready to “turn a page in [his] life" at the end of his term in a few months, and denied any link with the company Forry Associates Ltd....
10 February 2023
UN urges 'immediate ceasefire’ in Syria to facilitate quake aid
The United Nations rights chief called Friday for an immediate ceasefire in Syria to help facilitate bringing aid to all victims of the region’s devastating earthquake. “UN...
10 February 2023
Bou Habib and Shea discuss the passage of humanitarian aid to Syria through Lebanon
BEIRUT — Lebanon's Caretaker Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib met with US Ambassador to Lebanon, Dorothy Shea Friday to discuss the “opening of Beirut International Airport and all Lebanese...
Ghadir Hamadi, 10 February 2023
‘Chandeliers swaying left and right’: Tripoli residents recount horrors of quakes, fear building collapse
TRIPOLI — Near the coastline in Tripoli’s Mina district sits Khan al-Tamathili, an Ottoman-era courtyard building of stone arches and crumbling balconies that, long ago, hosted visitors to the...
Madeline EDWARDS and Mohamad El Chamaa, 10 February 2023
Syrian White Helmets chief slams UN earthquake response
GENEVA — The head of the Syrian "White Helmets" emergency response group accused the United Nations on Friday of failing to deliver appropriate humanitarian aid to rebel-held areas of...
10 February 2023
Municipal elections at the mercy of political uncertainties
Lebanon has been without a president since October 2022. Is the country in for another political vacuum at the municipal level?Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi repeatedly announced that municipal...
Salah HIJAZI, 10 February 2023
UN seeks aid for 874,000 Turkey-Syria quake survivors
The UN's World Food Programme (WFP) appealed on Friday for $77 million to provide food rations and hot meals for 874,000 people affected by the deadly earthquake in Syria and Turkey....
10 February 2023
Bodies of northern Cypriot students flown home after Turkey quake
The bodies of seven Turkish-Cypriot students killed in the powerful earthquake that hit Turkey have been returned home, with Turkish media reporting 19 children in the group died....
10 February 2023
Fire at Tripoli's Souk al-Ahad brought under control
BEIRUT — Civil Defense announced on Twitter Friday that it managed to extinguish a fire at Souk al-Ahad (Sunday market) in Tripoli, the capital of Northern Lebanon. No injuries were reported, but...
10 February 2023
East Jerusalem car ramming kills two, including child
Two people, one of them a child, were killed when a car rammed a bus stop in Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem Friday, Israeli authorities said. The attack comes amid spiraling violence in the...
10 February 2023
‘For the first time in my life, I feel safer in a tent’
Maher found refuge under a tent, one of those that are normally reserved for mourning receptions.The walls of his house were cracked by the earthquake that rocked Turkey and Syria early Monday...
Moawia Atrash, 10 February 2023
Palestinians accuse Israel over prisoner death
The Palestinian Authority Friday accused Israel of "medical negligence" after a Palestinian prisoner died in Israeli custody, allegations denounced as "baseless" by Israeli officials....
10 February 2023
Erdogan admits quake rescue effort not as quick as hoped
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan admitted for the first time Friday that his government's search and rescue effort from this week's devastating earthquake was not going as quickly as hoped....
10 February 2023
Iran releases journalist arrested during protests
Iran released Friday a journalist arrested during months-long protests triggered by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, local media reported. Iranian authorities have...
10 February 2023
Tleil explosion trial postponed to March 31
BEIRUT — The trial of the defendants in the explosion of a fuel tanke r in Tleil, Akkar governorate in Aug. 2021 has been postponed to March 31 following a session Friday at the courthouse in...
10 February 2023
More aid arrives in quake-struck northwest: Border official
A United Nations aid convoy crossed into war-torn Syria's rebel-held northwest from Turkey on Friday, the second such delivery after a devastating earthquake hit the two countries, a border...
10 February 2023
Assad visits quake victims in Aleppo
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad made his first visit Friday to a region stricken by an earthquake that has killed thousands in his country, his office said. The president...
10 February 2023
After 104 hours buried by earthquake, woman brought out alive
KIRIKHAN, Turkey — Rescuers pulled a woman alive out of the rubble of a collapsed building in Turkey on Friday, prompting cheers from onlookers about 104 hours after she was buried by the huge...
10 February 2023
Wadi Khaled residents pay homage to Lebanese man, daughter killed in Antakya
BEIRUT — A Lebanese man living in Turkey who was killed along with his daughter in Monday's earthquake was buried on Friday in Wadi Khaled, in Akkar governorate, L'Orient Today 's...
10 February 2023
‘Grave concern’ of the EU, Norway and Switzerland on the situation in Lebanon
BEIRUT — European Union member states, Norway and Switzerland Friday released a joint statement expressing grave concerns about the current situation in Lebanon. "We call on Parliament to...
10 February 2023
France, US urge 'immediate' end to Karabakh blockade: Paris
France and the United States have demanded the "immediate" reopening of a key corridor to the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, the French foreign ministry said on Friday....
10 February 2023
Police arrest suspect wanted for drug trafficking south of Beirut
BEIRUT — Authorities arrested a Lebanese man nicknamed "Abu Ali," suspected of being an influential drug trafficker whose network is particularly active in the southern suburbs of Beirut, the...
10 February 2023
After two years, the Museum of Lebanese Prehistory reopens its doors
The Museum of Lebanese Prehistory is “back on its feet,” says the museum's director, archaeologist Maya Haidar Boustani.Located on Saint Joseph University Street in Monot, the museum houses a...
May MAKAREM, 10 February 2023
Kurdish militants suspend 'operations' after quake
Outlawed Kurdish militants are temporarily suspending "operations" in Turkey after the massive deadly quake in the country and Syria, a PKK leader said. "Stop operations in Turkey, in the cities....
10 February 2023
Fuel and gas cylinder prices slightly up, other items down
BEIRUT — Fuel and gas cylinder prices slightly increased Friday morning in Lebanon, according to the latest tariffs published by the Energy Ministry. The prices of diesel, used in vehicles, and the...
10 February 2023
Ex-chief of Iraqi public lender held in UAE: Anti-graft agency
A former Iraqi bank chief accused of misappropriating $1.2 billion has been arrested in the United Arab Emirates, authorities in Baghdad said on Thursday. The arrest came...
10 February 2023
Israeli forces kill Palestinian in West Bank after alleged stabbing
Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian near the West Bank city of Hebron Thursday, the Palestinian health ministry said, after what the Israeli army alleged was a "stabbing attack."...
10 February 2023
Reactions to Wednesday’s quake, more electricity, higher bread prices: Everything you need to know to start your Friday
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . State-owned Electricité du Liban on Wednesday announced that bills in accordance with the new tariffs would be issued “by the...
10 February 2023
WHO chief says heading for Syria following deadly quake
World Health Organization head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Thursday that he was heading to Syria which has been hit, along with neighboring Turkey, by a massive earthquake that has left more...
10 February 2023
US announces $85 million in aid, sanctions relief for Turkey and Syria
The United States on Thursday announced an initial $85 million aid package to help Turkey and Syria recover from the devastating earthquake, while also granting a temporary relief of some...
