BEIRUT — Unidentified persons cut the wires of the ski lift at the Al-Arz ski resort in the Bcharre region, northern Lebanon, on Friday, causing enough damage to threaten the ski season. One of...
BEIRUT — The Assembly of Catholic Patriarchs and Bishops in Lebanon on Friday called on MPs to "elect a president immediately," as the country is experiencing its first executive double vacancy....
SHARM EL SHEIKH — The world was hoping to "crucify" Saudi Arabia as a top oil exporter, its energy minister said on the sidelines of the COP27 summit in Egypt, adding the...
BEIRUT — Caretaker Public Works Minister Ali Hamieh tweeted Friday that painting work has begun to mark lanes on the ground at Beirut International Airport, a requirement to "conform to safety...
VIENNA — The United States, Britain, France and Germany want the UN nuclear watchdog's board to pass a resolution calling it "essential and urgent" for Iran to explain uranium traces found at three...
DOHA — A group of Qatari activists campaigning against normalizing ties with Israel has said they are shocked that their government has authorized direct flights between Tel Aviv and Doha during...
LONDON — The British foreign office said on Friday it has summoned Iran's most senior diplomat over alleged threats by Iranian security forces to journalists in the UK. "I summoned the...
BEIRUT — Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah spoke to a crowd via live broadcast Friday evening to commemorate the party’s annual Martyrs’ Day, and stressed that his party wants a...
BEIRUT — Lebanon's caretaker Health Minister Firass Abiad announced on Friday a donation of 6,830 capsules of the drug Navelbine, used to treat breast and lung cancer, offered by French...
Saudi Arabia's energy minister said OPEC+ will remain cautious on oil production, noting that members saw "uncertainties" in the global economy ahead of the bloc's next meeting in December,...
SHARM EL SHEIKH — Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi told US President Joe Biden on Friday that Egypt has launched a national strategy for human rights and is keen to develop in that regard....
This is story is totally fictitious. It takes the reader to Beirut in 2050, as one might imagine it if the current course of climate change is not altered. The story is based on scientific...
SHARM EL-SHEIKH — US President Joe Biden on Friday praised Egypt for speaking up strongly on the war in Ukraine and said Cairo had been a key mediator in Gaza. Biden was speaking as he met...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iranians protested in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan province on Friday to mark a Sept. 30 crackdown by security forces known as "Bloody Friday," as...
JERUSALEM — Israeli authorities detected cholera in a reservoir in the north, likely the result of an outbreak in neighboring Syria spreading, the health ministry said on Friday. The...
BEIRUT — A stray bullet that hit a Middle East Airlines plane Thursday pierced the fuselage of the aircraft before it had landed on Beirut's international airport tarmac, the Lebanese civil...
BEIRUT — Lebanese State Security raided the Vehicle Registration Center in Dekwaneh, just east of Beirut, seizing fake car insurance papers, the state-run National News Agency reported on Friday....
JERUSALEM — Israeli President Isaac Herzog will ask veteran leader Benjamin Netanyahu to form a new government on Sunday, the president's office said. The announcement came after the president...
Iran's top diplomat has accused Western countries of promoting violence in the Islamic Republic by helping protesters to make weapons and Molotov cocktails. Street violence has flared across Iran...
Turkish prosecutors on Friday sought to jail Istanbul's mayor for at least 15 months, a sentence that would see him banned from politics, over a remark he made after beating President Recep Tayyip...
Kataeb leader Samy Gemayel yesterday strongly objected to Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri’s shutting down Thursday’s presidential election session — a decision made after 8 March MPs withdrew from...
ATHENS — Greece found nothing suspicious on an Emirates plane which was flying to New York from Greece and was forced to return to Athens International Airport after a security alert, police said...
BEIRUT — The Energy Ministry on Friday announced an increase in gasoline, diesel and household gas prices, while the price of fuel oil decreased. Here are the new prices: • Twenty liters of...
BEIRUT — “You know, when I arrived in Beirut, it was the first time I saw the sea?” Shatha Hanaysha muses, while she watches children chasing each other along the Corniche. “Most of us in...
DUBAI — Another Iranian athlete, archer Parmida Ghasemi, has expressed support for anti-government protests gripping the country by removing her hijab during an awards ceremony in Tehran. The...
ZURICH — Former FIFA President Sepp Blatter called on Iran to be barred from the World Cup amid widespread protests in the Islamic Republic sparked by the death of a woman in the custody of...
CAIRO — A medical report showed that the British-Egyptian jailed activist Alaa Abd El Fattah is in “good health," Egypt’s public prosecution said in a statement on Thursday. Abd El Fattah, who has...
BEIRUT — Lebanon recorded 21 additional laboratory-confirmed cholera cases but no new deaths over the past 24 hours, the Health Ministry said in its daily report published on Thursday evening....
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JERUSALEM — Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is on track to regain top office after last week's election, said he spoke on Thursday to the president of United Arab Emirates,...
ISTANBUL — Turkish police found five dead Afghan nationals with stab wounds in a house in Ankara, government-owned Anadolu Agency and other media reported on Thursday. The Ankara governor's...
Beirut’s demands, Israel’s terms, and Washington’s stance: Behind the scenes of the negotiations
Lebanon stuck between a rock and a hard place: A US disarmament plan, or an extended expansion to the war?
