Since the cease-fire was announced on Nov. 27, 2024, Hezbollah has aimed to show that it has taken significant steps towards integration and is shifting more attention to its political...
James Van Der Beek, the star of 1990s teen drama "Dawson's Creek," died on Wednesday at the age of 48 after a battle with cancer, his wife announced on social media. "Our...
U.S. President Donald Trump said nothing definitive was decided during his "very good" meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday but that negotiations with Iran...
BEIRUT — The head of the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM), Gebran Bassil, announced Wednesday at a press conference that he would "undertake legal steps" to ensure that the parliamentary...
The Norwegian Nobel Committee said on Wednesday that it had called on Iran to immediately free activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi from prison.
Hundreds of foreigners were among the Islamic State group detainees transferred in recent weeks by the U.S. military from Syria to Iraq, an Iraqi security official told AFP on Wednesday. Iraq...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met President Donald Trump at the White House to push for a harder line in Iran nuclear talks Wednesday, with the Middle East still on edge over the threat...
The trial for those accused of murdering 20-year-old Khalil Khalil is set to begin on March 11 at the Mount Lebanon indictment chamber, L'Orient-Le Jour learned on Wednesday. Khalil was caught...
BEIRUT — The Health Ministry announced Wednesday the final toll after the building collapse that occurred Sunday in the Bab al-Tabbaneh neighborhood of Tripoli: 13 dead, including a three-year-old...
BEIRUT — MP Faysal Karameh announced Wednesday on his X account that he has submitted a general amnesty bill "because injustice is no longer bearable." "Amnesty is not a crime ......
BEIRUT — A hearing in the “Abu Omar” case scheduled for Wednesday was postponed after businessman Ahmad Haddara failed to appear to give testimony before First Investigative Judge Roula Osman....
At Union Marks in Burj Hammoud, silence is not an emptiness: it is filled with absences. Five years after the assassination of Lokman Slim, the exhibition "Baqoun" ("Remaining"...
Germany on Wednesday criticised Israeli plans to tighten control over the occupied West Bank as "a further step towards de facto annexation", as international anger mounts over the move....
A Lebanese-Syrian meeting was held Wednesday at the Jdeidet Yabous border crossing in northern Lebanon to discuss the regulation of Lebanese trucks entering Syrian territory, our correspondents...
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas called Wednesday for a "firm response" from the United States and the international community to Israel's plan to tighten its control of the occupied...
Our last interview with him was in May 2020. Since then, Michel Hayek has returned to his customary rarity, speaking publicly only once a year on Dec. 31, on MTV. These appearances are dissected...
"I'm a miracle! They put four stents in me!" May Chabène says in her lilting voice. Just steps from Paris's Père Lachaise cemetery, the door of Alexi 20 opens onto a beaming smile...
A Hamas spokesperson in Lebanon on Wednesday denied to L'Orient-Le Jour any link between his organization and a man from the Ain al-Hilweh camp in southern Lebanon, whom Israel accuses of...
In Lebanon, saying something positive about a minister is sometimes done in a hushed voice, almost like a confession. Wanting to invite them to dinner, to listen to them speak without rolling...
BEIRUT — Jazz history is full of tales. One involves the recording sessions for Miles Davis’ storied album “Kind of Blue.” As the story goes, most of the band members arrived at the studio in March...
The specially appointed Indictment Chamber confirmed on Wednesday the dismissal of the charges for “usurping power” against the Court of Justice Judge Tarek Bitar, who leads the investigation into...
The Israeli army continued its operations on Wednesday in the border areas of southern Lebanon, targeting several localities despite the cease-fire that came into effect on Nov. 27, 2024. In Aita...
It marks a significant step. Representatives of Morocco, Mauritania, the Polisario Front, and its backer Algeria convened for secret talks in Madrid on Feb. 8–9, under the auspices of the United...
Some residents of the Iranian capital Tehran on Tuesday chanted slogans against the Islamic republic and supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on the eve of the most significant annual...
22:00 Beirut Time Iran: Netanyahu ‘stressed Israel’s security needs’ to Trump Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “stressed the security needs of the State of Israel within the...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz Some key things to watch today:Updates on the meeting today between U.S. President...
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
