BEIRUT – The Alternative Press Syndicate in Lebanon held a protest outside the UN’s Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) headquarters in Downtown Beirut on Tuesday in response to...
BEIRUT — Lebanese Culture Minister Mohammad Mortada announced Wednesday that entry to archaeological sites and museums in Lebanon will be free from May 18 to 27. Here’s what we know: ...
BEIRUT — Deputy Prime Minister Saade Chami and Finance Minister Youssef Khalil held a video conference on Wednesday to update Lebanon’s creditors on the staff-level agreement recently signed with...
BEIRUT — Ogero, the public operator in charge of telecoms in Lebanon, announced Wednesday a breakdown in the optical fibers of the centers of Zgharta, Bakhoun and Alma in North Lebanon. Here’s...
More than 130,000 voters — that’s the number of Lebanese expatriates who cast their ballots in the parliamentary elections, according to Foreign Affairs Ministry’s estimates. It is the equivalent...
BEIRUT — The Alternative Press Syndicate in Lebanon called on their colleagues to protest journalist Shireen Abu Akleh’s “cold-blooded assasination” by gathering at the UN ESCWA headquarters in...
During a discussion between journalists and diplomats in the halls of a European embassy in Beirut, one diplomat asked, “How can we save Lebanon? Help me find the key,” a question that many of us...
BEIRUT — Danny Hajjar remembers the day vividly: He had just woken up and thought to himself “I’m just going to do it.” ‘It’ being the creation of a newsletter called Sa’alouni El Nas for and about...
Samer Karam does not have a minute for himself. Here, in his print shop nestled in the main road in downtown Zgharta, he is multitasking.“My father is a Karam. My mother is a Dweihi. I am 100...
BEIRUT — Education Minister Abbas Halabi issued a decision on Wednesday to close high schools and public institutes from Thursday morning until Monday evening so that they can be used as polling...
While subsidized loans dedicated to the purchase, construction and reconstruction of homes in Lebanon have been at a standstill for more than three years, the Banque de l’Habitat, an institution...
BEIRUT — Bank Audi is predicting the prospects of the Lebanese economy to be highly uncertain in 2022. The bank’s quarterly report reveals that growth could fluctuate between a contraction of -6.5...
BEIRUT — The United Nations official tasked with investigating poverty around the world, in a report issued Wednesday, accused the Lebanese government and central bank of “human rights violations”...
The Lebanese population will have an opportunity to change the course of its history on May 15. Only a government with a clear plan for ending corruption, massively decreasing poverty and...
BEIRUT — After an urgent matters judge decided to lift the red wax seals from the doors of money transfer company Mecattaf, prosecuted in August 2021 by Mount Lebanon Public Prosecutor Ghada Aoun...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . President Michel Aoun said yesterday that the diaspora vote will “not cause major changes in the results” of the parliamentary...
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?
