BEIRUT — A payment for Lebanon's state-owned telecoms operator, Ogero, has become the subject of a tug-of-war between the Ministries of Finance and Telecoms. The two institutions are accusing each...
BEIRUT — Employees of the state-run Electricité du Liban (EDL) announced a three-day strike from Tuesday to Thursday in protest of not being payed their salaries and the deterioration of their...
BEIRUT — In a speech delivered Sunday evening, just days before a parliamentary session dedicated to electing a president, Marada leader and presidential candidate Sleiman Frangieh launched...
BEIRUT — On Saturday, a resort in the town of Dammour banned two women wearing Burkinis (swim wear worn by hijabi women) from swimming. The move comes just a month after two muslim sheikhs,...
BEIRUT — Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Monday assigned a series of measures to several ministries for the improvement of the upcoming summer tourist season. Lebanon is expected to...
BEIRUT — Former Lebanese President Michel Aoun stated that he and his party, the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM), cannot be "accused of treason" by Hezbollah simply because they support the...
“It’s completely illegal!” said Ahmad from beneath his placard. Indeed, a 1925 law enshrines Lebanon’s coast as public property. “Look at this huge encroachment,” he said, gesturing to the...
Three British nationals died in a fire on a boat in Egypt's Red Sea on Sunday, British holiday company Scuba Travel said in a statement on Monday. Twelve other people also on the scuba diving...
Around 1,000 furnished apartments in Beirut are currently listed on Airbnb, the international internet rental platform, with multiple consequences: rising rents, a shortage of apartments available...
The Netherlands and Canada are taking Syria to the World Court over torture claims, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) said on Monday. In their application, Canada and the Netherlands claim...
AMSTERDAM — The Netherlands and Canada are taking Syria to the World Court over torture claims, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) said Monday. In their application, Canada...
World Environment Day, which falls each year on June 5, has been an opportunity to raise the now monumental problem of microplastics at sea. These microscopic particles, originating from waste...
BEIRUT — The head of Hezbollah's parliamentary bloc, Mohammad Raad, on Monday criticized several political parties for supporting the presidential candidacy of former Finance Minister Jihad Azour,...
BEIRUT — President Emmanuel Macron's new "special envoy" for Lebanon, former French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, is due to visit Beirut "next week," caretaker Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou...
ROME — Brash, ebullient and a self-made billionaire, four-time prime minister Silvio Berlusconi was a media mogul and political showman whose financial and sexual scandals made him the most...
BEIRUT — Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea issued a warning in an interview with Nidaa al-Watan , published Monday, that those supporting Marada Movement leader Sleiman Frangieh's presidential...
Sleiman Frangieh, head of the Marada Movement and Maronite leader in North Lebanon, gave a speech on Sunday evening in which he raised the possibility of "exhaustive" dialogue with the other...
BEIRUT — Former Lebanese Finance Minister Jihad Azour — who, until the end of last week, held the position of Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa at the International Monetary...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up. The caretaker cabinet is scheduled to convene tomorrow to discuss the repatriation of Syrian refugees and the appointment of...
Paris Olympics security coordinator Ziad Khoury resigned following his suspension for alleged "inappropriate behavior" towards a woman, officials said Sunday. Khoury'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?
