The plane carrying the remains of former Armenian Catholic Patriarch Grégoire-Pierre XV Agagianian, once considered the only "papabile" from the Eastern Church, landed Thursday afternoon...
Human rights groups on Thursday condemned a sharp increase in the use of the death sentence in Saudi Arabia for drug offenses after 42 people were executed for such crimes this year....
A fire broke out Thursday at the Burj Hammoud waste landfill, located at the northern entrance of Beirut, according to reports from the state-run National News Agency (NNA) and several witnesses....
Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati received two of his predecessors, Tammam Salam (February 2014 - December 2016) and Fouad Siniora (July 2005 - November 2009), at the Grand Serail on...
It's the first time they meet in a formal setting. As Vice President Kamala Harris arrived on set on Tuesday evening, she made her way to her presidential opponent, Republican candidate Donald...
Israel announced on Thursday it was revoking the press credentials of Al Jazeera journalists working in the country, four months after shutting down the Qatari television network....
A young man from the town of Qleiaat in Akkar, northern Lebanon, died Thursday after being electrocuted while working on an electrical installation at a client's home in the village of Sammouniyé,...
The commander of Israeli Unit 8200, Brigadier General Sariel, announced his resignation on Thursday following the failure of his unit to prevent the Hamas attack on Oct. 7. The unit is responsible...
Surrounded by the musicians of her Beirut Express Quintet, the graceful, long-haired brunette swept her audience away last Thursday at the "Jazz sous les étoiles" ("Jazz under the Stars") festival...
BEIRUT – Lebanese urban eatery Zaatar W Zeit announced it has signed a franchising agreement with Indian Food and Beverage (F&B) experts Passion Cuisine to expand into India — with its first...
The Islamic Action Front, the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood and Jordan's main opposition party, came out first in Wednesday’s parliamentary elections, against the backdrop of a sluggish...
It wasn’t just in Paris that Lebanese fencing made headlines this summer. Following Philippe Wakim's representation of the Cedar country in foil at the Olympic Games, young Lebanese fencers...
Presented at a conference on Thursday under the theme "Mental Health in Lebanon Following Multiple Crises," and in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, the results of a 2022 study by the...
The WHO announced Thursday the largest medical evacuation from Gaza since October 7 and said at least a quarter of those hurt in the war had "life-changing injuries."...
Graduating top of his class in June from Antonine University (UA), Elie Sfeir, a computer engineering major, has distinguished himself through significant achievements in application development...
Syrian state media said an Israeli drone strike Thursday killed two people in Quneitra province, in the Syria-controlled Golan Heights, days after major raids elsewhere in the country....
BEIRUT — The Pentagon has called on its USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier to return to home waters after an unusual period during which two American carriers were simultaneously...
Several online news sites including the Swiss Finanzen.ch and XM Global (based in Belize), citing Reuters, announced late in the morning that the Lufthansa group had extended by two weeks, until...
The army's intelligence services managed on Thursday to free three men who had been kidnapped on Sept. 9 by a gang in the Bekaa region, according to a statement from the army published on the...
Middle East Airlines (MEA) announced its flight schedule for the period from Sept. 16 to 30, a practice it has maintained since the intensification of clashes between Hezbollah and Israel in...
The Alo Antar mass grave, near the town of Tal Afar in northwest Iraq, is the last of the 68 mass graves that the U.N. team helped excavate, the New York Times reported on Thursday. The UNITAD...
Could Hamas’ Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar escape via the Philadelphi Corridor, along the border between Egypt and the Palestinian enclave? That’s what the London-based The Jewish Chronicle suggested on...
Turkey is investigating the killing of a U.S.-Turkish activist during a protest in West Bank, the justice minister said Thursday, adding that Ankara would press the UN to take immediate...
The health ministry in Gaza said Thursday that at least 41,118 people have been killed in the war between Israel and Palestinian militants, now in its 12th month. The...
European Union Foreign Minister Josep Borrell said on Thursday from Beirut that a wider war in the region was "not inevitable," and called for the "full implementation of resolution 1701" of the...
Caretaker Environment Minister Nasser Yassine welcomed on Thursday the government's decision to approve, at the request of his ministry, a donation of $3.458 million to fight forest fires in...
The case broke out a little over a month ago, revealed in August by Animals Lebanon: A lion cub held by a private individual from Baalbeck, A.H.H., was seen several times on social media and by...
This is the first time in more than 13 years that Turkey has been invited to participate in a meeting of the Arab League. On Monday, in Cairo, the foreign ministers of the regional organization met...
"The political system will not change as long as Hezbollah controls Lebanon," stated Kataeb leader Samy Gemayel. This is how the leader responded to the "proposal" of his ally in the opposition,...
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Israel bombed a school housing displaced Palestinians in central Gaza on Wednesday, which rescuers said killed 18 people, including U.N. staffers, while the Israeli army said it hit a Hamas control...
A Hamas delegation met Qatari and Egyptian mediators in Doha on Wednesday to discuss a truce in Gaza and a potential hostage and prisoner exchange, the militant group said in a statement....
The family of a Turkish-American activist killed during a protest in the occupied West Bank is expecting to bury her in Turkey, her uncle told AFP on Wednesday. Aysenur...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch today:• A possible protest by retired soldiers in...
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
