The organizers of the Eurovision Song Contest canceled their scheduled online meeting in November to vote on a possible ban of Israel from the contest, following 'developments' in the...
President of the Syndicate of Food Importers Hani Bohsali said in a statement relayed by the National News Agency (NNA) that "what is being spread about significant increases in food prices...
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi said Monday in a speech that a two-state solution was "the only way to achieve the ambitions of Palestinians and Israelis and live in peace and that...
The government commissioner at the military tribunal, Judge Claude Ghanem, has received the transcripts of the preliminary investigations conducted with Fadl Shaker, the renowned Lebanese singer...
The announcement of Benjamin Netanyahu’s attendance at the Gaza summit on Monday in Sharm al-Sheikh sparked backlash from regional leaders and prompted a swift reversal from the Israeli prime...
Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam praised the diplomatic efforts of the United States and Arab countries that led to the cease-fire in Gaza and the ongoing negotiations in Sharm al-Sheikh, Egypt....
Republican U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham stated in a message posted on X — echoing remarks made by President Donald Trump on Monday before the Israeli parliament — that it was "imperative"...
The leader of the Lebanese Forces (LF), Samir Geagea, took a different tone Monday following unanimous condemnation by the Lebanese political class in the wake of massive Israeli strikes Saturday...
Prime Minister Nawaf Salam responded Monday to Israeli threats made Sunday against engineer and activist Tarek Mazraani, a native of south Lebanon, who founded the 'Assembly of Residents of...
With huge crowds waiting to welcome them home, Palestinian political prisoners released by Israel on Monday under a Gaza cease-fire deal were overwhelmed with joy as they returned to their loved...
BEIRUT — Lebanon’s Internal Security Forces (ISF) said Monday that a man has been arrested in the southern city of Saida for sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl over an extended period. In a...
BEIRUT — The Ministry of Health on Monday ordered the company Tannourine to withdraw its products from the market due to bacterial contamination in its water, warning of "administrative and...
Interior Minister Ahmad Hajjar met Monday with Beirut Governor Marwan Abboud, President of the City Council, Ibrahim Zeidan, and several municipal officials to review the city's preparations...
Two months after it took effect, uncertainty still surrounds the implementation of the law on non-residential leases signed before July 1992. The numerous amendments and corrections made to the...
"They do want to stop the problems," Donald Trump said aboard the Air Force Once en route to Israel, when asked by a reporter about Hamas' security forces redeploying across...
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday told the Israeli parliament that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is on trial in three separate corruption cases, should be pardoned. Netanyahu and his...
The public prosecutor at the Mount Lebanon Court of Appeal, Sami Sader, on Friday referred the case of "fraudulent withdrawals" to the first investigating judge of Mount Lebanon, Nada...
Joyous Palestinians rushed to embrace prisoners freed under a U.S.-brokered cease-fire agreement as they arrived by bus to the occupied West Bank and Gaza on Monday. The prisoners were released...
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said he wanted a peace deal with Iran, after the United States joined Israel in striking the Islamic Republic's nuclear sites during a brief war earlier...
They struggle to make their way through the crowd because it is so compact. Dozens of Palestinian prisoners were greeted with jubilation on Monday in Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank. Some...
In his 42nd semiannual report to the Security Council on the implementation of Resolution 1559 (2004), covering the period from April 25 to Sept. 11, 2025, the U.N. secretary-general assessed the...
BEIRUT — Energy and Water Minister Joe Saddi conducted an inspection tour Monday in the Nahr al-Kalb area in the Zikrit region (Kesrouan district), where the infrastructure managed by the Beirut...
President Joseph Aoun said Monday that negotiations with Israel, the format of which will be determined later, are “necessary” to resolve tensions and disputes between the two countries, as a...
BRUSSELS — The European Union welcomed the release of Israeli hostages by Hamas on Monday and said it would restart a civilian mission to monitor the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt in...
With just a few months ahead of the legislative elections, scheduled for May, Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) leader Gebran Bassil appears ready to do whatever it takes to prevent an amendment that...
BEIRUT — Cabinet formed a committee on Thursday to examine the future of Lebanon’s mobile network sector – namely its two main operators, Alfa and MTC – in coordination with the newly reactivated...
BEIRUT — Prominent Palestinian journalist Saleh Aljafarawi was killed in Gaza City on Sunday night, just days after a U.S.-brokered cease-fire agreement was reached and ahead of a major planned...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not attend the Gaza cease-fire summit in Egypt because of Jewish holidays, his office announced.
U.S. President Donald Trump delivered a speech before Israel’s parliament, calling the Gaza agreement and regional cooperation an “incredible triumph for Israel and the world.” In his address,...
U.S. President Donald Trump suggested Hamas had been given a green light for internal security operations it is conducting in the Gaza Strip, saying the group wants "to stop the problems"...
BEIRUT — The Association of Private Generator Owners, a nation-wide syndicate made up of a few thousand businessmen, called for the establishment of a "genuine partnership" with the state...
Israeli military said it had received all 20 living hostages released by Palestinian militant group Hamas from Gaza on Monday, under the first phase of a cease-fire agreement with Israel which was...
U.S. President Donald Trump arrived on Monday at the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, where he was to address lawmakers on his plans for Middle East peace. Greeted by speaker Amir Ohana and Prime...
The reconstruction issue has suddenly come into the spotlight. On Saturday, Israel carried out an intense bombing campaign against Msayleh village in southern Lebanon, destroying hundreds of...
Syrian Kurdish leader Mazloum Abdi has announced to AFP that he had reached a "preliminary agreement" with Damascus on the integration of his troops into Syria's military and security...
As the first phase of the Israel-Hamas cease-fire begins with a military withdrawal and prisoner exchange expected Monday, diplomatic attention shifts to Egypt. U.S. President Donald Trump,...
SHARM AL-SHEIKH — Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas will attend the Gaza "peace summit" that will take place in Egypt later Monday, French President Emmanuel Macron said. The summit,...
Hamas handed over all 20 surviving Israeli hostages to Red Cross representatives in Gaza on Monday, Israel’s public broadcaster reported. The group was released in two batches, with a second group...
Hamas deployed fighters in Gaza on Monday as a release of hostages seized in the Oct. 7 attacks was under way, Reuters footage showed, in an apparent show of strength by the militant group which...
WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday questioned whether former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair would serve on a new "Board of Peace" that is intended to oversee the governance of...
U.S. President Donald Trump arrived in Israel on Monday to address parliament, before he is scheduled to travel to Egypt's Sharm al-Sheikh for a world leaders' summit on ending the Gaza war.
The European Union will resume its monitoring mission at the border crossing between Gaza and Egypt, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Monday. "Securing peace in Gaza will be...
Syrian Kurdish leader Mazloum Abdi has announced to AFP that he had reached a "preliminary agreement" with Damascus on the integration of his troops into the Syrian security forces. In...
Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said Sunday night that the massive Israeli strikes on Msayleh in South Lebanon, which killed one person and destroyed numerous construction vehicles,...
The Palestinian Authority is ready to cooperate with U.S. President Donald Trump and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair in their efforts to consolidate the cease-fire in Gaza and begin...
Hundreds of people gathered on Tel Aviv's Hostages Square erupted in joy, tears and song as news broke that Hamas had handed over the first hostages to be released on Monday after two years of...
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