Sounds of fighter jets heard across Lebanon
BEIRUT — Sounds of fighter jets flying at low altitudes were heard on Sunday evening in Lebanon, especially in Batroun in the north of the country, L'Orient Today 's correspondent reported. ...
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First death sentence after 'riots'
Iran on Sunday issued its first death sentence linked to participation in "riots," amid nationwide protests since the death of Mahsa Amini, the judiciary's Mizan Online website reported. The...
13 November 2022
Almost 26,700 people have taken the cholera vaccine so far: Abiad
BEIRUT — Almost 26,700 people took the cholera vaccine during first day of a three-week vaccination campaign that started on Saturday, caretaker Health Minister Firass Abiad was quoted by the...
13 November 2022
Nearly 800 people accused of rioting in three provinces
Iranian justice has indicted nearly 800 people for taking part in the “recent riots” in the southern province of Hormozgan, according to Mizan, an agency of the Judiciary Commission and local...
13 November 2022
Macron discusses Lebanon crisis with Saudi crown prince
BEIRUT – French President Emmanuel Macron spoke on the phone Saturday with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, and the two leaders agreed to "strengthen their cooperation to meet the...
13 November 2022
Six dead in Istanbul blast, Erdogan says 'smells like terrorism'
ISTANBUL, Turkey — Six people were killed and 53 others were wounded on Sunday when an explosion rocked a busy pedestrian street in central Istanbul in an incident President Tayyip Erdogan called...
13 November 2022
Rai: No solution without an international conference on Lebanon
BEIRUT — Maronite Patriarch Bechara al-Rai said Sunday that the only solution to end the presidential vacuum in Lebanon is "the holding of an international conference" devoted to the issue, under...
13 November 2022
Condition worsens of hunger-striking Iran dissident, according to his brother
PARIS – The health condition has "worsened" of a prominent Iranian dissident who was arrested in September as protests swept the country and who is now on hunger strike, his brother said on Sunday....
13 November 2022
Fire at central Iran industrial town under control
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A large fire at a motor engine oil factory in Isfahan's Mobarakeh industrial town in central Iran on Sunday has been brought under control, state TV reported. About...
13 November 2022
US doing all it can for release of hunger striker in Egypt, security adviser says
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt — The United States is doing "everything it can" to secure the release of Egytian-British activist Alaa Abd El Fattah from jail in Egypt and President Joe Biden raised the...
13 November 2022
Thousands run Beirut Marathon after its comeback on the international circuit
BEIRUT — After having been suspended in 2019 due to the Oct. 17 nationwide protests and in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Beirut Marathon kicked off on Sunday morning as thousands of men...
13 November 2022
Tapped to head new hard-right government, Netanyahu pledges Israeli unity
JERUSALEM — Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received an official mandate on Sunday to form a new government and pledged that he would seek national consensus after an election in...
13 November 2022
'We know who we want to elect,' Hezbollah MP says
BEIRUT — The head of Hezbollah's parliamentary bloc MP Mohammad Raad said on Sunday that his party "knows who it wants" to elect to succeed Michel Aoun as president of Lebanon and is working to...
13 November 2022
Lebanon records 11 new cases, no additional deaths
BEIRUT — Lebanon recorded 11 new cholera cases, bringing the total number to 532, the Health Ministry said in its daily report published Saturday evening. No new deaths were recorded. According to...
13 November 2022
Lebanon extradites to Iraq ‘Saddam grandnephew’ accused of Islamic State link
Lebanon extradited a man said to be a grandnephew of Saddam Hussein to Iraq, where he is accused of involvement in a massacre by the Daesh (Islamic State) extremist group, a security source said...
