BEIRUT — Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi said Monday that President Michel Aoun “told me personally, multiple times, that he will not sign the decree” that effectively schedules the upcoming...
BEIRUT — A retired Lebanese Army member set himself on fire Monday in the Bekaa, L’Orient Today ’s correspondent in the area reported. Here’s what we know: • According to our...
BEIRUT — TotalEnergies has agreed to conduct a technical and financial preliminary study related to building a floating regasification unit in Lebanon's Zahrani power plant, the Lebanese Energy...
“The real dollar/lira exchange rate is what Banque du Liban announces daily,” Lebanon’s central bank Gov. Riad Salameh said two weeks ago — a jab at the parallel exchange market which he considers...
BEIRUT — As announced at the end of last week, employees of the two mobile telecommunications companies in Lebanon, Alfa and Touch, began an open-ended strike Monday to protest “the violation of...
BEIRUT — Prime Minister Najib Mikati said Monday that while contacts are continuing to remove obstacles hindering the resumption of government meetings, a cabinet meeting under the current...
BEIRUT — A French court has ordered a Lebanese bank to pay $2.8 million to a client residing in France, in the first-known international ruling against informal capital controls imposed by Lebanese...
BEIRUT — The lira hit a new milestone low Monday, trading at LL27,400 to the US dollar on the parallel market. Losses against the US dollar since Thursday’s central bank’s decision to revise the...
BEIRUT — Hamas on Monday revised the death toll to three in Sunday’s attack on a funeral for a Hamas member in the Burj al-Shemali Palestinian refugee camp in Sur, according to updated information...
BEIRUT — President Michel Aoun on Monday called on the UN envoy for Syria, Geir O. Pedersen, whom he received at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, to “facilitate the repatriation of Syrian...
BEIRUT — A hearing for former MP Fares Souhaid in a lawsuit filed against him by Hezbollah was postponed Monday due to a strike by courthouse employees. Here’s what we know: •...
Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati ordered an investigation into the holding of a press conference last week in Beirut by al-Wifaq, the main Bahraini opposition group, which has angered the...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up. Four Hamas members were killed yesterday in armed clashes in the Burj al-Shemali Palestinian refugee camp in Sur. The...
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
