Jordanian princess weds Greek-origin financier
The daughter of Jordan's King Abdullah II on Sunday wed a financier of Greek origin at a ceremony at the royal palace west of the capital Amman. State television broadcast...
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Mawlawi announces measures to reopen vehicle registration centers
BEIRUT — Caretaker Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi met Monday with caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati to discuss steps to reopen the country's vehicle registration centers. Lebanon's vehicle...
13 March 2023
Belarus, Iran vow to boost ties amid Russia's Ukraine war
The presidents of Iran and Belarus hailed their close ties during talks in Tehran Monday at a time both countries are sharply at odds with Western powers, including over Russia's war in Ukraine....
13 March 2023
Iraqi cabinet approves 2023 draft budget of more than 197 trillion dinars
CAIRO — Iraq's cabinet has approved a 2023 draft budget of 197.828 trillion Iraqi dinars ($135.6 billion), prime minister Shia al-Sudani said on Monday. The deficit is estimated to come to 63...
13 March 2023
Lebanon’s branding as ‘no country of asylum’ is historically misleading
Lebanon seeks to position itself as “no country of asylum.” Penned in the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in 2003, the phrase...
Maja Janmyr, 13 March 2023
Hakimi named in squad amid French rape case
Paris Saint-Germain defender Achraf Hakimi, charged with rape in France, was called into the Morocco squad Monday for friendly games against Brazil and Peru. One of the...
13 March 2023
Economic crisis, disarray, distress: New wave of suicides in Lebanon
“It came down to a few minutes, the travel time ... I didn’t make it on time.” Ali Kalot’s voice broke. On Wednesday March 1, at 7:50 am, Kalot received a text message from his brother-in-law...
Lyana ALAMEDDINE, 13 March 2023
Car accident near Tripoli school injures two students, their mother
BEIRUT — Two students and their mother were injured after being hit by a car near a school in Tripoli, North Lebanon, on Monday, L'Orient Today 's correspondent in the area reported. The...
13 March 2023
Iran pardons 22,000 people who took part in protests
DUBAI — Iranian judicial authorities have pardoned 22,000 people who took part in anti-government protests, judiciary chief Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei said Monday, according to the official IRNA...
13 March 2023
Fuel prices increase
BEIRUT — Fuel prices increased in Lebanon on Monday, according to the latest tariffs announced by the Energy Ministry. Here are the new prices: • Twenty liters of 95-octane gasoline:...
13 March 2023
Turkey's quake toll tops 48,000 as government races to build container cities
ANKARA — The death toll in Turkey from last month's major earthquakes has risen to 48,448, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said on Monday, as authorities rush to set up container cities to house...
13 March 2023
UN, Syrian government implicated in Syria aid failures after quake: commission
GENEVA — The United Nations, the Syrian government and other actors are responsible for delays in getting emergency aid to Syrians after last month's earthquake, a UN-appointed commission of...
13 March 2023
Tunisia swears in new defanged parliament
Tunisia on Monday inaugurated a new parliament largely stripped of its powers, after a vote that saw a paltry turnout amid boycotts following President Kais Saied's July 2021 power grab....
13 March 2023
Geopolitical lessons from the Chinese-Iranian-Saudi waltz
This marks the second time in just over 40 years that Iran and Saudi Arabia have restored diplomatic relations after breaking them off during periods of acute crisis. This highlights both the...
Anthony SAMRANI, 13 March 2023
Iran insists prisoner swap agreed despite US denial
Iran insisted on Monday that it had reached a prisoner exchange deal with archfoe the United States, a day after Washington denied the claim as "an especially cruel lie."...
13 March 2023
Israel releases oldest Palestinian prisoner
The oldest Palestinian prisoner in an Israeli jail was released on Monday after serving a 17-year sentence for arms smuggling, an advocacy group and his son said. Fuad...
13 March 2023
After Saudi deal, Iran says hopes to restore Bahrain ties
Iran said Monday it would welcome restoring ties with Bahrain to end seven years of ruptured relations, following a recent China-brokered deal to heal rifts between Tehran and Riyadh....
13 March 2023
Thousands of Lebanese households unsubscribe from EDL
BEIRUT — Following a sharp increase in the rates for electricity provided by state supplier Electricité du Liban (EDL), many subscribers are rushing to the provider's offices to cancel their...
Mario DOUEIRY, 13 March 2023
Private schools teachers union announces one day initial strike on Tuesday
BEIRUT — The president of the Union of Private School Teachers, Nehmeh Mahfoud, on Monday announced a one-day initial strike to begin Tuesday but may possibly be extended. The announcement...
13 March 2023
Polls show Erdogan lags opposition by more than 10 points ahead of May vote
ANKARA — New polls show the Turkish opposition's presidential candidate, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, leading against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan by more than 10 percentage points ahead of elections on...
13 March 2023
Mikati defends his government at Bkirki
BEIRUT — Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati defended on Monday "the necessity of" his government meeting during a visit to the Maronite patriarchate at Bkirki ahead of a planned trip to the...
13 March 2023
Saudi executes Jordanian in drugs case criticized by UN, activists
Saudi Arabia has executed a Jordanian man who activists say was tortured before he signed a document confessing to smuggling narcotics. Hussein Abo al-Kheir, a driver in...
13 March 2023
Lebanese Americans expect more from Lebanon’s political leadership
Last October , the American Task Force on Lebanon sponsored a bipartisan Congressional staff delegation to Lebanon. While there, we warned Lebanon’s political leaders that it would not reflect...
Edward M. Gabriel, 13 March 2023
Turkey's current account deficit widens to record level in January
ISTANBUL — Turkey's current account deficit widened to $9.85 billion in January, data from the central bank showed on Monday, the highest level in four decades of available data, driven by a...
13 March 2023
Elias Sarkis: Syrian forces settle in for the long haul
In the last months of Sleiman Frangieh’s term of office (1970-76), Lebanon was awash with military developments. In view of the presidential elections scheduled for that year, those involved in the...
Mounir RABIH, 13 March 2023
European investigators permitted to attend Lebanon's Salameh hearing
BEIRUT — European investigators returning to Beirut will be permitted to attend a Lebanese judge's questioning of central bank governor Riad Salameh, two sources said on Sunday, as Lebanon and...
13 March 2023
Jordan's King Abdullah and Queen Rania's eldest daughter ties the knot
AMMAN — Jordan's King Abdullah and his wife Queen Rania's eldest daughter Princess Iman on Sunday married a New York-based financier from a prominent Greek family in a private ceremony attended by...
13 March 2023
MP holds bank sit-in, Iran-Saudi reconciliation hailed, drug smuggling crackdown: Everything you need to know to start your Monday
A depositor and his brother, Jezzine MP Charbel Massaad, on Friday held a brief sit-in at a South Lebanon bank, demanding access to a delayed dollar payment following the conversion at the...
