UAE extradites three crime suspects to Belgium
Dubai police announced Sunday the extradition to Belgium of three Belgian nationals wanted for offenses related to organized crime, including drug trafficking and human trafficking. Emirati...
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Israeli missile hits children collecting water, army blames malfunction
At least eight Palestinians, most of them children, were killed and more than a dozen were wounded in central Gaza when they went to collect water on Sunday, local officials said, in an Israeli...
AFP, 13 July 2025
Clashes in predominantly Druze Syrian city kill 6
Clashes between Bedouin tribes and local fighters in the predominantly Druze city of Sweida in southern Syria killed six people, local media reported on Sunday. Citing medical sources, local...
AFP, 13 July 2025
Palestinian Authority appoints new ambassador to Beirut
BEIRUT — The Palestinian Authority under President Mahmoud Abbas appointed Mohammad al-Assaad as ambassador to Lebanon on Sunday, according to the al-Markaziya news agency. Assaad was Palestine’s...
L'Orient Today staff, 13 July 2025
Army raids in Hermel following clashes between two clans
BEKAA — A conflict broke out Saturday evening in the town of al-Qasr, in the Hermel region near the Lebanese-Syrian border, between the Zeaiter and Akidi clans, a rocket was fired and gunshots were...
L'Orient Today staff, 13 July 2025
$800 M port deal between signed with UAE-based company
Syria signed a $800 million deal with UAE-based company DP World on Sunday to develop the port of Tartus, state media reported, as the new authorities continue their efforts to support post-war...
AFP, 13 July 2025
Geagea warns against trusteeship after Barrack’s ‘Bilad al-Sham’ remarks
BEIRUT — Reactions continue to pour in over comments made by U.S. envoy Tom Barrack regarding Lebanon, which he warned could revert to Bilad al-Sham ( Greater Syria) — if it failed to disarm...
L'Orient Today staff, 13 July 2025
Kabalan calls for unity: 'Lebanon is not a bargaining chip'
BEIRUT — Jaafari mufti Ahmad Kabalan on Sunday called for "strong national stances" in the face of what he called a "dangerous regional redrawing game," referring to recent...
L'Orient Today staff, 13 July 2025
Trade countermeasures on hold until August, says Von Der Leyen
The EU will extend its suspension of countermeasures to U.S. tariffs until early August as it aims for a negotiated solution on trade with the United States, European Commission President Ursula...
AFP, 13 July 2025
Russia slams report it backed 'zero enrichment' Iran nuclear deal
Russia's foreign affairs ministry on Sunday described reports claiming that President Vladimir Putin had encouraged his Iranian ally to accept a "zero enrichment" agreement on its...
AFP, 13 July 2025
At least 59 Palestinians killed by Israeli army Sunday, including 28 near GHF aid centers
At least 31 Palestinians, including women and children, were killed in overnight and early-morning Israeli strikes Sunday, according to Gaza Civil Defense, as negotiations in Doha for a new truce...
L'Orient Today staff/AFP, 13 July 2025
At least 139 Palestinians killed by Israeli army in the past 24 hours, says health ministry
BEIRUT — At least 139 Palestinians were killed and 425 injured in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, the health ministry reported Sunday. In its statement, the ministry...
L'Orient Today staff, 13 July 2025
Israeli army sweeps outskirts of Alma al-Shaab, Hezbollah fighter buried in Sharkieh
SOUTH LEBANON — The Israeli army swept the outskirts of the locality of Alma al-Shaab (Sour district) on Sunday morning, our correspondent in South Lebanon, reports. Meanwhile, Hezbollah held the...
L'Orient Today staff, 13 July 2025
Iran ready to resume talks in exchange for pledge of 'no more attacks'
BEIRUT — Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said his country would be willing to return to the negotiating table with the United States if it received assurances, it would not be attacked...
L'Orient Today staff, 13 July 2025
Wildfires contained after 10 days
Syria's civil defense agency on Sunday said wildfires in the country's west, which have burned vast tracts of forest and farmland and forced evacuations, had been brought under control...
AFP, 13 July 2025
Saddi weighs gas switch for EDL, aims to preserve Beirut-Baghdad ties
BEIRUT — Energy and Water Minister Joe Saddi issued a partial denial Saturday evening of a report published earlier that day by the daily al-Akhbar, which is close to Hezbollah. The article...
L'Orient Today staff, 13 July 2025
At Beiteddine, the echo of a Lebanon that still believes in beauty
An iconic song marked the long-awaited reopening of the Beiteddine Festival. 34 years after its creation, "Rajeh yetaammar Lebnan" by Zaki Nassif once again echoed through the courtyard...
Rana Najjar, 13 July 2025
Pierced breasts and sculpted bodies: Nudity revisited by Thierry Mugler
Paris, January 1998. In an intimate salon in the French capital, darkness prevailed, almost tickling the ballpoint pens of the most acerbic critics. Then, without warning, yellowish spotlights...
Stéphanie NASSAR, 13 July 2025
Successful launch of Israeli telecommunications satellite from Florida
The Israeli telecommunications satellite Dror 1 was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) announced Sunday in a...
AFP, 13 July 2025
Police arrest more Palestine Action supporters
Police in several British cities on Saturday arrested scores of people for supporting Palestine Action, following a second consecutive weekend of protests over the government's decision to ban...
AFP, 13 July 2025
Hamas and Israel accuse each other of stalling truce negotiations
Hamas and Israel accused each other Saturday of stalling their indirect negotiations for a cease-fire in Gaza, where more than 20 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes, according to the...
AFP, 13 July 2025
Israel accuses Hamas of 'sabotaging' cease-fire talks
An Israeli political official on Saturday accused Hamas of 'sabotaging' ongoing talks in Doha over a cease-fire and the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip. "Hamas has rejected...
AFP, 13 July 2025
Qomati: 'If Hezbollah hands over its weapons, bye-bye to Lebanon's sovereignty'
Hezbollah's deputy head of the political council, Mahmoud Qomati, said that Lebanon's response to the American proposal, brought by envoy Tom Barrack earlier in the week regarding...
L'Orient Today staff, 13 July 2025
Iran as seen by the West: A thousand and one shades of Orientalism
On Dec. 21, 1959, still youthful with a radiant smile and regal bearing, Farah Diba, 21, was about to wed Iran's shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who was 20 years her senior. Paris Match, like...
Soulayma MARDAM BEY, 13 July 2025
Lebanese museums open for free on July 29
After six years of interruption, the Night of Museums is making its grand return under the auspices of the Culture Ministry, in partnership with the Directorate General of Antiquities (DGA). On...
