Xi calls for closer ties with Spain in face of global 'chaos'
China's President Xi Jinping warned against a return to the "law of the jungle" in international relations and called for closer economic ties with Spain as he met Prime Minister...
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Israel, Lebanon agree to direct negotiations after 'productive' talks: US
Israel and Lebanon agreed to hold direct negotiations after "productive discussions" between the two sides in Washington, the United States said on Tuesday. "The participants held...
L'Orient Today staff, 14 April 2026
Israeli strikes in Lebanon grow deadlier; Attack on Tibnin hospital, vast destruction of Bint Jbeil and Srifa
BEIRUT — Israeli attacks across southern Lebanon and the Bekaa have intensified and grown deadlier, adding significantly to the death toll from Lebanon's attacks on Lebanon. The Health Ministry...
L'Orient Today staff, 14 April 2026
After calling Trump's comments on Pope Leo 'unacceptable,' US leader turns on Italy's Meloni
U.S. President Donald Trump told an Italian newspaper on Tuesday that Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni "lacks courage and has let Washington down," delivering a blunt public rebuke...
L'Orient Today staff/Reuters, 14 April 2026
Jaber: Negotiations on the Lebanon truce are 'key' to restarting financial reform discussions
BEIRUT — Arriving in Washington over the weekend to take part in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank (WB) spring meetings, which will run throughout the week, Finance Minister...
L'Orient Today staff, 14 April 2026
Lebanon denounces destruction of Naqoura fishing port by Israel to International Maritime Organization
BEIRUT — Public Works and Transport Minister Fayez Rasamny announced Tuesday in a statement that he has notified the International Maritime Organization (IMO), a specialized U.N. agency, of the...
L'Orient Today staff, 14 April 2026
Wafiq Safa to AP: Hezbollah will not abide by any agreements that may result from direct Lebanese-Israeli talks
BEIRUT — Wafiq Safa, a high-ranking member of Hezbollah’s political council, told the Associated Press (AP) on Monday that Hezbollah will not abide by any agreements that may result from the...
L'Orient Today staff, 14 April 2026
I encourage Aoun, Salam to see the negotiations through: Amin Gemayel to L’Orient-Le Jour
“Give us peace and take the best in the world”: Amin Gemayel remains convinced of the slogan he launched four decades ago. The former president of the republic (1982-1988) was the main architect of...
Yara ABI AKL, 14 April 2026
Qatar Airways, Turkish Airlines, Iraqi Airways: Update on the return of airlines to Beirut
As Lebanon and Israel held their first direct negotiation session in Washington on Tuesday, and the United States and Iran are considering resuming indirect talks on Sunday in view of a possible...
Philippe HAGE BOUTROS, 15 April 2026
Who will succeed Jamal Hajjar after his retirement?
Ten days before Lebanon’s top prosecutor Jamal Hajjar retires on April 25, the Cabinet has yet to name his successor as head of the public prosecution. Under current law, the Cabinet must choose a...
Claude ASSAF, 14 April 2026
Former student opens fire in school, wounding 16
A teenager opened fire at a high school in Turkey's southeastern province of Sanliurfa on Tuesday, wounding at least 16 people including students and teachers before killing himself, the...
Reuters, 14 April 2026
Israeli strike on police car, kills 4, medics say
An Israeli airstrike on a police vehicle in Gaza City on Tuesday killed at least four people, including a child, health officials in the territory said, in the latest violence overshadowing a...
Reuters, 14 April 2026
Reports of 3 Hezbollah members captured in Bint Jbeil, according to Israeli media
BEIRUT — Israeli media reported Tuesday that Givati Brigade forces of the Israeli army captured three Hezbollah fighters last night in the besieged city of Bint Jbeil, and that the commander of...
L'Orient Today staff, 14 April 2026
French shipping giant CMA CGM acquires Fattal Group
BEIRUT — French shipping and logistics giant CMA CGM, led by French-Lebanese businessman Rodolphe Saade, acquired 100 percent of Lebanese distributor Fattal Group, the company announced in a press...
Stephanie Bechara, 14 April 2026
Israeli strikes kill more in Bekaa and south Lebanon, as they hit Tibnin hospital
SOUTH LEBANON — Israeli strikes across southern Lebanon and the Bekaa killed at least 2,089 people, including 166 children, since the war began on March 2, as attacks on health infrastructure and...
L'Orient Today staff, 14 April 2026
Ahead of Lebanon–Israel talks in Washington, MPs voice support for Aoun’s initiative
BEIRUT — Expressions of support for President Joseph Aoun's initiative to launch direct negotiations with Israel are mounting among visitors to the Presidential Palace in Baabda. Information...
L'Orient Today staff, 14 April 2026
Israeli FM says keen to reach 'peace and normalisation' with Lebanon
Israel's Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said his country is seeking "peace and normalisation" with Lebanon, ahead of talks between officials from both nations in Washington on Tuesday....
AFP, 14 April 2026
Talks to focus on sanctions, release of seafarers, and shipping readiness
Diplomatic meetings led by France and Britain this week to discuss a potential future multinational mission will be structured around a series of working groups, ranging from possible sanctions on...
Reuters, 14 April 2026
'I dreamed that Lebanon had disappeared': Manal Salameh's hard-hitting novel
"This book is a real cry from the heart that I needed to express in order to externalize the anxiety, fears, anger, and healthy revolt that inhabit me," confides Manal Salameh about...
Zéna ZALZAL, 14 April 2026
Italy suspends renewal of defense agreement with Israel
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Tuesday that her government had decided to suspend the automatic renewal of a defense agreement with Israel, given ongoing conflicts in the Middle...
Reuters, 14 April 2026
Mapped out: Israel claims capture of Bint Jbeil and advances in Marjayoun
SOUTH LEBANON — Fierce fighting rages between the Israeli army and Hezbollah fighters in Bint Jbeil. On Monday afternoon, the Israeli army spokesperson claimed the capture of the city stadium,...
L'Orient Today staff, 14 April 2026
Blockade of Iranian ports: Pressure tactic or real solution?
The reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, without imposing transit fees, was one of Washington’s demands in Islamabad. After the departure of Vice President JD Vance from the Pakistani capital on...
Laure-Maïssa FARJALLAH, 14 April 2026
Lebanon-Israel negotiations: Looking back at 78 years of failure
A preparatory meeting is set to take place in Washington on Tuesday ahead of what could be the first direct negotiations between Lebanon and Israel in 43 years.The meeting between Lebanon’s...
Gabriel BLONDEL, 14 April 2026
Ahead of first meeting in Washington, Israel raises stakes: A three-zone division of Lebanon
The tone was set just hours before the preparatory meeting in Washington — scheduled for Tuesday at 6 p.m. Beirut time — to launch direct negotiations between Beirut and Tel Aviv.Hezbollah...
Mounir RABIH, 14 April 2026
Rai condemns 'any attack' on Pope Leo following Trump's direct critics
BEIRUT — Maronite Patriarch, Bechara Rai, condemned "any attack or offense that undermines the stature and sanctity of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV," after U.S. President, Donald Trump, on...
L'Orient Today staff, 14 April 2026
What we know about the Israel-Lebanon talks
Israeli and Lebanese envoys will meet for U.S.-mediated talks in Washington on Tuesday as U.S. President Donald Trump seeks to calm weeks of Israeli fighting with Iran-backed Hezbollah that has...
L'Orient Today staff/Reuters, 14 April 2026
Direct negotiations with Israel: Are people in Beirut with or against?
Nima Salha, Jad ABOU JAOUDE and Aly BAALBAKY, 14 April 2026
Key sticking points in US-Iran talks
After the first round of talks between Washington and Tehran – the first at this level since 1979 – collapsed in Islamabad this weekend, both escalation and renewed dialogue remain on the table....
Noura DOUKHI, 14 April 2026
Crude oil demand to see biggest quarterly plunge since Covid
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has projected the steepest decline in global oil demand in the second quarter since the Covid-19 pandemic, according to its latest monthly report, citing...
AFP, 14 April 2026
Dozens detained in protest over US arms sales to Israel
Dozens of protesters were detained by police in New York City on Monday during demonstrations calling for the blocking of arms sales to Israel and an end to U.S. military support for its ally....
Reuters, 14 April 2026
Ziad Majed: Since World War II, there has never been this much destruction concentrated in a single region of the world
The Arab world is going through one of the darkest periods in its history. Lebanon is at war and the south threatened by a lasting Israeli occupation. The April 8 massacre — 357 dead and nearly...
Interview conducted by Soulayma MARDAM BEY, 17 April 2026
Iran–United States: The ‘in-between’ wars
Omar Kaddour is a Syrian writer based in France. We do not yet know the outcome of the current war between the United States and Israel on one side and Iran on the other. At the time of...
Omar Kaddour, 14 April 2026
لسنا في نهاية الحرب العالمية الثانية؛ نحن بين الحربين
لا نعلم حتى الآن مآل الحرب الحالية بين أمريكا وإسرائيل من جهة وإيران من جهة مقابلة، فمع كتابة هذه السطور توقفت المفاوضات بين أمريكا وإيران في إسلام آباد، من دون تحقيق تقدّم، إلا أن الوفد الأمريكي...
عمر قدور, 14 April 2026
Egypt’s revolution, 15 years later: Erasing truth, inventing false narratives
Mostafa Al-A’sar is a journalist, researcher, human rights defender, and former Egyptian political prisoner, now in exile in Canada. The five of us stood at the edge of Tahrir Square in...
Mostafa AL-A’SAR, 14 April 2026
١٥ عامًا على الثورة المصرية... محاولات طمس الحقيقة ونسج الأكاذيب
وقفنا نحن الخمسة على حافة ميدان التحرير بوسط القاهرة. جميع الشوارع المتفرّعة من الميدان مكتظة بالمتظاهرين. بشكل ما تمكنت من رؤية بانورامية، حيث المتظاهرون على مد البصر. قوات من الشرطة المصرية مدججة...
مصطفى الأعصر, 14 April 2026
Coexistence in Lebanon: Between fragility and clashing narratives
Najwa Barakat is a novelist and journalist. Her most recent novel published in English is Mister N. (& Other Stories, 2022). Since independence, the Lebanese have lived on the promise of...
Najwa Barakat, 14 April 2026
العيش المشترك في لبنان: بين الهشاشة والسرديات المتحاربة
منذ الاستقلال، عاش اللبنانيون على وعدٍ بالتوازن، تارةً تحت لافتة “الميثاق”، وطوراً تحت شعارات “الصيغة” و”المناصفة”. غير أنّ هذه الصيغ، على أهميتها في تنظيم الشكل السياسي، لم تُنتج مواطنةً تتقدّم...
نجوى بركات, 14 April 2026
The Slug Effect: Despair as a mode of resistance
Khaldoun al-Mallah is a Palestinian doctor and writer from the Yarmouk refugee camp in the suburb of Damascus, Syria. During the siege of the camp by the Assad regime and its allies (2012–2018),...
Khaldoun al-MALLAH, 14 April 2026
أثر البزاقة: في اليأس أسلوباً للمقاومة
لما اختطف بروميثيوس النار من السماء ووهبها البشر، شعر زيوس ربُّ الأرباب بغضب شديد، ورغب في الانتقام من هؤلاء الفانين. ما كان منه في سَورة غضبه إلا أن ترك مرطبانا، جرة من فخار، في رعاية باندورا،...
خلدون الملاح, 14 April 2026
US-sanctioned tankers pass on first day of US blockade, data shows
A third Iran-linked tanker was entering the Gulf via the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday on the first full day of the U.S. blockade on vessels calling at Iranian ports, shipping data showed. U.S....
Reuters, 14 April 2026
US, Iranian teams could return to Islamabad peace talks this week
Negotiating teams from the U.S. and Iran could return to Islamabad this week, four sources said on Tuesday, days after the highest-level talks between the two countries since the 1979 Islamic...
Reuters, 14 April 2026
FM spox calls US blockade of Iran ports 'dangerous and irresponsible'
China said on Tuesday that a U.S. blockade around Iranian ports was "dangerous and irresponsible," after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to sink any boats that sought to leave or...
AFP, 14 April 2026
Inside the newsroom: Cease-fire in Iran, free fire in Lebanon
On the morning of April 8, in his L’Orient-Le Jour office, Nemtala was writing an article about the implementation of the cease-fire between the United States and Iran, after 40 days of clashes....
Sami SIOUFI, 14 April 2026
US seeking 20-year pause of Iran uranium enrichment
The United States sought a 20-year suspension of Iran's uranium enrichment program as part of a deal to end the war, according to media reports Monday, after Washington and Tehran failed to...
AFP, 14 April 2026
Joint statement: US hopes for 'comprehensive peace agreement,' Israel says will work with Lebanon on disarmament, Lebanon calls for cease-fire implementation | LIVE
23:27 Beirut Time Amal, Hezbollah MPs criticize Lebanon-Israel talks in Washington MP Qassem Hashem, of the Amal Movement bloc, described the images of the talks between the Lebanese...
Muntasser Abdallah, Sarah ABDALLAH, Malek Jadah, 14 April 2026
US says ball in Iran's court as push grows to end war
The United States said "the ball is in the Iranian court" on ending the Mideast war, as diplomats accelerated efforts on Tuesday towards a new round of peace talks after weekend...
AFP, 14 April 2026
Lebanon, Israel to meet for tough talks in Washington
Lebanese and Israeli representatives are scheduled to meet in Washington Tuesday for U.S.-mediated talks on ending the war in Lebanon, but the prospects of an agreement appear slim. Naim Qassem,...
AFP, 14 April 2026
Israeli army announces death of a soldier in south Lebanon
BEIRUT — The Israeli army announced Tuesday the death of a soldier "in combat" in southern Lebanon, where Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah have been clashing for more than a month....
L'Orient Today staff, 14 April 2026
Peace talks set to begin as Hezbollah refuses concessions and Israel besieges Bint Jbeil: Everything you need to know this Tuesday
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Tuesday, April 14, 2026 Some me key things to watch today:Lebanon-Israeli talks in WashingtonUpdates on continued fighting between...
