BEIRUT — The brothers of a Palestinian woman on Thursday fired gunshots toward a Lebanese woman's house in Maghdouche, South Lebanon, amid a "personal dispute," the state-run National News Agency...
The United States on Thursday said it was "deeply troubled and disappointed" after Istanbul's mayor, a key opposition figure in Turkey, was banned from politics ahead of next year's presidential...
BEIRUT — When he was 17, his parents made him go through electroconvulsive therapy, says Hassan*.“It all began when I was 13, when I naively asked them why I liked boys. My father took me straight...
BEIRUT — Lebanon received 900,000 additional doses of cholera vaccines on Wednesday with the support of the World Health Organization and International Coordination Group as part of the vaccination...
BEIRUT — An Irish soldier serving with the UN peacekeeping force in South Lebanon was killed on Wednesday night in an "incident" in Hezbollah-dominated village of al-Aaqbiya, United Nations...
ANKARA — A court ordered the arrest of a journalist in southeast Turkey for allegedly spreading "disinformation," his lawyer said on Thursday, marking the first pre-trial detention under a new law...
ISTANBUL — Thousands of Turks protested the conviction and political ban of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu on Thursday, voicing criticism of the government ahead of elections next year set to be one...
BEIRUT — Hezbollah's parliamentary group reiterated Thursday that electing a new Lebanese president requires dialogue between the country's different political forces after a tenth parliamentary...
Iran condemned the European Union on Thursday for imposing new sanctions on the Islamic Republic over its response to protests sparked by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini....
An Irish UN peacekeeper in Lebanon died from a bullet to the head when seven projectiles pierced his vehicle, a Lebanese judicial source told AFP on Thursday. Three other...
PARIS — Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Aramco) and TotalEnergies (TTEF.PA) will join forces to build a new petrochemicals complex in Saudi Arabia, the French energy group said Thursday. The project...
BEIRUT — Two Lebanese men were arrested by the judicial police in Nabatieh, South Lebanon, for allegedly stealing the equivalent of $150,000 worth of copper and aluminum materials, the Internal...
‘Nabila’s’ is on the corner of 248 Court St. Launched in May 2022, the restaurant is named after Michael Farah’s mother. Inspired by the dishes he grew up eating, the young man wanted to serve...
Since the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020, the year-end holidays have become synonymous with a surge in Coronavirus infections and increased hospitalizations. This year, however, the virus seems to be...
Jordan's judiciary on Thursday sentenced two men to long prison terms for attempting to smuggle nearly 2 million captagon pills into the country from Syria, a judicial source told AFP....
BEIRUT — A senior Hezbollah official on Thursday said an "unintentional incident" had led to the death of an Irish soldier on a UN peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon the previous evening,...
The holiday season is once again smiling on Najib Mikati.Almost a year to the day after obtaining — via French mediation — a brief telephone conversation with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin...
The tenth parliamentary session devoted to electing Lebanon's next president was adjourned Thursday, less than an hour after it began, without reaching a result. No new sessions have been fixed by...
BEIRUT — The Energy Ministry announced new slightly increased fuel prices on Thursday morning. Here are the new prices: • Twenty liters of 95-octane gasoline: LL747,000, up by LL5,000. •...
BEIRUT — At 11 a.m. on Thursday, Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri opened a parliamentary session devoted to electing a new president. This is the tenth such meeting since the election period...
Iran on Thursday accused the United States of orchestrating its removal from a UN women's rights body over its response to protests triggered by death of Mahsa Amini. The...
President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday stood by his decision to visit Qatar to support France's World Cup team, despite allegations linking the Gulf monarchy to corruption in the European...
BEIRUT — Lebanon on Wednesday recorded no new deaths or additional cholera cases in the previous 24 hours, the Health Ministry said in its daily report. The total number of cases recorded since...
BEIRUT — A senior Hezbollah official on Thursday denied the party's involved in an "unintentional incident" that took place the previous night in which an Irish soldier was killed and three others...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up. Parliament is scheduled to convene today for its 10th and final attempt of 2022 to elect a president. “There will be more...
They may have fallen just short of reaching the World Cup final, but Moroccans on Wednesday hailed their team's historic run as it ended with a 2-0 defeat to reigning champions France....
The family of Palestinian activist Nizar Banat will submit a case Thursday to the International Criminal Court accusing top Palestinian officials over his death in custody, relatives told AFP....
Beirut’s demands, Israel’s terms, and Washington’s stance: Behind the scenes of the negotiations
Lebanon stuck between a rock and a hard place: A US disarmament plan, or an extended expansion to the war?
