BEIRUT — All thermal power plants in Lebanon are currently out of service due to depleted fuel oil needed to run them and protests against state-run Électricité du Liban’s workforce, EDL’s media...
LONDON — Britain's King Charles spoke to world leaders, including Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, who expressed condolences for the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth, a...
The management of Blom Bank denied on Thursday to L'Orient-Le Jour that its CEO, Saad Azhari, has bodyguards — whether armed or not. His comment came after reports of live fire against protesters...
BEIRUT — Internal Security Forces on Wednesday arrested a Lebanese man accused of stealing electrical cables from the network supplying the Beirut-Rafic Hariri International Airport in southern...
BEIRUT — An International Monetary Fund delegation plans to visit Beirut on Monday, to "accelerate" the Lebanese government's implementation of reforms needed to unlock a multi-billion-dollar...
BEIRUT — The Association of Banks in Lebanon announced Thursday that bank branches will be forced to "take preventive security measures" in the wake of two coordinated hostage-taking...
Storming Beirut’s Justice Palace in Sept. 2021, Hezbollah security chief Wafiq Safa threatened to “usurp” the lead investigator of the Beirut port blast probe, Judge Tarek Bitar. For a year now,...
"The Maronite patriarchate is a national symbol that we respect." Tensions between Maronite Patriarch Bechara Rai and Hezbollah reached their peak in the wake of the Moussa al-Hage affair, but...
BEIRUT — Protesters blocked one of the main roads in the town of Halba, in northern Lebanon, in protest against the arrest of a number of activists from Akkar who were in Sodeco's Blom Bank branch...
Russian President Vladimir Putin met with his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi on Thursday. Here's what we know: • Both leaders are attending the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in...
BEIRUT — "Some depositors are endangering the safety of our colleagues in the branches and harming [our] dignity,” said the Federation of Syndicates of Bank Employees in Lebanon in a statement...
BEIRUT — Two masked suspects robbed and beat a man in front of a Bank Audi branch in Chtoura, Bekaa on Thursday, stealing about $50,000 from him, L’Orient Today’s correspondent reported. The...
President Michel Aoun has made his decision: he will not travel to New York next week to attend the annual session of the United Nations General Assembly— the last before the end of his term....
BEIRUT — President Michel Aoun awarded “Mayyas” the Lebanese Gold Medal of Merit, in appreciation of its “artistic contributions and success in the most important international talent programs,”...
BEIRUT — The Lebanese lira hit a breaking low record with the dollar trading over LL38,000 on the parallel market on Thursday. Here's what we know: • According to the...
BEIRUT —A temporary water cut in Beirut will take place from Thursday till Saturday, the Beirut and Mount Lebanon Water Establishment (EBML) said in a statement Thursday morning. EBML stated that...
I-What is the purpose of the session? Lebanese MPs are meeting on Thursday for the first day of a plenary session that will last until Friday evening, in order to adopt the annual state budget for...
WASHINGTON — The US State Department on Wednesday announced it was sending $756 million in new humanitarian aid to Syria, where need remains “dire” after more than a decade of war. The funds,...
BEIRUT — The Ministry of Energy announced new fuel prices on Thursday, Sept. 15. Here's what we know: • Twenty liters of 95-octane gasoline: LL680,000, up by LL14,000 • Twenty...
BEIRUT — Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati was received Thursday morning by President Michel Aoun at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, in a new meeting focused on the formation of the...
RAMALLAH — A Palestinian teenager was killed Thursday during clashes with the Israeli army near Jenin in the occupied West Bank, medical sources said. Uday Salah, 17, was “killed by a bullet to...
BEIRUT — Activists on Wednesday evening protested in front of Blom Bank's chairman Saad Azhari's residence in Beirut, after the bank refused to drop charges against two activists that...
Depositors attempted to forcibly withdraw their funds by instigating ‘coordinated’ hostage situations in Beirut and Aley banks, with the support of various depositors’ associations. Sali Hafez...
BEIRUT — Security forces in the city of Saida arrested five of ten prisoners who escaped Wednesday night from the New Saida al-Hisbah police station, L'Orient Today 's correspondent...
BEIRUT — The automobile-sized elevator clanks into place. Its doors slide open and out of them pour a smattering of artists and art lovers, to mingle with those already strolling Sfeir-Semler...
BEIRUT — As US President Ronald Reagan was about to board Marine Force One for the last time in 1989 during George H.W. Bush’s inauguration, he told his press secretary, Marlin Fitzwater, that the...
They did it! Lebanese dance troupe "Mayyas" won on the 17th season of the TV show "America's Got Talent" Wednesday night, beating out 10 other candidates to claim the top prize. When results were...
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
