BEIRUT — Lebanon recorded 46 new cholera cases in the last 48 hours bringing the total to 89, while one new person died, the Health Ministry said in its report on Monday. According to the report,...
US government officials have not been invited to a Saudi investment conference planned for later this month, its organizer told AFP Monday, saying he did not want the gathering "to become a...
A "disappointment" was felt on Monday among protesters on the third anniversary of the Oct. 17, 2019 uprising movement in Lebanon. Only a few dozen people gathered in Martyrs' Square in downtown...
Beirut, the evening of Oct. 17, 2019.The situation was becoming clear in Riad al-Solh Square. The small crowd that had gathered at the foot of the Grand Serail, the government seat, was not there...
According to Byblos Bank’s "Lebanon This Week," which sourced Blominvest’s figures, the decline is due to the financing of imports of some basic commodities, which have been subsidized by BDL since...
BEIRUT — Forces of Change MP Najat Aoun Saliba on Monday participated alongside dozens of people gathered in Martyrs' Square in Downtown Beirut in the third anniversary of the Oct. 17,...
BEIRUT — Tens of people protested on Monday in Martyrs' Square in Downtown Beirut to commemorate the third anniversary of the Oct. 17 nationwide protests, or thawra (revolution), L'Orient...
BEIRUT — A few dozen people gathered on Monday in Martyrs' Square in Downtown Beirut for the third anniversary of the Oct. 17, 2019 uprising movement in Lebanon and installed the emblem of the...
Kuwait’s crown prince swore in the new government on Monday, state news agency KUNA reported, following a reshuffle aimed at addressing lawmakers’ objections to the original cabinet line-up and...
BEIRUT — At the call of several collectives from the popular protest movement, a few dozen people began to gather Monday in Martyrs' Square in Downtown Beirut on the third anniversary of the Oct....
BEIRUT — At the foot of the columns that adorn the National Museum of Beirut, a black cat basks in the sun. Guards sit on either side of a security gate that is out of order. “There’s no...
BEIRUT — The head of the Free Patriotic Movement Gebran Bassil said Monday after a meeting with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri that "consensus is a must" for the election of a president in Lebanon,...
The EU on Monday sanctioned Iran's "morality" police, information minister and the cyber division of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for the fatal beating in custody of Mahsa Amini and...
NICOSIA — At least 122 people have been killed in Iran's crackdown on more than a month of nationwide protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, the Oslo-based group Iran Human Rights said...
BEIRUT — The president of the Higher Judicial Council (HJC) Souheil Abboud last week appointed Judge Jean-Marc Oueiss, a member of one of the chambers at the Court of Cassation, to rule on the...
BEIRUT — Nine detainees escaped Monday morning from the Fakhreddine barracks located near the UNESCO headquarters in Beirut, an army spokesperson confirmed to L'Orient-Le Jour . The exact...
BEIRUT — The Maronite Patriarch Bechara al-Rai said that "no Lebanese party has the right to deny any other Lebanese party its right to have a say in choosing" Lebanon's next president, adding that...
BEIRUT — A dinner that was due to be held Tuesday at the Swiss Embassy in Beirut and to which various Lebanese political representatives were invited has been indefinitely postponed, after news...
BEIRUT — The Energy Ministry announced new slightly increased fuel prices Monday morning. Here are the new prices: • Twenty liters of 95-octane gasoline: LL737,000, up by LL7,000 •...
BEIRUT — On Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019, Lebanon’s then-Telecoms Minister Mohamed Chocair decided to implement a $6 monthly tax on WhatsApp, a popular mobile app used by Lebanese people both at home...
BEIRUT — MP Abdul Rahman Bizri (Independent/Saida) revealed Monday that the number of cholera cases in Lebanon has risen to "about 50." The MP told the Voice of Lebanon radio station...
KUALA LUMPUR — Qatar will stage next year's Asian Cup in place of original hosts China after seeing off rival bids from South Korea and Indonesia, the Asian Football Confederation announced Monday....
Iran’s judiciary said Monday that eight prisoners were killed in a fire that raged amid unrest inside Tehran’s Evin prison, doubling the previously reported death toll. After four inmates injured...
The head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps accused the West of a cultural “invasion” of Iranian schools, amid protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody. Street...
"A third year has passed and the authorities are still trying to revitalize themselves without any will to revitalize the nation," collectives from the Oct. 17, 2019 popular protest movement said...
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?
