Iran ready for 'fair, balanced' nuclear solution with Europ
Iran said Wednesday it was ready to reach a "fair and balanced" solution with European powers over its nuclear programme, following over-the-phone talks with Britain, France and Germany....
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Joseph Aoun's adviser meets with Mohammad Raad
BEIRUT — The head of Hezbollah's parliamentary bloc, Mohammad Raad, met Wednesday with General Andre Rahal, adviser to President of the Republic Joseph Aoun, more than ten days after the Sept....
L'Orient Today staff, 17 September 2025
'Our eyes are your eyes': Over 300 gather in Ain al-Mreisseh to commemorate the pager attack
BEIRUT — "This wasn't an episode of 'Black Mirror.' It was our blood. Our red blood." A protester held up a sign among the crowd gathered for the march commemorating the...
L'Orient Today staff, 17 September 2025
L'Orient-Le Jour's Emmanuel Haddad on the 2025 Albert Londres Prize shortlist
L'Orient-Le Jour reporter Emmanuel Haddad has been shortlisted for the 2025 Albert Londres Prize, in the print press category, for his field reporting in Lebanon during last year's war and in Syria...
L'Orient Today staff, 17 September 2025
Illegal online gambling case before Baabda indictment chamber
BEIRUT —The Mount Lebanon indictment chamber, led by Judge Fadi Aridi, on Wednesday received the case file on illegal online gambling linked to Casino du Liban and Onlive Support Services (OSS), a...
L'Orient Today staff, 17 September 2025
Thousands protest in London over Trump UK visit
Armed with signs and shouting slogans, thousands of anti-Donald Trump protesters descended Wednesday on central London to decry the U.S. president's unprecedented second state visit to the U.K....
AFP, 17 September 2025
Ghazi Hamad, Hamas official, appears on Al Jazeera
Ghazi Hamad, one of Hamas’ top leaders, appeared Wednesday night for a live interview broadcast on Qatar-based Al Jazeera, becoming the first senior official from the Palestinian Islamist movement...
AFP, 17 September 2025
Naim Qassem to pager attack victims: You are the true resistance, Israel will fall
In a televised address of a few minutes on the anniversary of the beeper attack, Hezbollah's secretary general, Naim Qassem, praised the "wounded beeper victims," calling them...
L'Orient Today staff, 17 September 2025
3,000-year-old gold bracelet missing from museum
A 3,000-year-old gold bracelet has gone missing from a restoration laboratory of Cairo's Egyptian Museum, the country's antiquities ministry said. The bracelet, described as a golden band...
Reuters, 17 September 2025
Container falls at port: YASA demands 'immediate measures to ensure safety'
BEIRUT — Following the fall of a container at the port of Beirut on Wednesday, the road safety association YASA called on the Public Works and Transport Ministry as well as the port administration...
L'Orient Today staff, 17 September 2025
Fijian prime minister inaugurates Fiji Embassy in Jerusalem
Fiji inaugurated an embassy in Jerusalem on Wednesday, an opening hailed as "historic" by Israeli authorities given the very limited number of countries with such diplomatic...
AFP, 17 September 2025
Strike in Beddawi camp: Lebanese-Palestinian committee meets UNRWA and Interior Ministry
BEIRUT — As the strike continues in the Palestinian refugee camp of Beddawi in northern Lebanon, launched Monday to protest certain UNRWA services , the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for...
L'Orient Today staff, 17 September 2025
Lebanese Army announces seizure of 64 M captagon pills in major anti-drug operation
BEIRUT — The Lebanese Army announced Wednesday that it had seized about 64 million captagon pills in the eastern part of the country, saying it was one of the largest operations ever carried out...
L'Orient Today staff, 17 September 2025
Fadlallah denounces 'Israeli buffer zone' in South Lebanon and Cabinet's 'silence'
BEIRUT — Hezbollah MP Hassan Fadlallah asserted Wednesday that the Israeli army "is establishing a buffer zone along the border in South Lebanon." Speaking in Parliament on the first...
L'Orient Today staff, 17 September 2025
Complaint against Naim Qassem: Rifi and anti-Hezbollah MPs slam judicial inaction
BEIRUT — MP Ashraf Rifi and other anti-Hezbollah lawmakers criticized the justice system on Wednesday for failing to act on their complaint against Hezbollah’s secretary-general, Naim Qassem, which...
L'Orient Today staff, 17 September 2025
Israeli strikes against Iran, Hezbollah? Possible but not inevitable scenario
Did Israel’s strike on Hamas officials in Doha reshuffle the regional deck? According to Western diplomats, the strike pushed Arab and Islamic states to meet on Monday to adopt a common stance. The...
Scarlett HADDAD, 17 September 2025
Israel opens new route out of Gaza City for 48 hours as tanks advance
The Israeli military said on Wednesday it was opening an additional route for 48 hours that Palestinians could use to leave Gaza City as it stepped up efforts to empty the city of civilians and...
Reuters, 17 September 2025
Arrest of Igor Grechushkin, a significant development in the investigation
Igor Grechushkin, whom the Lebanese authorities say is the owner of the Rhosus — the vessel that transported and offloaded in 2014 the ammonium nitrate that caused the Aug. 4, 2020, Beirut port...
Claude ASSAF, 17 September 2025
EU Commission proposes suspending free-trade arrangements on Israeli goods
The European Commission on Wednesday proposed suspending a trade arrangement affecting about 5.8 billion euros ($6.87 billion) of Israeli exports due to the Gaza war, although the measure does not...
Reuters/AFP, 17 September 2025
Taylor Swift lifelong debate gets settled in the Middle East
I was 14 when “ 1989 ” came out. I was hanging out with my cousins at my grandma’s house when one of them, a previous hardcore One Direction fan, called the American singer “Taylor zeft. ” I...
Nima Salha, 17 September 2025
HRW accuses Israel forces of displacing south Syria residents
Human Rights Watch accused Israeli forces Wednesday of forcibly displacing residents of southern Syria, which Israel has demanded be demilitarized in a new security deal Syria is seeking with its...
17 September 2025
Barrack praises Joumblatt’s 'wisdom,' unifying role in Druze community
BEIRUT — U.S. envoy Tom Barrack on Wednesday hailed Druze leader Walid Joumblatt as a unifying figure, praising his role in steering dialogue within the community amid rising regional tensions....
L'Orient Today staff, 17 September 2025
Cabinet continues to review the 2026 draft budget
BEIRUT — The Cabinet on Wednesday pressed ahead with discussions on the 2026 draft budget, though several provisions still require further review before a final version can be sent to Parliament....
L'Orient Today staff, 17 September 2025
Saint Charbel monastery to be inaugurated in France
The first monastery dedicated to Lebanon's Saint Charbel in France will be inaugurated on Saturday in a town on the outskirts of Paris, the Lebanese Maronite Order announced on Wednesday. The...
L'Orient Today staff, 17 September 2025
'Ball still in Iran's court' after nuclear talks with European powers
Germany said Wednesday that the "ball is still in Iran's court" after the U.K., France and Germany held talks with the Islamic Republic over its nuclear program. The phone call came...
17 September 2025
Qabalan: Without the legendary resistance, Lebanon would not exist today
BEIRUT — Lebanon’s Jaafarite Mufti Ahmad Qabalan on Wednesday marked the first anniversary of Israel’s deadly attack on Hezbollah pagers by declaring that “without the legendary resistance, Lebanon...
L'Orient Today staff, 17 September 2025
At opening of Qatar Charity office, Salam condemns Israeli strike on Qatar as violation of sovereignty and international law
BEIRUT — Prime Minister Nawaf Salam on Wednesday condemned Israel’s Sept. 9 strikes on Qatari soil that killed Hamas leaders and a Qatari security officer, calling the attack a violation of...
L'Orient Today staff, 17 September 2025
'Beirut I': Amer Bisat fine-tunes his major conference to attract diaspora capital
As Lebanon seeks to secure several billion dollars for rebuilding the country and continues discussions with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to unlock an assistance program that would restore...
Ghadir Hamadi and Philippe HAGE BOUTROS, 17 September 2025
Disarming Palestinians: State reaches Ain al-Helweh, but the hardest part remains
The handover of weapons to the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and Fatah in several Palestinian camps is continuing, slowly but steadily, in line with the plan set by the Lebanese...
Jeanine JALKH, 17 September 2025
Ghassan Salameh: What if culture carried Lebanon?
Six months after his appointment, Culture Minister Ghassan Salameh held a press conference that was more akin to a manifesto than a progress report. Speaking to an audience of journalists, artists...
Maya GHANDOUR HERT, 17 September 2025
The Doha lesson: With Trump, Netanyahu can do whatever he wants
This past May, in a hangar on the outskirts of Doha, Donald Trump declared that he "would never hesitate to use American power, if necessary, to defend the United States or our partners. And...
Joe Macaron, 17 September 2025
Gaza genocide accusations: Israel in the dock
After United Nations investigators accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza, what charges do the country and its leaders face in international courts, and what happens next? What courts are...
AFP, 17 September 2025
Ben-Gvir pledges 'magnificent' beach settlement in Gaza for Israeli police
BEIRUT — On Monday, Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir pledged to turn Gaza's beachfront into a settlement for police officers, against the backdrop of Israel's ground...
L'Orient Today staff, 17 September 2025
Hezbollah pagers attack: The day 'all hell broke loose' in Lebanese hospitals
On Sept. 17, 2024, 10-year-old Fatima Abdallah was sitting on a sofa in her kitchen in Sireen al-Fawqa (Baalbeck district), working on her English homework. Her father, Jaafar, had just brought her...
Caroline HAYEK, Emmanuel HADDAD, Ghadir Hamadi, Lyana ALAMEDDINE, Scarlet HADDAD, Marguerita Sejaan, Tasnim Chaaban, 17 September 2025
10 Beirut port customs officers detained in corruption probe
BEIRUT — The State Security office at the Beirut Port announced Wednesday that it has launched a judicial investigation against 10 port customs officials who allegedly accepted bribes in exchange...
L'Orient Today staff, 17 September 2025
After the Doha summit: Netanyahu escalates Gaza City offensive, Lebanon fears the worst
As the emergency Arab-Islamic summit in Doha — convened after the Israeli strike on Qatar — was concluding, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered his military to escalate its ground...
L'Orient Today staff, 17 September 2025
Lebanon loses millions of dollars in sanctioned Russian fuel scheme, The National uncovers
BEIRUT — Lebanon has been drained of tens of millions of dollars through Russian fuel imports under Western sanctions, in a suspected scheme that involved falsifying shipping papers to hide the...
Stephanie Bechara, 17 September 2025
German, UK, French ministers to hold nuclear talks with Iran Wednesday
The German, British and French foreign ministers are to hold talks with their Iranian counterpart about Tehran's nuclear program on Wednesday, a French diplomatic source told AFP. The...
17 September 2025
Electoral law: Cabinet tosses hot potato back to Parliament
The ping-pong between parliament and the Cabinet over the electoral law continues. After a parliamentary committee decided to leave the matter for the Cabinet to settle, the Cabinet sent the ball...
Yara ABI AKL, 17 September 2025
Rashid Karami International Fair can be transformative in Tripoli: Hani al-Shaarani
Appointed on Aug. 5, 2025, as chairman of the board and general manager of the Rashid Karami International Fair in Tripoli, Hani al-Shaarani served as director of the Faculty of Business...
Interview by Fouad Gemayel, 17 September 2025
Israel to open new route for Palestinians fleeing besieged Gaza City
Israel's army said Wednesday it had opened a temporary new route to allow people to flee Gaza City, a day after launching a major ground assault, which it claims is aimed at crushing Hamas....
AFP, 17 September 2025
UN investigators say Israel committing genocide in Gaza
United Nations investigators on Tuesday accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza in a bid to "destroy the Palestinians," accusing Israel's prime minister and other top officials...
L'Orient Today staff, 17 September 2025
Israeli drone strike in Baalbek: Two killed | LIVE
21:30 Beirut Time Thank you for following our live coverage — we’ll be back tomorrow morning. 21:30 Beirut Time Recognition of Palestine sends message to Israel...
Tasnim Chaaban, Muntasser Abdallah, Sarah ABDALLAH, Renee Davis, 17 September 2025
Civil servants and retired military block roads in Beirut and the North, protesting living conditions
BEIRUT — Civil servants from the public administration and retired military personnel blocked several roads Wednesday morning in Beirut and North Lebanon to protest the deterioration of their...
L'Orient Today staff, 17 September 2025
After destroying Gaza's tallest tower, Israel expands its invasion into the city
The al-Ghafri tower, Gaza City's tallest building, was reduced to rubble on Monday, Sept. 15, by Israeli strikes. Looped videos broadcast on Monday show two Israeli missiles hitting the ground...
Dany MOUDALLAL, 17 September 2025
Lebanese Army seizes 5 million captagon pills in Zahle
BEIRUT — The Lebanese Army said Tuesday it had confiscated around five million captagon pills during a raid in Zahle, in the Bekaa region, part of ongoing efforts to combat drug trafficking. “In...
