BEIRUT — Caretaker Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi issued a letter Friday evening to General Security and Internal Security Forces (ISF) ordering them to ban an LGBTQ+ event scheduled for Saturday...
The White House argued Friday that a recent US government court filing saying Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has immunity from legal action over the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal...
UN rights chief Volker Turk on Friday condemned the "heinous killing" of two young Egyptian sisters whose bodies were dumped in sewage at the notorious al-Hol detention camp in Syria....
Iran's "weapons proliferation" is a threat to Europe, President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen warned Friday, hinting at further sanctions against the Islamic Republic. ...
BEIRUT — Priest Wissam Maalouf, founder of the "Mission de vie" institute, was reduced to a layman and excluded from the organization following a decision by the Pontifical Congregation for...
It would have been the ideal hideout — an area where no one, starting with the Syrian regime, would come looking for trouble and where he could put his “talents” to good use. Bruno Carbone, an...
BEIRUT — Lebanon’s leaders must translate “commitment” to child protection into action despite the country’s economic and political woes, the UN special representative for violence against children...
BEIRUT — “Imagine how a player like me would have felt playing alongside Pelé,” 70-year-old Jamal Khatib says, reminiscing about one of the highlights of his career. Khatib, a Palestinian former...
BEIRUT — Caretaker Health Minister Firass Abiad announced Friday that half of those vaccinated against cholera thus far are Lebanese, followed by Syrian and Palestinian nationals as the country...
Israeli football fans will be able to fly directly to Doha for World Cup matches after Qatar approved the flights despite severed diplomatic ties, the Cypriot carrier operating the route told AFP...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit Qatar next week for diplomatic talks including on human rights issues and to attend the US team's opening World Cup match, the State Department...
Video clips showing a fire at the ancestral home in Iran of the Islamic Republic's late founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, have appeared on social media, with activists saying it was torched...
On Friday, Israel welcomed Azerbaijan's decision to open an embassy in Tel Aviv, three decades after the two established diplomatic relations. "The Azerbaijani parliament...
Iran has accused foreign foes of trying to spark "civil war" by stoking the protests over Mahsa Amini's death — harsh language that, analysts warn, could presage an even bloodier crackdown. ...
BEIRUT — A slight tremor was felt on Friday by the inhabitants of Saida in southern Lebanon around 1:45 p.m., the National News Agency reported. Several homes suffered glass breakage, and the...
Protesters in Iran on Friday chanted anti-regime slogans at the funeral of a young boy whose family says was killed by the security forces, a rights group and monitors said....
BEIRUT — Lebanon is in a "difficult and critical" situation, with political interference causing "judicial chaos," Higher Judicial Council president Souhel Abboud said in a speech Friday. In...
The Association of Lebanese Industrialists strongly criticized the customs administration Thursday for having begun to collect, as a precautionary measure, the customs duty of three percent that...
BEIRUT — Armed robbers stormed a jewelry store on Friday in Dahr al-Ain, near Koura in northern Lebanon, witnesses and security sources told L'Orient Today. Masked men reportedly stormed the...
GAZA — Mourners flooded the streets of Gaza on Friday as they carried the shrouded bodies of 21 people, including at least eight children, killed in a fire in an apartment block where residents had...
UN climate talks that were supposed to end Friday were extended by another day as negotiators seek to break a deadlock over creating a fund for nations hard hit by the impacts of global warming....
DUBAI— Britain's maritime agency said a drone circled a ship in the Gulf of Oman on Friday, three days after an Iranian-made drone attacked a tanker in the region. The Maritime Trade Operations...
Who voted for Sleiman Frangieh? On Thursday evening, several hours after the sixth session to elect a president was adjourned, no one was able to answer this question. What seems certain is that...
DOHA — In a reversal, World Cup organizers will announce on Friday that no alcoholic beer will be sold to fans at Qatar's stadiums, a source with knowledge of the decision told Reuters. The...
PARIS — Senior Lebanese politician Gebran Bassil said Thursday that he will not accept Lebanon having "a bad president," in which case he'd be ready to run for the position. "I am the head...
Protesters in Iran have set on fire the ancestral home of the Islamic republic's founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini two months into the anti-regime protest movement, images showed on Friday....
ISTANBUL — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin the meeting this week between American and Russian intelligence services was important to prevent...
BEIRUT — The Energy Ministry on Friday announced new fuel prices. Here are the new prices: • Twenty liters of 95-octane gasoline: LL814,000, up by LL3,000 • Twenty liters of...
BEIRUT — Lebanon's Internal Security Forces arrested three people, of Syrian nationality, suspected of stealing $1 million in cash from a private home in October, police announced in a press...
ISTANBUL — A Turkish court ordered the pre-trial detention of 17 people suspected of being involved in an explosion this week in central Istanbul that killed six people, the state-owned Anadolu...
The US military said a rocket attack late Thursday targeted international coalition forces in northeast Syria, without causing any casualties. The US-led...
Saudi Arabia has executed twice as many people in 2022 as it did last year, according to an AFP tally, highlighting a rise in capital punishment that is condemned by rights groups....
SULAIMANIYA—Fifteen people were killed in a gas cylinder explosion in a residential area in the northern Iraqi city of Sulaimaniya, the civil defense said on Friday. A rescue operation lasting 17...
Employee departures were multiplying at Twitter on Thursday after an ultimatum from new owner Elon Musk, who demanded staff choose between being "extremely hardcore" and working intense, long...
The UN nuclear watchdog is aware of all of Iran’s activities, the head of country's atomic energy organization said on Friday, a day after the atomic agency's Board of Governors demanded an...
For the fourth time in Lebanon's history, the country is facing a presidential vacancy. Since the end of Michel Aoun's mandate on Oct. 31, Lebanese MPs have held six parliamentary sessions to elect...
DOHA — The World Cup could hand Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani his crowning achievement on the global stage or a fiasco to be relished by Arab adversaries who resent Qatar for backing...
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration ruled on Thursday that Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has immunity from a lawsuit over the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, drawing immediate...
GAZA — At least 21 people were killed and several others injured when a fire broke out in a building where residents attended a party in the Gaza Strip, health and civil emergency officials said on...
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