BEIRUT — The caretaker cabinet on Tuesday raised the minimum wage for private sector workers in Lebanon to LL9 million from LL2.6 million, as the country continues to suffer from an unprecedented...
The Beirut Bar Association Council’s decision to summon Legal Agenda Executive Director Nizar Saghieh for a hearing on April 20 has caused a real outcry. This hearing comes after the bar...
The US State Department announced on Tuesday that it is offering a reward of up to $7 million for information on Ibrahim Aqil, a Hezbollah leader. The announcement comes on the 40th anniversary of...
BEIRUT — Marada leader Sleiman Frangieh on Tuesday said that if he was elected president, he would ask for "national dialogue" to discuss a defense strategy, in response to Hezbollah's opponent...
In January, Lebanon rolled out a new income tax system, under which US dollar salaries are taxed at the LL15,000-to-dollar exchange rate, far below their value on the parallel market rate. This...
Before Tuesday’s ceasefire, Sudan was experiencing a worst-case scenario. After a brief overnight truce following the armed clashes that killed nearly 100 people since April 15, according to the...
On the occasion of World Heritage Day, celebrated on April 18, Lebanese caretaker Minister of Culture Mohammad Mortada announced on Tuesday that the entrance to some archaeological sites and...
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad received Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan in Damascus on Tuesday, Syrian state media reported, in the most significant step yet towards ending...
Israeli forces shot and wounded seven people in a raid Tuesday in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said as the Israeli army confirmed an operation was underway....
DAMASCUS — Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday met with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan, Syrian state media reported, in the most significant step yet towards ending...
BEIRUT — Hundreds of army retirees, civil servants, “old rent” property owners and public school teachers protested in downtown Beirut Tuesday ahead of a planned cabinet meeting expected to discuss...
KHARTOUM — Sudan's rival commanders agreed to a 24-hour ceasefire to start Tuesday evening, the army said, following calls to each side from US Secretary of State Antony Blinken over fierce...
The UK government on Tuesday said it had imposed a full asset freeze on a Lebanese businessman suspected of financing Hezbollah. The Treasury action against Nazem Said...
Iraqi police arrested overnight almost 200 people in raids on illegal casinos where alcohol was served in defiance of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, the interior ministry said Tuesday....
Explosions rocked the Sudanese capital Khartoum on Tuesday as fighting that has claimed nearly 200 lives entered a fourth day, despite growing international calls for an end to hostilities....
Tunisian authorities closed the offices of Islamist-inspired opposition party Ennahdha on Tuesday, a day after arresting its leader Rached Ghannouchi, a senior party official said. "A police unit...
DOHA/DUBAI — Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are restoring diplomatic ties and reopening embassies, officials said on Tuesday, more than two years after Arab states ended a boycott of...
GENEVA — The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said on Tuesday it was nearly impossible to provide humanitarian services around the Sudanese capital Khartoum and...
TUNIS — Tunisian police arrested three prominent officials of the main opposition Ennahda party on Tuesday, hours after they detained party leader Rached Ghannouchi, the most prominent critic of...
BEIRUT — Parliament held a session Tuesday morning where MPs voted to extend the mandates of the country's municipal councils and those of the mukhtars for a maximum of one year. The...
Saudi Arabia's top diplomat is due to arrive in Damascus Tuesday on the first visit by a Saudi official since the start of Syria's civil war, Syria's information ministry said. Recent months have...
BEIRUT — Unidentified gunmen opened fire Monday night on the home of Sheikh Hatem Othman, the mayor of Bzal in Akkar governorate, L'Orient Today's correspondent in the region reported....
BEIRUT — Fuel oil prices slightly increased in Lebanon on Tuesday morning, according to the latest tariffs announced by the Energy Ministry. Here are the new prices: • Twenty liters of...
BEIRUT — Two people were killed in Tripoli's Ghuraba neighborhood Monday night after a hand grenade placed inside the seat of their motorcycle exploded, a security source told L’Orient Today ’s...
China's foreign minister told his Israeli and Palestinian counterparts his country is ready to help facilitate peace talks, state media Xinhua reported Tuesday. The...
Rached Ghannouchi, one of the main opponents of Tunisian President Kais Saied, has been arrested, his Ennahdha party said Monday, the latest in a string of opposition figures held....
The European Union ambassador to Sudan was attacked in his home in Khartoum on Monday, the bloc's top diplomat Josep Borrell said, as fighting between rival generals gripped the nation....
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with two generals leading warring forces in Sudan and "underscored the urgency of reaching a ceasefire," a State Department spokesman said Tuesday....
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Parliament and cabinet are both scheduled to convene today to discuss the municipal elections, planned to start on May 7...
A suspected Palestinian gunman wounded two men near a Jewish site in annexed east Jerusalem on Tuesday, Israeli authorities said, with security forces conducting a manhunt for the perpetrator. The...
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
