Germany cancels arrest warrant for Riad Salameh
The arrest warrant issued against Riad Salameh, former Banque du Liban (BDL) governor, by a German court over a year ago was annulled on June 10 by the 7th Chamber of the Munich Regional Court,...
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HSBC's Swiss branch accused of facilitating money laundering through suspicious transfers involving Lebanon
On Tuesday, the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) accused HSBC's Swiss branch of failing to prevent money laundering involving two unnamed politically exposed persons. As a...
18 June 2024
Hezbollah releases drone footage of Haifa harbor
While Amos Hochstein was conducting meetings in Beirut on Tuesday to address the escalating situation at the Lebanon-Israel border diplomatically, Hezbollah released a nine-minute video through its...
18 June 2024
Rima, a tribute Lebanese restaurant in Barcelona
Soraya Hatem, passionate and attached to the country where she grew up, wanted and tried to stay until the Aug. 4, 2020 explosion. “I grew up and lived my whole life in Beirut,” she said. “I left...
Carla HENOUD, 18 June 2024
Over 6 kilos of hashish seized by ISF
More than 6.4 kg. of hashish were seized at the Rafik Hariri International Airport on Thursday. According to a statement released by the Internal Security Forces (ISF) on Tuesday, the drugs were...
18 June 2024
Iran slaps one-year prison term on Nobel winner Mohammadi: lawyer
An Iranian court has sentenced Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi to a year in prison for "propaganda against the state," the jailed activist's lawyer said on Tuesday....
18 June 2024
Israeli intel warned of Hamas plans before Oct. 7 attack
An Israeli intelligence brief prepared weeks before Hamas's Oct. 7 attack warned military officials of the Palestinian group's preparations for an assault, according to Israeli public broadcaster...
18 June 2024
Students from South and Nabatieh authorized to take exams elsewhere
The general director of technical education in Lebanon, Hanadi Berri, on Tuesday, authorized students from the South and Nabatieh governates to take their official exams in centers different from...
18 June 2024
Jerusalem official takes on French consulate after Israel arms show ban
Jerusalem's deputy mayor, an ultranationalist Israeli politician, has asked for trash not to be collected from the French consulate after Paris barred Israeli firms from an arms show....
18 June 2024
Geagea complains about UNHCR's work in letter to Guterres
BEIRUT — The head of the Lebanese Forces, Samir Geagea, complained on Tuesday to the UN Secretary-General António Guterres about the way the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees...
18 June 2024
Health ministry in Gaza says war death toll at 37,372
The health ministry in Gaza said Tuesday that at least 37,372 people have been killed in the territory during more than eight months of war between Israel and Palestinian militants....
18 June 2024
Major arms sale to Israel moves forward
Two key Democrats in the U.S. Congress agreed to a major arms sale to Israel, including fifty F-15 fighter jets valued at over $18 billion, the Washington Post reported on Monday, citing three...
Romy Abu-Fadel, 18 June 2024
General Claudio Graziano, former UNIFIL commander, found dead at 70
General Claudio Graziano, the former commander of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) from 2007 to 2010, was found dead at the age of 70 on Monday at his residence in Rome,...
18 June 2024
Saudi Arabia: A new global consultancies’ hub
Every Saturday, the last day of the weekend in Saudi Arabia, Ronan Kelly leaves his family in Doha for a five-hour drive to Riyadh, where he recently established a new office for Rathmore, his...
Amélie ZACCOUR, 18 June 2024
US envoy says diplomacy 'urgent' to stop Israel-Lebanon border clashes
U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein Tuesday called for the "urgent" de-escalation in cross-border exchanges of fire between Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah and Israeli forces raging since the start of the...
18 June 2024
Hochstein arrives in Beirut, 'Washington is trying to avoid a greater war between Israel and Hezbollah.'
American special envoy Amos Hochstein arrived Tuesday morning in Beirut as part of a trip aimed at defusing the situation in southern Lebanon, where Hezbollah and Israel have exchanged near-daily...
18 June 2024
Israel 'very close to deciding to change the rules of the game against Hezbollah and Lebanon': Day 256 of the Gaza war
21:03 Beirut Time This concludes our live coverage of the Gaza war for today. Be sure to return tomorrow for all of the latest updates. 20:41 Beirut Time Update on...
Malek Jadah, Muntasser Abdallah, Nicholas Frakes and Marguerita Sejaan, 18 June 2024
Thousands of Israelis turn out for anti-government protest
Thousands of Israelis protested against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government on Monday over the Gaza war and failure to negotiate the release of scores of hostages still held in the...
18 June 2024
Israeli negotiator says tens of Gaza hostages 'alive with certainty'
A senior Israeli negotiator told AFP Monday that tens of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza are certainly alive and that Israel cannot accept halting the war until all captives are released in a deal....
18 June 2024
Biden envoy in Israel as northern border tensions flare
A U.S. envoy held talks with top Israeli leaders to press for de-escalation on the Lebanese border, as an Israeli official said Hezbollah had fired thousands of projectiles toward Israel since the...
18 June 2024
Four killed in southern Lebanon and Hochstein on regional de-escalation tour: Everything you need to know to start your Tuesday
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Tuesday, June 18, 2024Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch today:• U.S. Envoy Amos Hochstein is scheduled to meet...
