BEIRUT — The caretaker government, headed by Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati, announced Monday that it has suspended a controversial recent salary increase for judges, via a mechanism that...
BEIRUT — The Israeli army intercepted and shot down a drone Monday that was launched from Lebanon across the southern border and is allegedly “linked to Hezbollah,” an Israeli army spokesperson...
BEIRUT — Opposition MPs praised Monday’s long-awaited approval by the parliamentary Finance and Budget Committee of a draft law that would allow the lifting of banking secrecy from some accounts....
BEIRUT — A delegation from the Financial Action Task Force, an intergovernmental anti-money laundering body, began a three-week visit to Beirut on Monday to assess on the ground Lebanon's actions...
BEIRUT — The head of the American Task Force for Lebanon, a non-profit organization of prominent Lebanese-Americans who “work to strengthen the US-Lebanese relationship,” Edward Gabriel on Monday...
BEIRUT — The Higher Judicial Council on Monday defended a salary raise that was given to judges, which was criticized by many other public employees, and described it as a “temporary solution”...
“The hardest part is yet to come.” This is how Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri commented on the then-imminent election of Michel Aoun in October 2016. At the time, unlike the rest of the major...
BEIRUT — Lebanese President Michel Aoun Monday called on judges and members of the Supreme Judicial Council to "speed up decisions in several pending judicial cases" during a meeting in Baabda with...
BEIRUT — Public school teachers criticized the Education Ministry’s reversal of a decision to include school exam grades in the final average of the brevet exams Monday. The ministry had reversed...
BEIRUT — Grand Mufti Abdel-Latif Derian expressed fears Monday that “the obstruction of the formation of the government” could be a “prelude to an obstruction of the presidential election,” which...
While political polarization in the country is on full display, a bill risks plunging Lebanon into a new controversy. Presented July 15 by the Aounist MPs Nicolas Sehnaoui (Beirut I), Edgar...
BEIRUT — Parliament’s Finance and Budget Committee on Monday approved a draft law that would allow the lifting of banking secrecy from some accounts by the judiciary, the National Commission for...
BEIRUT — The municipalities of Saida-Zahrani (South Lebanon) and the district’s judicial assistants went on strike on Monday, joining a strike by civil servants launched five weeks ago against the...
BEIRUT — A Palestinian suspected of organizing illegal crossings of the Mediterranean to Italy and Greece was arrested on Monday by the General Director of State Security in Bir Hassan, in the...
BEIRUT — Seventeen dogs remain loose from among 69 neglected and malnourished canines found dumped near a rescue organization’s dog shelter in a forest near Ras al-Metn on Saturday morning, the...
BEIRUT — Unidentified persons opened fire Monday on the facades of several businesses in Wadi Jammous in the North Lebanon region of Akkar, our correspondent in the area reported, adding that the...
BEIRUT — Retired armed forces members held a sit-in Monday morning outside the headquarters of Banque du Liban in Baalbeck to protest the reassessment of judges’ salaries — a move they described as...
Lebanon is once again a lower middle-income economy . The World Bank said so, it already hinted at the downgrade back in April 2021. The bank is in fact 24 years late, it overlooked 24 years of...
BEIRUT — The Free Patriotic Movement has “welcomed” the conclusions of the Jeddah summit, which on Saturday brought together US President Joe Biden and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, as...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Thousands of mourners attended yesterday’s funeral of eight people killed in a truck crash in Arsal the evening before. The...
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?
