“Hanaa is dead.” It is with these words that the uncle of Hanaa Khodr, a young woman allegedly burned alive by her husband on Aug. 10, shared the news with L’Orient-Le Jour , before hanging up,...
BEIRUT — Parliament’s Finance and Budget Committee MP Ibrahim Kanaan (FPM/Metn) on Thursday said regarding the 2022 budget that his committee gave “the government and the finance minister [Youssef...
BEIRUT — The Cry of Depositors Association held a press conference Thursday, where depositor Bassam al-Sheikh Hussein, who t ook Federal Bank employees hostage in Hamra to get his blocked money ,...
MAYVILLE, NY — The man accused of stabbing novelist Salman Rushdie last week in western New York pleaded not guilty to second-degree attempted murder and assault charges on Thursday and was...
BEIRUT — It’s a weekday, but 50-year-old Lebanese finance ministry employee Walid Chaar is not at work and hasn’t been since June. He rushes to water the garden at his home in the hills south of...
BEIRUT — A fire was reported Thursday in a Syrian refugee camp located in the Lebanese village of Arsal, in the Bekaa, burning down 14 tents, L’Orient-Le Jou r's correspondent in the North...
BEIRUT — Caretaker Minister of Social Affairs Hector Hajjar published a statement Thursday reiterating that the ministerial committee in charge of a plan to repatriate 15,000 Syrians per month...
Faced with the civil servants’ protest that their salaries are still calculated at the official rate of LL1,507.5 to the dollar, the ruling class seems determined to use all means to increase...
Not yet...but almost there. Despite some reservations, Iran seems ready to revive the 2015 deal monitoring its nuclear activity. Shortly before the deadline given by Brussels for Iran to respond,...
A short tomboy-style haircut, a determined look, and a smile on her lips, she appears lying on the grass, surrounded by men all taller than her. In another photo, she leans against a propeller...
BEIRUT — The Régie Libanaise de Tabacs et Tombacs, Lebanon’s tobacco authority, said in a statement Thursday that it had carried out a number of raids in southern Lebanon, seizing smuggled tobacco...
BEIRUT — Caretaker Health Minister Firas Abiad said in a radio interview Thursday that recent medical aid that has reached Lebanon was donated by overseas American or Lebanon-focused NGOs, noting...
Since he reached out to Hezbollah in recent days, Walid Joumblatt has been the talk of the town. Observers are trying to decipher the reasons for yet another repositioning of the Progressive...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Forces of Change MP Melhem Khalaf confirmed to L’Orient Today the government’s decision to demolish the northern block of 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
