Their fashion was a dream too loud, too sexy, too American for Milan... and yet they eventually won them over. In 1995, Dean and Dan Caten, Canadian twins born in Toronto, launched a brand in their...
BEIRUT — Fires broke out Thursday in more than one village in Akkar, in northern Lebanon, according to reports from L'Orient Today's correspondent in the region. A heatwave, which brought...
BEIRUT — Lebanon's national airline, Middle East Airlines (MEA), announced on Thursday another round of scheduling adjustments due to airspace closures in the region, adding additional...
BEIRUT — Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri told MTV Lebanon television channel on Thursday that he is "200 percent sure Lebanon will not enter the war," following comments from the...
BEIRUT — The United Nations is ramping up efforts to ensure the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) is renewed, according to statements made by the United Nations...
DAMASCUS — Syria has carried out its first international bank transaction via the SWIFT system since the outbreak of its 14-year Civil War, its central bank governor said on Thursday, a milestone...
BRUSSELS — Nine European Union countries have called on the European Commission to come up with proposals on how to discontinue EU trade with Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian...
DUBAI/CALGARY — U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi have spoken by phone several times since Israel began its strikes on Iran last week, in a bid to find a...
In a Lebanon shaken for years by economic, social, political and educational crises, some institutions have chosen to respond with action and solidarity. Because of this, Notre Dame University...
The Iranians were using the threat in case the "snapback" a mechanism, which was supposed to reinstate all U.N. sanctions against Iran prior to the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action...
Reigning supreme in the air, paralyzing Iran's ability to retaliate, and inflicting heavy damage on its soil, the Israeli army no longer needs to prove its military and technological...
Two years ago, the floor was the archive.I remember stepping into this same room when it was still in the thick of renovation dust in the air, cracked tiles underfoot and piles of brittle documents...
SOUTH LEBANON — In just over 12 hours, the Israeli army has killed three people in South Lebanon, with two separate strikes, according to reports from our correspondent in the region and the Health...
BEIRUT — Lebanon’s public sector employees sounded the alarm over growing wage disparities, after newly approved salaries granted what they called "exorbitant" monthly compensation to...
BEIRUT — Over two million refugees and internally displaced persons have returned home in Syria since the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime in early December, Filippo Grandi, the United Nations...
BEIRUT — “The purpose was to show that Palestine was indeed inhabited in 1914,” says composer Cynthia Zaven, “that there were Muslims and Christians and Jews there, that it’s not a sin to coexist....
Ukraine and Russia exchanged prisoners of war on Thursday, officials from both countries said, the latest round of swaps under an agreement struck in Istanbul. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy posted...
No need to have lived through the Lebanese Civil War to recognize its reflection in the photographs of Edmond al-Khoury, displayed in the library of the Nicolas Sursock Museum. In black and white,...
US Vice President JD Vance has joined X rival Bluesky and called upon his more than four million followers to join him on the alternative social media platform. Vance signed up for Bluesky on...
Foreigners wishing to study in the United States will have their social media accounts scrutinized for anti-American content, according to new guidelines from the State Department announced on...
On June 12, Israeli airstrikes hit nuclear sites inside Iran — and suddenly, Iran and Israel were trading direct fire, not just threats or proxy attacks. The region held its breath. In Lebanon,...
Six days into the Israel-Iran war, global economic shock remained contained, for now.U.S. involvement could quickly upend markets, as tensions rise over the Strait of Hormuz. Six days after the...
For the first time since Syria’s war began in 2011, the new government offered a legal return path for refugeesThe new Syrian authorities, who overthrew Bashar al-Assad’s dictatorship in December...
Like thousands of other Palestinians in Gaza, Hind al-Nawajha takes a dangerous, miles-long journey every day to try to get some food for her family, hoping she makes it back alive. Accompanied by...
Megiddo — a quiet hill in the north of biblical Palestine. Quiet, that is, until its strategic value came to light. Overlooking the Jezreel Valley, it soon became the site of battles throughout...
BEIRUT — The president of the municipality of Kour, Roger Yazbek, a card-carrying member of the Lebanese Forces, was elected president of the Federation of Municipalities of the Batroun district,...
Greenpeace on Thursday warned that an oil spill resulting from a tanker collision off the coast of the United Arab Emirates could have grave environmental consequences, after authorities reported a...
Israel and Iran exchanged fire again on Thursday, the seventh day of the war between the longtime enemies. Here are the latest developments: Hospital strike A hospital in southern Israel...
Dragging two suitcases and wearing a rucksack, Homa looked exhausted after crossing the Turkish border following a long trip from Tehran where she'd been on holiday when the Israel-Iran war...
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Thursday strongly condemned Israeli attacks on Iran in a phone call and stressed the need for a diplomatic solution,...
When listing the difficulties faced by Lebanese universities, Dr. Shawki Abdallah, the new president of the Lebanese American University (LAU), admits that "the cost of education is...
BEIRUT —The Lebanese national airline, Middle East Airlines (MEA), announced Thursday several new adjustments to its schedules due to airspace closures in the region, further adding additional...
NORTH LEBANON —Fires broke out Thursday in more than one locality in Akkar, in the far north of Lebanon, reports our correspondent. Weather conditions are conducive to the outbreak and spread of...
The Israeli narrative regarding the imminent threat of an Iranian nuclear weapon has made its way to Washington and several European capitals in recent days. Asked on Tuesday, June 17, about...
BEIRUT — 67 people have been killed and 221 others wounded and hospitalized across the Strip in the past 24 hours, the Gaza Health Ministry reported on Thursday. Two bodies were also recovered...
More than 273,000 Syrians who fled their country's civil war to neighbouring Turkey have returned home since the fall of president Bashar al-Assad in December, Turkey's vice-president said...
Syria has carried out its first international bank transaction via the SWIFT system since the outbreak of its 14-year civil war, its central bank governor said on Thursday, a milestone in...
In the end, Gebran Bassil couldn’t “plant the flag” of the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) in Jezzine in 2025. A few weeks after celebrating what he had hailed as a “victory” in the municipal...
Foreign ministers from key European powers France, Germany and Britain and the EU's top diplomat are aiming to meet their Iranian counterpart for nuclear talks in Geneva on Friday, European...
The Herzliya Marina (North of Tel Aviv) has taken on the "atmosphere of a makeshift terminal," according to an article published in Haaretz on June 17. Starting at seven a.m., at least a...
Iran on Thursday accused the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog of acting as a "partner" in what it described as Israel's "war of aggression". The International Atomic Energy...
BEIRUT — Hezbollah denounced in a statement the "stupid and reckless" death threats from Israel and the United States targeting Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, warning that they...
Will he intervene or not? The signals remain contradictory. While U.S. President Donald Trump had recently suggested he would not take part in the Israeli offensive against Iran, the rhetoric...
Ukraine said on Thursday that Russia has for more than three months been refusing a U.S. and Ukrainian proposal to halt some three years of fighting without any preconditions. The inauguration of...
BEIRUT — U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix began a visit to Beirut on Wednesday, just weeks before the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) mandate renewal...
Pierre Cochard has been appointed as the French ambassador to Iran, a nomination published in the Official Journal on Thursday, nearly a week after Israel launched strikes against the Islamic...
Iran's deputy foreign minister warned the United States on Thursday against intervening in the war to back up its ally Israel, adding that his country was ready to defend itself in case of...
A hospital in southern Israel and two towns near Tel Aviv were struck after a barrage of Iranian missiles on Thursday morning, with rescuers reporting at least 47 people injured in the latest...
NORTH LEBANON — A serving mukhtar from Telhamira, in Akkar, North Lebanon, was arrested Thursday by State Security, for alleged acts of arms smuggling, tobacco smuggling, and human trafficking,...
The Gaza Civil Defense stated that Israeli forces killed at least 18 people on Thursday, including 15 who had gathered near an aid distribution site in central Gaza Strip. Mohammed al-Mughayyir,...
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
