Lebanon records 3 new cholera cases but no deaths
BEIRUT — Lebanon on Friday recorded 3 new cholera cases but no deaths in the previous 24 hours, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 648 and the total number of deaths to 20, the Health...
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Syria reportedly resisting Russia's efforts to broker Turkey summit
BEIRUT — Syria is resisting Russian efforts to broker a summit with Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan, three sources said Friday, after more than a decade of bitter enmity since the outbreak of...
2 December 2022
Judge releases depositor who held up Chehim Crédit Libanais
BEIRUT — Mount Lebanon's first investigating judge Nicolas Mansour released, on bail, Walid Hajjar — the unarmed depositor who held up a Crédit Libanais branch in Chehim, Chouf, on Wednesday — a...
2 December 2022
Top Iranian Sunni cleric says protesters should not face death sentences
DUBAI — A prominent Sunni cleric said Friday that it was wrong to charge protesters with capital offenses as renewed demonstrations shook Iran's restive southeast in the third month of protests...
2 December 2022
Iran oil cargo previously seized by US unloads in Syria
LONDON — An Iranian-flagged tanker — which the United States had previously confiscated near Greece — delivered an oil shipment to Syria on Friday, ending months of uncertainty about the cargo, a...
2 December 2022
Suarez heroics not enough as Uruguay and Ghana both exit World Cup
Uruguay crashed out of the World Cup on Friday despite beating Ghana 2-0 after South Korea scored a late winning goal in the other Group H match to leapfrog to the knockouts. Giorgian De...
2 December 2022
South Korea reaches World Cup knockouts as Uruguay crash out
Substitute Hwang Hee-chan scored the winning goal in injury time to rescue South Korea from the brink of elimination in a thrilling 2-1 World Cup victory over already-qualified Portugal on Friday....
2 December 2022
Israeli police shoot, kill Palestinian in West Bank
Israeli police shot dead a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank on Friday, in an incident described by Israeli police as a "stabbing" and by a Palestinian official as a "quarrel."...
2 December 2022
Syrian authorities release Lebanese citizen imprisoned following migrant boat shipwreck
BEIRUT — Syrian authorities have released a shipwreck survivor who was arrested after a boat carrying migrants departed Lebanon and sank off the coast of Tartus on Sept. 22, killing more than 100...
2 December 2022
Michel Moawad, back to square one
In the eighth parliamentary session, held on Thursday, unsurprisingly failed to elect a new president due to a lack of quorum caused by the withdrawal of the March 8 camp’s MPs. The main candidate...
Salah Hijazi, 2 December 2022
Mikati to convene cabinet on Monday
BEIRUT — Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati announced Friday that cabinet will convene on Monday at 11 a.m. according to an official statement from Prime Minister's Secretariat. "The...
2 December 2022
Canada expands Iran sanctions over 'human rights violations'
WASHINGTON — Canada has issued additional sanctions against Iran over its denial of rights for women and girls and for cracking down on peaceful protests, Minister of Foreign Affairs Mélanie Joly...
2 December 2022
Women join protests in Iran's restive southeast, rights group says
Women in Iran's Sistan-Baluchistan on Friday joined nationwide protests sparked by Mahsa Amini's death, in what a rights group called a "rare" move for women in the staunchly conservative Sunni...
2 December 2022
Syria confirms man killed in October was IS chief
An Islamic State group commander killed in Syria in October was the group's overall leader, a Syrian security source was quoted as saying Friday by state media. The source, quoted by the SANA news...
2 December 2022
US-led forces resume normal patrols in Syria
A US-led coalition fighting jihadists resumed regular patrols in Kurdish-held areas of northeast Syria on Friday after earlier Turkish air strikes, an AFP correspondent and a Kurdish military...
2 December 2022
Payroll tax: Employers finally raise their voices
It took a whole week and mounting pressure from a growing number of labor unions for employers to finally react to some of the tax measures recently passed in the 2022 budget law. These measures,...
Economic Service, 2 December 2022
Riad Salameh's former romantic partner indicted in Paris
"You have to ask Riad Salameh." When questioned by the French national prosecutor's office, Anna Kosakova, the former romantic partner of Banque du Liban governor Riad Salameh, is said to have...
Economics department, 2 December 2022
Kfar Roummane municipality imposes restrictions on 'non-Lebanese'
BEIRUT — Kfar Roummane municipality in South Lebanon announced a series of restrictions Friday, including a curfew, applied to "non-Lebanese" residing in the village, the state-run National News...
2 December 2022
Syria Kurds halt joint ops with US-led coalition after Turkish raids
QAMISHLI — The Syrian Democratic Forces, a US-backed group that helped defeat Islamic State jihadists in Syria, said on Friday it had stopped all joint counter-terrorism operations with the United...
2 December 2022
Vatican 'deeply concerned' about Lebanon's presidential deadlock
BEIRUT — Vatican Secretary of State Pietro Parolin called on Lebanese leaders on Friday to "quickly agree on a president," expressing the Vatican's "deep concern" over the political stalemate, as...
2 December 2022
Fuel prices down except for gas
BEIRUT — The Energy Ministry announced new decreased fuel prices on Friday morning, except for gas. Here are the new prices: • Twenty liters of 95-octane gasoline: LL784,000, down by LL10,000 •...
2 December 2022
Macron and Biden urge Lebanon’s leaders to elect a president and advance reforms
US President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron urged Lebanon to elect a new president, during a meeting between the two leaders on Thursday in Washington. Lebanon's Parliament...
2 December 2022
Lebanon records 23 new cases but no deaths in past 24 hours
BEIRUT — Lebanon on Thursday recorded 23 new cholera cases but no deaths in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of confirmed cases and deaths to 645 and 20, respectively, the Health...
2 December 2022
US sanctions Hezbollah's accountants, weapons facilitator
WASHINGTON — The United States on Thursday sanctioned individuals and companies for allegedly providing financial services to and facilitating weapons procurement for Hezbollah, the US Treasury...
2 December 2022
Another failed presidential vote, telecoms strike, flooded roads to be repaired: Everything you need to know to start your Friday
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Parliament is scheduled to reconvene for a ninth presidential election session next Thursday after yet another blank vote...
2 December 2022
Alleged Islamic State recruiter extradited to Australia
An Islamic State fighter who featured heavily in the jihadist group's recruiting propaganda will be charged with "serious terror offenses" after being extradited to Australia from Turkey, federal...
2 December 2022
Doha Souq abandons tradition to become World Cup party base
DOHA — Thousands of Moroccan fans poured into Doha's oldest market on Thursday to celebrate their country's success in becoming the only Arab nation to reach the World Cup second round....
