A one-day-old baby girl, found Monday in the Chiyah neighborhood in the southern suburbs of Beirut, was taken in by the association Bonheur du ciel, announced its head Father Majdi Allawi on social...
BEIRUT — "Peace, peace, peace. That’s all well and good, but when he leaves, we’re still facing Israel," an elderly man tells a friend standing beside him. The two laugh bitterly. They...
The Israeli army’s Arabic spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, said in a tweet Tuesday that Israel is revealing “how Hezbollah’s Unit 121 assassinated figures who threatened to expose its role in the...
In a comic, satirical and deliberately absurd register — sometimes bordering on sheer confusion — Lina Khoury’s play Abou al-Zeus, running through Dec. 13 at the Gulbenkian Theater at the Lebanese...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated Tuesday that he expects Syrian authorities to "establish a demilitarized buffer zone stretching from Damascus to the separation zone"...
"I am so lucky to be here. I am fully enjoying the happiness of attending the papal mass, in a Lebanon finally at peace," says Luigina, an Ethiopian domestic worker, beaming. "We are...
Israeli police said Tuesday that they had received the presumed remains of one of the last two deceased hostages in the Gaza Strip and were transporting them to the morgue for identification. In a...
Earlier today, an Israeli airstrike killed Mahmoud Wadi, identified as a Palestinian freelance photojournalist by local health authorities at Nasser Hospital, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza...
More than half the members of Iran's parliament have accused the judiciary of failing to properly enforce the law on mandatory headscarves, state media reported Tuesday, with some Iranian women...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz met Tuesday with Morgan Ortagus, U.S. President Donald Trump's special envoy to Lebanon, according to several Israeli...
Prepare the marinade the day before: Peel and chop the garlic cloves; place the chicken supremes in a dish and cover with lemon juice, olive oil, zaatar, lemon zest, and garlic; season with salt...
For the dish Peel the eggplants and potatoes, then cut them into thick slices. Peel the onions and cut them into thick slices. Cut the tomatoes and cheese into thick slices. Preheat the oven...
In a mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, salt and yeast. Add the water and stir with a wooden spoon until you get a sticky dough. Cover with plastic wrap and let rise for 18 to 21 hours at...
For about one and a quarter liters of ice cream Pour the milk into a saucepan. Add the sugar and heat over low heat. Gradually add the salep, whisking the mixture continuously, and bring to a...
Mix all the stuffing ingredients together. Set aside. Line the bottom of a deep pot with the potato slices. Fill the hollowed vegetables with the stuffing. After stuffing the vegetables, arrange...
For a 20 cm tart pan. Prepare a slightly larger dish filled with water and some ice cubes to stop the cooking when the caramel is ready. Preheat the oven to 160 degrees. Make the caramel with...
BEIRUT — Contrasting with the crowds and cheers that accompanied him on much of his three-day visit in Lebanon, Pope Leo XIV stood silently, head bowed, in a private moment of reflection on Tuesday...
For preparing the dough In a large bowl, pour the flour and incorporate the butter, mixing with your fingertips. The mixture should be sandy, like for a crumble. Make a well and add the egg,...
Spread the ossmaliyeh pastry to a thickness of 1.5 cm and bake at 170 degrees for 6 minutes until nicely golden. For the mozzarella ball/mascarpone mixture (instead of achta): drain the...
Cut the cauliflower into two portions: one of 400 g and one of 100 g. Grate the 400 g of raw cauliflower to achieve a fine, light texture. Cook the 100 g of cauliflower by steaming or boiling...
For the brine and marinating the turkey: In a large pot, pour 5 to 6 liters of water and add the onions, carrots, cinnamon sticks, salt, rosemary, thyme, black pepper, and white pepper. Bring...
The hazelnuts Preheat the oven to 180 °C. Place the hazelnuts on a baking sheet and bake for 15 minutes, keeping an eye on them. Allow the skins to crack and the hazelnuts to toast. Remove...
Chestnut mixture Pour the heavy cream into a stand mixer and whip at medium speed. When the cream develops a shaving cream texture, add the granulated sugar and increase the mixer speed. Once...
For the yogurt sauce: Whisk together the yogurt, egg, cornstarch, and water. Add salt. Pour into a saucepan and cook over low heat, always stirring in the same direction. Turn off the heat at...
Place sliced lemons on a sheet of parchment paper. Lay the grouper on top and cover it with bay leaves and coriander sprigs. Drizzle with some olive oil and sprinkle with salt. Wrap everything...
Palestinian militant group Hamas said it was handing over the remains of one of the two last hostage bodies still in Gaza on Tuesday, and Israel said it was preparing to receive...
An Iranian court has demanded that the United States pay an amount of $22 billion for purportedly providing support for mass protests in 2022, a judiciary spokesman said Tuesday. Nationwide...
The EU's former foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini was taken into custody Tuesday as police staged raids probing a suspected fraud scheme involving the training of European diplomats....
Israel said on Tuesday it was preparing to receive from the Red Cross unspecified "elements" found in the Gaza Strip, where militants are still holding the bodies of two deceased...
Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez was released from prison in the United States on Monday, where he was serving a 45-year prison sentence for drug trafficking and firearms charges, a...
Phone pressed to his ear, Eid Hathaleen paces back and forth across the playground of Umm al-Khair’s small community center. The day before, the Israeli civil administration had come to post...
BEIRUT — Israeli aircraft were active on Tuesday over regions regularly hit by strikes since the last conflict between Hezbollah and Israel, conducting flights over southern Lebanon, the southern...
BEIRUT — On the third and final day of his visit to Lebanon, Pope Leo XIV had an emotionally charged stop on Tuesday morning at the Deir-al Salib psychiatric hospital (hospital of the Cross ) ,...
Calls for peace are echoing across Lebanon during Pope Leo XIV’s visit. All the more so as the trip reflects support for Lebanon’s stability — a goal pursued by Lebanese officials.This is...
Governments and aid groups in Indonesia and Sri Lanka worked Tuesday to rush aid to hundreds of thousands stranded by deadly flooding that has killed over 1,200 people in four countries....
The Israeli military said Tuesday it had killed two assailants it said attacked soldiers in separate incidents in the occupied West Bank, with the Palestinian Authority identifying the deceased as...
During the past weekend, a rumor spread in Lebanon on social media and in the press that Wafic Safa, a Hezbollah security official, was hiding in a building in Sin al-Fil in the Metn. The area is...
Never in her 80 years, not even in her dreams, had Violette imagined that she could one day lose her faith. Born to deeply religious Christian parents and educated by Franciscan sisters in Beirut,...
SOUTH LEBANON/BEKAA — While all eyes were on the third and final day of Pope Leo XIV's visit to Lebanon today, southern Lebanon did not experience an entirely peaceful night yesterday. An...
Outside, as the sun cleared the sky on Monday after a rainy morning, Lebanese families gathered at Martyrs' Square in Beirut, hoping to see the papal convoy arrive. Along the sidewalks,...
Raghad al-Fara is struggling to rebuild her teenage life in Athens, not least because she now moves around with crutches because of injuries suffered in the Gaza war. Evacuated from the besieged...
21:10 Beirut Time Wrapping up our live coverage of the pope's visit to Lebanon As we bring this blog to a close, we thank you for following our live coverage of the third and final day...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025.Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch for today:Third (and final) day of Pope Leo XIV's visit...
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