WASHINGTON — The United States imposed sanctions on Thursday on firms it said had transported or sold Iranian petroleum or petrochemical products in violation of US restrictions, including two...
BEIRUT — Clashes and gunfire resumed on Thursday evening in Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in Saida, in southern Lebanon, injuring two people, L'Orient Today 's correspondent in the area...
BEIRUT — Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri and presidential candidate MP Michel Moawad on Thursday engaged in a tense exchange of accusations after Berri called the elected official an "in-vitro...
BEIRUT — Students of the Holy Family Sisters school staged a sit-in on Thursday in Deir al-Ahmar, in the northwestern Bekaa Valley, to express their anger over the discharge of wastewater from a...
CAIRO — A hidden corridor nine meters (30 feet) long has been discovered close to the main entrance of the 4,500-year-old Great Pyramid of Giza, and this could lead to further findings, Egyptian...
“Pogrom.” This is the term that has been employed by Palestinians, Israeli human rights organizations and members of the press to describe the horrific scenes that have been unfolding since...
Wielding long sticks and with their faces wrapped in Palestinian chequerred keffiyeh scarves, young men set out on a night patrol to guard their village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank....
BEIRUT — The Lebanese Economy Ministry on Thursday announced a slight decrease in the price of the various Arabic-style bread bundles which, when calculated per gram, translates into a slight...
The United Nations warned Thursday of grave risks to 3.7 million children in parts of war-wracked Syria affected by last month's earthquake, as the UN children's agency chief visited the country....
Three Lebanese Forces MPs on Thursday asked the judiciary to open an investigation into the activities of Al-Qard Al-Hasan, a Hezbollah-run micro-lending company sanctioned by the United States,...
BEIRUT — The employees' union of Lebanon's telephone operators, Alfa and Touch, on Thursday called on the management of both companies to take an immediate decision to give employees their salaries...
Iranian authorities arrested four people Thursday in connection with an assault on a woman outside a girls' school targeted in a wave of poisoning attacks, a news agency said....
It’s 9 p.m. on Wednesday. In a shopping mall in Dbayeh, the salesmen pace up and down the clothing stores while the last customers browse for a good deal or last-minute impulse buy. On informal...
BEIRUT — The Energy Ministry on Thursday evening announced an increase in all fuel prices, except fuel oil, in their second tariff publication of the day. In the morning, prices recorded an...
BEIRUT — State supplier Electricité du Liban (EDL) has launched the first stage of its "national emergency plan to eliminate encroachments on its network of electrical cables, in coordination with...
JERUSALEM — The Israeli government on Thursday criticized Brazil's decision to grant berth to two Iranian warships in the face of US pressure, and urged President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's...
BEIRUT — The support and assistance provided to Syria from Lebanon after the deadly earthquake of Feb. 6 “had a great impact in alleviating the consequences of this disaster,” Syrian Prime Minister...
BEIRUT — The village of Sharqieh in Nabatieh governorate was without state electricity Thursday after unidentified people stole more than 200 meters of electrical cables, the state-run National...
“It is shameful and unfair,” said Siham, a customer of a large supermarket chain in Ashrafieh’s Sassine Square inBeirut. “The people can’t do anything about it and they are the ones suffering. All...
Eight truffle hunters were killed and more than 30 injured in eastern Syria when the vehicle they were traveling in hit a landmine, a war monitor said Thursday. "Eight...
Rescuers pulled a dog alive from a collapsed building in southern Turkey three weeks after last month's 7.8-magnitude deadly earthquake, local media reported on Thursday. ...
BEIRUT — A UN-founded international support group for Lebanon said Thursday it is “gravely concerned about the ramifications of a prolonged presidential vacuum” in the country, according to a...
Netflix's (NFLX.O) video streaming services were down for thousands of users on Thursday, according to outage-tracking website Downdetector.com. There were around 1,800 reports on Downdetector,...
BEIRUT — The Energy Ministry on Thursday announced a decrease in fuel prices. Here are the new prices: • Twenty liters of 95-octane gasoline: LL1,437,000, down by LL180,000 • Twenty...
BEIRUT — One person died and seven were injured after an armed clash broke out Wednesday night in the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in Saida, in southern Lebanon, L'Orient Today 's...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Banque du Liban’s Sayrafa exchange rate is set to increase to LL70,000 on the dollar today, BDL Governor Riad Salameh announced...
WASHINGTON — Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich's call for a Palestinian village to be "erased" amounted to incitement to violence and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must publicly disavow...
Saudi and British defense ministers have agreed to study future cooperation on combat air capabilities and potential industrial projects, the Saudi state news agency reported. Saudi Defense...
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
