BEIRUT — Interim chief investigating judge near the Mount Lebanon Court of Appeal, Nicolas Mansour, on Tuesday issued the indictment in the Faraya crime case, which occurred seven months ago in...
BEIRUT — Health Minister Rakan Nasreddine launched a campaign Friday, in collaboration with the Lebanese Red Cross and the AUB Policy Orientation Center KP2, aimed at strengthening safety standards...
BEIRUT — Hezbollah MP Ali Mokdad said Tuesday that ministers from Amal and Hezbollah have yet to decide whether they will attend Friday’s Cabinet meeting, where the army is set to present its plan...
BEIRUT — With a key Cabinet session on Sept. 5 approaching, political leaders opposing Hezbollah have reaffirmed their rejection of any attempts to weaken the government’s plan to restore the...
The recognition of a Palestinian state by leading Western nations will trigger a sprint towards a two-state solution, the head of the Palestinian mission in London said on Tuesday. Britain,...
In August, French judicial authorities issued seven arrest warrants targeting former senior Syrian regime officials, including ex-president Bashar al-Assad, over the 2012 bombardment of a press...
American artificial intelligence firm OpenAI said Tuesday it would add parental controls to its chatbot ChatGPT, a week after an American couple said the system encouraged their teenaged son to...
A man suspected of stabbing several people on Tuesday afternoon in downtown Marseille, in southeastern France, was shot dead by police, according to a police source. The attacker reportedly...
The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday sanctioned a network of shipping companies and vessels led by an Iraqi-Kittitian businessman for smuggling Iranian oil disguised as Iraqi oil. The...
BEIRUT — U.S. Deputy Special Envoy for the Middle East Morgan Ortagus is expected in Beirut at the end of the week, accompanied by the head of U.S. Central Command (Centcom), for swift security...
BEIRUT — The Litani River Authority (LRA) said on Tuesday that a person "built an illegal dam on one of the main tributaries of the Ghazil river" in the village of Kafr Zabad (Zahleh...
BEIRUT — Interior Minister Ahmad Hajjar announced Tuesday the seizure at the port of Tripoli, North Lebanon, of "the largest quantity of cocaine ever smuggled" into the country from...
BEIRUT — The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) hosted a Hamas delegation on Tuesday at its Beirut headquarters, led by Hamas's representative in Lebanon, Ahmad Abdel Hadi....
BEIRUT — While summer temperatures remain high, despite a slight cooling, a fire broke out Saturday at the al-Bass archaeological site in Sour, South Lebanon, home to millennia-old ruins such as...
BEIRUT — In the fourth incident involving paragliding in the past four months, two people fell from a glider on Monday in the forest of Harissa (Kesrouan district,) suffering various injuries as a...
BEIRUT — Public Works and Transport Minister Fayez Rasamny launched a large-scale operation Tuesday to clean out sewers and infrastructure that remove rainwater, ahead of the first rainfall. The...
An earthquake with a magnitude of 4 was recorded Monday morning in northeastern Iraq, in the province of Halabja in Iraqi Kurdistan. According to the official report from the Seismic Monitoring...
Lebanon’s central bank stressed in a statement on Tuesday that its authority to block financial flows from entities or individuals sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury remains limited by the Code of...
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday urged the United States to "revise" its decision to deny visas to members of the Palestinian Authority to attend the U.N. General Assembly this...
The Internal Security Forces (ISF) announced Tuesday the arrest of four people — three Syrian nationals and one Lebanese — suspected members of a gang specialized in defrauding mobile phone shops...
The crowd grows dense and impatient. Hundreds of fans, ages 20 to 50, clad in Irish football jerseys and waving Palestinian flags, buzz as they wait for one of the last acts at Rock en Seine, the...
With Downton Abbey , millions of viewers stepped into the daily lives of an aristocratic family and their household staff, living the grandeur of the Crawleys through their television screens....
"Ten years ago, my great-aunt Anahid gave me a memoir dedicated to her father's village in the Ottoman Empire. This book detailed the village's history, its flora and fauna, local...
Ingrid Sader is busy in her Beirut apartment. She recently began small-scale sales of a homemade dessert based on a traditional Japanese recipe, which she hopes eventually to export. When she is...
At least 12 people were killed and several others injured when a bus collided with an oil tanker in northeastern Syria on Tuesday, state media reported. The official news agency SANA, which gave...
BEIRUT — A new investigation by the BBC used "deep face recognition" on a 2011 photo taken by an investigative journalist in a secret morgue in Libya's Tripoli. The results,...
The “big brother” isn’t so wise after all. Nabih Berri, the perennial Parliament speaker and a seasoned strategist on Lebanon’s political stage, is once again playing his favorite card. At a...
More than 200,000 Syrian refugees have returned to their homeland from neighboring Lebanon this year following the fall of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad, a United Nations official told AFP. The...
On Sept. 5, the Lebanese Army will submit its plan for Hezbollah’s disarmament by the end of the year to the government for review, in line with the roadmap put forward by U.S. envoy Tom...
Syria exported 600,000 barrels of heavy crude oil from the port of Tartus on Monday as part of a deal with a trading company, a Syrian energy official said. This is the first known official export...
An internal document from the Israeli army concludes that its recent months-long offensive in Gaza has failed, according to a report by Channel 12 News on Sunday, and cited by Haaretz Monday. The...
In a 48-hour span this past weekend, northern Lebanon witnessed three stray-bullet incidents. In Qalamoun, near Tripoli, a young woman died after mishandling a hunting rifle inside her home. In the...
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has found traces of uranium in Syria during its investigation of a building destroyed by Israel in 2007, which the agency had long suspected of being...
Recognizing a Palestinian state "is not symbolic" because it offers "a perspective for the future," Palestinian Authority Deputy Foreign Minister Varsen Aghabekian Shahin said...
Gold soared to a new all-time high of $3,501.59 an ounce, surpassing its previous record in April, during early trading in Asia on Tuesday. Investors are buying the yellow metal, turning away from...
An American friend once gave me a book with a note scribbled in pencil on the back cover: “For when you find yourself in war, you can return with the gold.” That was how I first discovered the...
Amnesty International said Tuesday that it had evidence of Syrian government personnel and affiliated forces executing 46 members of the Druze minority during a week of sectarian violence in July,...
The employees of the Mina-Tripoli municipality (northern Lebanon) announced an open strike on Tuesday to protest the delay in the payment of their salaries, reports our correspondent. They held a...
The prices of gasoline and diesel rose slightly on Tuesday, according to the latest schedule published by the Energy and Water Ministry. Household gas saw another significant drop after last...
Belgium will recognize the State of Palestine at the United Nations General Assembly in September, its foreign minister announced on Tuesday. "Palestine will be recognized by Belgium at the...
BEIRUT — Mohieddine Hassaneh, who had been sentenced by a military court to 15 years in prison for “spying on behalf of Israel,” was released by the Military Court of Cassation, headed by Judge...
19:47 Beirut Time Six months on, ‘lifesaving aid’ still blocked from Gaza, says UNRWA The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said on X that "lifesaving aid" —...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2025Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz.Some key things to watch today:11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Meetings with Finance Minister Yassin...
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
