BEIRUT — The first day of Eid al-Fitr will fall on Friday, Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdel-Latif Derian, head Sunni religious cleric, announced on Thursday. Meanwhile, Vice President of the Supreme Shiite...
BEIRUT– The public pool in front of the Samir Kassir Memorial in Downtown Beirut was drained just one day after footage of children swimming in it went viral on social media. A video circulating...
BEIRUT — A woman jumped off the Bourj Hammoud bridge in the city's eastern suburb Thursday. She survived the incident, a senior source in the Internal Security Forces confirmed to L'Orient-Le Jour...
BEIRUT — The Mount Lebanon Indictment Chamber on Thursday ordered the continued detention of Hoda Salloum, Director General of the Road Traffic Department. Salloum's arrest was a result of an...
Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) leader Walid Joumblatt said the re-establishment of ties between Saudi Arabia and Iran, and between Riyadh and Damascus, will have no impact on the Lebanese...
"France does not have a candidate in Lebanon," said a French Foreign Ministry spokesperson on Thursday, addressing Lebanese media's recent mention of Paris's possible support for the presidential...
BAALBECK — Rima Husseini floats in chic platform boots through dozens of quiet rooms in the Palmyra Hotel, which she co-owns with her husband, just across from Baalbeck’s ancient Roman ruins....
DUBAI — Iran's navy forced a US submarine to surface as it entered the Gulf, Iranian navy commander Shahram Irani told state television on Thursday. "The US submarine was...
BEIRUT — Four detainees escaped Wednesday night from a police station in Sour, South Lebanon, a senior source in the Internal Security Forces (ISF) told L'Orient-Le Jour . According to a...
BEIRUT — During its meeting on Thursday, the Beirut Bar Association (BBA) council took no decision on the removal of lawyer and activist Nizar Saghieh, who was summoned on March 3 over a ban on...
KHARTOUM — Residents of Sudan's capital reported renewed heavy gunfire on Thursday over central Khartoum and some other areas as many tried to flee the city on the eve of the Eid holiday marking...
TUNIS — A Tunisian investigative judge ordered on Thursday the imprisonment of Rached Ghannouchi, the leader of the main opposition party Ennahda and a prominent critic of President Kais Saied,...
Yemeni rebels and government forces on Sunday finished an exchange of nearly 900 prisoners after a Saudi delegation returned from Houthi rebel-held Sanaa last Thursday with promises for an...
KHARTOUM/CAIRO — A new attempt at a ceasefire in fierce fighting between Sudanese troops and paramilitary forces in Khartoum failed on Wednesday, leaving people fearful about dwindling food...
At least 85 people were killed and hundreds injured in a stampede that occurred at a Ramadan cash handout in Yemen early on Thursday. Three people were detained over the stampede in Sanaa, the...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Activists have planned a sit-in for this morning at Beirut's Justice Palace to protest today's summons of Legal Agenda director...
It is a period erased from Beirut’s consciousness; only the history books still have the memory. This piece of information, in the wrong hands, could easily be distorted given its potential for...
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
