26-year-old Lebanese man shot dead in Dearborn, USA
BEIRUT — Hassan Mahmoud Salameh, a 26-year-old Lebanese man, was shot dead in Dearborn, Michigan, United States, on Tuesday, according to American and Lebanese media reports. Salameh originally...
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Can private insurance companies replace social security in Lebanon?
Like the funds of most public institutions and state-owned companies, the National Social Security Fund’s (NSSF) revenues have melted away with the Lebanese lira’s depreciation. The exchange rate...
Philippe HAGE BOUTROS, 20 September 2023
Mikati meets regional leaders on sidelines of UN General Assembly
BEIRUT — Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati, who is in New York for the United Nations General Assembly, held a series of meetings with regional leaders on Wednesday, according to his...
20 September 2023
Battle over Qlayaat airport heats up against backdrop of presidential elections
Amidst the wait for an end to the presidential deadlock, a group North Lebanon MPs, known as the National Moderation bloc, have been fighting for the reopening of the Qlayaat airport in Akkar,...
Yara ABI AKL, 20 September 2023
Sudan army chief headed to UN General Assembly
Sudanese army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, at war for months with paramilitaries, was headed to New York on Wednesday to address the UN General Assembly, his office said....
20 September 2023
Fears for ancient Cyrene after Libya floods
Floods that killed thousands in the Libyan city of Derna also inundated one of the country's premier ancient sites, threatening its UNESCO-listed monuments with collapse, a recent visitor and a...
20 September 2023
ISF seizes 130 kilos of hashish bound for Europe
BEIRUT — The Internal Security Forces (ISF) foiled an attempt this month to smuggle 130 kilos of hashish, hidden in a gas stove, to "a European country," police said in a statement. The ISF added...
20 September 2023
Biden, Netanyahu to discuss Saudi normalization, Iran
WASHINGTON — US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday will hold their first face-to-face talks since Netanyahu took power in December, with topics expected...
20 September 2023
Karabakh separatists say will lay down arms, cease fire on Wednesday
Separatists in Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan announced Wednesday they would cease hostilities, signaling the end of an "anti-terror" operation launched just one day earlier by Azerbaijan's forces...
20 September 2023
Lebanon 'Group of Five' meet in New York amid presidential vacuum dialogue
BEIRUT — Representatives from the so-called Group of Five (France, United States, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Egypt) met on Tuesday in New York to discuss ending Lebanon's nearly one-year presidential...
20 September 2023
Iran MPs vote to toughen penalties for women flouting dress code
Iranian lawmakers passed a bill on Wednesday to toughen penalties for women who flout the Islamic dress code, with jail terms of up to 10 years, state media reported. The assembly approved "the...
20 September 2023
UN General Assembly: Erdogan, Netanyahu meet for first time as relations thaw
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met for the first time in person on Tuesday, a milestone as the two countries have been slowly improving ties...
20 September 2023
Met museum returns two antiquities to Yemen, retains possession for now
The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Tuesday announced it had transferred ownership of two antiquities to Yemen, but that the war-torn country had agreed to leave them in New York for safe-keeping....
20 September 2023
Yemen rebels return from 'positive' Saudi peace talks
A delegation of Yemen's Iran-backed Huthi rebels returned Tuesday to Sanaa after five days of talks in Saudi Arabia, media and officials said, without yet reporting any progress towards ending...
20 September 2023
Iran demands US show goodwill after quitting nuclear deal
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said on Tuesday that the United States should prove its "goodwill and determination" to revive Tehran's 2015 nuclear pact as months of indirect talks between the...
20 September 2023
Israel forces kill 3 Palestinians in West Bank, one in Gaza
Israeli forces on Tuesday killed three Palestinians and wounded more than two dozen during a drone-assisted raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, while border clashes in Gaza...
20 September 2023
Failed bank holdup, water shortages, a push for solar-powered telecoms: Everything you need to know to start your Wednesday
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Higher Judicial Council (HJC) chair Souhail Abboud said the council will remain operational and urged magistrates to continue...
