Following a media hiatus of several months, Banque du Liban Governor Riad Salameh answered questions on Monday from the Alhurra television channel on the future of Lebanon’s exchange rate. In...
BEIRUT — Education sector prices have increased markedly, according to Lebanon’s Central Administration of Statistics, with costs spiking by 186 percent from September to October. The rising costs...
BEIRUT — An army unit and the local intelligence branch on Monday arrested a man accused of firing military weapons three years ago that lead to the death of Sergeant Diab Halloum, who had served...
The junior partner in Spain's leftist coalition government on Monday criticized King Felipe VI's plans to visit Qatar later this week to attend the Spanish team's opening World Cup match....
England got off to a flying start at the World Cup by beating Iran 6-2 on Monday as their young stars Jude Bellingham and Bukayo Saka shone in Qatar. The Iranian players...
He is presenting himself as the man for all seasons. Despite his status as a caretaker prime minister, Najib Mikati continues to pull the strings, imposing himself as an actor who is all the more...
Qatar announced Monday the first seizure of drugs during the football World Cup, including the painkiller tramadol which has been widely used in football. Customs...
BEIRUT — Hezbollah has not managed to impose its preferred presidential candidate, Lebanese Forces leader Samer Geagea said in an interview with media platform Houna Loubnan, adding that his party...
Crisis-hit Lebanon has secured $5.4 billion in aid over three years from the UN's World Food Programme (WFP), Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati announced Monday....
BEIRUT — Caretaker Information Minister Ziad Makari told L’Orient Today his “part of the job is finished” after negotiations failed Monday between Lebanese authorities and private broadcasters to...
QatarEnergy announced a 27-year natural gas supply deal with China on Monday, calling it the "longest" ever seen as it strengthened ties with Asia while Europe scrambles for alternative sources....
Never before has a World Cup unleashed so much passion. For several months now, calls for a boycott and other controversies have been multiplying: allegations of corruption connected to awarding...
BEIRUT — The usual military parade to mark Lebanon's Independence Day on Nov. 22 will not take place Tuesday because of the current presidential vacancy, an Army spokesperson told L'Orient Today...
A day after the Egyptian president shook hands with his Turkish counterpart for the first time in Qatar, the presidency in Cairo on Monday heralded a new "beginning" in ties with Ankara....
Iran's players did not sing their national anthem before their first game of the World Cup against England on Monday, in apparent support for anti-government protesters in their homeland....
JERUSALEM — The chief of Israeli military intelligence, Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva, said on Monday that protests rocking Iran were beginning to resemble a popular uprising but that he saw "no real...
Iran's players did not sing their national anthem before their opening game of the World Cup in Qatar against England on Monday. Ahead of the game, captain Alireza...
BERLIN — Germany agrees with the United States in shifting its focus away from reviving a nuclear deal with Iran to support for ordinary Iranians against a violent state crackdown on popular...
The number of cases in which the Special Investigation Commission (SIC) lifted banking secrecy in 2021 increased, according to the SIC’s annual report, the main results of which were relayed by...
BEIRUT — A man stormed the Al Baraka Bank in Hamra, Beirut, on Monday, demanding to obtain his mother's saving, a source present at the scene confirmed to L'Orient Today . According to the group...
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday said that Turkey could launch a ground operation in Syria, following deadly strikes by Ankara and Kurdish militants in northern Syria....
Israeli forces killed a Palestinian man during an army raid Monday in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry said, while the Israeli army confirmed troops opened fire during an...
Rights groups on Monday accused Iranian security forces of using live fire and heavy weapons to suppress protests in Kurdish-populated regions in Iran's west, intensifying a crackdown that has...
BEIRUT — The head of the Lebanese Army, Gen. Joseph Aoun, warned on Monday, on the eve of the 79th anniversary of Lebanon's Independence, that his soldiers "will not allow any breach of civil...
Rockets fired from Syria towards Turkey's border town of Karkamis on Monday killed three people, including a child, and wounded six, Turkey's interior minister said. "Three of our citizens lost...
BEIRUT — The Energy Ministry on Monday announced a decrease in fuel prices. Here are the new prices: • Twenty liters of 95-octane gasoline: LL800,000, down by LL14,000 • Twenty liters of...
Israel's Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu won his lawsuit against ex-premier Ehud Olmert on Monday, with a Tel Aviv judge ruling Olmert defamed the Netanyahu family by branding them...
The government of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region on Monday condemned "unjustifiable violations" following Iranian strikes targeting rebel groups accused of stoking protests in the Islamic...
BEIRUT — Dozens of people, including members of the bank despositors' group Moutahidoun (United) and Citizens in a State party, on Monday morning protested in front of Parliament to demonstrate...
Iran has said it is taking retaliatory measures against the International Atomic Energy Agency over a resolution criticizing Tehran's lack of cooperation with the nuclear watchdog. The United...
Iran launched new cross-border missile and drone strikes overnight to Monday against Kurdish opposition groups in Iraq, killing at least one fighter from the groups it accuses of stoking a wave of...
BEIRUT — Violent clashes sparked by a longstanding dispute between two families took place Monday morning in the Rashidieh Palestinian refugee camp in Sour, South Lebanon, L'Orient Today 's...
BEIRUT — Two Syrian children died in a fire on Sunday night in Nabatieh, South Lebanon, our correspondent in the area reported, adding that the children's mother sustained burns...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up. Lebanon’s vaccination campaign against cholera outperformed expectations , caretaker Health Minister Firass Abiad said Friday....
Iran launched cross-border strikes against Kurdish opposition groups in Iraq overnight, killing at least one fighter, a week after similar attacks on the factions Tehran accuses of stoking protests...
Beirut’s demands, Israel’s terms, and Washington’s stance: Behind the scenes of the negotiations
