BEIRUT – On New Year's Eve of 2021, Joanna, a 27-year-old transgender woman, was arrested by police officers in Beirut. “As soon as they got me in the car, they snatched my phone and forced me to...
JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Tuesday for a dialogue with opponents of his proposals to overhaul the judiciary which have drawn mass protests and criticism from...
BEIRUT — An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.0 degrees on the Richter scale was recorded north of Latakia, Syria, on Tuesday evening and was felt in Akkar and North Lebanon. Two light earthquakes...
BEIRUT — One Pakistani worker has died from complications sustained in the fire that broke out on Tuesday afternoon in the Concord household appliances factory in the town of Naameh, reported the...
KAHRAMANMARAS — On Tuesday, two senior German officials, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and Interior Minister Nancy Faeser, visited earthquake-hit Turkey to underscore Berlin's support for the...
BEIRUT — The monthly consumer price index (CPI), released on Tuesday by Lebanon's Central Administration of Statistics (CAS), stood at 8.43 percent for January 2023, compared to 6.73 percent in...
Implementation of the decision allowing supermarkets to display the prices of their goods in US dollars has been postponed to March 1, said the president of the union of supermarket owners...
Dubai's airport welcomed 66 million passengers in 2022, over double that of the previous year, it said Tuesday. The airport's chief executive attributed the spike to the "huge growth" of Russian...
The prices of different packages of Arabic bread rose again on Tuesday due to the record depreciation of the Lebanese national currency. The lira has been trading at more than LL80,000 on the...
Tunisia's former parliamentary speaker Rached Ghannouchi appeared in court Tuesday on new terror-related charges after being accused of calling police officers "tyrants," his party said....
In a Sunday interview with the Egyptian channel al-Qahera, Banque du Liban (BDL) Governor Riad Salameh spoke about Lebanon's banking sector. Salameh, who has been in office since 1993 and...
The United Nations on Tuesday urged the Israeli government to pause its judicial reform plans, saying it risked weakening human rights protections and needed opening up for wider debate and...
BEIRUT — Acting on instructions from Public Prosecutor Judge Ghada Aoun, State Security on Tuesday sealed a Bank of Beirut data center in Mansourieh, just outside the capital, the bank's lawyer...
BEIRUT — Large mountain rocks fell near a man's house in the Qabit area of Akkar governorate Monday night after a 6.4-magnitude earthquake in Turkey also shook Lebanon, according to a video the man...
ANDAQIT, Akkar governorate — Late one mid-February morning, workers bundled in coats gather on 53-year-old Bassem El Khoury’s roof in the remote mountain village of Andaqit, northern Lebanon....
Public Prosecutor at the Mount Lebanon Court of Appeal Judge Ghada Aoun pressed charges Monday against the Société Générale de Banque au Liban (SGBL) and its CEO Antoun Sehnaoui over “money...
A Tehran court on Tuesday sentenced to death an Iranian-German dual national accused of being the leader of a "terrorist" group behind a deadly 2008 mosque bombing, the judiciary said....
BEIRUT — The Maronite Bishop of Antelias, Antoine Bou Najm, met on Tuesday with Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea in Maarab ahead of a potential meeting between Christian parties to break...
An Israeli strike in the heart of Damascus , an alleged Iranian attack on an Israeli oil tanker in the Arabian Sea, Tehran being closer than ever to a nuclear weapon: all the ingredients for a new...
BEIRUT — Fuel prices in Lebanon increased Tuesday, according to the latest tariffs announced by the Energy Ministry. Here are the new prices: • Twenty liters of 95-octane gasoline: LL1,493,000,...
DUBAI — An Iranian foundation has praised the man who attacked novelist Salman Rushdie last year, leaving him severely injured, and said it will reward him with 1,000 square meters of agricultural...
Be a tourist with the experience of a local. This is the objective of the Jedo, an app launched by Christian Almurr and his team. Almurr named the app after his friend — nicknamed Jedo — who...
BEIRUT — Two light earthquakes were recorded Tuesday morning off the Lebanese coast, near the city of Saida, South Lebanon, the National Center for Geophysics said. The first tremor, of magnitude...
A 6.4-magnitude earthquake rocked Turkey's southern province of Hatay and northern Syria on Monday evening, killing six people and sparking fresh panic after a massive Feb. 6 tremor that left more...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck the Turkey-Syria border region last night, sparking panic across Lebanon two weeks after the...
The Israeli parliament backed a key part of a controversial judicial overhaul at first reading Tuesday despite protests across the country against a bill critics see as a threat to democracy....
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
