The head of a major Lebanese audit firm was indicted on May 14 in Paris for “complicity in money laundering” over a report he released exonerating former Banque du Liban (BDL) Governor Riad Salameh...
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stated on Friday that "there is no military solution" to the clashes between Israel and Hezbollah on the southern border of Lebanon, urging the parties to...
Beirut first encountered Nadim Karam in 1994 at the Sursock Museum, as part of a project titled “T-Races BSC-4971.” The project featured a collection of moving figures, neither human nor animal,...
Hassan Nasrallah didn’t only threaten Israel. On Wednesday, Hezbollah’s secretary-general took things a step further. For the first time since the start of the war in Gaza and south Lebanon, he...
Hello and welcome to the very first edition of Breakfast in Bed! For me, there’s nothing quite like a slow weekend morning – a precious ritual of self-care to refresh and reset. But let’s face...
BEIRUT — After more than eight months of Israel’s war on Gaza, Lebanese people are still passionate about their campaign to boycott Pepsi in solidarity with the Palestinian people. Hezbollah and...
With just a week remaining before a presidential election, Iranians are divided over whether voting will address pressing economic issues and mandatory hijab laws. Iranians...
The Lebanese police announced on Friday that they arrested the father of a girl who died after being violently hit on the head in the Bekaa. In a statement, the Internal Security Forces (ISF)...
Amid escalating tensions and closures in Lebanon's borders, Education Minister Abbas Halabi reaffirms the June 29 date for the Lebanese Baccalaureate exams, prompting concerns among students facing...
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock will visit the Middle East next week, Berlin said Friday, as the Gaza war grinds on and fears grow of a wider regional conflict. ...
Hassan Nasrallah has set the bar very high. On Wednesday, he made a speech unlike any of his since Oct. 7.This time, Hezbollah’s Secretary General raised the tone, saying that his party acquired...
The Musée d’Art Moderne is hosting the exhibition “Arab Presences: Modern Art and Decolonization, Paris 1908-1988” until Aug. 25. In its press release, it included art historian and contributor to...
The "pause" that the Israeli military had declared in Gaza to facilitate aid flows has had no impact on deliveries of the badly-needed aid, the U.N.'s health agency said on Friday....
Public Prosecutor at the Mount Lebanon Court of Appeal Ghada Aoun has managed financial documents potentially worth tens of billions of dollars since the crisis began in 2019, according to records...
BEIRUT — The Lebanese Health Ministry published its latest numbers on the war in southern Lebanon between Hezbollah and Israel, covering the period from Oct. 8, 2023 to Wednesday, June 19. It...
Electricité du Liban (EDL) issued a statement on Thursday in response to a June 15 article on the news site Grand Liban. The article focused on "hazardous materials" stored at the Jiyyeh power...
Armenia announced Friday its recognition of the State of Palestine, the latest country to do so during the war in Gaza, saying it was against "violence towards civilian populations." ...
Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, the new UN Special Coordinator based in Lebanon, paid her first visit on Thursday to the UNIFIL headquarters in Naqoura, in southern Lebanon, which has been subjected to...
21:03 Beirut Time Thank you for joining us for today's live coverage of the Gaza war and its global impacts. Good night! 20:55 Beirut Time The latest...
Waiting at home in Iraqi Kurdistan, Khadija Hussein holds faint hope of hearing word of further survivors from the shipwrecked vessel that carried 11 of her family members from neighboring Turkey....
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Wednesday, June 26, 2024Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch today:• 9:00 a.m.: Kataeb Party leader MP Sami Gemayel...
The U.S. military said Thursday that it had destroyed four Huthi nautical drones and two aerial ones over the Red Sea off Yemen. The Iran-backed Houthis have launched scores of drones and missiles...
The controversial U.S. effort to boost Gaza aid deliveries by building a temporary pier has faced repeated problems, with bad weather damaging the structure and causing other interruptions to the...
The Palestinian health ministry said Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian teenager in the occupied West Bank city of Qalqilya Thursday, where the military reported that troops fired at rioters....
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Friday, June 21, 2024Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch today:• Whether or not the Cypriot Embassy in Lebanon...
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
