BEIRUT — The Finance and Budget Committee will resume discussions of the 2022 budget draft as early as next week after Finance Minister Youssef Khalil provided the committee with the missing...
BEIRUT — The United Kingdom Special Representative for Syria Jonathan Hargreaves met Thursday with caretaker Minister of the Displaced Issam Charafeddine and caretaker Foreign Affairs Minister...
BEIRUT — Caretaker Minister of Industry George Bouchikian banned on Thursday the import of bulgur ( burghul) without a prior permit from the Ministry of Industry, the state-run National News...
BEIRUT — The state-run National News Agency on Thursday announced an open strike starting Friday, after concluding a strike that started one week ago but did not meet their demands. Here’s what...
BEIRUT — Hundreds protested on Thursday in several areas of Lebanon against the deteriorating living conditions as the country suffers from an unprecedented economic crisis. Here’s what we know:...
BEIRUT — The French diplomat in charge of coordinating international support for Lebanon, Pierre Duquesne , who arrived in Beirut on Monday, began visiting Lebanese senior officials on Wednesday...
BEIRUT — Lebanon’s agriculture sector continued its decline in 2021, albeit at a slower pace than the year before, according to data gathered by the Lebanese Center for Research and Agricultural...
BEIRUT — The fire at the Beirut port grain silos ignited again Thursday with billows of smoke pouring out of the crumbling structure. Rescue teams arrived later to the scene to extinguish the fire...
BEIRUT — Forces of Change MP Paula Yacoubian on Thusday submitted an “urgent” draft law to Parliament that would classify the port silos as a “national sight for Lebanon’s heritage” in order to...
BEIRUT — Relatives of the victims of the Aug. 4, 2020 Beirut port blast held a sit-in on Thursday at the Justice Ministry in Beirut to protest the delay in judicial assignments stalling the blast...
On April 8, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah held an iftar dinner, bringing together his two Christian allies, Free Patriotic Movement leader Gebran Bassil and head of the Marada Movement...
BEIRUT — Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has scheduled a Parliament session for next Tuesday to elect seven MPs into the Supreme Council, Berri’s office reported Thursday. Here’s what we know:...
BEIRUT — US State Department spokesman Ned Price gave away no details of planned future trips to Lebanon by US envoy Amos Hochstein, saying only that his department has “not yet announced a trip”...
BEIRUT — The average cost of 1,000 liters of trucked water increased sixfold between 2019 and 2022, the UN’s Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said in a new report on Lebanon’s water crisis released...
BEIRUT — A wildfire tamed the previous night in Qabeit Akkar in North Lebanon rekindled Thursday morning sparking fears among local residents, the state-run National News Agency reported. Here’s...
“We will support the candidacy of General Joseph Aoun, if he has good chances,” he told al-Markaziya news agency. A few days earlier, the Lebanese Forces leader had said in another interview that...
BEIRUT — The Maronite Patriarchate released a statement Wednesday condemning General Security’s arrest of Archbishop of Haifa and the Holy Land Moussa al-Hage in Ras al-Naqoura in South Lebanon...
President Michel Aoun signed a decree to give temporary social assistance to all public sector employees and pensioned retirees. However, a member of the League of Civil Servant Employees told...
Beirut’s demands, Israel’s terms, and Washington’s stance: Behind the scenes of the negotiations
Lebanon stuck between a rock and a hard place: A US disarmament plan, or an extended expansion to the war?
