Building at risk of collapse in Tripoli evacuated
BEIRUT — A patrol from the Internal Security Forces (ISF) ordered the evacuation of the "Joudat al-Sheikh" building on Wednesday evening, located in the popular neighborhood of Bab...
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NSSF terminates contracts with five hospitals for not adhering to its rates
BEIRUT — The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) announced Wednesday the termination of its contracts with five hospitals it accuses of not complying with the surgery fees set by the fund, and...
L'Orient Today staff, 22 January 2025
Numerous political calls for the rapid formation of a government
BEIRUT — Several political parties and figures across the spectrum in Lebanon released statements on Wednesday pushing for the rapid formation of a government by Prime Minister-designate Nawaf...
L'Orient Today staff, 22 January 2025
Israeli minister says army applying lessons from Gaza in West Bank raids
JERUSALEM/JENIN — Israel's defense minister said on Tuesday forces were applying lessons learned in Gaza as a major operation continued in Jenin which the military said was aimed at countering...
22 January 2025
‘Yunan’ by Ameer Fakher Eldin, starring Georges Khabbaz, in the running at Berlin film festival
The film Yunan by director and screenwriter Ameer Fakher Eldin is among the 19 films competing for the Golden Bear at the 75th edition of the Berlin Film Festival, which will be held from Feb. 13...
L'Orient Today staff/Reuters, 22 January 2025
Joseph Aoun criticized for promises made to Imam Moussa Sadr's family
BEIRUT — President Joseph Aoun, in his second week in office, promised family members of Amal Movement founder and prominent Lebanese Shiite cleric Imam Moussa Sadr that he would continue the...
L'Orient Today staff, 22 January 2025
Call for Bids: Management of Jeita Grotto Revamped
There are new developments at the Jeita Grotto. The Ministry of Tourism organized a tour on Saturday at this natural wonder located in Kesrwan, one of the most visited tourist sites in the country....
Suzanne BAAKLINI, 22 January 2025
Hady Habib: 'I experienced the best moments of my career'
While Lebanon finally appointed a new president, Joseph Aoun, on Jan. 9, 2025, another Lebanese citizen was also making history for his country on the other side of the world. On the courts of the...
Gabriel BLONDEL, 22 January 2025
Hamas military commander supposedly killed by Israel resurfaces in Gaza
Palestinian media reported on Wednesday that Hussein Fayyad, Hamas' Beit Hanoun Battalion commander who the Israeli army claimed to have killed in May last year, appears to be alive and well,...
L'Orient Today staff, 22 January 2025
Quintet meets to assure support for Aoun and oppose imposing conditions on Salam
BEIRUT — The Egyptian ambassador to Lebanon, Alaa Moussa, hosted a meeting for the ambassadors of the Quintet Committee, where the latest developments on the Lebanese political scene were...
L'Orient Today staff, 22 January 2025
A third of Lebanon's population faces acute food insecurity as a result of war: FAO, WFP
BEIRUT — Nearly a third of the population of Lebanon is facing "acute food insecurity" in the aftermath of the two-month-long Israeli bombing campaign against southern and eastern Lebanon in late...
L'Orient Today staff, 22 January 2025
Judge leaves Lebanese journalist who interviewed Adraee under investigation
BEIRUT — The military investigative judge, Fadi Sawwan, announced on Wednesday his decision to keep Lebanese journalist Layal al-Ikhtiyar under investigation after questioning her regarding the...
L'Orient Today staff, 22 January 2025
Who are the Palestinian detainees soon to be released by Israel?
After more than 15 months of war that devastated Gaza, Israel and Hamas reached a cease-fire, implemented on the morning of Jan. 19. The terms of the agreement include, in a first phase, the...
Lisa GOURSAUD, 22 January 2025
Jenin: 'The Israeli offensive underscores Ramallah's inability to fully control the situation'
Since Tuesday morning, the Jenin refugee camp, a hotspot in the northern West Bank, has been targeted again by a large-scale military operation launched by Israel. The offensive, dubbed "Iron Wall"...
Dany MOUDALLAL, 22 January 2025
Houthis announce release of Galaxy Leader crew after Gaza cease-fire began
Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen claimed Wednesday they have released the crew of the Galaxy Leader vessel, which had been detained for over a year after their capture of the ship, following...
22 January 2025
Day two of violent Israeli and PA raid on Jenin, three hospitals attacked
Israeli raids against two hospitals in Jenin continued on Wednesday alongside the Palestinian Authority's own attacks against a third hospital in the same city in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. At...
L'Orient Today staff, 22 January 2025
Joseph Aoun's inauguration speech becomes the subject of a law exam at USJ
Nearly two weeks after it resonated with many Lebanese, the inauguration speech of President Joseph Aoun has made its way into academia, serving as the basis for an end-of-semester exam at Saint...
Philippe HAGE BOUTROS, 22 January 2025
Salam to the Amal-Hezbollah alliance: I am the one forming the cabinet!
“I’m not LibanPost ... and I’m the one forming the cabinet in accordance with the constitutional provisions. If this is deemed to be a new way of doing things, so be it!” said Prime...
Yara ABI AKL, 22 January 2025
Syria defence minister says open to talks with Kurds, but ready to use 'force'
Syria's defense minister said the interim authorities were open to talks with a Kurdish-led group on its dismantling but did not rule out the use of force should negotiations fail. "The...
22 January 2025
On the first day of his second term, the Middle East according to Donald Trump
Newly inaugurated, the new U.S. president, Donald Trump, has already left his mark on the Middle East at the start of his second term.Just minutes after the inauguration ceremony, held Monday, Jan....
Tatiana KROTOFF, 22 January 2025
Shooting, explosions in Jenin as Israel presses raid
Gunfire and explosions rocked the occupied West Bank's Jenin area on Wednesday, a Palestinian official and an AFP reporter said, as the Israeli military pressed on for a second day with a...
22 January 2025
Lebanese political figures urge swift government formation
Several political parties and figures in Lebanon have called Wednesday for a swift government formation by Lebanon’s Prime Minister-designate Nawaf Salam. Jaafarite Mufti Ahmad Qabalan, close to...
22 January 2025
Inflation in Lebanon officially exits the triple-digit zone
It's official. Inflation in Lebanon has returned to double-digit growth rates in 2024, following three years in which the rate fluctuated between 100 percent and 300 percent.Recent calculations of...
Philippe HAGE BOUTROS, 22 January 2025
Baarini will support either a government representing all parties or pure technocrats
Sunni MP Walid Baarini stated on Wednesday that there must be a decision between "the formation of a government of political parties or a government of pure technocrats," as the...
22 January 2025
Finance Ministry: ‘Singing the same old song’?
As talks continue on the distribution of portfolios within the future cabinet, with a focus in particular on the representation of the Amal-Hezbollah tandem, the Finance Ministry is once again...
Mounir YOUNES, 22 January 2025
Arrest of individual suspected of collaboration with Israel in West Bekaa
A patrol from the Lebanese Army's intelligence directorate arrested on Tuesday an individual named A.H., originally from the locality of Dakoue in West Bekaa, during a raid at his home in the...
22 January 2025
Khiam municipality calls on residents to 'wait' before returning to the village
The municipality of Khiam, in the Marjayoun district in southern Lebanon, urged its residents on Wednesday to exercise caution, inviting them to "take their time" and avoid any rush to...
22 January 2025
Makhzoumi files defamation complaint against Megaphone
A video posted on Jan. 14 by the news platform Megaphone has sparked a defamation complaint from Fouad Makhzoumi, a Beirut MP, businessman and former candidate for prime minister. Jean Kassir, the...
Zeina ANTONIOS, 22 January 2025
Tripoli municipal police arrest 12 child beggars
The municipal police in Tripoli arrested 12 child beggars, both boys and girls, on Tuesday evening in the streets of the city, our North Lebanon correspondent Michel Hallak reports. In a...
22 January 2025
The attacker in Tel Aviv was a 'foreign national', police say
The man who injured several people Tuesday night with a knife in a busy district of Tel Aviv before being shot dead was "a foreign national," according to Israeli police....
22 January 2025
First-ever Israeli airstrike on HTS: What are the consequences?
BEIRUT — A new Israeli strike targeted Syria on Jan. 15, but this time, the target was not the assets of the former Syrian regime or pro-Iranian militias but rather the new Syrian authorities who...
Malek Jadah, 22 January 2025
The Israeli army built a cement wall on a section of the Blue Line in southern Lebanon | LIVE
22:24 Beirut Time That concludes our live coverage of regional events for today. Thank you for joining us and we'll be back again tomorrow. Goodnight! 22:24 Beirut Time...
22 January 2025
Israeli army kills 9 in Jenin raid, Mikati expects new Cabinet formation 'between Friday, Saturday', KSA foreign minister due in Beirut tomorrow: Everything you need to know this Wednesday
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2024Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch today:11 a.m. A session of the Information Technology...
Abbas Mahfouz, 15 January 2025
And if we found our way back to Beirut's art galleries?
The happy life in Haibat Balaa Bawab's collages A collage artwork using wallpaper by Haibat Balaa Bawab exhibited at the Art on 56th gallery. Courtesy of the Art on 56th gallery. She...
Zéna ZALZAL, 22 January 2025
Bank Audi hopes to see GDP soar by 8 percent in 2025
BEIRUT — In its latest quarterly report on the Lebanese economy, Bank Audi's research department pondered possible scenarios in the current context marked by a very positive momentum...
L'Orient Today staff, 22 January 2025
In the space between the ruins, in Lebanese cities bombed by Israel, a pulse returns
Sitting on her doorstep in a sloping alley of Nabatieh's Rahbat neighborhood, Asra al-Traboulsi waits for the arrival of the bus that brings her daughter home from school. With her kohl-drawn...
