BEIRUT — The General Prosecutor at the Mount Lebanon Court of Appeal, Ghada Aoun, issued a property restriction against Lebanese actress Stephanie Saliba on Thursday, the state-run National News...
Lebanese security services have identified suspects in an attack on UN soldiers that left one peacekeeper dead, a judicial source told AFP on Thursday, adding that the soldiers were chased by...
The Greek MEP at the center of a graft scandal linked to alleged bribes from Qatar rocking the European Parliament insisted she was innocent on Thursday and asked to be released from pre-trial...
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will head to Iraq on Thursday evening for a pre-Christmas visit to Italian troops posted there, her office said. NATO-member Italy has...
The black market exchange rate, which includes illegal agents and those authorized by Banque du Liban, entered a new phase of turbulence this week. Passing records of LL44,000, LL45,000, and...
BEIRUT — One man was killed and another was wounded in a shooting in Tripoli, North Lebanon, on Thursday, L'Orient Today's correspondent in the region reported. According to our...
Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati clearly wants to avoid a new political dilemma, which is why he is avoiding convening a new cabinet session meeting without the approval of all his government...
Iran executed three convicted rapists in the southern city of Shiraz on Thursday, the judiciary said. "The perpetrators of assault and rape on women in Shiraz, who were...
BEIRUT — The Energy Ministry announced new, increased fuel prices on Thursday. Here are the new prices : • Twenty liters of 95-octane gasoline: LL760,000, up by LL5,000. • Twenty liters of...
Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati said on Thursday that sweeping reforms remain vital to rescue the stricken economy, despite a return to modest growth this year....
BEIRUT — Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Ghait on Thursday said after meeting in Beirut with caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati that the key to overcoming the crisis in Lebanon is...
The Constitutional Council rejected on Thursday the last two appeals to invalidate the results of the May 2022 parliamentary elections, the National news agency reported, citing the president of...
BEIRUT — Lebanon's Internal Security Forces (ISF) on Thursday denied claims made by MP Paula Yacoubian (Forces of Change/Beirut I) that the Christian group Soldiers of God arrived at the residence...
A small group of Afghan women staged a defiant protest in Kabul on Thursday against a Taliban order banning them from universities, an activist said, adding that some were arrested....
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday announced the third major minimum wage hike in a year to try and combat a historic jump in consumer prices ahead of crunch elections. ...
Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian militant during an incursion into the West Bank city of Nablus early Thursday, Palestinian sources said. The exchange of fire...
BEIRUT — Just $122 per month: that’s Lebanon’s median household income, according to a Human Rights Watch report published last week. In the span of a decade, Lebanon’s median household income...
Suspected jihadists in northern Iraq detonated bombs targeting military vehicles, killing two soldiers and wounding three, security sources said Thursday. There was no...
Turkey on Thursday urged Afghanistan's Taliban rulers to reverse their decision barring women from university education, calling it "neither Islamic nor humane." The ban by the Taliban, who...
You can activate the English subtitles in the settings menu of the video. The first parliamentary elections since the beginning of the financial crisis and the October 2019 uprising; the end of...
President Gabriel Boric of Chile, whose country has the largest Palestinian population outside of the Middle East, said Wednesday that he planned to open an embassy "in Palestine."...
BEIRUT — An explosion on Wednesday night in Ain al-Rummaneh in Mount Lebanon that injured one person was caused by an "electrical short circuit," the Internal Security Forces said in a statement on...
WASHINGTON — The United States imposed sanctions on Iranian officials on Wednesday, including the prosecutor general and key military officials, stepping up pressure on Tehran over its crackdown on...
BEIRUT — Lebanon on Wednesday recorded no new cholera cases or deaths in the previous 24 hours, the Health Ministry said in its daily report. The total number of cases recorded since the beginning...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up. The Central Administration of Statistics (CAS) reported a fourfold month-to-month decrease in November’s inflation rate....
Veteran leader Benjamin Netanyahu announced that he had formed a new Israeli government on Wednesday, returning to power as the head of the most right-wing coalition in Israel's history. ...
Yemeni student Abir al-Maqtari dreamt of studying abroad but amid a tightening of restrictions on women echoing religious regimes in Iran and Afghanistan, Houthi forces blocked her from leaving....
Beirut’s demands, Israel’s terms, and Washington’s stance: Behind the scenes of the negotiations
