Health committee approves draft law on home healthcare
BEIRUT — A draft law on in-home healthcare in Lebanon was approved Monday by the parliamentary Health Committee, according to an announcement from its chairman, Bilal Abdallah. Before being...
Your search results: 35 articles
Loss distribution: Salam government bill faces criticism from all sides
It was hardly a surprise. As soon as the draft law on the distribution of losses and the restitution of bank deposits (frozen since the onset of the 2019 crisis) began circulating, the Association...
Fouad GEMAYEL, 22 December 2025
Trucks not allowed on the road during Christmas and New Years, Interior Ministry announces
BEIRUT — Interio Minister Ahmad Hajjar signed a ministerial decree Monday banning trucks from Lebanon's roads during Christmas and New Years, amid heavy traffic since the beginning of the...
L'Orient Today staff, 22 December 2025
Netanyahu says Israel to deepen security cooperation with Greece, Cyprus
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday Israel had agreed to deepen security cooperation with Greece and Cyprus. He was speaking during a joint press conference with Greek...
22 December 2025
Gemayel calls Hezbollah disarmament north of Litani 'double test' for party and state
BEIRUT — Kataeb leader Samy Gemayel said Monday, following a meeting with U.S. ambassador to Lebanon Michel Issa, that the coming phase of the Lebanese Army's mission to disarm Hezbollah, which...
L'Orient Today staff, 22 December 2025
Clashes break out in Aleppo between Syrian army and Kurdish-led SDF
Clashes erupted in Aleppo on Monday between the Syrian army and the U.S.-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), resulting in the death of at least two people and the wounding of several...
L'Orient Today staff, 22 December 2025
Iran holds missile drills in various cities, state media say
DUBAI — Iran held missile drills in various cities on Monday, state media reported, citing unnamed sources and witnesses, in what was the second such reported exercise in a month. NBC News...
22 December 2025
Netanyahu government moves to shut down Israel's Army Radio station
JERUSALEM — Israel's cabinet voted on Monday to shut down a popular national radio station, one in a series of measures by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing coalition that...
22 December 2025
Loss distribution: What depositors think of Salam's plan
BEIRUT — As the draft law on loss distribution and deposit restitution (gap law), presented Friday night by Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, comes under Cabinet scrutiny, various associations of...
Philippe HAGE BOUTROS, 22 December 2025
Israel kills three people in drone strike on car in Saida district
SOUTH LEBANON — The Israeli army killed three people in a drone strike on a car as it was driving between Quneitra and Aqtanit in Saida district on Monday. The victims were identified as Hassan...
L'Orient Today staff, 22 December 2025
South Lebanon governor hails resolve of officials 'despite difficulties'
The governor of southern Lebanon, Mansour Daou, on Monday congratulated officials from public administrations as well as security and military agencies in the region for their "efforts"...
22 December 2025
A Christmas Eve feast of 7 fishes: When tradition becomes a trend
As the holiday season approaches, when many hunt for the plumpest turkey and the richest foie gras, websites and social media are instead brimming with recipes for sea bass, cod, sardines, red...
Irène MOSALLI, 22 December 2025
In Gemmayzeh, Bellucci reopens its doors and opts for continuity
Three closures, two comebacks and one relocation. The story of Bellucci is inseparable from that of Beirut.Opened facing the port near the Black Sky Tower, the Italian restaurant was heavily...
Nada ALAMEDDINE, 22 December 2025
Lebanese Customs seizes 70 kg of cocaine, $1.8 million in cash at Beirut airport
Lebanon’s General Directorate of Customs announced the seizure of approximately 70 kilograms of cocaine coming from Ghana, according to their statement relayed by the state-run National News...
22 December 2025
Lebanese economist Badi Hani Baltagi awarded the 2025 Great Arab Minds Award
BEIRUT — Lebanese economist and academic Badi Hani Baltagi was named the 2025 Great Arab Minds Award winner in economics, in recognition of “his pioneering work in econometrics and economic data...
Ghadir Hamadi, 22 December 2025
Italy wants to keep forces south of Litani after UNIFIL withdraws: Defense minister
BEIRUT — Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto told President Joseph Aoun on Monday that Italy wishes to maintain forces south of the Litani River after the United Nations Interim Force in...
22 December 2025
Marie-Joe Abi-Nassif, lawyer by day, mezzo-soprano by night
She is living proof that the sharpest contrasts can coexist, and even harmonize.Marie-Joe Abi-Nassif is a mezzo-soprano and a trained lawyer. The world of law — eloquent but not necessarily poetic...
Nanette Ziadé-Ritter, 22 December 2025
3 killed in Israeli strike on vehicle near Saida
Lebanese official media said an Israeli strike near the southern city of Saida killed three people on Monday, with Israel saying it targeted Hezbollah operatives. The state-run National News...
22 December 2025
'Even with my children killed, life goes on': In Gaza, a grieving Christmas at the edge of hope
Another joyless Christmas is approaching for Ramez al-Souri. One without his children, without the simple happiness of watching them grow year after year.He last saw them on Oct. 19, 2023, as he...
Emmanuel HADDAD, 22 December 2025
Weapons under state control in Iraq: Iran-aligned militias under pressure
Nearly two months after the parliamentary elections, the political deadlock persists in Baghdad, where negotiations over cabinet formation continue to stall. But behind the scenes, another, far...
Dany MOUDALLAL, 22 December 2025
Syrian chargé d’affaires appointed in Beirut: A step toward rapprochement?
More than a year after the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, Syria is moving to restore order at its embassy in Beirut.Appointed as chargé d’affaires to head Syria’s diplomatic mission in Lebanon,...
Salah HIJAZI, 22 December 2025
Lebanon is regaining its vitality: Aoun to Federation of Lebanese-Gulf Business Councils
BEIRUT — President Joseph Aoun told a delegation from the Federation of Lebanese-Gulf Business Councils on Monday that "Lebanon has begun to regain its vitality despite the ongoing wound in...
22 December 2025
Cabinet to continue examination of deposit restitution tomorrow
Cabinet will continue is examination of a draft law on the distribution of losses and restitution of bank deposits on Tuesday, Information Minister Paul Morcos announced following Monday's...
L'Orient Today staff, 22 December 2025
Janane Mallat: My only two regrets are children and the Moon
Television producer Janane Mallat has lived through every kind of crisis. Fleeting love affairs, failed jobs, displaced by war. But there is one crisis she refuses to acknowledge: turning 60.Her...
Raphaël ABDELNOUR, 22 December 2025
Ben-Gvir proposes prisons 'surrounded by crocodiles' for Palestinian detainees in Israel
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has proposed the creation of a detention center for Palestinian prisoners “surrounded by crocodiles.” Israeli Channel 13 reported on Sunday...
22 December 2025
Israel demolishes residential building in east Jerusalem
Israeli bulldozers tore through a four-storey residential building in east Jerusalem on Monday, displacing scores of Palestinians in what activists said was the largest such demolition in the area...
22 December 2025
Samia Halaby, Nour Mobarak and a constellation of Middle Eastern artists through the 2026 Whitney Biennial lens
At first glance, the 82nd Whitney Biennial makes no claim to a slogan or manifesto. Yet a closer look at the list of participating artists and the curatorial threads shaping this edition reveals a...
Sylviane ZEHIL, 22 December 2025
In Tripoli, Rai extends a hand to Sunnis to ‘preserve the Lebanese model’
“Tripoli is the city of peace.” This is the message that stood at the heart of what Maronite Patriarch Bechara al-Rai sought to convey during his visit on Saturday to the capital of North Lebanon,...
Yara ABI AKL, 22 December 2025
How screening ‘suspect’ deposits could cut the financial gap bill by $10 billion
The draft law on the “restoration of financial order” and the return of deposits, also known as the law on the “financial gap,” set to be examined by Cabinet starting Monday, does not merely seek...
Mounir YOUNES, 22 December 2025
Washington strikes ISIS in Syria while avoiding a clash with Damascus
“This isn’t the beginning of a war. It’s a declaration of vengeance,” U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in a message posted on social media on Friday.Hours earlier, Washington had carried...
Clara HAGE, 22 December 2025
Sources close to Hezbollah say party 'no longer has military presence south of Litani' | LIVE
21:28 Beirut Time That concludes our live coverage of events for today. Thanks for joining us. We'll be back tomorrow morning with more news updates and analysis. Goodnight!...
L'Orient Today staff, 22 December 2025
Cabinet reviews financial losses bill, Israel kills 1 in south Lebanon, US plans luxury resort in Gaza: Everything you need to know this Monday
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Friday, Dec. 19, 2025Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch for today:Reactions to the Wall Street Journal’s revelations...
Abbas Mahfouz, 22 December 2025
Gideon Saar urges Jews to move to Israel a week after Sydney attack
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar called on Sunday for Jews in Western countries to move to Israel to escape rising antisemitism, one week after 15 were shot dead at a Jewish event in Sydney....
22 December 2025
Alleged Bondi shooters conducted 'tactical' training in Australia
The two suspects in a deadly mass shooting at Australia's Bondi Beach carried out "tactical" training in the countryside, police alleged Monday, as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese...
22 December 2025
Gold price hits record high of $4,383.76 on US rate cut bets
Gold prices shot to a record high on Monday as investors grow increasingly optimistic the US Federal Reserve will continue to cut interest rates through next year. The precious metal hit a peak of...
