Five thawra activists released on bail
BEIRUT — Five thawra activists were released on bail Wednesday after appearing before the Beirut Judicial Police at Barbar al-Khazen barracks. The activists were charged with attempted intrusion...
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Tunisia radio boss prosecution is 'political'
Lawyers for the arrested head of a private Tunisian radio station said Wednesday he was facing money laundering charges in what they called a "political" case. Noureddine...
22 February 2023
FPM accuses Mikati of 'taking advantage of presidential vacuum'
BEIRUT — The Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) issued a statement Wednesday accusing caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati of “taking advantage of the presidential vacuum and acting as if the...
22 February 2023
Will Bashar al-Assad rejoin the Arab fold in 2023?
On Monday, images from Oman depicted blue skies, red carpets, and warm handshakes. For the first time since the 2011 Syrian revolution, President Bashar al-Assad was received in Muscat on an...
Noura DOUKHI, 22 February 2023
Earthquakes trigger fake news: Bringing science back to the table
Since the Feb. 6 earthquake, even the slightest tremors have triggered panic in various parts of Lebanon. Most aftershocks took place near the quake’s epicenter but tremors were still felt in...
Suzanne BAAKLINI, 22 February 2023
Sheikh missing in Akkar, main road blocked by protesters
BEIRUT — Demonstrators blocked the main road to Mouhammara, at the southern entrance to Akkar, northern Lebanon, to demand that authorities work quickly to local Sheikh Ahmad Rifai, who has been...
22 February 2023
Quake causes ceiling collapse in Tayr Debba home, family survives
BEIRUT — The ceiling of a house in Tayr Debba, Sour district of South Lebanon, collapsed Wednesday after a mild earthquake struck in the early morning, the state-run National News Agency (NNA)...
22 February 2023
Mawlawi asks security not to implement judge Aoun's decisions over banks
BEIRUT — Caretaker Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi ordered security forces Wednesday not to implement decisions made by Mount Lebanon's Public Prosecutor Ghada Aoun, who has in recent days...
22 February 2023
Rocket strike in Damascus hit Iranian military experts, sources say
BEIRUT/AMMAN — A rocket attack in Damascus on Sunday that Syria blamed on Israel hit an installation where Iranian officials were meeting to advance programs to develop drone or missile...
22 February 2023
Opening the Beirut Art Center’s doors a little wider
BEIRUT — “It takes time to really understand what’s happening on the Beirut scene.” Reem Shadid pauses to clear her throat. Like many people in town, she’s been working on overcoming a persistent...
Jim Quilty, 22 February 2023
Germany expels two Iran diplomats over dual national's death penalty
Germany said Wednesday that it is expelling two diplomats from the Iranian embassy in Berlin in response to the death sentence an Iranian court handed down against an Iranian-German national....
22 February 2023
BDL circular No. 161 extended to the end of March
BEIRUT — Banque du Liban (BDL) on Wednesday decided to extend its main Circular No. 161 through the end of March, in an effort to mitigate dramatic fluctuations in the lira's parallel market value....
22 February 2023
Jordan sentences 3 to death over Islamic State links
A Jordanian court on Wednesday sentenced three people to death by hanging on charges of belonging to the Islamic State group and staging two bombing attacks, an AFP correspondent said....
22 February 2023
Gemayel notifies public prosecution over shortage of stamps for official documents
BEIRUT — MP and Kataeb Party head Sami Gemayel filed a notification Wednesday to the public prosecution over the shortage of stamps for verifying official documents, the state-run National News...
22 February 2023
Protests in Bekaa after arrest of illegal money exchangers
BEIRUT — The main road of Chtaura in Lebanon's Bekaa region was blocked with burning tires on Wednesday to protest the recent arrests of two illegal money changers in the area, the state-run...
22 February 2023
Turkey offers economic support in earthquake zone
ANTAKYA, Turkey — Turkey has launched a temporary wage support scheme and banned layoffs in 10 cities on Wednesday to protect workers and businesses from the financial impact of the massive...
22 February 2023
Woman loses bid to restore citizenship after joining IS group
A woman stripped of her British citizenship after traveling to Syria as a teenager to marry an Islamic State group fighter on Wednesday lost her legal battle to reverse the decision....
22 February 2023
Iran foreign minister in Iraq for security talks
Iran's top diplomat Hossein Amir-Abdollahian held talks with neighboring ally Iraq Wednesday to discuss stalled talks with arch-rival Saudi Arabia to ease regional tensions, as well as on border...
22 February 2023
Two flare launchers fall on houses in South Lebanon village
BEIRUT — Two Israeli flare launchers fell Tuesday night on homes in the South Lebanon village of Wadi al-Khansa, near the Israeli border, Khaled Zahran, a resident of the village told L'Orient...
22 February 2023
Lebanon schools close after earthquake, a decision justified for some, unnecessary for others
Schools in Lebanon were officially closed on Tuesday. The decision, announced by caretaker Education Minister Abbas Halabi, came after two tremors were felt on Monday evening. The tremors occurred...
Anne-Marie El-HAGE, 22 February 2023
Cabinet to meet next Monday to discuss public employees' salaries
BEIRUT — Najib Mikati's caretaker cabinet will meet on Monday to consider releasing funds to pay public servants' salaries on the basis of a constitutional budget deadline extension rule, caretaker...
22 February 2023
Israeli forces kill 11 Palestinians, injure dozens in West Bank raid
Israeli forces killed 11 Palestinians including a teenager Wednesday during an army raid in Nablus, the Palestinian health ministry said, in the deadliest escalation in the occupied West Bank since...
23 February 2023
Iran summons British envoy over 'threats' allegations
Iran has called in Britain's envoy in Tehran to protest after London alleged Tehran had made "threats" to the lives of UK-based journalists, state media reported on Wednesday....
22 February 2023
This Lebanese inventor built his own wind turbine to power his house
BEBNINE, Akkar governorate — Akkar, Lebanon’s northernmost governorate, is also the country’s windiest, experts say. With state-supplied electricity at little more than a trickle, some Akkar...
Madeline EDWARDS, 22 February 2023
Fire at Concord plant in Naameh 'under control,' firefighters say
BEIRUT — The fire that killed one employee Tuesday afternoon in the Concord household appliances factory in Naameh, south of Beirut, is "under control," Beirut Fire Brigade chief Maher Ajouz told...
Zeina ANTONIOS, 22 February 2023
Mikati says lira will bounce back to LL30,000 to the dollar if a president is elected
BEIRUT — Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati said on Tuesday night he expects the Lebanese lira to rise to LL30,000 against the dollar on the parallel market if Parliament succeeds in electing a...
22 February 2023
Iran says IAEA resolving nuclear enrichment ambiguities, report says
DUBAI — Inspectors from the United Nations' nuclear watchdog are in Tehran and are resolving "ambiguities," Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency quoted the country's nuclear chief Mohammad...
22 February 2023
Israel sentences West Bank militant to 22 months in prison
An Israeli military court on Tuesday sentenced Bassam al-Saadi, a senior member of Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad in the occupied West Bank, to 22 months in prison, the Israeli army said....
22 February 2023
US returns 77 stolen antiquities to Yemen
The United States has returned 77 looted antiquities to Yemen, US authorities said Tuesday, adding the objects would be housed "temporarily" in a museum in Washington in line with an agreement with...
22 February 2023
SGBL faces charges, supermarket dollarization, one dead in factory fire: Everything you need to know to start your Wednesday
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Mount Lebanon Court of Appeal Public Prosecutor Ghada Aoun pressed charges of “money laundering” against Société Générale de...
22 February 2023
Two new earthquakes felt in South Lebanon
BEIRUT — Two successive, light earthquakes were recorded off the Lebanese coast near Saida, South Lebanon, on Wednesday evening, according to Lebquake, the earthquake monitoring application of the...
