Foreign Minister Joe Rajji met Tuesday with the Secretary-General of the Arab League, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, and Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty on the sidelines of the 163rd session of the...
Syrian authorities said Tuesday they had arrested a former officer in the feared security apparatus of ousted ruler Bashar al-Assad, the latest such announcement as the new government pursues...
President Joseph Aoun met a delegation of Emirati officials on Tuesday at the Baabda Palace to discuss the evolution of bilateral relations between Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates (UAE),...
The United States issued new sanctions on Tuesday targeting Iranian liquefied petroleum gas magnate Seyed Asadoollah Emamjomeh and his corporate network, the Treasury Department said, amid ongoing...
The fire index was higher than the seasonal normal on Tuesday and Wednesday, due to strong khamsin winds blowing over Lebanon. These dry, hot and dusty winds are expected to reach 80...
BEIRUT — Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri announced a plenary legislative session for Thursday at 11:00 a.m. to discuss various bills and proposals on the agenda, the state-run National News Agency...
True to its habits, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) waited for the second day of its spring meetings with the World Bank in Washington to present the updated version of its main report on the...
Considered a potential successor to Pope Francis, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Pierbattista Pizzaballa, praised on Tuesday the commitment of the sovereign pontiff to the Gaza Strip....
At least 26 Palestinians have been killed and 60 injured in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, according to a preliminary report issued by the enclave’s Health Ministry....
Lebanon’s Foreign Minister, Youssef Raji on Tuesday, is expected to summon the Iranian Ambassador to Lebanon, Mujtaba Amani, in the coming days following the ambassador’s controversial comments...
A floor of a residential building located near the Tayyouneh roundabout, in Beirut's southern suburbs, collapsed Tuesday afternoon. According to the Civil Defense on site, the collapse was due...
The names he has given to his restaurants are eloquent, full of good feelings and good flavors. With Albé, then Âme, where he has put a large part of his soul and Lebanese cuisine, from labneh to...
Sheikh Dr. Hussein Ezzat Atwi, a senior leader of al-Jamaa al-Islamiya and a prominent figure in the Fajr Forces military wing, was assassinated by an Israeli drone strike on Tuesday morning near...
Two leaders of the armed wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), an ally of Hamas, have been arrested by the new Syrian authorities, announced the Iran-backed group on Tuesday, calling for their...
In Lebanon’s financial collapse, “protecting depositors” has become a political slogan. It reappears in the latest position paper by Executive Magazine, produced in partnership with the Lebanese...
Nasser Khalaf's children climbed a steep road to a pile of rubble on the outskirts of Khiam, hoping to find scraps of metal. Since the escalation of war between Israel and Hezbollah last...
BEIRUT — Israeli drone strikes killed two men in Lebanon on Tuesday, including an al-Jamaa al-Islamiya commander whose vehicle was targeted in the town of Baawerta, in the Aley district about 20...
A patrol from the State Security Office in Hermel, part of the Baalbek-Hermel Regional Directorate, seized a large quantity of drugs, Tuesday in the outskirts of Nahle, L'Orient Today's...
BEIRUT — Strong words from Hezbollah, followed by a deadly escalation from Israel, with the Lebanese state caught between the two. In a speech on Saturday, Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem announced,...
BEIRUT - President of the YASA association specializing in road safety, Ziad Akl, denounced, in a video posted on X , the danger posed by the presence of manholes without covers in Hazmieh, east...
For years, the 272 icons of the Abu Adal collection, created between the 15th and 20th centuries, were displayed or stored in their large family home in Mar Moussa, in the mountains. This renowned...
As the Vatican announced on the morning of April 21, 2025, the death of Pope Francis at the age of 88, we offer you a (re)reading of this interview, published in 2017.For a year and a half, he...
They are at an impasse again. Cited on Sunday by AFP, Qatar's head negotiator lamented the slow pace at which indirect talks between Israel and Hamas around reviving the Gaza cease-fire are not...
BEIRUT - During a podcast from the local channel al-Jadeed, MP Camille Chamoun, president of the National Liberal Party (NLP), answered questions about the Lebanese civil war (1975-1990), which...
China expressed on Tuesday its hope for "in-depth" exchanges with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, who is expected this week in Beijing for a visit aimed at "enhancing mutual...
The Oceanographic Museum of Monaco is returning to its roots. After a period focusing on the earth's poles, the institute is setting its sights on what is literally at its feet: the Mediterranean...
Hamas delegation is en route to Cairo to discuss with mediators "new ideas" for a truce in the Gaza Strip after 18 months of war, a Palestinian movement official told AFP on Tuesday. The...
The Vatican announced this morning that Pope Francis’ funeral will be held on Saturday, April 26, at 8 a.m. GMT (11 a.m Beirut time) in St. Peter's Square, in front of the basilica of the same...
Was he conservative, liberal, or progressive? Commentators around the world will be scratching their heads to figure out where the pope, who has just passed away, stood ideologically. For people...
The price of an ounce of gold surpassed the $3,500 mark on Tuesday for the first time in history, driven by the trade war and tensions between Donald Trump and the Fed chairman, which caused Wall...
The Palestinian civil defense announced that Israeli airstrikes killed at least 25 people in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday morning. Nine people were killed and six others are missing after an Israeli...
Several people were sentenced to prison on Monday by the Kuwaiti judiciary in a case of false accusations of drug possession targeting a Lebanese doctor in Kuwait, according to local medias. Found...
The second round of nuclear talks between the U.S. and Iran, mediated by Oman, on Saturday made significant progress, officials from both countries have said, and a third meeting is scheduled for...
Harvard sued Donald Trump's administration on Monday over the freezing of federal subsidies intended for the U.S. university, a new step in the standoff between the institution and the White...
A military leader of al-Jamaa al-Islamiya, a Lebanese party derived from the Muslim Brotherhood and allied with Hamas, was killed Tuesday morning in an Israeli drone strike in Baaouerta (Aley),...
Lebanon: One dead in Israeli strike south of Beirut (Civil Defense)
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The Palestinian Civil Defense announced that Israeli airstrikes killed at least seven people in the Gaza Strip Tuesday morning. Two strikes overnight in western Gaza City resulted in four and two...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Tuesday, April 15, 2025Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch today:Lebanon declared three days of national mourning...
Lebanon stuck between a rock and a hard place: A US disarmament plan, or an extended expansion to the war?
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