BEIRUT — Four monkeypox cases have been recorded in Lebanon since June, the Health Ministry reported Friday, noting that all of the cases, who isolated at home, are male with an age average of 41.5...
A thick black smoke continued to rise yesterday from the Beirut port grain silos. Hundreds of tons of grain, trapped in these huge storage facilities since the Aug. 4, 2020, blast, have been raging...
BEIRUT — Head of General Security Abbas Ibrahim announced Friday that authorities will renew Lebanese passports expiring in six months for those wishing to visit holy lands in Iraq. Here’s what...
BEIRUT — Caretaker Energy Minister Walid Fayad met with Algeria's ambassador to Lebanon Abdelkarim Rakaibi in hopes of securing quantities of oil and gas from the country, which Lebanon accused two...
BEIRUT — Parliament, in its first legislative session after being elected, on Tuesday will be voting on 40 draft laws, including a law that lifts banking secrecy on some accounts, a law that would...
The facts On Monday, at 11:30 a.m., the Maronite Archbishop of Haifa and Jerusalem, who resides at the headquarters of the bishopric of Jerusalem, arrived in Ras Naqoura. He was arrested by...
BEIRUT — Caretaker Economy Minister Amin Salam announced Friday that a committee made up of judicial, security and managerial personnel has been formed to police bread production at bakeries and...
BEIRUT — The dismissal of Judge Fadi Akiki is “outside my competence as a minister,” said the caretaker Minister of Justice Henri Khoury on Friday. Here’s what we know: • After...
As Israeli army chief Aviv Kochavi landed Monday in Morocco for an unprecedented three-day visit, a handful of demonstrators gathered in the streets of the capital, opposite their Parliament, to...
BEIRUT —Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati followed up on the silos in the port of Beirut after the several fires that have occurred in July. Here’s what we know: •...
It's a long-awaited document every year: despite the crisis that has hit scientific research — like other sectors — hard, the water quality index of beaches in Lebanon was released on Thursday at...
BEIRUT — Maronite Patriarch Moussa al-Hage, archbishop of Haifa and Jerusalem, was received Friday morning by Lebanese President Michel Aoun at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, four days after he...
BEIRUT — After the results of the Lebanese baccalaureate were announced Thursday, “celebratory shootings took place,” injuring some and causing material damage in other places. Here’s what we...
BEIRUT — The open strike of the state-owned National News Agency began Friday, after holding a strike last week, which did not meet their demands, according to a statement by the state-owned NNA....
The confrontation between the Maronite Patriarch, Bechara al-Rai, and the main players hostile to his positions — notably Hezbollah — has taken a new turn in the wake of the case of the arrest on...
BEIRUT — UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Lebanon Najat Rochdi issued a statement calling for “everyone to refrain from fueling the media and social media with negative sentiments and...
“You will come back, won’t you?” It’s April 2014. The MPs for the Free Patriotic Movement and their Hezbollah allies left the session held to elect the president, after the first round....
BEIRUT — “The passport crisis will be gradually resolved from next October,” the Director General of General Security Abbas Ibrahim promised on Thursday, as some Lebanese find themselves stranded...
BEIRUT — The latest report on consumer prices issued by the Central Administration of Statistics showed that inflation has continued to rise at triple digits in Lebanon, while rest of the world...
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Beirut’s demands, Israel’s terms, and Washington’s stance: Behind the scenes of the negotiations
Lebanon stuck between a rock and a hard place: A US disarmament plan, or an extended expansion to the war?
