BEIRUT — Relatives of detainees in the case of the Aug. 4, 2022, port blast observed Thursday evening a sit-in in front of the home of Judge Souheil Abboud, chairman of the Higher Judicial Council,...
WASHINGTON — At least 31 civilians have been killed in an Iranian security forces crackdown on protests that erupted over the death of Mahsa Amini after her arrest by the morality...
United Nations (United States) — Veteran journalist Christiane Amanpour said Thursday that an interview with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was scrapped after he insisted she wear a headscarf, the...
BEIRUT-DAMASCUS – At least 34 migrants believed to have left Lebanon were found dead on Thursday off the northwestern Syrian port city of Tartous, while 14 others were rescued, according to Syrian...
GAZA CITY – Hamas threatened "repercussions" over Jewish visits to Jerusalem's super-sensitive Al-Aqsa mosque compound, in a warning issued Thursday, days before the start of the Jewish high...
The majority of political stakeholders involved in the formation of Lebanon’s government say they are waiting on caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati. Mikati is currently in New York at the 77th...
WASHINGTON — The United States issued fresh sanctions against Iran on Thursday, targeting Tehran's morality police and security officials, the Treasury Department announced in a post on its...
BEIRUT — Three Forces of Change MPs sent an open letter to the caretaker cabinet's head Najib Mikati and Defense Minister Maurice Slim on Thursday to inquire about an incident in which Lebanese...
RIYADH — Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz issued a royal decree on Thursday appointing Hala al-Tuwaijri as the new head of the country's Human Rights Commission with the rank of minister, replacing...
BEIRUT — A senior source at the military court confirmed to L'Orient Today on Thursday the release on bail of Abdel Rahman Zakaria, one of the accomplices of Sali Hafez who demanded access to...
ISTANBUL — Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan was quoted by broadcaster NTV on Thursday as saying that he discussed the start of direct flights from Russia to northern Cyprus with his Russian...
At least 34 migrants believed to have left Lebanon were found dead on Thursday off the northwestern Syrian port city of Tartous, while 14 others were rescued, according to Syrian authorities. The...
BEIRUT — A delegation of European ambassadors residing in Lebanon met Thursday with Lebanon's parliamentary Finance and Budget Committee "to stress [their] concerns over the delays on implementing...
“I am Sali Hafez,” said the 28-year-old woman, filmed in a live video on social media, as she stormed Blom Bank in Sodeco, accompanied by a dozen people. “I came today to get the money back for...
BEIRUT — “Banks will remain closed until the safety of bank employees is guaranteed by the state,” Lebanon's bank employees federation said in a statement Thursday, following a meeting to discuss a...
The official death toll from Iran's wave of popular unrest shot up to at least 17 on Thursday as anger flares over the in-custody death of the young Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini. However, the...
BEIRUT — It’s a familiar story: a law gets passed or a decree issued and nothing much changes. Legally, generator owners must provide electricity meters at their own expense and drivers can’t use...
BEIRUT — Public sector employees protested on Thursday in the southern city of Nabatieh and in northern Lebanon’s Tripoli, threatening to reactivate an open strike if they do not receive improved...
Riyadh seems willing to throw all its weight behind the effort to elect a reformist Lebanese president, rather than one backed by Hezbollah.The Saudi Ambassador to Beirut, Waleed Bukhari, began a...
Saudi Arabia has launched an astronaut program, state news agency SPA reported on Thursday, with the first journey to space set for 2023 carrying the country's first female astronaut. Reporting...
DUBAI — Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guards called on the judiciary to prosecute "those who spread false news and rumors," in a statement published on Thursday as tensions mount over the death of...
DUBAI — Protesters in Tehran and several other Iranian cities torched police stations and vehicles on Thursday as unrest triggered by the death of a woman detained by the Islamic Republic's...
BEIRUT — A Lebanese aid organization delivered a first round 30,000 liters of donated diesel to the North Lebanon Water Establishment's branch in Tripoli to run the area's hydraulic pumping...
BEIRUT — A migrant boat that departed Lebanon last week has been missing for 72 hours, according to families of the passengers, who say they lost contact with the boat on Monday . Some...
BEIRUT — The Lebanese Energy Ministry announced new fuel prices on Thursday. Here's what we know: • 20 liters of 95-octane gasoline now cost LL682,000, up by LL29,000 • 20 liters of 98-octane...
BEIRUT — Lebanon’s caretaker government has “succeeded in achieving many of the goals it set,” caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati said Wednesday to the UN General Assembly in New York, but the...
BEIRUT — Lebanon must make reforms required by the International Monetary Fund and hold "timely elections" to choose a new president by a constitutional deadline, representatives from the United...
UNITED NATIONS — Outstanding issues between Iran and the UN nuclear watchdog will not be wished away, agency chief Rafael Grossi said on Wednesday, while Tehran insists on the closure of the...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . The Association of Banks in Lebanon (ABL) announced Wednesday that the three-day bank closure, observed in response to last...
UNITED NATIONS — The United States and Iran clashed on security and human rights on Wednesday, with Iran's president demanding US guarantees to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and the US...
Lebanon stuck between a rock and a hard place: A US disarmament plan, or an extended expansion to the war?
Lebanese, Israeli delegation to meet in Washington; Lebanon files UN complaint against Iran: Everything you need to know this Thursday
