BEIRUT — Lebanon's ministers on Wednesday adopted two key measures in the hydrocarbons sector in a meeting chaired by President Joseph Aoun at the Baabda Presidential Palace, attended by Prime...
BEIRUT — Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Walid Boukhari said Thursday that Riyadh “is not in conflict with the Shiite community in Lebanon or abroad,” during a meeting with Sheikh Ali Khatib, vice...
U.S. President Donald Trump issued a stark warning to Israel over annexing the occupied West Bank in an interview published Thursday, as Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived in the country to...
I know the title makes it seem like I’m once again giving my take on men’s peculiar behaviors, but trust me, I’m going somewhere else with this. Picture this: you’re walking in one of...
Fewer than a hundred aid trucks operated by the U.N. and its partners have entered Gaza each day since a cease-fire earlier this month, a fraction of the total 600 trucks a day promised under the...
More than a dozen Muslim and Arab states condemned on Thursday a pair of Israeli bills calling for the annexation of the occupied West Bank, in a joint statement reported by the Saudi state news...
Turkey is in talks with its other countries over its potential participation in an international Gaza peacekeeping mission with its military "ready" if needed, a defense ministry source...
Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Abdullah al-Sheikh passed away in September after serving for a quarter of a century as Saudi Arabia’s grand mufti. His successor is 90-year-old Sheikh Saleh bin Fawzan bin...
Israel's far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Thursday expressed regret for what he called his "unfortunate" remarks about Saudi Arabia. He had earlier told Saudi Arabia it...
TRIPOLI — Tripoli authorities on Thursday raided several private electricity generators across the city, seizing non-compliant units and temporarily placing them under municipal management,...
BEIRUT — The Israeli military carried out a series of intense airstrikes across Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley on Thursday, killing two people and damaging schools, homes, businesses, and a mosque...
The article below is part of L’Orient Today’s selection of pieces translated from L’Orient-Le Jour’s special L’Orient des Écrivains (Writers’ edition) on Oct. 23, 2025 edition, produced for the...
BEIRUT — The Public Sector Employees Association’s strike — protesting deteriorating living and economic conditions — saw varying levels of participation across the country, including in Baabda,...
The article below is part of L’Orient Today’s selection of pieces translated from L’Orient-Le Jour’s special L’Orient des Écrivains (Writers’ edition) on Oct. 23, 2025 edition, produced for the...
We Design Beirut: The creative city in five stops A totem designed by Dia Mrad at Villa Audi. (Credit: The artist) The second edition of "We Design Beirut" opened Thursday with an...
“You are expatriates, not foreigners.” This slogan heads a new Lebanese Forces (LF) campaign, launched to encourage Lebanese expatriates to register with diplomatic missions to participate in the...
The narcotics unit, which arrested a Nigerian national on Sept. 7 as he attempted to smuggle about 50 drug capsules he had swallowed into Beirut's airport, revealed details of the case Thursday...
BEIRUT — Labor Minister Mohammad Haidar on Thursday called on all public institutions and private companies to enforce legislation on employing people with disabilities, giving them until the end...
BEIRUT — Prime Minister Nawaf Salam assured Lebanon's Grand Mufti Abdelatif Derian on Thursday that his government's decisions "will not be taken lightly," insisting that Cabinet...
The new head of the cease-fire monitoring committee, U.S. Gen. Joseph Clearfield, met on Thursday in Beirut with President Joseph Aoun, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam and Parliament Speaker Nabih...
BEIRUT — Seventy-seven Syrian families, approximately 420 individuals, left Lebanon on Thursday aboard 13 buses, as part of a sixth 'voluntary return' convoy, L'Orient Today's...
BEIRUT — Part-time contract professors at the Lebanese University are asking President Joseph Aoun, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, Education Minister Rima Karameh, and the president of the university,...
BEIRUT — Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri called Parliament to a plenary session on Tuesday, Oct. 28, at 11 a.m., according to the state-run National News Agency (NNA). “This session will be...
BEIRUT — Energy and Water Minister Joe Saddi on Wednesday signed an agreement with Association of Lebanese Industrialists President Salim Zeenni allowing industrialists to store self-imported fuel...
For the chimichurri: Finely chop the herbs (parsley and scallion) and the shallot. Mix them together in a bowl with the spices and zaatar. Add room-temperature olive oil (do not heat). Mix...
A school bus with children onboard overturned in Aramoun on Thursday morning, Yasa, an NGO for road safety, announced in a post on X, without reporting any injuries. In the video, the students...
"A storm in a water bottle,” said Industry Minister Joe Issa al-Khoury during his press conference on Sunday in Tannourine (North Lebanon). His intent was clear: to close the Tannourine affair...
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the Israeli Knesset's move towards the annexation of the occupied West Bank would threaten President Donald Trump's plan to end the war in...
U.N. rights expert Francesca Albanese on Wednesday criticized a U.S.-brokered cease-fire plan in Gaza as insufficient to address what she called a "genocide" of the Palestinian people by...
The World Health Organization led the medical evacuation of 41 critical patients and 145 companions out of Gaza, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday. Around 15,000 Gaza...
Iranian citizen Mahdieh Esfandiari, who was arrested in France in February accused of promoting terrorism on social media, has been conditionally released, the Iranian foreign ministry said...
21:32 Beirut Time Updated casualty toll: 2 killed, 3 injured in Israeli strike on Arab Salim In an update to the casualty toll of the Israeli strike on Arab Salim (Nabatieh district),...
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday that the Israeli parliament's move towards the annexation of the occupied West Bank would threaten President Donald Trump's cease-fire...
“I am going to drink Tannourine water!” With these words, and after sipping from the bottle in front of him, Industry Minister Joe Issa al-Khoury ended his Sunday press conference at the facility...
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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
