BEIRUT — Embrace, a Lebanese non-profit organization (NGO) focused on mental health, announced on Thursday a new campaign aimed at raising awareness and breaking stigma around men's mental health...
On Thursday, the Higher Judicial Council (HJC) called on caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati and caretaker Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi to "withdraw their decisions" ordering security forces...
BEIRUT — A Lebanese ministerial delegation led by caretaker ministers Abdallah Bou Habib and Ali Hamiyeh, respectively in charge of foreign affairs and public works, presented their condolences to...
BEIRUT — Lebanon's Foreign Ministry on Thursday condemned Israeli attacks on the Palestinian city of Nablus that left eleven Palestinians, including a 16-year-old, dead and over 80 wounded by...
Reported missing on Monday, Sunni Sheikh Ahmad Rifai's whereabouts remain unknown. Rifai, who is known for his hostile stance on Hezbollah and the pro-Iranian axis in Lebanon, is originally from...
Switzerland's ambassador to Iran on Thursday faced accusations of betraying the women-led protest movement after she wore an all-enveloping black Islamic dress on a visit to a holy shrine alongside...
Everyone agrees: Abbas Ibrahim must remain at the head of the General Security, even after his retirement on March 2. But how? This is the question no one has been able to answer. With just a week...
BEIRUT — The Energy Ministry on Thursday afternoon announced a slight increase in fuel prices, after a decrease announced earlier in the morning. Here are the new prices: • Twenty liters of...
Meta on Thursday said that tens of millions of people in Iran are using Instagram despite government efforts to block the service due to months-long protests. Iran has been...
Turkish authorities have expanded a criminal probe into individuals responsible for buildings levelled by a deadly earthquake with 564 suspects identified, the interior minister has...
BEIRUT — Lebanese central bank governor Riad Salameh on Thursday denied charges which a senior judicial source said had been brought against him of money laundering, embezzlement and illicit...
“I am not trying to become premier again,” said caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati during a Tuesday interview on Al-Jadeed television channel.Mikati promised he would not seek a fourth term...
BEIRUT— A Lebanese judge has charged longtime central bank governor Riad Salameh, his brother Raja and one of his assistants with money laundering, embezzlement and illicit enrichment, a senior...
DUBAI — Oman's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) on Thursday said the Gulf Arab state's airspace will be open for all civilian carriers, a move that would enable Israeli airlines to utilize a...
ISTANBUL — Turkey's central bank lowered its policy rate by 50 basis points to 8.5 percent on Thursday, as expected, following a devastating earthquake that killed more than 43,000 people in...
Tunisian rights groups accused on Wednesday President Kais Saied of racism and hate speech after he said "hordes" of sub-Saharan African migrants were causing crime and posed a demographic threat....
BEIRUT — B7 explosive charges were found Wednesday evening without their detonators next to a church in Telya, southwest of Baalbeck, alongside a piece of paper with the handwritten words "To the...
BEIRUT — The Energy Ministry on Thursday announced a slight decrease in fuel prices. Here are the new prices: • Twenty liters of 95-octane gasoline: LL1,466,000, down by LL27,000 •...
The lead Palestinian negotiator of the Oslo accords with Israel, Ahmed Qorei, who went on to serve as prime minister in the self-rule authority it created, has died aged 85....
BEIRUT — London's High Court of Justice has issued a verdict holding chemical trading company Savaro Ltd. liable toward the victims of the Aug. 4, 2020 Beirut port blast, the Beirut Bar Association...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Mount Lebanon public prosecutor Judge Ghada Aoun accused caretaker premier Najib Mikati of “blatantly interfering in justice”...
ISTANBUL — The number of people killed in Turkey in this month's devastating earthquakes has risen to 43,556, the country's Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said overnight. Soylu told state...
The Israeli army and Palestinian militants traded air strikes and rocket fire in and around Gaza Thursday, a day after the deadliest Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank in nearly 20 years....
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
