BEIRUT — The European Union announced in a press release Friday that it has allocated 3.7 million euros ($4 million) to a United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) project called...
CAIRO — Sudan's two-month-long war is extending across the country with the army and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) clashing in several areas Friday. Airstrikes and anti-aircraft...
A drone attack targeted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's ancestral town of Qardaha on Friday with two projectiles, killing one person and lightly injuring another, Syrian state news agency...
BEIRUT — France's special envoy to Lebanon, Jean-Yves Le Drian, met on Friday with several political leaders and the ambassadors of five countries involved in efforts to find a way out of the...
The Israeli army acknowledged Friday it "failed" to prevent an attack by Jewish settlers on a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank, during which one villager was killed....
During a visit to Beirut, William Bourdon, the founder of Sherpa, (a French anti-financial crime organization), announced on Wednesday that the trial of Banque du Liban (BDL) Governor Riad Salameh,...
According to a recent decision reported on Tuesday by LBCI, the Council of State ruled that the appeal filed by the Association des Banques du Liban (ABL) against a decree issued by the government,...
BEIRUT — “As long as bombs are not raining down on Beirut, you will find me there. Rain or shine,” 45-year-old car dealer Ali Hijazi told L’Orient Today on the phone from Berlin. According to...
United Nations aid transited Friday from regime-controlled northwest Syria to rebel-held areas for the first time since a devastating February earthquake, an AFP correspondent and a humanitarian...
Dozens of protesters from the Cry of the Depositors collective staged a sit-in on Friday morning in front of the Banque du Liban headquarters in Beirut's Hamra district. The sit-in was intended to...
JERUSALEM — Israeli settlers have built several new outposts in the occupied West Bank, signaling an acceleration of settlement expansion amid surging violence and in defiance of international...
The United Nations voiced deep concern Friday that the crackdown on freedoms in Tunisia was now targeting journalists, as it urged the Tunisian authorities to change course....
BEIRUT — French special envoy for Lebanon, Jean-Yves Le Drian, continued a series of meetings with Lebanese officials on Friday, sitting down with former presidential candidate Michel Moawad and...
A campaign launched by environmental NGOs halted works on the Naqoura coast. Images circulating on social media showed diggers and backhoes (excavating equipment) at work on the beach in the...
BEIRUT — The US Embassy in Beirut and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) announced Friday that they will begin distributing $55.5 million in temporary financial support to more than...
BEIRUT — A union of employees at state-run supplier Électricité du Liban (EDL) said Friday that it has suspended a strike that began earlier in June after a meeting with top EDL directors, "who...
Cypriot emergency services rescued 45 Syrian people from two irregular migration boats after receiving information that they were in distress near a coastal tourist resort, authorities said Friday....
BEIRUT — Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) leader Gebran Bassil on Thursday evening accused caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati of "submission to foreign powers against Lebanon's interests" in...
The United Nations high commissioner for human rights said on Friday that the situation in the occupied West Bank was deteriorating sharply, adding that Israeli forces had killed at least seven...
BEIRUT — Fuel prices increased in Lebanon, while gas cylinder prices remained unchanged, according to the latest tariffs announced by the Energy Ministry on Friday morning. Here are the new...
BEIRUT — The Saudi ambassador to Lebanon, Walid al-Bukhari, held an annual dinner at the Phoenicia Hotel in Beirut on Thursday, hosting Arab and foreign ambassadors, including the Iranian...
Oman announced Thursday the seizure of more than six million Captagon pills during a bust aided by Saudi Arabia that resulted in the arrest of a smuggling network. "In...
A group of Palestinian children helped sweep up rubble Thursday as their village in the occupied West Bank reeled from a near two-hour rampage carried out by Jewish settlers in revenge for a deadly...
Enormous crowds of worshippers thronged Mecca, Islam's holiest city, on Friday for the biggest hajj pilgrimage in years, with more than two million expected to brave the scorching Saudi Arabian...
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