BEIRUT — Methane gas fumes emanating from the disused Naameh landfill, south of Beirut, aroused fears on Wednesday, prompting Environment Minister Nasser Yassin to visit the site and offer...
BEIRUT — Lebanese comedian Shaden Fakih was summoned Wednesday for trial at the Military Court on charges of “humiliating and harming the reputation of Internal Security Forces,” the note she...
BEIRUT — Hezbollah denounced Australia’s decision to classify it as a terrorist organization, accusing the country of demonstrating “servile submission to American and Zionist dictates.” Here is...
BEIRUT — Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri on Wednesday scheduled a Dec. 1 joint session for Parliament’s Finance and Budget Committee and Administration and Justice Committee to discuss the long...
The Tajeddines, a Lebanese Shiite family who made their fortune in Africa, are at the heart of a financial scandal exposed by the Congo Hold-Up investigation in which L’Orient-Le Jour took part....
At first glance, Global and Infinite Traders SAL (GAIT), an offshore company specializing in the import of offal and cheap cuts of beef from various origins to the Democratic Republic of Congo...
For more than six months, the European Investigative Collaborations (EIC), in collaboration with some 20 NGOs and media outlets, including L’Orient-Le Jour, has been carrying out an...
Placement on the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list of the US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), a financial weapon in the United States’s counter-terrorism fight, prohibits...
BEIRUT — In Wednesday trading, the lira dropped to a new record low of LL24,100 to the US dollar on the parallel market. The previous record low, LL24,000, was briefly touched on July 16 after...
BEIRUT — Lebanon's economic meltdown presents an opportunity to improve the country's environmental policies and tackle its festering waste management crisis, Environment Minister Nasser Yassin...
BEIRUT — A man was shot dead and another was wounded on Wednesday outside a school in the Zahriyeh district of Tripoli. Here is what we know: • A personal argument between the two...
BEIRUT — President Michel Aoun said on Wednesday that he “insists” on the launching of the forensic audit of the central bank’s accounts and that he wants the submission of the data required by...
BEIRUT — Health officials, municipalities and residents of some parts of Lebanon raised the alarm over the rise in COVID-19 numbers Wednesday, which coincides with the start of winter and the...
BEIRUT - The Environmental Committee of Kfar Hazir called for the closure of the Chekka and Heri quarries and cement factories on Wednesday, claiming that the emissions put children at risk of...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up. UNICEF detailed the devastating impact of the Lebanese crisis on children in a new report. A report released yesterday by...
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?
