Dozens of migrants missing in latest shipwreck
Thirty-four migrants from sub-Saharan Africa were missing off Tunisia's Mediterranean coast Friday after their boat capsized, a court official said, the latest in a string of tragedies this month....
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Prisoners will be without food in a week, suppliers threaten
BEIRUT — Several companies supplying food to inmates in prisons threatened on Friday to suspend delivery to some facilities if the state does not pay them starting next week, said a statement...
24 March 2023
ISF cracks down on prostitution ring
Internal Security Forces on Friday reported cracking down on a prostitution ring that advertises its services on social media. In a statement, the ISF said that the network secured prostitutes in...
24 March 2023
Postponement of daylight savings time sparks mockery and religious tension
The decision to postpone the onset of daylight savings time in Lebanon took many by surprise and was adopted almost unilaterally, during an almost surreal discussion between outgoing Prime...
Zeina ANTONIOS, 24 March 2023
Senior US official received by Berri, Mikati and Bou Habib
BEIRUT — US Under Secretary of State for the Middle East Barbara Leaf visited Friday Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati and caretaker Minister of Foreign...
24 March 2023
Presidential elections: Does Joseph Aoun still stand a chance?
Is a Joseph Aoun presidency becoming more complicated? While it may be too early to announce the end of the army chief’s candidacy, recent indications suggest the man who was once seen as the most...
Mounir RABIH, 24 March 2023
Man found burned in car was first shot, Civil defense
BEIRUT — The Civil Defense on Friday discovered that the man who was found dead in a burned car on Thursday, near Spinneys in Tripoli, had been shot before the fire. Civil Defense member Ali Mousa...
24 March 2023
ISF arrests teens, adult suspected in boy's fall from bridge
BEIRUT — Internal Security Forces (ISF) said Friday they had arrested several people suspected of assaulting a teenage boy and causing him to fall off a bridge near a mall in Dbayeh in early March....
24 March 2023
IMF won’t give in when it comes to losses
While on a ten day visit to Lebanon, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) delegation took stock Thursday of the economic and financial situation in the country, dwelling on Lebanese authorities’...
Philippe HAGE BOUTROS, 24 March 2023
Islamic State group kills 15 truffle hunters in Syria: Monitor
The Islamic State group killed 15 people foraging for desert truffles in central Syria by cutting their throats, while 40 others are missing, a war monitor said Friday. "At...
24 March 2023
Israel's Netanyahu met by protests on London visit
LONDON — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was greeted by shouts and whistles from hundreds of protesters outside 10 Downing Street on Friday, as intensifying anger over his judicial...
24 March 2023
Missile attack targets US base in east Syria: Security source, media
BEIRUT — A US base at the al-Omar oil field in Syria's northeast was targeted with a missile attack on Friday morning, according to Lebanese pro-Iranian TV channel Al Mayadeen and a security...
24 March 2023
Army, Zeaiter family members exchange gunfire in Bekaa
BEIRUT — Military personnel and relatives of drug kingpin Nouh Zeaiter exchanged gunfire Thursday night at a Lebanese Army checkpoint in Hrabta, in the Bekaa Valley, L'Orient Today 's...
24 March 2023
Iran condemns France for 'repression' of protests
On Friday, Iran condemned France for its repression of protests which resulted in the arrest of 450 people and left many police personnel injured. Protesters clashed with French security forces on...
24 March 2023
Depositors protest, burn tires at BDL: 'I saved up my salary and it was taken from me'
BEIRUT — Members of the Cry of the Depositors group burnt tires and protested in front of the Banque du Liban headquarters in Beirut Friday morning after a week of wildly fluctuating exchange rates...
24 March 2023
Parliament bureau postpones meeting amid controversy over municipal elections
Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has decided to indefinitely postpone the bureau meeting he had initially scheduled for next Monday. While the main concerned figures indicated this decision is...
Salah HIJAZI, 24 March 2023
Israeli attorney general: Netanyahu involvement in judicial overhaul is illegal
JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu violated the law by saying he would get personally involved in a judicial overhaul plan, the country's attorney-general said on Friday. In...
24 March 2023
At HSBC, Lebanese banker Patrick George succeeds Georges Elhedery
The British multinational bank HSBC this week named Patrick George as the head of markets and securities services, according to Reuters. The Lebanese-born George is in a key position within the...
24 March 2023
Fuel prices decrease
BEIRUT — Fuel prices decreased in Lebanon on Friday morning, according to the latest tariffs announced by the Energy Ministry. Here are the new prices: • Twenty liters of 95-octane...
24 March 2023
Yemen's children threatened by aid funding shortfall: UN
The UN warned Friday it could be forced to slash support for children in Yemen without a funding boost, a war-torn country where it said dozens already die daily from "preventable causes."...
24 March 2023
Netanyahu summons Israeli defense minister as judicial overhaul strains coalition
JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu summoned his defense chief on Thursday after reports the minister wanted to halt the government's judicial overhaul plans, as cracks opened in...
24 March 2023
Daylight savings postponed, cabinet to meet Monday, IMF disappointment: Everything you need to know to start your Friday
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . A country choosing to “randomly change its timing could cause a lot of chaos,” cybersecurity expert Roland Abi Najem told...
24 March 2023
US carries out air strikes in Syria after American contractor killed
WASHINGTON — The US military carried out multiple air strikes in Syria on Thursday night against Iran-aligned groups who it blamed for a deadly drone attack that killed an American contractor,...
