BEIRUT — Beirut Governor Marwan Abboud issued a series of measures on Monday aimed at reducing the risk of fires amid Lebanon's ongoing heatwave. In a statement, Abboud said that the Beirut Fire...
BEIRUT — Najib Mikati's caretaker cabinet held its first meeting dedicated to the study of the 2023 draft budget on Monday. "The budget issue did not take much time for discussion within the...
BEIRUT — Lebanese caretaker ministers demanded the appointment of a new Banque du Liban (BDL) governor during a Monday cabinet meeting. “The term extension of Banque du Liban Governor Riad Salameh...
BEIRUT — The case of Lynn Taleb, a 5-year-old girl who died in early July after repeated sexual assault, has been referred to the investigating judge in North Lebanon, Samaranda Nassar, the judge...
The sharp economic deterioration started in October 2019 — and was exacerbated by the COVID pandemic and the tragic Beirut port explosion — led to a significant contraction in economic output,...
BEIRUT — National Social Security Fund (NSSF) employees announced Monday that they will suspend all their activities on Thursday to protest against the deterioration of their working conditions in...
Iraq has condemned the burning of a copy of the Quran in front of its embassy in Denmark on Monday, the state news agency INA cited the foreign ministry as saying. The ministry...
Paris Saint-Germain has given Saudi club Al Hilal permission to speak to Kylian Mbappe after tabling a world record 300-million-euro ($333 million) bid, a source close to the negotiations told AFP...
BEIRUT — Administrative Judge Carl Erani issued a decision Monday compelling the Ministry of Finance to hand over the forensic audit of Banque du Liban (BDL) accounts to the Kataeb party, party...
BEIRUT — Sunday evening saw yet another episode of child abandonment: a baby boy found, alone, on the side of the road behind a petrol station in Tripoli's Qobbeh neighborhood. According to...
BEIRUT — The Supreme Council of the Chaldean sect in Lebanon issued a statement Monday denouncing the Iraqi president's revocation of a 2013 decree protecting their Patriarch in Baghdad Louis Sako....
BEIRUT — "For eight months now, I have been living through suffering that I do not wish for any mother." Kuwaiti producer and journalist Nadia Ahmad, who lives in Lebanon and is fighting for the...
The four deputy-governors of Banque du Liban (BDL) — namely first deputy governor Wasssim Mansouri, second deputy governor Bachir Yakzan, third deputy governor deputy Salim Chahine and fourth...
A small group of protesters in Denmark on Monday set fire to a copy of the Quran in front of the Iraqi embassy in Copenhagen, risking a further deterioration of diplomatic relations between the two...
Since Thursday, tension between Sweden and Iraq has escalated. Iraq expelled its Swedish ambassador and recalled its own ambassador from the Nordic country. This reaction came after Salwan Momika,...
Archaeologists working on a 2,000-year-old Roman cemetery discovered in Gaza last year have found at least 125 tombs, most with skeletons still largely intact, and two rare lead sarcophaguses, the...
BEIRUT — Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati met on Monday with the four vice governors of Banque du Liban (BDL) ahead of the scheduled end of BDL Governor Riad Salameh's 30-year term this...
Nine people died, including four soldiers, when a civilian plane crashed at Port Sudan airport on Sunday evening, the army said. A child survived the crash of the Antonov...
Army and security chiefs from Jordan and Syria met on Sunday to curb a growing drug trade along their mutual border that has seen deadly skirmishes, blamed mainly on pro-Iranian militias who...
BEIRUT — Former Lebanese minister Ahmad Sami Minkara died on Monday at the age of 85. A retired general, Minkara was the Tourism Minister under Rachid Solh in 1992 and Education Minister from...
Italy hosted Mediterranean leaders, including Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati, in Rome on Sunday at a conference aimed at extending an EU-backed deal with Tunisia to curb the arrival...
A library in Israeli-occupied east Jerusalem offers a rare glimpse into Palestinian history with its treasure trove of manuscripts dating back hundreds of years before the creation of Israel....
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Mount Lebanon Judge Joelle Abou Haidar shuttered child care association “village de paix et d'amour” for alleged sexual abuse...
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
