BEIRUT — Dozens of people demonstrated in Baabda, Wednesday evening, near the house of the Public Prosecutor of the Court of Cassation Ghassan Oueidat, who earlier in the day ordered the release of...
BEIRUT – Lebanon’s Minister of Justice Henri Khoury said Wednesday he intends to file a lawsuit against alternative media platform Megaphone , the state-run National News Agency reported. ...
Israeli forces shot dead two Palestinians in separate incidents Wednesday. According to sources on both sides, one of the deceased allegedly tried to stab soldiers, while the other, a teenager,...
BEIRUT — Lead investigator into the 2020 Beirut port blast, Tarek Bitar, "will not let go of the case until the indictment is issued," the judge told L'Orient-Le Jour Wednesday. He denounced "the...
Meandering through a maze of carefully constructed pop-ups, accentuated with purple — a color the Phoenicians are said to have invented — it’s as if a long lost piece of home had mysteriously...
Beirut port blast investigation head Judge Tarek Bitar’s decision on Monday to resume the probe into the 2020 explosion, which he was forced to suspend for over a year due to unresolved dismissal...
The judge leading the investigation into Beirut's deadly 2020 port blast told AFP Wednesday will not step down, rejecting charges brought against him by the Public Prosecutor at the Court of...
TRIPOLI, Libya — At least eight people died after a boat crammed with scores of informal migrants capsized off the Libyan coast, the local Red Crescent organization said Wednesday,...
BAGHDAD — Hundreds of people demonstrated near central bank headquarters in Baghdad on Wednesday to protest at the recent slide of the Iraqi dinar against the dollar that has triggered...
BEIRUT — The Public Prosecutor of Lebanon's Court of Cassation Ghassan Oueidat has ordered the release of all 17 suspects detained in connection with the deadly 2020 Beirut port blast, according to...
Iran on Wednesday imposed sanctions on 34 individuals and entities from the European Union and Britain in reaction to similar measures taken over Tehran's response to monthslong protests. The...
LONDON — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called on the Iranian government to provide answers about the death and burial of British-Iranian dual national Alireza Akbari who was...
Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said, in what the Israeli army described as a "stabbing attack."...
BEIRUT — The Rachid Karami International Fair in Tripoli is now a UNESCO World Heritage site, the UN body said Wednesday, in a long-awaited announcement that could help with preservation. The...
BEIRUT — The Lebanese lira on Wednesday afternoon hit an all-time low of LL57,000 against the US dollar on the parallel market, according to the online platform Lirarate. BDL's Sayrafa rate, in...
It has been two weeks since Banque Du Liban (BDL) decided to reinstate ceilings to transactions permitted under Circular No. 161, which allows the conversion of Lebanese lira into US dollars at...
CAIRO — Egypt's economy will grow 4.8 percent in the current fiscal year, faster than predicted by the government, but will not meet government targets over the medium term, a Reuters poll showed...
BEIRUT — The United States announced on Wednesday it would provide $72 million as cash stipends to Lebanon's security forces through a bespoke United Nations program after a currency meltdown...
Holding his phone to his face, Georges rides along the road on his scooter, barely looking up to dodge a pothole or a stopping car. He hasn’t reached his destination yet, but he has already...
Faced with the open strike that the Lebanese National Higher Conservatory of Music’s Teachers League started Jan. 3, interim head of the Lebanese National Higher Conservatory of Music Hiba al-Kawas...
BEIRUT — Fuel prices sharply increased in Lebanon again on Wednesday, according to the latest tariffs announced by the Energy Ministry. This new price hike comes as the Lebanese lira hit a new...
BEIRUT — Lebanon's lira appears to be in unhindered free-fall once again. As of 2 p.m. Wednesday afternoon, the national currency broke yet another record low, trading at around LL57,000 against...
BEIRUT — Protesters held a sit-in organized by a depositors' rights group in front of the Banque du Liban headquarters in Beirut Wednesday, voicing their rejection of recent circulars as...
BEIRUT — Gas stations across Lebanon closed Wednesday morning, with long queues forming in front of the few that remained open, as the new daily fuel prices have not yet been published by the...
BEIRUT — Drivers of tuk-tuks, three-wheeled taxi vehicles, cut off parts of the international highway in Akkar Wednesday morning to protest poor living conditions and high prices as the Lebanese...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Lebanon’s top prosecutor Judge Ghassan Oueidat rejected the Aug. 4, 2020 Beirut port blast probe lead investigator Judge Tarek...
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
