Syria to remove two zeros from its banknotes
The governor of Syria's central bank, Abdul Qadir al-Hasriya, announced Monday that his country will modify its currency by removing two zeros from its banknotes and printing new bills to...
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Menassa meets with Kuwait's crown prince
BEIRUT — Lebanese Defense Minister Michel Menassa met Monday with Kuwait's Crown Prince Sheikh Sabah Khaled al-Hamad al-Sabah as part of his official visit to Kuwait. Menassa emphasized...
L'Orient Today staff, 25 August 2025
Qassem walks a fine line: Backs a strong army, opposes Hezbollah disarmament
BEIRUT — Hezbollah’s Naim Qassem on Monday backed arming the Lebanese Army but rejected handing over the group’s weapons, defying the Nawaf Salam government’s stance. The head of Hezbollah...
L'Orient Today staff, 25 August 2025
Hospitals and journalists must 'not be targets,' says UN
Journalists and hospitals should never be targeted, the U.N. said Monday after an Israeli strike on a hospital in Gaza killed at least 20 people, including five journalists. "Journalists are...
AFP, 25 August 2025
UN Security Council still negotiating the future of peacekeepers
BEIRUT — The U.N. Security Council continued its discussions on Monday regarding the future of the United Nations Interim Force in southern Lebanon (UNIFIL), as the one-year extension sought by...
L'Orient Today staff, 25 August 2025
Is AI the next religion?: Roundtable at L'Orient-Le Jour's festival
It writes, it draws, it argues. It makes your job easier, and the future harder to predict. It promises efficiency, knowledge, maybe even salvation, but comes with no commandments, no prophets and...
L'Orient Today staff, 25 August 2025
Six hundred anti-Hezbollah figures show their support for Salam
BEIRUT — In the face of smear campaigns, supporters of Prime Minister Nawaf Salam continue to mobilize. On Monday, more than 600 anti-Hezbollah figures from the worlds of politics, media, and the...
L'Orient Today staff, 25 August 2025
Elon Musk's xAI sues Apple and OpenAI over AI competition, App Store rankings
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI sued Apple and ChatGPT maker OpenAI in U.S. federal court in Texas on Monday, accusing them of illegally conspiring to...
Reuters, 25 August 2025
Tens of thousands evacuated as Typhoon Kajiki hits
Vietnam evacuated tens of thousands of residents from coastal areas on Monday as Typhoon Kajiki made landfall, lashing the country's central belt with gales of more than 130 kilometres per...
AFP, 25 August 2025
Road safety: A deadly summer on Lebanon’s roads
Lebanon’s summer influx always throws its dark and beat-up roads into a state of chaos, and every year seems to be getting worse. Over 10 days, from Aug. 5 to Aug. 14, 28 people were killed and at...
Amelia Hankins, Marguerita Sejaan, 25 August 2025
Hikmat al-Hijri calls for a 'separate' region for Syria's Druze
BEIRUT — Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri, a member of the Druze Religious Council in Syria’s Sweida province, on Monday called on “honorable people around the world and free nations to join [him] in...
AFP/ L'Orient Today staff, 25 August 2025
Can the Lebanese Medicines Agency deliver on its promises?
For the first time in its history, Lebanon is poised to create a National Medicines Agency, modeled on counterparts in France and the United States. More than three years after the law enabling its...
Malek Jadah, 25 August 2025
Association urges Lebanese authorities to ban Roblox gaming platform
BEIRUT — The "Lebanese Association for Statistics, Training and Development" (LASTD) called on Monday for the government to ban the video game creation platform Roblox, citing risks of...
L'Orient Today staff, 25 August 2025
ABL says it is optimistic about implementing 'real solutions by 2026'
BEIRUT — In the latest monthly report, Fady Khalaf, secretary general of the Association of Banks in Lebanon (ABL), announced the appointment of international firm Ankura to advise on...
L'Orient Today staff, 25 August 2025
Polish president's veto threatens Ukraine's Starlink access amid refugee aid dispute
Ukraine's access to Elon Musk's satellite internet service Starlink could be cut due to the Polish president's veto of a refugee aid bill, a Polish deputy prime minister said on Monday,...
Reuters, 25 August 2025
Army announces arrest of 'dangerous fugitive' involved in the murder of Pascal Sleiman
BEIRUT — The Lebanese Army announced Monday that one of the individuals arrested on August 14, 2025, was found to be linked to the April 2024 kidnapping and assassination of Pascal Sleiman, a...
L'Orient Today staff, 25 August 2025
‘We sleep with masks on’: Zgharta district residents' lives next to a month-long dumpsite fire
For just over a month, many residents of the Zgharta district (North Lebanon) have been suffocated by toxic emissions from an illegal landfill that burns day and night.Located in a valley in the...
Zeina ANTONIOS, 25 August 2025
Diaspora vote: Race against time begins
We will have to wait until September. This is how several political circles summarized to L'Orient-Le Jour the stalemate in talks over the electoral law since June. The standstill is the result...
Yara ABI AKL, 25 August 2025
One killed in Israeli drone strike on Tibnin
A man was killed Monday morning in an Israeli drone strike on Tibnin, in the Bint Jbeil district of South Lebanon, according to L’Orient Today’s correspondent in the South and the Health Ministry....
25 August 2025
Israel 'ready to support Lebanon in its efforts to disarm Hezbollah'
BEIRUT — The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday welcomed Lebanon’s “efforts to work toward disarming Hezbollah” by the end of 2025 and proposed to reduce Israel’s...
L'Orient Today staff, 25 August 2025
'Limited attempts to bridge widening gap' between Rai and Hezbollah-Amal
BEIRUT — "Limited attempts to bridge the widening gap between the Lebanese Maronite Patriarchate and the Hezbollah-Amal alliance” are taking place, Asharq al-Awsat reported Sunday, following...
L'Orient Today staff, 25 August 2025
HSBC to drop over 1,000 wealthy Middle Eastern clients, including Lebanese
BEIRUT — HSBC is winding down ties with hundreds of wealthy Middle Eastern clients at its Swiss private bank, as the British lender seeks to cut exposure to customers it considers high-risk,...
L'Orient Today staff, 25 August 2025
Salam meets US Congress delegation at Grand Serail
BEIRUT — Prime Minister Nawaf Salam met Monday at the Grand Serail with U.S. Congressmen Darin LaHood and Steve Cohen, along with an accompanying delegation, to discuss "Lebanon’s efforts to...
25 August 2025
Sharaa to address UN in September, first Syrian president to do so since 1967
Syrian interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa is set to take part in the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly in September in New York, an official from the Foreign Ministry told AFP on...
AFP/ L'Orient Today staff, 25 August 2025
Sharaa says 'made concessions' on Hezbollah and 'wounds' it inflicted on Syria
"We have made concessions regarding the wounds that Hezbollah inflicted on Syria, and we chose not to continue the fight after the liberation of Damascus": These remarks from Syrian...
L'Orient Today staff, 25 August 2025
A scam suffered by Elissa escalates into a security scandal
A $2.7 million fraud case involving Lebanese singer Elissa, which occurred during the economic crisis in 2019, came to light last week when the alleged fraudster, Ali Qassem Hammoud, managed to...
Claude ASSAF, 25 August 2025
Police arrest man in Akkar suspected of fatally stabbing his uncle
The Internal Security Forces (ISF) on Monday arrested the main suspect in a homicide committed in Akkar, northern Lebanon, after two weeks of pursuit. The man is the nephew of the victim, who...
25 August 2025
Hezbollah and Amal postpone protest against disarmament plan
The protest announced earlier on Monday by the labor unions of Hezbollah and the Amal Movement, against the government’s decision to reclaim the monopoly on arms and disarm Hezbollah, has been...
25 August 2025
Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital: At least 20 killed, including 5 journalists
Two Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital in Gaza on Monday killed at least 20 people, including four journalists, and left dozens injured, according to Gaza's Health Ministry. An initial...
L'Orient Today staff/Reuters, 25 August 2025
UNIFIL mandate renewal for one year only?
Tough negotiations are taking place behind the scenes at the Security Council as a crucial vote nears on renewing the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). Calling its...
Jeanine JALKH, 25 August 2025
Israeli strikes on Sanaa kill six, Houthis say
Israeli strikes in Yemen's capital Sanaa on Sunday killed at least six people, according to the country's Iran-backed Houthi rebels, who have repeatedly launched missiles and drones at...
25 August 2025
'Hell is other people': Why the Arab world struggles to break free from sectarianism
On one side, an old regime that oppressed the "majority" under the pretense of defending "minorities"; on the other, a new regime relying on the "majority" to justify...
Soulayma MARDAM BEY, 25 August 2025
UN Security Council to vote on UNIFIL mandate renewal
The United Nations Security Council will vote Monday on the future of the blue helmet peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon that has faced U.S. and Israeli opposition. The Council will vote on...
25 August 2025
Netanyahu inflexible amid growing internal pressure
Benjamin Netanyahu seems determined to go his own way, despite mounting international pressure and increasingly sharp divisions within his own camp, with military leaders, opposition parties and...
Dany MOUDALLAL, 25 August 2025
Syria faces its first post-Assad legislative elections
After more than 50 years of dictatorship, post-Assad Syria is preparing to hold its first legislative elections, scheduled for mid-September. The stakes are high for the interim government led by...
Clémentine Mariuzzo, 25 August 2025
After the double Israeli strike that killed 5 journalists in Gaza, Al Jazeera denounces the 'relentless targeting' of media | LIVE
21:56 Beirut Time Thank you for following our live coverage. Join us again tomorrow for more updates. 21:15 Beirut Time MSF slams Israel over 'impunity'...
Muntasser Abdallah, Marguerita Sejaan, Ghadir Hamadi, 25 August 2025
Burj al-Barajneh operation: A serious plan or just for show?
The operation to hand over weapons from Palestinian camps to the army lasted only a few hours. It quickly showed its limitations, even as some continue to describe it as a first step to be followed...
Scarlett HADDAD, 25 August 2025
Israeli bulldozers uproot hundreds of trees in West Bank village
Israeli bulldozers uprooted hundreds of trees in al-Mughayyir, in the occupied West Bank, on Sunday in the presence of the Israeli military, according to AFP journalists who witnessed the scene....
