Wildfire in Akkar reignited and spreading rapidly
BEIRUT — A fire that broke out Saturday in Wadi Halsban between Akkar al-Atiqa and Qobeiyat reignited Sunday and is spreading rapidly across areas due to the speed of the wind, according to...
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SSNP pays tribute to victims of shipwreck off Syria
BEIRUT — Supporters of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party paid tribute Sunday to the victims of the sinking of an illegal migrant boat that departed Lebanon last Thursday and which has left at...
25 September 2022
Reopening of banks: Mouttahidoun collective promises depositors will take action
BEIRUT — The lawyers' collective Mouttahidoun criticized on Sunday the decision of the banking sector to reopen on Monday, saying that depositors' response to the "abuses of the banks" will be...
25 September 2022
An entire nation’s childhood held hostage
Since 2019, Lebanon’s economic crisis has progressively worsened, and the protracted state of the debilitating depression has cemented feelings of perpetual despair across the country. Core...
Fadi Nicholas Nassar and Sarah Hague, 25 September 2022
UAE signs energy agreement with Germany's Scholz
The president of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, has signed an agreement with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz that covers accelerating energy security and industrial...
25 September 2022
Any attempt to obstruct the presidential election aims to bring down the republic, Rai says
BEIRUT — As the end of President Michel Aoun's mandate approaches on Oct. 31, Maronite Patriarch Bechara al-Rai is multiplying his calls to find a successor. "Any attempt to obstruct the...
25 September 2022
Iranian Oscar-winning director urges 'solidarity' with protesters
Iran's two-time Oscar-winning director Asghar Farhadi on Sunday urged people worldwide to "stand in solidarity" with protesters following the death of Mahsa Amini in the custody of the country's...
25 September 2022
Man released in Baalbeck more than a year after being kidnapped
BEIRUT — Abdullah Nasr El-Din Taha, who was kidnapped one year ago from his hometown of Kamed al-Lawz in Western Bekaa, was released Sunday morning in Baalbeck by unidentified people. According...
25 September 2022
Iran will act decisively after biggest protests in years, president says
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran must deal decisively with protests that have swept the country after the death in custody of a woman detained by the Islamic Republic's morality...
25 September 2022
Army arrests Jounieh prison fugitive in Akkar
BEIRUT — The Lebanese Army on Sunday arrested one of the 19 fugitives who escaped Friday night from a prison in Jounieh , the main city in Lebanon's Kesrouan district. The arrest took place at an...
25 September 2022
Lebanese banks to return to work Monday but with adapted procedures
Ten days after the unprecedented wave of bank holdups undertaken by depositors challenging the banking restrictions in force in a crisis-stricken Lebanon, the Association of Banks in Lebanon...
Philippe HAGE BOUTROS, 25 September 2022
Saudi foreign minister warns Lebanon against becoming a 'starting point for terrorists'
BEIRUT — Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Affairs Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah reaffirmed Saturday “the importance of implementing comprehensive structural, political and economic reforms"...
25 September 2022
After paying for gas, the average-earning Lebanese teacher has only $3 a month to live on
Lebanon’s Education Ministry is forcing the country’s tens of thousands of public and private school teachers into ever “further austerity” as the 2022-21 school year begins, according to a study...
Anne-Marie El-HAGE, 25 September 2022
Death toll rises to more than 100 in migrant boat shipwreck off Syria
BEIRUT — The total death toll in the shipwreck of a migrant boat that left Lebanon and sank off Syria on Thursday has risen to over 100, according to a statement made Sunday afternoon by the...
25 September 2022
Palestinian fighter killed by Israeli troops in West Bank
NABLUS, Occupied West Bank — Israeli troops killed a Palestinian fighter in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, Palestinian sources said, with Israel’s army saying soldiers fired on “armed suspects”...
