Saudi Arabia condemns Israeli raid in Jenin
Saudi Arabia on Thursday strongly condemned a raid by Israeli commandos on the Palestinian town of Jenin that killed at least nine people and injured two, state news agency SPA reported. The...
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Israel urges NATO to confront Iran threat
Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Thursday urged the NATO military alliance to toughen its approach to Iran, as Tehran supplies drones to Russia for its war on Ukraine. ...
26 January 2023
Palestinian Authority says it has cut Israel security ties over Jenin raid
The Palestinian Authority said on Thursday it was suspending security coordination with Israel after a deadly army raid in the occupied West Bank, a move that could significantly impact Palestinian...
26 January 2023
Health Ministry to issue daily rates for unsubsidized medicines
BEIRUT — Lebanon's caretaker Health Minister Firass Abiad on Thursday said in a statement that the ministry will start issuing "a daily index for the unsubsidized medicines' prices according to the...
26 January 2023
Economy Ministry increases bread prices for second time in space of 48 hours
BEIRUT — Lebanon's Economy Ministry raised bread prices on Thursday for the second time within 48 hours, as the Lebanese lira continued its steep depreciation against the dollar amid a now...
26 January 2023
Why is the manoushe so expensive?
The simple zaatar manoushe, whose price today ranges from roughly LL30,000 to LL50,000 in Beirut, is priced in a manner comparable to imports. A key reason for this is that, contrary to what some...
Richard SALAME, 26 January 2023
Blinken to urge end to violence on Middle East trip
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel next week to Israel, the West Bank and Egypt where he will urge an end to violence after a deadly Israeli raid, the State Department said Thursday....
26 January 2023
Egypt unveils ancient 'secret keeper' tomb, golden mummy
Egypt unveiled on Thursday a gold-laced mummy and four tombs, including of an ancient king's "secret keeper," discovered in the Saqqara necropolis south of Cairo. The vast...
26 January 2023
Second sharp increase in fuel prices in one day
BEIRUT — Fuel prices increased in Lebanon for the second time in one day on Thursday, according to the latest tariffs announced by the Energy Ministry. This latest price hike comes after the...
26 January 2023
Two Brazilian 'mules' arrested at Beirut airport for cocaine trafficking
The Internal Security Forces (ISF) announced on Thursday the arrest of two Brazilian "mules" who had ingested cocaine in an alleged attempt to traffic the substance into Lebanon, the...
26 January 2023
Central bank freezes accounts of Hezbollah-linked money exchanger sanctioned by US
BEIRUT — Lebanon's central bank froze all bank accounts belonging to Lebanese currency exchange house CTEX and its owner Hassan Moukalled on Thursday, days after the US Treasury sanctioned...
26 January 2023
Iraq to hang 14 people for IS massacre of cadets
Iraq has sentenced 14 people to death by hanging for their role in the Islamic State (IS) group massacre of hundreds of army cadets in 2014, judicial officials said Thursday....
26 January 2023
PAC-Duty Free still has BIA’s duty-free stores
At first glance, the third time is the charm when it comes to the management and operation of the duty free stores at Beirut International Airport. On Tuesday, caretaker Public Works and Transport...
Fouad GEMAYEL, 26 January 2023
Iran releases dissident journalist, family says
Iranian dissident journalist Keyvan Samimi, imprisoned since December 2020, was released on Thursday, his family told AFP. Samimi, 74, had been sentenced to three years in...
26 January 2023
Israeli president urges EU to 'up fight against anti-Semitism'
Israel's President Isaac Herzog on Wednesday urged Europe to fight anti-Semitism "at all costs," in the face of a worrying increase in hatred being spread, notably online....
26 January 2023
Turkey says 'meaningless' to restore NATO dialogue with Sweden, Finland
ANKARA — Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Thursday it was "meaningless" to hold a trilateral meeting with Sweden and Finland to discuss their NATO bids after ...
26 January 2023
Traveler, 35, among French citizens detained in Iran, parents say
One of seven French detainees held in Iran is a "simple citizen of the world" who merely wanted to travel, his parents said Thursday, revealing his identity for the first time....
26 January 2023
Israeli army denies firing tear gas 'at a hospital deliberately' in West Bank
The Israeli army denied a Palestinian claim that soldiers deliberately fired tear gas at a hospital during a raid in the occupied West Bank on Thursday. "No one shot tear...
26 January 2023
Mikati, Berri and two ministers meet head of UN Peace Operations to discuss killing of Irish peacekeeper
BEIRUT — The head of UN Peace Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix on Thursday met with Lebanon's caretaker prime minister, parliament speaker, minister of foreign affairs and defense minister to discuss...
26 January 2023
From Sour to The Netherlands’ Newshour — a portrait of a roving reporter
NIJMEGEN, The Netherlands — Zainab Hammoud is shivering. The streets in The Netherlands are lightly blanketed with snow, after a bizarrely mild Christmas. The weather is one of the many things that...
Farah-Silvana Kanaan, 26 January 2023
New record low: Collapsing lira trades at above LL62,000 to the dollar
BEIRUT — The Lebanese lira on Thursday hit an all-time low, trading at above LL62,000 against the US dollar on the parallel market, after it hit the 60,000 threshold for the first time earlier in...
26 January 2023
Immediately released, head of port security flies to US
BEIRUT — The head of the security department at the port of Beirut, Ziad al-Awf, who was among the 17 people still detained in the Beirut port blast probe and released on Wednesday, returned to the...
26 January 2023
Turkish court rejects delay to party closure trial
Turkey's top court has rejected a Kurdish-backed opposition party's request to defer until after May elections a trial that could end in the party's dissolution, state media reported on Thursday....
26 January 2023
Iran minister urges tolerance for women over headscarves
An Iranian minister has called for greater tolerance towards women not wearing mandatory headscarves, amid months of protests triggered by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, media reported...
26 January 2023
Al-Azhar urges boycotts over Quran desecration
Egypt's Al-Azhar, the Sunni Muslim world's most prestigious educational institution, has called for the boycott of Swedish and Dutch products after far-right protesters destroyed Qurans in those...
26 January 2023
Interruption of Ogero services in Choueifat after breakdown
BEIRUT — Lebanese state-owned telecoms operator Ogero tweeted Thursday that an outage occurred at the Choueifat exchange, south of Beirut, "due to excess voltage on the generator" that runs it,...
26 January 2023
Protests against public prosecutor Oueidat after Beirut blast probe decisions: Our live coverage
15:28 Beirut Time Dear readers, As demonstrators depart from their protest to demand justice for the victims of the Beirut blast, we bring today's live coverage of their sit-in to a...
26 January 2023
Qatar in talks to join TotalEnergies' $27 billion Iraqi energy project
DUBAI/LONDON — Qatar is in talks to acquire a stake from French company TotalEnergies' (TTEF.PA) $27 billion cluster of energy projects in Iraq, three sources told Reuters,...
26 January 2023
Ukraine says downed 24 Iran-made drones overnight
Ukraine said Thursday it had shot down a cluster of Iranian-made attack drones launched by Russian forces from the Sea of Azov in the south of the country. "Attack UAVs...
26 January 2023
Palestinians say 9 killed in Israeli raid in West Bank
Israeli forces in a West Bank raid killed nine Palestinians Thursday, said officials in the occupied territory, while the Israeli military said troops traded fire with Islamist militants during a...
26 January 2023
Increase in fuel prices, second list expected this afternoon
BEIRUT — Fuel prices increased in Lebanon on Thursday, according to the latest tariffs announced by the Energy Ministry. This new price hike comes after the Lebanese lira hit a new record low on...
26 January 2023
Bahrain's crown prince calls Qatari emir in apparent step towards mending fences
DUBAI — Bahrain's crown prince spoke with Qatar's emir by telephone, the BNA state news agency reported late on Wednesday, in a sign the two Gulf states could move towards repairing relations two...
26 January 2023
Dueling judges, currency chaos, Rachid Karami fairground on UNESCO list: Everything you need to know to start your Thursday
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Lebanon’s top prosecutor judge Ghassan Oueidat charged Aug. 4, 2020 Beirut port blast lead investigating judge Tarek Bitar for...
