CAIRO — Egypt, home to ancient pyramids and Red Sea resorts, aims to boost tourism by up to 30 percent annually over the next five years, bringing in private firms to operate sites and inaugurating...
The devastating Feb. 6 earthquake and aftershocks that hit southern Turkey have caused damage worth over $34 billion in the country, the World Bank (WB) said on Monday. The...
Switzerland's financial regulatory authority has investigated 12 banks and launched enforcement proceedings against two of them in relation to corruption charges against longtime central banker...
The Lebanese Lira surpassed LL85.000 to the dollar on the parallel market Monday evening, marking yet another record in the depreciation of the currency. According to the Lirarate platform, the...
Dear readers, As we do every year, we want to update you on our newspaper's evolution, including our potential challenges, ambitions and decisions. In 2022, we experienced significant ups and...
The United Nations raised around $1.2 billion on Monday to deliver aid to millions of people going hungry in war-ravaged Yemen, amid hopes that a fragile truce could foster a lasting peace. The...
ANTAKYA, Turkey — It sits there on a small, filthy generator for all to see. Men come and go next to the object without paying attention to it. They are too busy following the scene below, as a...
Delegated by Patriarch Bechara Rai to help initiate inter-Christian dialogue around the presidential elections, the Maronite Bishop of Antelias Antoine Bou Najm met on Monday with three Forces of...
Practically, Bashir Gemayel was already Lebanon’s president before his election in August 1982. This is what a realistic reading of the political and military developments of the time shows, even...
BEIRUT — The archive room of the Lebanese National News Agency (NNA) was broken into and several computers, including a server containing photos, were stolen, announced caretaker Minister of...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday asked for forgiveness over rescue delays while visiting one of the areas hit hardest by the deadly earthquake earlier this month. Erdogan, who is...
Landmines planted by jihadists killed 10 civilians in central Syria on Monday, state media reported, the latest in a wave of deadly incidents involving truffle hunters. "Nine citizens were killed...
Iran said Monday the head of the UN's nuclear watchdog, Rafael Grossi, will visit Tehran "in the coming days," amid a row over uranium enrichment levels in the Islamic Republic....
Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry on Monday paid a visit to Turkey in a show of solidarity after a devastating earthquake that claimed tens of thousands of lives in Turkey and neighboring...
Najib Mikati's caretaker cabinet, which has been serving in this capacity for the past nine months, did not on Monday move to extend the mandate of the Director of General Security Abbas Ibrahim,...
Since the deadly Feb. 6 earthquake that killed more than 50,000 people in Turkey and Syria and was felt in several countries in the region, a number of conspiracy theories — seemingly deriving from...
France on Monday condemned an attack by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, saying "violence against Palestinian civilians is unacceptable." France "strongly...
Germany said Monday it is "urgent" that a tense situation in the occupied West Bank is not further inflamed, following deadly violence and arson by Israeli settlers targeting a town where two...
A Turkish drone attack Monday in northern Iraq killed at least three fighters from the minority Yazidi community affiliated with the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Iraqi Kurdish officials...
A 5.6 magnitude earthquake hit eastern Turkey on Monday, causing some buildings already damaged by a powerful tremor earlier this month to collapse, the government's disaster agency said. ...
BEIRUT — Retired soldiers held a sit-in Monday morning in Riad al-Solh Square. The sit-in, which coincides with a cabinet session, calls on government to amend the lira-to-dollar exchange rate to...
Turkey said on Monday NATO accession talks with Sweden and Finland would be held next month, after being postponed in January over anti-Islam protests in Stockholm. ...
BEIRUT — One suspect was killed, and a second suspect, along with a Lebanese soldier, were left wounded Sunday night in the Bekaa, during a kidnapping, the army announced Monday. In a statement...
DAMASCUS — Egypt's foreign minister met Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Monday in the first visit to Damascus by a top Egyptian diplomat since the civil war began in 2011, in another sign of...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up. Lebanon’s caretaker cabinet is scheduled to meet today to discuss public employees’ salaries, medicine imports and...
Two Israelis living in an occupied West Bank settlement were killed Sunday in a "Palestinian terror attack," officials said, sparking violence in which a Palestinian man was killed, while settlers...
The UK terror trial of an alleged member of the Islamic State (IS) group's "Beatles" kidnap-and-murder cell begins on Monday. Aine Davis is accused of belonging to the...
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
