JERUSALEM —Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday delayed a decision on bitterly contested plans for a judicial overhaul until next month amid fears that Israel's worst national crisis in...
“So we’re going to live an hour off from the rest of the world?” This sentence, overheard in a café, illustrates the confusion among Lebanese who, over the weekend, found themselves at the mercy...
BEIRUT —Middle East Airlines announced Monday that it readjusted its flight schedules after the Lebanese cabinet reversed the decision to postpone daylight savings. On Monday, caretaker...
Reaching the boarding gates on time at Beirut’s airport is often an accomplishment, especially during the overflow of peak seasons and religious holidays. The issue is nothing new. In 2018,...
DUBAI — The chairman of top Credit Suisse (CSGN.S) shareholder Saudi National Bank (SNB) has stepped down less than two weeks after making comments blamed for contributing to the Swiss lender's...
BEIRUT — After a Monday meeting with caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati at the Grand Serail, French ambassador to Lebanon, Anne Grillo, said Lebanon needs "constructive dialogue" to solve...
BEIRUT — For the past few weeks, excavators have been buzzing throughout the day as construction workers in orange vests toil at what is now the former intersection of Armenia/Gouraud and Pasteur...
If you walk, if you write, if you go back to reality, to concrete, to the pavement of the street; if you deconstruct your walk into its simplest element — the step — if you walk alone or with...
BEIRUT — Employees of the state-owned telecommunications company Ogero on Monday organized a sit-in in front of the company's headquarters in Bir Hassan, an area in the southern suburbs of Beirut....
BEIRUT — A 27-year-old Lebanese man from Baalbeck in the Bekaa is suspected of killing his 26-year-old wife, also Lebanese, on Saturday night, an Internal Security Forces (ISF) source confirmed to...
Saudi Aramco on Monday unveiled plans to acquire a 10-percent stake in a Chinese petrochemicals firm, a deal the Gulf energy giant said was evidence of its "long-term commitment to China."...
BEIRUT — The Lebanese Army has received a sixth installment of financial aid from Qatar. The aid is aimed at helping the military, whose living and working conditions have deteriorated sharply amid...
Lebanon will "officially" shift to daylight saving time overnight from Wednesday to Thursday, caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati said at a press conference at the Grand Serail on Monday after...
JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's religious-nationalist coalition government Monday survived no-confidence motions filed by the opposition in protest over its...
Iraq's parliament voted Monday to restore electoral laws that were scrapped after 2019 anti-government demonstrations, sparking anger from independent lawmakers who see it benefiting larger...
BEIRUT — Fuel prices decreased in Lebanon on Monday morning, according to the latest tariffs announced by the Energy Ministry. Here are the new prices: • Twenty liters of 95-octane gasoline:...
BEIRUT — Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati has called on the cabinet to convene Monday at 12 p.m. at the Grand Serail to "exclusively" discuss the issue of daylight savings, according to a...
The Saudi and Iranian foreign ministers have vowed to meet before the end of the holy month of Ramadan to implement a landmark bilateral reconciliation deal, Riyadh said on Monday. ...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up. Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati late yesterday evening scheduled a cabinet meeting for noon today to discuss...
Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Monday called for an immediate halt to the government's controversial judicial reforms, a day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sacked his defense minister...
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
