BEIRUT — The employees of Banque du Liban have announced that they will go on a one-day strike on Tuesday at the call of their union, whose general assembly met on Monday in Beirut, to protest the...
It was 1 a.m., way past her curfew. Sara* hurried as she rushed out of a friend’s car. Her building was plunged in the dark. The electricity was out.Her taser/flashlight in hand, she climbed the...
BEIRUT — The power plant in Deir Ammar, North Lebanon, will shut down for five days for technical reasons, the state-owned power provider Électricité du Liban announced on Monday, as the country...
BEIRUT — Sami Gemayel, the head of Kataeb party, said Monday that his parliamentary bloc will be not participate in a “rationed government,” stressing the need to form a government without delays...
With a hung Parliament and hotly contested presidential elections later this year, Lebanon appears to be headed for yet another period of political paralysis. The likely outcome will be all too...
BEIRUT — The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture announced Sunday that it had cut ties with Arabic music magazine and radio Ma3azef in organizing AFAC’s upcoming 15-year-anniversary festival,...
BEIRUT — Lebanese company Master Chips announced on Monday that it will change the packaging of a packet of chips displaying a rainbow, the colors of which represent the LGBTQ+ community, days...
BEIRUT — “We will obviously not participate in a government of quotas or of ‘national unity,’” declared MP Halimé El Kaakour Monday, in a statement issued following a meeting with Prime...
BEIRUT — Lebanese Forces’ parliamentary bloc, the Strong Republic, will not participate in the government, announced MP Georges Adwan on Monday on behalf of his bloc, after their meeting with Prime...
BEIRUT — The Hezbollah parliamentary group called for "cooperation" on Monday after non-binding parliamentary consultations to form a new government in Lebanon. Here’s what we know: ...
BEIRUT — Following a meeting with Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati on Monday, Deputy Parliament Speaker Elias Bou Saab said he senses the former’s “eagerness to form [a government] quickly.”...
BEIRUT — Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri received the head of the political bureau of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, and his accompanying delegation in Ain al-Tineh on Monday. At the meeting, the parties...
BEIRUT — Caretaker Minister of Health, Firas Abiad said in a press conference on Monday that the resurgence of COVID cases observed in recent weeks is due to a new variant that is more contagious...
BEIRUT — ISF announced Monday that they had arrested four men involved in “a large network of trade and trafficking" of drugs stored in two apartments in neighborhoods in the north of Beirut....
Najib Mikati will get down to business today. The prime minister-designate will hold non-binding parliamentary consultations with the various parliamentary components at Nejmeh Square, before...
What has the world come to? Bankers hating on bankers, central bank governor turning on bankers, bankers turning on him in return. Surely, it is the sign of the times (… welcome to the final...
BEIRUT — President of the Lebanese Real Estate Authority, Indira al-Zuhairi, asserted after the collapse of a building in the Qibbeh neighborhood of Tripoli, which killed one child and injured...
BEIRUT — Israel announced on Sunday that it will grant about $160,000 in financial aid to hundreds of veterans of the former South Lebanon Army (SLA), a Christian militia that was allied with and...
BEIRUT — Some $121,900: that’s how much $10,000 invested in Class A shares of the reconstruction and development company Solidere on Nov. 1, 2019, is worth today. The performance of Solidere’s...
Incumbent Najib Mikati , who was elected prime minister-designate on Thursday, will meet with parliamentary blocs and MPs on Monday and Tuesday . Mikati, a familiar face of the political class...
Beirut’s demands, Israel’s terms, and Washington’s stance: Behind the scenes of the negotiations
Lebanon stuck between a rock and a hard place: A US disarmament plan, or an extended expansion to the war?
