BEIRUT — Firefighters battled a blaze at a hospital run by the international NGO Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières/MSF) in Bar Elias, in the Bekaa Valley, late Wednesday night. The...
BEIRUT — Clashes reignited Wednesday in the Wadi Khaled area of North Lebanon near the Lebanese-Syrian border, L’Orient Today ’s correspondent in the area reported. On Tuesday, a person was killed...
BEIRUT — The General Secretariat of the Lebanese Parliament on Wednesday denied the accusations made by Forces of Change MP Cynthia Zarazir, who claimed that, after being insulted during Tuesday’s...
BEIRUT —Lebanon has “serious plans” to build two new grain silos to fight its worsening food security crisis, a spokesperson for the caretaker economy minister confirmed to L’Orient Today...
The Tripoli municipality has been shaken by a controversy that pits its mayor, Riad Yamak, against the majority of council’s members, including those close to Prime Minister Najib Mikati, MP Ashraf...
BEIRUT — Forces of Change MP Halimé El Kaakour criticized MPs’ decision in Parliament Tuesday not to approve an expedited law proposal that would consider Line 29, rather than Line 23, as...
BEIRUT — Lebanese Forces’ leader Samir Geagea took to Twitter on Wednesday to call on the caretaker cabinet to call Hezbollah’s bluff and approve its leader’s proposal to import “free” imports of...
In a show of solidarity, the Lebanese Forces and the Kataeb, two main rivals of the Free Patriotic Movement, met with the head of the Maronite Church Bechara al-Rai in his summer residence in Diman...
BEIRUT — In an effort to end an ongoing strike by the country's civil service, caretaker Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati on Wednesday approved additional improvements in employment terms for...
BEIRUT — Caretaker Environment Minister Nasser Yassin announced in a statement Wednesday that the northern side of the Beirut port silos is at an “increased risk” of collapse as devices installed...
BEIRUT — Facing onto the Gemmayzeh steps (aka Daraj al-Fan, the “Art Steps”) is a hotel with a fondness for apricots. In its café, filled with hipsters one Monday evening, open laptops accompany...
BEIRUT — The US State Department spokesman Ned Price told al-Hurra TV Tuesday that he has “ no information to share ” regarding US envoy Amos Hochstein paying Lebanon a new visit, adding that since...
BEIRUT — Banque du Liban decided Wednesday to secure 15 percent of the US dollars paid to import gasoline at the parallel market rate, and 85 percent at the Banque du Liban’s Sayrafa rate, which as...
The number of people undertaking perilous journeys by sea from Lebanon to Europe has more than doubled in 2022, for the second year in a row.But the death count from those journeys has multiplied...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Parliament’s first legislative session since the May 15 elections came to an early end after tensions mounted following voting...
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