BEIRUT — Entry to archaeological and cultural sites will be free until the end of September, caretaker Culture Minister Mohammad Mortada announced via the state-run National News Agency. On...
Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz named his son and heir Prince Mohammed bin Salman as the kingdom's new prime minister, a royal decree said Tuesday. King Salman also appointed his second...
BEIRUT — The families of those arrested in connection to the clashes in Tayyouneh on Oct. 14, 2021, blocked the road at the Tayyouneh roundabout in Beirut on Tuesday. The demonstrators...
BEIRUT — Caretaker Health Minister Firas Abiad issued a decision Tuesday exempting all travelers arriving in Lebanon from PCR or rapid COVID-19 tests, regardless of their vaccination status. The...
BEIRUT — The bodies of six family members — all of whom were aboard the migrant boat that departed Lebanon and capsized off the coast of Syria last week — were returned to Lebanon on Tuesday,...
BEIRUT — It's official: the Phoenicia, the capital's emblematic five-star hotel, damaged by the Aug. 4, 2020, blast that ravaged swathes of Beirut adjacent the port area, will reopen Oct. 3, the...
ANKARA — Turkey's foreign ministry summoned the German ambassador to Ankara Tuesday to complain about comments made by a senior German politician, likening President Tayyip Erdogan to a "little...
The 2022 budget, the first since 2020 and nine months overdue, has finally been approved. Amid an acute crisis that commenced in 2019 and protests around Parliament, MPS finally voted on the...
LOS ANGELES — NASA's DART spacecraft successfully slammed into a distant asteroid at hypersonic speed on Monday in the world's first test of a planetary defense system, designed to prevent a...
BEIRUT — A fire erupted in Rahba town in Akkar, North Lebanon, on Tuesday and is spreading to other areas as the country's Civil Defense forces struggle to extinguish the flames, L’Orient Today’s...
IDLIB/HASAKA, Syria — A cholera outbreak that has claimed 29 lives in Syria is posing a danger across the frontlines of the country's 11-year-long war, stirring fears in crowded displacement...
BEIRUT — Relatives of victims of the deadly Aug. 4 port explosion organized a sit-in outside the Beirut Courts of Justice Tuesday to protest the appointment of a substitute judge in the...
BEIRUT — A court in Beirut summoned MP Charbel Maroun (Free Patriotic Movement/Western Bekaa) on Monday over critical remarks against Judge Souheil Abboud, chairperson of the Higher Judicial...
DUBAI — Iranian riot police and security forces clashed with demonstrators in dozens of cities Tuesday, state media and social media said, amid continuing protests against the death of Mahsa Amini...
BEIRUT – Hezbollah denied Tuesday that the party will send any of its members to Iran to counter ongoing unrest in the country. An image of what appeared to be a memo issued by Hezbollah Secretary...
BEIRUT — Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati met with US Ambassador to Lebanon Dorothy Shea at the Grand Serail on Tuesday. During the meeting, they discussed the general situation in Lebanon...
BEIRUT — Less than a year after he was sentenced by the French justice system to 15 years in prison for sexually abusing minors, the Lebanese Maronite priest Mansour Labaky has now been stripped of...
DOHA — Qatar has called up hundreds of civilians, including diplomats summoned back from overseas, for mandatory military service operating security checkpoints at World Cup stadiums, according to...
BEIRUT — Free Patriotic Movement leader Gebran Bassil and Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdel-Latif Derian held a "frank and very friendly" meeting Tuesday at Dar al-Fatwa, the country's top Sunni religious...
“The government could see the light of day next week,” Hezbollah Deputy Secretary General Naim Kassem said over the weekend. Could this expression of optimism be the prelude to cabinet...
More than 75 people have died in Iran's crackdown on 11 nights of unrest sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, a rights group says, as Western nations pile pressure on the Islamic republic to end...
“If the majority of the opposition agrees on my name for the presidency, I am ready,” Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea said Monday evening, as Lebanese MPs are due to elect a successor to...
BEIRUT — Lebanon's Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri set a session to elect a new president for Thursday at 11 a.m., a Parliament spokesperson told L’Orient Today. The session was scheduled...
BEIRUT — Fuel prices in Lebanon recorded a decrease Tuesday, according to the new tariffs published by the Ministry of Energy. Here are the new prices: • Twenty liters of 95-octane gasoline:...
BEIRUT — State-supplied electricity briefly returned Monday night to several towns in the Nabatieh region after a month-long blackout, albeit only for about an hour, the state-run National News...
Lebanon is on the brink of collapse. Some say Lebanon has collapsed already. All economic indicators speak to a dramatic situation: hyperinflation, loss of purchasing power, growing poverty, brain...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Parliament approved the nine-month overdue 2022 budget with a deficit of over LL10 trillion, but included salary raises for...
ISTANBUL — One police officer was killed late Monday when a bomb exploded near a residence that houses police in the southern Turkish province of Mersin, while a second officer was wounded,...
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
