The UN nuclear watchdog confirmed on Tuesday it had detected particles of uranium enriched to 83.7 percent in Iran, just under the 90 percent needed to produce an atomic bomb. "Discussions are...
From East to West across Beirut, Tripoli Street (currently Armenia - Goureau - Emir Bachir) is streaked with several perpendicular axes that run across the city: Arax Street (named after a river in...
Sudanese security forces on Tuesday shot dead an anti-coup protester during a demonstration in Khartoum, pro-democracy medics reported. They said the death brings to 125...
Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri seems to want to take the road back to Damascus.As Arab countries appear to be aiming to bring Syria back to the fold, Berri wants to jump on the bandwagon.Long...
The Lebanese Ministry of Economy and Trade announced Tuesday a slight increase in the price of the various Arabic-style bread bundles which, when calculated per gram, translates into a slight...
Lebanon's land registries have been subject to a corruption probe for several months.In November, the Mount Lebanon Public Prosecutor's Office started examining cases involving land registry...
BEIRUT — The price of electricity provided by private generators again rose in February as the value of the Lebanese lira continued to fall against the US dollar on the parallel market, according...
Morocco's prison service said on Tuesday that a man sentenced to death over the 2018 beheadings of two Scandinavian women hikers had killed himself in his cell. "This...
After turning a parliamentary meeting sour on Tuesday afternoon, the issue of the constitutionality of caretaker cabinet meetings taking place during the presidential vacuum, given that the cabinet...
Dozens of Iranian schoolgirls needed hospital treatment on Tuesday after another mysterious poisoning, a news agency reported, the latest in a spate of suspected attacks in the Islamic Republic....
Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati sent two letters Tuesday, one to the interior minister and the other to the General Directorate of State Security, requesting action to remove "security...
Germany on Tuesday warned Israel it would be a "big mistake" to introduce the death penalty for those guilty of killing Israeli citizens, after a ministerial committee backed the proposal....
A devastating earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria killed more than 50,000 people, in a toll revised by AFP that includes figures from both government and rebel-controlled parts of war-torn...
BEIRUT — The Energy Ministry on Tuesday afternoon announced an increase in all fuel prices except for fuel oil. These prices hikes are the second issued by the ministry today, and follow the...
A state of emergency that had been periodically renewed by Moroccan authorities for the past three years to battle the COVID pandemic lapsed without extension on Tuesday....
AMMAN — The Syrian opposition-run Civil Defense said on Tuesday that 22 people had died from an outbreak of cholera in the country's northwest in the aftermath of the devastating quake that hit...
BEIRUT — Lawyers representing Hezbollah appealed on Tuesday against activists who they said have been accusing the party of involvement in murdering a Sunni religious sheikh in Akkar, the lawyers...
Lebanon’s supermarket owners have been waiting over a year for permission to price their items in dollars— a measure that will go into effect Wednesday. Caretaker Economy Minister Amine Salam...
BEIRUT — Banque du Liban governor Riad Salameh will soon face prosecution in Lebanon, a senior Lebanese judicial source told L'Orient-Le Jour on Tuesday. According to the source, who spoke on...
BEIRUT — Municipal police officers from Sour, South Lebanon, barged into an SGBL bank branch in the city on Tuesday, demanding that their February and March salaries be paid at the Sayrafa rate,...
As the Association of Banks in Lebanon (ABL) previously announced, banks reopened on Monday as part of a one-week suspension of their strike that began on Feb. 6. The ABL could decide to end...
CILVEGOZU, Turkey — Around 40,000 Syrians who had fled areas affected by the deadly Feb. 6 earthquake have returned from Turkey to rebel-held northwestern Syria in the two weeks since Turkey eased...
BEIRUT — A retired member of Lebanon's Internal Security Forces killed his ex-wife Tuesday using a hunting rifle in Tripoli, North Lebanon, L'Orient Today's correspondent in the North...
JERUSALEM — An ultra-conservative Jewish politician on Monday said he was resigning from his role in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing government after failing to advance his agenda,...
BEIRUT — The Energy Ministry on Tuesday morning announced an increase in all gas prices except for fuel oil, while the domestic gas cylinder now costs more than LL1,000,000 for the first time....
BEIRUT — A mother and her five-year-old son were killed Tuesday morning in a fire that broke out in a Syrian refugee camp in the Lebanese border village of Arsal, in the Bekaa Valley, according to...
HAWARA, West Bank — Suspected Palestinian gunmen killed an Israeli-American motorist in the occupied West Bank on Monday after Jewish settlers rampaged through a Palestinian village in a burst of...
Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on Monday counted the cost of deadly violence and arson by Israeli settlers targeting a town where two Israeli brothers were killed....
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Lebanon’s caretaker cabinet approved financing for education, telecoms and an infrastructure survey while omitting discussions...
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
