BEIRUT — A Syrian ship under US sanctions has docked in the northern Lebanese port of Tripoli, carrying barley and wheat that the Ukrainian Embassy in Beirut told Reuters on Thursday had been...
BEIRUT — Fiftyfifty, an organization that lobbies for gender parity in all political arenas and elected councils, is in the process of discussing a gender quota law proposal with Lebanese political...
BEIRUT — The head of the General Confederation of Lebanese Workers Bechara al-Asmar on Thursday told L’Orient Today that he asks public sector workers to “end their open strike but stay on a...
BEIRUT — Wildfires continue to ravage North Lebanon with a large fire breaking out on Thursday in the forest and agricultural areas of the village of Qabiit in Akkar for the third time this week,...
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The latest shortage of bread — part of the long list of subsidized products in short supply over the past two years — has spurred the same seemingly endless queues in front of bakeries. The lines...
BEIRUT — Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Thursday announced Aug. 4 as a national holiday of mourning for the Aug. 4, 2020 Beirut port explosion, the prime ministry’s Twitter account...
BEIRUT — The Finance Ministry has been given until Tuesday to deliver required information to the Finance and Budget Committee or the committee will be forced to return the 2022 budget draft law to...
BEIRUT — Hours after Parliament voted on Tuesday to select members of the Supreme Council, a body tasked with prosecuting ministers and MPs, families of the port blast victims condemned the move as...
BEIRUT — Marada Movement head Sleiman Frangieh on Thursday described himself and Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri as “one team” following a meeting between the two at the latter’s Ain al-Tineh...
BEIRUT — The Lebanese central bank on Thursday extended Circular 161, and therefore its decision to intervene in the currency market, until the end of August, brushing aside claims about the...
It is a new blow for Gebran Bassil’s camp. The US Department of Justice published on Wednesday indictments initially filed between 2016 and 2019 against three Lebanese men hailing from Batroun,...
BEIRUT — Caretaker Economy Minister Amin Salam said Thursday morning that “progress” should be made in the next two days on bread shortages. Here’s what we know: • For several...
BEIRUT — Amnesty International condemned the fact that “women MPs in the Lebanese Parliament, especially those who criticize the authorities, are harassed by their male counterparts and by the...
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...
BEIRUT — Activists raided the Energy Ministry Thursday in protest of electricity shortages with one activist, Wassef el-Harakeh, an unsuccessful candidate in the May 2022 general elections, saying...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Lebanon’s Economy Ministry said it has “serious plans” to build two new grain silos, while Caretaker Environment Minister...
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?
