Around her, a crowd of admirers raises smartphones in reverence, their flashes illuminating a figure who has long sought to avoid the spotlight. Her red hair covered by a veil, dark glasses perched...
More than a dozen activists being held by Israel after their aid boat was intercepted en route to Gaza launched a hunger strike on Monday to protest their detention, according to a local NGO...
The Houthi rebels of Yemen on Monday released footage they said showed crew members from the "Eternity C" merchant vessel, which they attacked and sank in the Red Sea in early July. In a...
At least 77 people were killed Monday in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip, according to medical sources cited by al Jazeera, despite the "tactical pause" in operations in several...
The European Commission proposed on Monday to suspend funding for Israeli startups due to the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza. "Even though Israel has announced a daily humanitarian pause...
The elder brother of Oasis band members Noel and Liam Gallagher, who are currently in the middle of an international reunion tour, has been charged with rape, police in London said Monday. Paul...
BEIRUT — French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said Monday that there is "no alternative to a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine" as he opened a United Nations conference on...
SOUTH LEBANON — An Israeli drone strike targeted a motorcycle in Bint Jbeil on Monday evening, wounding one person seriously, according to L'Orient Today’s South Lebanon correspondent. Earlier...
BEIRUT — The Lebanese Army announced Monday the arrest of five people suspected of having formed a terrorist cell, among whom are two foreign nationals. In a statement, the Directorate of Military...
U.S. President Donald Trump warned on Monday that he would order fresh U.S. attacks on Iran's nuclear facilities should Tehran try to restart facilities that the United States bombed last...
BEIRUT — Former leader of the Progressive Socialist Party (PSP), Walid Joumblatt, on Monday received the grand mufti of the Republic, Sheikh Abdel Latif Derian, who was accompanied by a delegation...
BEIRUT — The death of Ziad Rahbani has plunged Lebanon and the region into mourning, with international media hailing his artistic genius, sharp social critique, and lifelong support for the...
BEIRUT — The Kuwaiti Foreign Affairs Ministry announced Monday sanctions imposed against the al-Qard al-Hassan Association (AQAH), considered the financial wing of Hezbollah in Lebanon, according...
Federal employees can try to recruit their coworkers to join their religion, the Trump administration said on Monday and encouraged them to pray. Agency employees may seek to "persuade others...
More than 40 people were killed Sunday in an attack by Allied Democratic Forces rebels in northeastern DR Congo, ending a months-long period of regional calm, the U.N. mission and Congolese...
U.N. chief Antonio Guterres on Monday said food must not be used as a weapon of war as world leaders gathered for a food summit in Africa, where 280 million people face chronic hunger. The African...
As Lebanon mourns the loss of Ziad Rahbani, who passed away on Saturday morning at age 69, Lebanese singer Salma al-Musfi shares with L’Orient-Le Jour her first encounter with the Lebanese artistic...
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday many people were starving in Gaza and suggested Israel could do more on humanitarian access, as desperate Palestinians hoped for aid a day after the...
Under the oak trees of Lehfed, in the mountains of the Jbeil district, the alternative music festival Oakenfest asks the question, “What if instead of going home after a concert, you had a massive...
In its daily report, Gaza's Health Ministry announced that at least 98 Palestinians have been killed and 382 injured over the past 24 hours, including 55 since dawn on Monday morning, even as...
A Palestinian family who are stuck in Gaza despite having permission to join a relative in Britain were given a lifeline on Monday as London's High Court ruled that officials must reconsider...
It was Beirut in 1983 . On the steps of a private university, students linger between classes, unsure whether the professor will show up, while in the distance, the rumble of a new round of...
Chinese and U.S. economic officials met for talks in Stockholm on Monday, with Beijing saying it wanted to see "reciprocity" in its trade with the United States. The Swedish prime...
A new humanitarian aid convoy reached southern Syria's Druze heartland on Monday, official media said, as the United Nations warned the humanitarian situation in Sweida province was critical...
While the temples of Baalbeck drew festival-goers to the spectacular "Carmen" staged by Jorge Takla, Ehden offered its wooded cocoon to Abeer Nehme, arguably one of the most beautiful...
US President Donald Trump said Monday he would set Russian President Vladimir Putin a new deadline of "10 or 12" days to end the war in Ukraine. "I'm going to make a new...
Le matin où Feyrouz n’a pas chanté
President Donald Trump announced Monday that the United States will set up "food centers" in Gaza, adding that there were signs of a "real famine" in the Palestinian territory....
U.S. President Donald Trump said he asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to "reconsider his approach" in Gaza, emphasizing the catastrophic humanitarian situation in the...
Although no final agreement was reached, Thursday’s meeting in Paris between Israeli and Syrian representatives was described as “honest and responsible.” The representatives gathered to discuss a...
Franco-Palestinian musician and singer-songwriter Saint Levant (Marwan Abdelhamid) knows how to capture a moment. He has mastered the art of embodying major causes — whether or not he fully...
Yemen's Houthis said Sunday they would target any ship owned by companies trading with Israeli ports, regardless of nationality, as part of what they described as the "fourth phase"...
On the heights of Batroun stands a proud medieval citadel that, not so long ago, was rather unknown. It looms over the vineyards that stretch toward the sea and give the region its quality wines....
Parliamentary Speaker Nabih Berri will convene the parliamentary bureau on Tuesday at 1 p.m., according to a statement from its press office. The bureau meetings are used to set the agenda for a...
This is a staging of "Carmen" that will no doubt be hotly debated and rejected, as the appreciation of this most popular opera is so often based on a misunderstanding of its true values...
The draft law on the reform and restructuring of Lebanon’s banking sector is entering a decisive week. Backed, revised and reshaped by a parliamentary subcommittee formed before mid-May, the text...
General Security's press office announced Monday the arrest of a Syrian suspect in the July 21 murder of a resident of Wazzani, a southern village near the border with Israel. The body of the...
In April 2025, L Matbakh, a new restaurant run by chefs Christine Saad and Elie Harb, opened in the vibrant Mar Mikhail neighborhood on Armenia Street. Focusing on traditional Lebanese cuisine,...
Which Emmanuel Macron should we believe? The one who stated in June that “time has not yet come” to recognize the Palestinian state, who set conditions for such a move and insisted it shouldn’t be...
Noor al-Yacoubi is a 26-year-old translator and writer. She hasn't left the Gaza Strip since the war began on Oct. 7, 2023, and has been sharing reflections on her life with L'Orient Today...
This is not merely the death of a man, but the loss of a lens through which an entire generation learned to laugh at absurdity, cry over injustice and listen more deeply.Ziad Rahbani passed away as...
Hamas on Monday denied reports about an alleged dismantling of one of its military training camps by the Lebanese Army in the Aley region, in the mountains south of Beirut. "Hamas does not...
Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said Monday he was "reassured about the renewal of the mandate for the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) at the end of August." Asked by the...
18:08 Beirut Time Surrounded by loved ones, including her daughter Rima, Fairuz leaves the church and gets back into the black car she arrived in. 17:53 Beirut Time...
It's probably the question on many people's minds in Lebanon. Will they see, beside Ziad Rahbani's coffin, in the Church of the Dormition of the Virgin in Bikfaya-Mheidetheh, the flash...
France and Saudi Arabia will lead the charge starting Monday to revive the moribund push for a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians at a U.N. conference in New York. Days before...
The United Nations said it would try to reach as many starving people as possible in Gaza after Israel announced it would establish secure land routes for humanitarian convoys. The U.N.'s...
Malnutrition rates are reaching "alarming levels" in the Gaza Strip, the World Health Organization warned Sunday, saying the "deliberate blocking" of aid was entirely...
Syrian authorities announced on Sunday that a new transitional parliament would be selected in September, with local electoral bodies picking two-thirds of the lawmakers and the country's...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Monday, July 28 2025Some key things to watch today:Updates on the situation in Gaza as widespread starvation worsens.Updates on the...
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
