Brazilian football legend Pelé dies at 82
Brazilian football icon Pelé, widely regarded as the greatest player of all time and a three-time World Cup winner who masterminded the "beautiful game," died on Thursday at the age of 82....
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Biden calls Netanyahu 'friend,' vows to press 'two state solution'
US President Joe Biden said Thursday he would work with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, calling the returning right-wing leader his "friend," but vowing to oppose policies that endanger...
29 December 2022
Can the international community and stakeholders at home meet halfway?
Everything seems to indicate that the new president will be the product of a broad understanding reaching beyond the Lebanese local scene.As Lebanon is in its ninth week of presidential vacancy,...
Salah Hijazi, 29 December 2022
Putin welcomes Netanyahu's return to power
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday welcomed the return of Benjamin Netanyahu as head of the Israeli government, noting an intention to strengthen cooperation, the Kremlin said....
29 December 2022
Netanyahu's controversial concessions to Israel govt partners
Israel's newly sworn-in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has granted major concessions to far-right and ultra-Orthodox allies to cement a coalition following last month's election, the country's...
29 December 2022
Ex-minister Amir Ohana elected speaker of parliament
Former minister Amir Ohana was elected as speaker of Israel's parliament on Thursday, the first openly gay occupant of the post in the country's history. An MP since 2015, the member of incoming...
29 December 2022
Dubai court authorizes jailed Brit's fraud extradition: lawyers
A Dubai court on Thursday authorized the extradition of a British national wanted over an alleged 1.7 billion euro tax fraud in Denmark, the suspect's defense team said, ahead of a further ruling...
29 December 2022
BDL asks AM Bank to stand in for other banks amid new Sayrafa measures
Many banks have not yet begun to increase the ceilings applicable to converting Lebanese lira into “fresh” dollars at the Sayrafa platform rate — LL38,000 to the dollar against nearly LL44,000 last...
Philippe HAGE BOUTROS, 29 December 2022
Iran to hold military exercises near Strait of Hormuz
Iran's army begins Thursday military exercises in strategic southern regions east of the Strait of Hormuz, state news agency IRNA reported. Joint drills involving air, land...
29 December 2022
Netanyahu to return to power with extreme-right government
Israel's hawkish veteran Benjamin Netanyahu was sworn in as prime minister Thursday after a stint in opposition, heading what analysts call the most right-wing government in the country's history....
29 December 2022
Wartime holidays: Recollections of a Christmas tree on the Green Line and Bûche de Noël in a bomb shelter
BEIRUT — In the thick of the Lebanese Civil War, armed Muslim militiamen decided during Christmas 1985 to lower their Kalashnikovs and erect a Christmas tree along the Green Line, which demarcated...
Sally Abou AlJoud, 29 December 2022
Syria's Kurds launch offensive against IS militants
Syrian Kurdish-led forces said Thursday they had launched an offensive against Islamic State group fighters, days after jihadist gunmen launched a deadly prison attack. Six...
29 December 2022
Mikati calls for implementation of decree for military aid
Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati does not want to arouse the anger of the military. He asked the cabinet’s general secretariat on Wednesday to take the necessary steps to implement a decree...
29 December 2022
Israel's ex-Intelligence Minister Eli Cohen nominated as foreign minister: Netanyahu
Former Israeli intelligence minister Eli Cohen, an architect of the normalisation agreements between Israel and several Arab counties, was Thursday nominated as foreign minister by prime...
29 December 2022
Municipalities election to be held in May, Mawlawi says
BEIRUT — Caretaker Lebanese Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi assured on Thursday that the municipal and mokhtar (local officials responsible for records) elections, scheduled for May 31, 2023,...
29 December 2022
Eight killed in fighting in Sudan's Darfur: aid group
Eight people have been killed in fighting in Sudan's western Darfur region between groups of Arab Rizeigat and the Fur people, an aid group said Thursday. Shooting broke...
29 December 2022
Saida: Garbage is again being collected but the crisis is not far away
After drowning in household waste for several weeks, the city of Saida in the south of the country can start breathing again, as the waste collection resumed this week, Mayor Mohammed al-Saoudi...
Zeina ANTONIOS, 29 December 2022
Energy Ministry reverts to setting fuel prices at parallel market rate, prices soar
BEIRUT — Fuel prices on Thursday experienced a sharp increase after the Energy Ministry reverted to setting the prices at the parallel market rate, rather than Banque du Liban's exchange platform...
29 December 2022
Italy urges Iran to stop executions and open dialogue with protesters
ROME — Iran must stop executing and persecuting protesters and should open a dialogue with them, Italy's Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said on Wednesday after summoning the Iranian ambassador....
29 December 2022
Sweden arrests Zeina Kanjo's husband, suspected for her murder
BEIRUT — Lawyer Ashraf al-Mousawi, the representative of the family of Zeina Kanjo, who was allegedly murdered by her husband in 2021, said on Thursday that Sweden's judiciary has arrested the...
29 December 2022
Erdogan drops retirement age requirement for millions of Turks
ANKARA — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan eliminated a retirement age requirement on Wednesday in a move that allows more than 2 million workers to retire immediately, less than six months...
29 December 2022
Netanyahu's rocky road to a new government
As veteran Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu presents his new government to parliament on Thursday, AFP takes a look back at four years of political turmoil. The right-wing...
29 December 2022
Gas station queues, attack on Al Jadeed, contaminated cancer medication: Everything you need to know to start your Thursday
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up. Queues of motorists formed at gas stations across Lebanon following a sharp drop in fuel prices concomitant to the lira’s...
29 December 2022
Israeli minister sees possible attack on Iran 'in two or three years'
JERUSALEM — Israel could attack Iranian nuclear sites in two or three years, its defense minister said on Wednesday, in unusually explicit comments about a possible timeline. With international...
