If there is one candidate who stood out during Parliament’s first session aimed at electing a new president, it was Michel Mouawad. During Thursday’s session, the reformist MP from Zgharta indeed...
BEIRUT — “This is the first and only time that Hezbollah has acted logically, considering that there is an agreement in which Lebanon's interest lies,” Samir Geagea, head of the Lebanese Forces,...
Canada imposed fresh sanctions on Iran on Monday for alleged human rights violations, including the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old from Iranian Kurd who died while in custody of Iran's...
The response did not take long: faced with an opposing camp that participated in last week’s first parliamentary session in the hopes of electing a “confrontational” new president , Hezbollah made...
It is still possible to revive Iran's nuclear deal with world powers, the country's Foreign Ministry said Monday, despite long-stalled talks over the 2015 accord. "There is still a possibility and...
BEIRUT — "There will be no partnership with the Israeli side," President Michel Aoun told a French diplomatic official in Baabda on Monday in reference to an agreement on the maritime border...
BEIRUT — Lebanon will request amendments to US envoy Amos Hochstein's written proposal on the maritime border between Lebanon and Israel by tomorrow at the latest, Lebanese Deputy Parliament...
A cigarette between his lips, and a glass in his hand, Omar sways his hips to the rhythm of the bass that fills the nightclub. At the end of this summer season, a light breeze passes through the...
STOCKHOLM — Scientist Svante Paabo won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries "concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution," the award-giving body...
DUBAI — Iran's supreme leader gave strong backing to security forces confronting nationwide protests, saying on Monday demonstrations ignited by the death of a young woman after being in police...
The director-general of Israel's Energy Ministry was in Paris on Monday for talks with TotalEnergies about potential profit-sharing from exploration by the company in a natural gas field off...
BEIRUT — "Depositors' actions" against banks will take place tomorrow in Mount Lebanon and the Bekaa, Rami Ollaik, founder of the lawyers' collective Mouttahidoun (United), told L'Orient-Le Jour...
RAMALLAH — Two Palestinians were shot dead Monday by Israeli forces during an operation near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said. The ministry was informed of...
BEIRUT — An unarmed depositor, with help from several others, recovered his savings by force from a Blom Bank branch in Haret Hreik in the southern suburbs of Beirut on Monday morning, a...
BEIRUT — The Energy Ministry announced new, slightly decreased, fuel prices on Monday morning. Here are the new prices: • Twenty liters of 95-octane gasoline: LL680,000, down by...
BEIRUT — The public school year kicked off in Lebanon on Monday in the absence of basic working conditions and while teachers are overburdened by their salaries’ depreciation, L'Orient Today 's...
BEIRUT — MPs will be called to a second election session to designate a new president of Lebanon before mid-October, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said during remarks published Monday on Annahar...
DUBAI — Iranian security forces clashed with students at a prominent university in Tehran on Sunday, social and state media reported, in the latest sign of a deadly clampdown on nationwide protests...
WASHINGTON — The United States on Sunday rejected Iranian reports that Tehran’s release of two detained Americans will lead to the unfreezing of Iranian funds abroad. Baquer Namazi, 85, was...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . “The modifications that Lebanon will propose [to a US-mediated written proposal on the maritime border between Lebanon and...
DUBAI – A six-month truce in Yemen's war has expired without being extended, the United Nations' special envoy said on Sunday, urging calm and adding that negotiations are continuing. Hans...
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
