Lebanon is prepared to consider reducing or canceling the massive $11 million bail required for the release of Hannibal Gaddafi, son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who has been detained...
Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Monday Syrian refugees in Germany must go home now that their country's war is over or face deportation. In his latest hardline comments on migration, Merz said...
Financial Prosecutor Maher Cheaito on Monday ordered the continued detention of the Beirut municipal treasurer, Khodr Bou Aram, who was arrested last Thursday by State Security as part of an...
The Interior and Foreign Affairs Ministries announced that 33,390 Lebanese residing abroad have so far submitted applications to register on the electoral rolls for the upcoming parliamentary...
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot on Monday called for the disarmament of Hezbollah and the withdrawal of Israel from southern Lebanon, as the risk of Israeli escalation looms over the...
“I advise you to let your intuition guide you, not your reason,” says Petra Serhal, dressed in a white gown and apron, after welcoming the audience with a spritz of wild plant perfume and a glass...
A series of wildfires has been sweeping through forests, olive groves and grasslands across Akkar since Sunday night, L’Orient Today’s correspondent in the North reported Monday. Despite the...
With more than 30 years of experience in humanitarian work — notably in Afghanistan and Bosnia-Herzegovina — Pierre Krähenbühl says he has never witnessed anything like what happened in Gaza.During...
Two men were killed by Israeli attacks on Monday, including a survivor of the Israeli September 2024 pager attack. A standoff also took place Sunday night between the Lebanese Army and an Israeli...
Mobile operator Touch, which shares the Lebanese market with Alfa, announced Monday that improvements made to its infrastructure have led to a "significant 55 percent increase" in data...
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said Monday that Lebanon has no option but negotiation, a clear reference to Israel, as U.S. and Israeli pressure for direct talks grows increasingly insistent....
"In Lebanon, we often talk about electricity, but never enough about water. It should be the other way around." With this observation, illustrating the chronic disinterest of the...
TRIPOLI — The waste collection company Lavajet staged a several-hour strike in Tripoli on Monday morning, as it had announced last Thursday in a statement. The company, which is bound by a...
BEIRUT — Hezbollah's spokesperson denied on Monday any "expanded" military activity in different areas in Lebanon and attempt to rebuild its elite force, after a report by Israeli...
BEIRUT — President Joseph Aoun met with the family of Elio Abu Hanna , who was killed by Palestinian gunmen in Shatila, in the southern suburbs of Beirut last week. The meeting, which included...
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Monday that Israel must stop its regular violations of the U.S.-backed cease-fire in Gaza and also fulfil its duty to allow access to humanitarian aid....
BEIRUT — Charities linked to Hezbollah, which have been sanctioned by the United States, have regularly directed donors to send funds via Lebanese digital payments providers that have partnerships...
He invites me to spend a few days with his family in the small town in southern France where he grew up. That’s where he comes from. That’s where his family tree’s roots are planted and branch...
Israel returned the bodies of 45 Palestinians to Gaza on Monday, bringing the total number handed over under the ceasefire deal to 270, the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory said. Under a...
BEIRUT — A shocking case of rape and murder of a minor has shaken Haret al-Naameh (the area on the Chouf coast, south of Beirut) this weekend. The events took place during the night from Friday...
Flights between Turkey and the Iraqi Kurdish city of Sulaimaniyah resumed on Monday after a two-and-a-half year ban due to accusations from Ankara of increased militant activity in the province....
Former U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein on Monday called on the international community to give as much importance to reconstruction in southern Lebanon as it does to Gaza, and to focus on Lebanese...
BEIRUT — Senior government officials, international representatives, and local leaders will meet Tuesday in Msayleh (Saida) for Lebanon’s first coordination meeting aimed at accelerating...
Nestled in the heart of Saifi Village, across from Martyrs' Square, the new patisserie Céline has been drawing lovers of French sweets, viennoiseries and pastries since its opening on Oct....
A laser light show, a symphony orchestra, dancers in tunics inspired by ancient frescoes, scepters and golden crowns: this was the scene at the pharaonic event which marked the official...
In Courtroom 1 of the Tunis court, Elmy Khadri, a former prisoner of conscience, does not bother to hide his impatience. Jailed in the 90s, today, he's hoping he'll finally receive a...
BEIRUT — On Monday, MP Elias Jaradeh, on behalf of several fellow MPs from the protest movement, urged Pope Leo XIV to visit South Lebanon during his upcoming trip scheduled from Nov. 30 to Dec. 2,...
British police said a 32-year-old British man was on Monday charged with 10 counts of attempted murder over a knife attack on a train on Saturday, an incident officers had already said was not...
Cooperation between Iran and the United States is not possible as long as Washington continues to support Israel and to maintain military bases and interfere in the Middle East region, Iran's...
About a week ago, the Syrian central bank announced that all the country’s banks must set aside full provisions for covering the losses incurred during the financial collapse in Lebanon, where...
The head of the Red Cross says history is repeating itself in Sudan's Darfur region after reports of mass killings during the fall of the city of al-Fasher to the Rapid Support Forces...
Is the idea of a permanently divided Gaza Strip, split between 'West' and 'East,' destined to last? That is the current reality: a 'yellow line' separates the area in the...
BEIRUT — Head of the Lebanese Forces Samir Geagea said that Hezbollah, through its "stances and actions since the ceasefire agreement, continues to drag Lebanon, and particularly its own base,...
Hamas is "determined" to stick to the Gaza truce, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erodgan said Monday, adding it was crucial that Muslim nations play a leading role in the Palestinian...
Washington has laid out key milestones for countries in the region and has set the end of the year as a deadline for those countries to reach them.Lebanon is expected to have finished seizing...
Former Israeli army chief prosecutor Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi has been arrested in connection with the 2024 leak of a video suggesting severe abuse of a Palestinian detainee at the high-security Sde...
Tom Barrack is no diplomat. He talks too much, says everything and its opposite, mistakes condescension for goodwill, flaunts his shaky grasp of history, and strings together clichés like beads on...
Tens of thousands of Sudanese civilians have fled towns and villages in a sprawling region east of Darfur, the United Nations said, just over a week after paramilitary forces overran the city of...
NORTH LEBANON — The large fire that broke out Sunday evening in Akkar, in a valley surrounding Andqet in northern Lebanon, was brought under control a few hours later by Civil Defense and local...
President Donald Trump alleged Sunday that countries including Russia and China have conducted underground nuclear tests unknown to the public, and that the United States would follow suit....
Israel confirmed Monday that remains handed over by Hamas the day before belonged to three hostages seized by Palestinian militants during the Oct. 7, 2023 attack. The remains were handed over as...
21:38 Beirut Time We are now closing our LIVE coverage of the region for the night. We will be back tomorrow morning with more news updates. 21:10 Beirut Time...
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