BEIRUT — A judge in the Bekaa Thursday evening ordered the release of Abdallah al-Sai, who had taken the employees of a bank in Bekaa area of Jeb Jenine hostage and threatened to set the...
BEIRUT — New data released Wednesday by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) reveals that the Lebanese lira lost 82 percent of its purchasing power between...
BEIRUT — France, the European Union and the United States called on Thursday for justice to be done in the case of the assassination of the Lokman Slim who was killed exactly a year ago in South...
BEIRUT — Vatican envoy Archbishop Paul Gallagher continued his Lebanese tour Thursday, meeting with Prime Minister Najib Mikati, the Lebanese Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdellatif Derian and the Foreign...
BEIRUT — Less than four months out from the parliamentary elections, there appears to be scant cohesion among the groups running in opposition to the traditional political parties. While most...
BEIRUT — Hezbollah MPs said Thursday they are opposed to the imposition of any new tax in the 2022 draft budget, which has been the subject of regular cabinet meetings since last week. Here’s...
BEIRUT — Akkar villages are struggling with an almost total shutdown in mobile and internet services from the Alfa and Touch telecom companies in the region, L’Orient Today ’s correspondent in the...
BEIRUT — The cabinet continued its examination of the preliminary budget plan for 2022 on Thursday and is scheduled to meet next week in Baabda to approve it, acting Information Minister Abbas...
BEIRUT — Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri will not accept the postponement of parliamentary elections “even by one minute,” a press release from his office Thursday stated. The polls are presently...
BEIRUT — Clashes took place Thursday between the Lebanese Army and gangs of thieves in the Bekaa village of al-Qaa on the Lebanon-Syria border, L'Orient Today ’s correspondent in the area...
BEIRUT — The management of Full House, a pop-up shop operating in ABC Mall in Achrafieh, has claimed that on Wednesday the mall’s management asked it to dismiss a saleswoman who wore a hijab to...
BEIRUT — Nine months from the end of his term as head of state, in an interview with the Lebanese daily Al Joumhouria , President Michel Aoun took shots at his political rivals Walid Joumblatt...
BEIRUT — The head of the land transport unions, Bassam Tleis, announced Thursday the cancellation of the third and final day of a planned strike, which was scheduled for Friday. Here’s what we...
His portrait is displayed on the facade of St. George's Church in Ablah, in the district of Zahle. The esplanade is full of people. It is 2 p.m. on Wednesday and hundreds of people from his village...
BEIRUT— The Lebanese Army issued a statement on Thursday saying that an Israeli gunboat had violated Lebanese waters and came 315 meters from Naqoura between 9:50 a.m. and 12 p.m. on Wednesday....
The Sunni representatives of the March 8 Coalition consist of six MPs, but they have never managed to prove themselves a united and homogeneous bloc. Benefitting from wide-based support from...
BEIRUT— The families of victims of the 2020 Beirut port explosion issued a statement Thursday saying they are not affiliated with any candidates in the upcoming parliamentary elections, adding that...
BEIRUT — A report published by Human Rights Watch on Thursday found multiple failures, gross negligence and procedural violations in the investigations of four murders in Lebanon, namely the...
This investigation was published one year ago to mark the first anniversary of the assassination of Lokman Slim. L'Orient Today is republishing this article again, two years after the tragedy....
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Lebanese, Israeli delegation to meet in Washington; Lebanon files UN complaint against Iran: Everything you need to know this Thursday
