BEIRUT — Belgium's parliament on Friday approved a resolution urging European Union members to activate sanctions against Lebanese officials accused of corruption. Ben Achour Malik, who...
BEIRUT — Three Syrian children drowned on Friday in a canal in al-Qaa, in the Bekaa Valley, L'Orient Today 's correspondent in the region reported and the local mayor told AFP. The children,...
UN rights chief Volker Turk on Friday called for an end to the "illogic of escalation" between Israelis and Palestinians, amid a spike in deadly violence between the two....
BEIRUT — Delivery drivers for Toters, a Lebanese mobile application that connects customers with food and groceries, went on a partial strike this week to protest low wages, which are set in the...
The French diplomat charged with coordinating international support for Lebanon, so it can receive International Monetary Fund aid, on Friday criticized the slow pace of reforms in the crisis-hit...
HARAT HREIK, Lebanon — On the second anniversary of the murder of Lokman Slim, a publisher, researcher, political activist and staunch Hezbollah opponent, his family Friday called for a UN...
The death of a young YouTube star at the hands of her father has sparked outrage in Iraq, where so-called "honor killings" continue to take place in the conservative country....
Acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi has been released on bail after starting a hunger strike to protest against his almost seven-month detention, a rights group and reports said on Friday....
Iranian security forces have been systematically targeting the eyes of demonstrators in their crackdown on the protests that have swept the country since September, a human rights group said...
A television team from the Arabic-language channel of German broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) left Iraq at short notice on Thursday after "unacceptable" pressure from officials, said DW's chief...
BEIRUT — During a meeting in Washington Thursday, Deputy Parliament Speaker Elias Bou Saab and US energy envoy Amos Hochstein discussed the "next stage" following an October maritime border deal...
This might seem like a story about how two Lebanese expats in Amsterdam created a small empire of saj. But it’s so much more than that. It’s a love story of fate and tenacity, but most of all,...
On Feb. 3, 2021, Lokman Slim, an erudite publisher and political activist and a fierce Hezbollah opponent, was shot dead in Addousiye (Zahrani, South Lebanon), an area under Hezbollah control....
Social media images purported to be of an emaciated jailed Iranian physician who went on hunger strike in support of demonstrations against the country's compulsory hijab policy have caused outrage...
Tunisia's powerful UGTT trade union accused President Kais Saied Friday of targeting it to distract the public from record low election turnout and the "total failure" of his economic policies....
BEIRUT — Members of the Maritime Rescue Unit in the Civil Defense recovered the body of a man who died while fishing at the Tabarja beach in Kesrwan, L’Orient Today’s correspondent in the North...
The leader of the Kataeb party, Samy Gemayel, on Friday threatened to "paralyze" the Lebanese presidential election if Hezbollah's candidate plans to "protect the weapons" of the Shiite party....
ANKARA — Turkey said on Friday that Western nations, including the United States and Germany, had not given it any information to back up their assertions that security threats had...
Qatar has reaffirmed a religious ban on the consumption of insects after the European Union added new products to its list of approved foods. Insect products do not meet...
BEIRUT — The Régie Libanaise de Tabacs et Tombacs, Lebanon’s tobacco authority, carried out a number of raids in the southern suburbs of Beirut, the state-run National News Agency reported on...
The Lebanese Court of Cassation overturned a 2022 appeal decision that was in favor of Fransabank against two of its depositors, Ayad el-Gharabaoui Ibrahim and his wife Hanane Maroun al-Hajj...
Turkey's inflation rate slowed for a third successive month in January, official data showed Friday, after a record that threw the economy into chaos and imperiled President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's...
It's all in the timing. Although four Lebanese MPs claimed their visit to Washington this week was to participate in the National Prayer Breakfast, the timing seems far from trivial....
DUBAI — Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi said the death in custody of a young Iranian Kurdish woman last year has sparked an irreversible "revolutionary process" that would...
BEIRUT — The Energy Ministry on Friday announced an increase in fuel prices, while the price of diesel and fuel oil for generators decreased. Here are the new prices: • Twenty liters of...
President Joe Biden on Thursday underlined his support for the legal "status quo" of Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in a meeting at the White House with Jordanian King Abdullah II....
French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday denounced the "headlong rush" of Iran's nuclear program after talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was in Paris to seek a stronger...
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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
