Saudi extends oil production cut as Russia reduces exports
Saudi Arabia said on Monday it was extending a voluntary oil production cut and Russia said it was slashing exports, as major producers tried to prop up slumping prices....
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Israelis take to the airport to protest judicial overhaul
Hundreds of protesters gathered on Monday at Israel's Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv for the latest demonstration against the government and its planned legal reform, an AFP correspondent...
3 July 2023
Switzerland returns stolen fragment of Ramses II statue
Switzerland on Monday returned to Egypt a fragment of a 3,400-year-old statue of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II, which was stolen more than 30 years ago. Carine...
3 July 2023
Presidential vacancy: four precedents in Lebanon’s history
Has Lebanon become the land of the impossible presidential election? Since the end of Michel Aoun’s six-year term on Oct. 31, the political deadlock has persisted: eight months of vacancy, 12...
Layal DAGHER, 3 July 2023
Sayrafa's rate falls by 700 LL
The exchange rate displayed by Banque du Liban's Sayrafa platform was lowered late Monday afternoon to LL85,500 to the dollar, LL700 less than what it has been since June 5 (LL86,200). BDL did...
3 July 2023
Hezbollah, foreign ministry condemn 'Israeli aggression' in Jenin
BEIRUT — Hezbollah Monday condemned the large-scale Israeli raid on Jenin refugee camp in the north of the occupied West Bank, which included drone strikes and hundreds of troops. "Hezbollah...
3 July 2023
COP28 host UAE pledges to triple renewables
Oil-rich United Arab Emirates said it would triple renewable energy production as part of a series of environmental initiatives announced on Monday, months before it hosts UN climate talks....
3 July 2023
Saudi executes 5 for terrorism
Saudi Arabia on Monday executed five people, state media said. It was the biggest group execution this year. The five men, four Saudi and one Egyptian, were tried for carrying out an attack that...
3 July 2023
Men found dead at Qornet al-Sawda: Funerals held in Bsharri, several arrested
Some twenty people have been arrested for questioning on suspicion of involvement in the death of Haitham Tok, whose body was found on Saturday afternoon in Qornet al-Sawda, Lebanon's highest...
3 July 2023
Measures will be implemented to relieve congestion at Beirut airport
BEIRUT — A series of measures aimed at controlling the heavy influx of passengers at Beirut's International Airport were announced Monday, following a meeting held at the Grand Serail in the...
3 July 2023
A chronology of the mysterious Hannibal Gaddafi case in Lebanon
Hannibal Gaddafi, 47, son of the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, has been incarcerated in Lebanon since 2015. He has been moved from a Lebanese prison to a hospital in "critical condition,"...
Zeina ANTONIOS, 3 July 2023
Last remaining French D-day veteran, who also fought in Lebanon, dies at 100
The last surviving Frenchman to participate in the Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944 died Monday aged 100, local authorities said. Leon Gautier was among 177...
3 July 2023
Hanin Ghaddar: ‘Hezbollah has found other funding channels in the new cash economy’
Lebanon is engulfed in an interminable economic, monetary and financial crisis, and Hezbollah is taking advantage of it. This is the conclusion of a study published this month by The Washington...
Lyana ALAMEDDINE, 3 July 2023
Kuwait urges Iran border talks as gas row flares anew
Kuwait reinvited Iran on Monday to talks on their sea borders after Tehran said it was ready to start drilling in a disputed gas field in the resource-rich Gulf. Kuwait...
3 July 2023
Generator tariffs: Price per kWh rises in liras as well as in dollars
BEIRUT — Set at LL31,305 for June's invoices, the base price per kilowatt-hour (kWh) of electricity supplied by owners of private generators rose slightly in one month (+0.12 percent), mainly due...
3 July 2023
Blasts in Khartoum as army renews call for volunteers
Explosions again rocked Sudan's capital Khartoum on Monday as the army rallied civilians to take up arms against a renewed onslaught by its paramilitary foes. The sound of...
3 July 2023
Iran executes 354 people in first half of 2023, rights group says
Iran has hanged at least 354 people in the first six months of 2023, a rights group said Monday, adding that the pace of executions was much higher than in 2022. Rights...
3 July 2023
Israel struck Jenin 'with great strength': Israeli foreign minister
Israeli forces have forcefully struck the area of Jenin, Foreign Minister Eli Cohen said after Israeli forces killed several Palestinians in the biggest army operation in the occupied West Bank in...
3 July 2023
British MPs urge fresh action to secure Egyptian dissident's release
Over 100 British lawmakers on Monday expressed concern at the lack of progress in the case of a jailed British-Egyptian activist and urged the UK government to adopt "fresh approaches" to secure...
3 July 2023
Hannibal Gaddafi moved to hospital in 'critical condition' in Lebanon
CAIRO — Hannibal Gaddafi, son of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, has been moved from a Lebanese prison to a hospital in "critical condition," Dubai-based Al-Hadath TV reported on Sunday....
3 July 2023
Saudi summons Swedish ambassador over Quran burning
Saudi Arabia has summoned Sweden's ambassador to denounce a Quran burning outside a Stockholm mosque that sparked a diplomatic backlash across the Muslim world, state media reported early...
3 July 2023
Can Lebanon still be reformed? And how?
As Lebanon’s economic crisis endures — and while significant obstacles continue to delay the approval of laws and policies that would help put the country on the path toward economic recovery —...
Saadé CHAMI, 3 July 2023
Update: Major Israeli military operation kills eight in West Bank
Israel on Monday began a large-scale military raid including drone strikes and hundreds of troops in the northern occupied West Bank, killing eight Palestinians in what the Israeli army labeled an...
3 July 2023
Israeli bulldozers violate Blue Line with bullets and stun grenades
BEIRUT — Israeli bulldozers violated the technical fence and the Blue Line near the border with Lebanon near the border village of Houla on Sunday, according to the state-run National News Agency...
3 July 2023
Decrease in fuel prices, increase in generator fuel oil
BEIRUT — The Energy Ministry on Monday announced a decrease in fuel prices, while the price of fuel oil for generators increased. Here are the new prices: • Twenty liters of 95-octane...
3 July 2023
Qornet al-Sawda killings, BDL’s Hoayek charged, more wildfires: Everything you need to know to start your Monday
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Two men were found shot dead Saturday on Qornet al-Sawda, Lebanon’s highest mountain peak, after an armed dispute between...
