BEIRUT — Forces of Change MPs announced Monday that they will continue their parliamentary strike to pressure MPs to elect a new president. In a press conference, MP Melhem Khalaf said "no...
BEIRUT — A woman threw her two children in Souairi village in the Bekaa late last week, a security source told L'Orient-Le Jour 's correspondent in the region. According to the source, the...
BEIRUT — The money transfer company OMT, one of the authorized agents of the Western Union network in Lebanon, issued a statement Monday evening acknowledging the suspension of its foreign exchange...
In political circles, Lebanon is often referred to as a country ever subject to external influence, where embassies and consulates hold sway. While this clichéd assertion may allow local...
Saudi Arabia plans to invest more than $266 billion to produce cleaner electricity and expand its power grid, the kingdom's energy minister said Monday. Speaking at a forum...
BEIRUT — Private school teachers announced Monday afternoon that they will stage a "warning strike" on Wednesday to protest deteriorating living conditions. The announcement comes after...
Tehran on Monday summoned a Ukrainian diplomat to protest "biased" remarks by a presidential aide in Kyiv over a recent drone strike in Iran, the Islamic Republic's foreign ministry said....
Emirates said it successfully flew a Boeing 777 powered by sustainable aviation fuel on Monday, as the Middle East's largest airline aims to halve its jet fuel consumption....
Armenia accused its bitter rival Azerbaijan at the UN's top court on Monday of "ethnic cleansing" through a blockade of the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. The complaint is part of a wider...
BEIRUT — Economy Minister Amin Salam on Monday announced a proposal that would allow supermarkets to price their imported products in dollars. "For as long we have avoided pricing in dollars to...
BEIRUT — Banque du Liban on Monday decided, for a 13th month, to extend its main Circular No. 161 in an effort to mitigate dramatic fluctuations in the lira's parallel market value. The measure...
BEIRUT — Amal Movement MPs and former ministers Ghazi Zeaiter and Ali Hassan Khalil, both implicated in the investigation into the deadly 2020 Beirut port explosion, on Monday filed three new...
The International Monetary Fund finalized a report in November and made it public in January, in tandem with the passage of Lebanon’s budget for 2022. Entitled “Lebanon: Technical Assistance...
Iranian authorities have imposed a travel ban on leading filmmaker Masud Kimiai, local media reported Monday, after he expressed support for protests that have gripped the Islamic Republic for...
Turkey's opposition vowed on Monday to crimp the president's powers and expand democratic rights, as it unveiled its long-awaited platform for the May 14 presidential and legislative polls....
Azerbaijan said on Monday it was suspending work at its embassy in Iran, days after a gunman stormed the mission, killing one guard and wounding two others. Iran has said...
Israeli troops killed a Palestinian driver in the occupied West Bank on Monday, officials on both sides confirmed. Nassim Naif Salman Abu Fouda, 26, died from "a bullet wound to the head fired by...
BEIRUT — Several strikes paralyzed multiple sectors of Lebanon's economy on Monday while the president of the General Confederation of Workers — a national trade union center — called for a general...
The fight against global warming should not be at the expense of economic growth, the UAE oil chief who will lead this year's UN climate talks said on Monday. Sultan Al...
Forces of Change MPs Najat Saliba and Melhem Khalaf tweeted on Monday from inside Parliament, where they have now been holding a sit-in for more than 11 days, that at present "Parliament can only...
We lost. We have lost since Aug. 7, 2020, three days after the explosion at the port of Beirut, when Michel Aoun put the first nail in the coffin of the investigation by shutting the door on an...
Four people were injured Monday morning following a fire triggered by a gas leak in an apartment in the Beirut neighborhood of Tariq al-Jadideh, the Civil Defense said in a statement. Earlier in...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday called for "urgent steps" to calm spiraling violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, after high-level talks in Jerusalem. Washington's top...
A series of unclaimed drone strikes on pro-Iran factions in war-torn Syria killed 11 people and destroyed trucks carrying Iranian arms from Iraq, a war monitor said Monday. The first attack, on...
BEIRUT — Fuel prices in Lebanon decreased for the second time on Monday afternoon, after an initial decrease was announced by the Energy Ministry earlier that morning. This latest price change...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up. Qatari state-owned QatarEnergies yesterday entered into a consortium licensed to explore Lebanese offshore oil and gas blocks....
JERUSALEM — Israeli police sealed off the Jerusalem family home of a Palestinian gunman on Sunday, two days after he killed seven people outside a synagogue, as fears grew of escalation in the...
TUNIS — Tunisia announced that a mere 11 percent of the electorate had voted on Sunday in parliamentary runoffs, with critics of President Kais Saied saying the empty polling stations were evidence...
Beirut’s demands, Israel’s terms, and Washington’s stance: Behind the scenes of the negotiations
Lebanon stuck between a rock and a hard place: A US disarmament plan, or an extended expansion to the war?
