Daycare abuse case hearing set for June
BEIRUT — The owner of a daycare in Jdeideh, along with a nurse and an employee, appeared in Mount Lebanon Criminal Court on Tuesday on charges of violence against infants and babies under their...
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Polish oil company under investigation for Hezbollah ties
The Polish National Prosecutor's Office announced on Tuesday that it has opened an investigation into state-controlled oil giant Orlen, focusing on a senior figure in the company’s Swiss subsidiary...
30 April 2024
Gas leak fire kills nine Beirut restaurant employees
BEIRUT — Nine people were killed and four others injured on Tuesday afternoon in a fire caused by a gas leak in a restaurant in the Bechara al-Khoury area of Ras al-Naba, Beirut. Chief of the...
30 April 2024
‘If you're not with Palestine, you're not with humanity’: Students rally for Gaza at AUB
BEIRUT — Keffiyehs, Palestinian flags, calls for boycotts, and pro-Hamas slogans. At the American University of Beirut (AUB), in Beirut's Hamra neighborhood, around 300 students demonstrated on...
Ghadir Hamadi, 30 April 2024
Taxes and contributions: What has changed for employees and employers in Lebanon?
“It’s chaos; nobody knows what to do,” Nadim Daher, an expert accountant, and member of the board of the Lebanese Association for Taxpayers' Rights (ALDIC), told L’Orient-Le Jour in recent...
Fouad GEMAYEL, 30 April 2024
ICJ rules against provisional measures for Germany, case not thrown out
The International Court of Justice ruled 15-1 on Tuesday against handing down provisional measures in Nicaragua's case against Germany accusing it of providing weapons to Israel under the...
30 April 2024
Will al-Jamaa al-Islamiya pay the price for its show of force in Akkar?
On Sunday, dozens of hooded, heavily armed fighters marched in the town of Bibnine, Akkar as part of the funeral procession of two members of al-Jamaa al-Islamiya, a Sunni Islamist group. The two...
Jeanine JALKH, 30 April 2024
Abbas Ibrahim calls for 'national conference' to address issue of Syrian refugees
BEIRUT – Former General Security chief Abbas Ibrahim on Tuesday, in a post on X, called for a national conference to address the issue of Syrian refugees' presence in Lebanon. Since the...
30 April 2024
UN 'alarmed' at impact of Lebanon border clashes on children
The United Nations children's agency warned Tuesday that conflict on Lebanon's border was taking a heavy toll on children, with thousands out of school and healthcare "critically impacted."...
30 April 2024
Netanyahu says troops to enter Rafah 'with or without' Gaza truce
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that the Israeli military will launch a ground offensive in Rafah "with or without" a truce with Hamas in Gaza. "The idea...
30 April 2024
Israel police say Turk shot dead after stabbing officer in Jerusalem
A Turkish national stabbed and moderately wounded an Israeli police officer in annexed east Jerusalem before being shot dead on Tuesday, police said. Police said that...
30 April 2024
Mikati discusses 'shared files' between Beirut and Damascus with head of Lebanese-Syrian High Cooperation Council
Lebanon's caretaker prime minister, Najib Mikati, met with Nasri Khoury, Secretary General of the Lebanese-Syrian High Council for Cooperation, on Tuesday to discuss "common issues" between the two...
30 April 2024
Hamas says readying response to Gaza truce offer
Cautious hopes were building Tuesday for a Gaza truce and hostage release deal as Hamas said it was studying the latest proposal and US top diplomat Antony Blinken was due to head back to Israel....
30 April 2024
When ‘Satchmo’ came to Beirut: Inside Louis Armstrong’s 1959 Lebanon visit
Photos and audio courtesy of the Louis Armstrong House Museum in New York LorientleJour · Louis Armstrong in Lebanon : 1959 Beirut, the 1950s. In the Zeitouna district by the sea, and...
Sandrine Frem, 30 April 2024
After a steady increase, fuel prices see a slight drop
Fuel prices saw a decrease on Tuesday, according to the latest price list published by the Energy and Water Ministry, after previously seeing a continuous rise. However, the price of the diesel...
30 April 2024
Iran commutes death sentence for sanctions-busting tycoon
Iran's judiciary said Tuesday it had commuted a death sentence handed down against a billionaire business tycoon convicted of pocketing $2.8 billion while circumventing US-led sanctions for the...
30 April 2024
Health ministry in Gaza says war death toll at 34,535
The health ministry in Gaza said Tuesday that at least 34,535 people have been killed in the Palestinian territory during almost seven months of war between Israel and Hamas....
30 April 2024
Body of second Ramlet al-Baida drowning victim found
The Civil Defense announced on Tuesday morning that it found the body of a second missing drowning victim, for whom it had been searching for several days, off the coast of the public beach Ramlet...
30 April 2024
China says Palestinian rivals Hamas and Fatah met for talks in Beijing
China said Tuesday that rival Palestinian groups Hamas and Fatah met in Beijing recently for "in-depth and candid talks on promoting intra-Palestinian reconciliation." "Representatives of the...
30 April 2024
Blinken heads to Jordan to push Gaza aid
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken headed Tuesday to Jordan where he will discuss ways to boost aid deliveries into Gaza and quietly thank the kingdom for its help during recent Iran-Israel...
30 April 2024
ICJ votes 15-1 against imposing provisional measures in Germany-Nicaragua case: Day 207 of the Gaza war
22:08 Beirut Time That's it for today's live coverage of the Gaza war and its repercussions on the region, notably in southern Lebanon. Thanks for following along. We'll be back tomorrow...
Sally Abou AlJoud, 30 April 2024
Houthis claim attack on Greek merchant vessel off Yemen
Yemen's Houthi rebels claimed responsibility for attacks on Monday along the Red Sea shipping route, including on a Greek commercial vessel, according to a British maritime agency and the US...
30 April 2024
Hamas prepares response to Gaza truce offer
Hamas was studying Tuesday Israel's offer of a 40-day truce in the war in the Gaza Strip in exchange for the release of scores of hostages held since the Palestinian militant group's Oct. 7...
30 April 2024
Top UN court to rule in Germany 'genocide' case over Gaza
The United Nations' top court will on Tuesday rule on charges by Nicaragua that Germany is breaching the 1948 Genocide Convention by supplying arms to Israel for the Gaza war....
30 April 2024
US says five Israeli military units committed abuses in West Bank
The United States has concluded that five Israeli security force units committed serious human rights violations against Palestinians in the West Bank before the Hamas attack in October, the State...
30 April 2024
US opposes ICC probe as Israel fears arrest warrants
The United States said Monday it opposed the International Criminal Court's (ICC) investigation into Israel's conduct in Gaza, amid reports that Israeli officials fear the Hague-based...
30 April 2024
Journalist Karem Mounzer attacked in Jiyeh
On Saturday, April 27, Karem Mounzer, a journalist with Beirut Today, and a photographer friend headed to one of the beaches of Jiyeh (Chouf), to take some photographs. "My friend wanted to...
Suzanne BAAKLINI, 30 April 2024
Hamas attacks from southern Lebanon, tightening restrictions on Syrians, cease-fire deal on the table: Everything you need to know to start your Tuesday
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up. Catch up on yesterday’s LIVE coverage of Day 206 of the Gaza war here . Hamas claimed a cross-border attack from southern...
