The International Monetary Fund executive board has adopted the decision to issue a general allocation of Special Drawing Rights equivalent to $650 billion. This largest allocation in the IMF’s...
PARIS — The European Union said on Friday it had adopted a legal framework for a sanctions regime targeting Lebanese individuals and entities after a year of crisis that has left Lebanon facing...
BEIRUT — For a third consecutive day, Lebanon’s firefighters and Civil Defense teams battled massive wildfires in northern Lebanon on Friday, with preliminary estimates showing that at least 100...
Talks surrounding the cabinet’s formation by Prime Minister–designate Najib Mikati seem to have gotten off to a bad start. Mikati appears to be facing the first challenge in his government...
The amount of ammonium nitrate that blew up at Beirut port last year was one fifth of the shipment unloaded there in 2013, the FBI concluded after the blast, adding to suspicions that much of...
BEIRUT — The Tourism Ministry on Friday announced that it will be compulsory for patrons and staff to show they are either vaccinated or free of COVID-19 in order to enter tourist establishments,...
BEIRUT – Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun told the country’s public prosecutor on Friday he was ready to give a statement about last year’s port blast in the capital of Beirut if needed....
BEIRUT — Almost a year after the Aug. 4 Beirut port explosion, President Michel Aoun expressed his “absolute readiness” to testify about the blast if called on by the investigating judge. Here’s...
BEIRUT — On the morning of Aug. 5, 2020, a group of neighbors gathered in the ruins of an abandoned gas station in the working-class area of Geitawi. They sat together, taking stock of the...
BEIRUT — Internet services are down this morning in the capital’s Ras Beirut neighborhood due to local “equipment dysfunction,” the state telecommunications company, Ogero, announced on Twitter....
BEIRUT — The Lebanese Army sent two helicopters to northern Lebanon to aid in the fight against wildfires that are raging in the Akkar region for the third day in a row. Here’s what we know:...
Consumer prices doubled from June 2020 to June 2021, new government figures show . Some costs even tripled — the largest year-over-year increase came from prices at restaurants and hotels, which...
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
