As investigative judge Tarek Bitar was set to appear Tuesday before the examining magistrate, the relatives of the victims of the Aug. 4, 2020 explosion once again voiced discordant positions: on...
The Israeli army has received the body of an Israeli soldier handed over on Tuesday evening by Hamas, as confirmed by the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Israel announced that...
BEIRUT — Prime Minister Nawaf Salam has ordered an investigation be launched on Tuesday into a wedding that was held in Jeita Grotto, a system of limestone caves that are a protected natural...
Prime Minister Nawaf Salam met on Tuesday at the Grand Serail with Jacques de Lajugie, the French presidential special envoy for economic affairs in Lebanon, to discuss the "final phase"...
Head of the Free Patriotic Movement, MP Gebran Bassil, warned on Tuesday that "a settlement is being prepared to eliminate the expatriates’ right to vote," during a meeting of FPM's...
Tony Blair may once again feel the “hand of history” on his shoulder. The first time was on April 10, 1998, in Belfast, when then-newly elected British prime minister, solemn and composed, was...
Lebanese MP Najat Aoun Saliba issued a statement Tuesday announcing that the urgent matters judge has halted all excavation and construction activities near the endangered Monk Seal Cave in Amchit,...
The last day for a Syrian refugee to have their medical expenses in Lebanon covered by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) will be Nov. 30. The date was confirmed to...
The Lebanese judiciary received an official request from France on Monday asking for help to locate and arrest former Syrian regime officials suspected of currently being on Lebanese soil,...
Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said on Tuesday that negotiations with Israel, called for by Washington and considered unavoidable by President Joseph Aoun, could be held through the...
Thousands of Iranians on Tuesday marked the 1979 seizure of the U.S. embassy in Tehran by hanging effigies of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu in public and parading replicas of missiles and...
BEIRUT — Joumana Asseily says her work has not been driven by strategy.“It’s something very intuitive,” the gallerist says. “You look at the work. You meet the artist. [You see] what is relevant,...
The General Directorate of State Security (GS) has discovered the misappropriation of approximately $260,000 from the Beirut Municipality Treasury, following a judicial investigation into irregular...
BEIRUT — The hearing scheduled for Tuesday by investigating judge Habib Rizkallah, appointed ad hoc to question investigative judge at the Court of Justice Tarek Bitar, has been postponed to...
The first thing you notice about Joze Piranian is not his stutter. It’s his warmth. Even over a flickering Zoom call between Beirut and Toronto, cut by unstable Wi-Fi, his humor carries through the...
The first high-level meeting on the reconstruction of southern Lebanon reconstruction was held on Tuesday in Msayleh, nearly one year after the cease-fire with Israel came into effect and just...
BEIRUT — Interior Minister Ahmad Hajjar met Tuesday with Maronite Patriarch Bechara Rai to discuss two major national issues: diaspora voting in the upcoming elections and the state’s control over...
On Monday, the Lebanese judiciary received a legal request from France seeking help in locating and arresting officials from the former Syrian regime if they are present in Lebanon, Asharq al-Awsat...
Despite fresh orders for the Lebanese Army to counter any Israeli incursions, the Israeli military infiltrated southern Lebanon overnight from Monday to Tuesday and blew up a house on the outskirts...
No Syrian president was ever received in the Oval Office. Eleven months after his unexpected rise to power, Ahmad al-Sharaa will be received by Donald Trump on Nov. 10, thus becoming the first...
The sun, the blue sky, an old majestic tree overlooking the square where delivery workers wait for their orders amid the coming and going of passers-by, and in one corner, a traditional building...
Since his beginnings in 2017, Ahmad Amer has conceived clothing as a manifesto. His collections denounce, in turn, the abuse suffered by land, corruption, or poor governance that led to Lebanon’s...
BEKAA — Four children were injured when a shell from war remnants exploded near a house in the town of Sahlat al-Maa (Hermel), our correspondent in the Bekaa reported. They were transported to...
In Beirut, the Aswat festival, now in its third edition, is gradually establishing itself as a distinctive meeting point between the worlds of research and creation. Its name, Aswat —"...
Peru decided to break off diplomatic relations with Mexico, the Andean nation's foreign minister said on Monday, after Peru's former prime minister holed up in the Mexican embassy in the...
As soon as you step inside, you’re overwhelmed by an overload of information. Books scattered everywhere, posters fighting for space on the walls, photo albums sent by fans.Chantal Goya weaves her...
A highly symbolic meeting will take place on Tuesday in Msayleh, at the request of Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri. This is due to the location chosen. This village in southern Lebanon — where Berri...
The Sovereignty Council, backed by Sudan's army and chaired by Sudanese army chief Abdel-Fattah al-Burhane, will meet on Tuesday to discuss a U.S.-backed proposal for a truce in the conflict...
New York will elect its new mayor Tuesday, with polling favorite Zohran Mamdani — a 34-year-old Muslim of Indian descent from the left wing of the Democratic Party and a staunch opponent of Donald...
Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will be at the White House on Nov. 18 for an official working visit with U.S. President Donald Trump, a White House official said on Monday. The...
23:10 Beirut Time We are now closing our LIVE coverage of the region for tonight. We will be back tomorrow morning with more news updates. 21:33 Beirut Time...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz.Follow L’Orient Today’s WhatsApp channel to stay up to date with the latest news.👈Some...
Lebanon stuck between a rock and a hard place: A US disarmament plan, or an extended expansion to the war?
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