One killed in Feytroun gas station fight
An argument turned into a fight Tuesday at a gas station in Feytroun, in the Kesrouan area, killing one person, according to the state-run National News Agency (NNA). The victim is a gas station...
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Bekaa governor calls for caution ahead of possible bad weather
The governor of Bekaa, Kamal Abou Jaoudeh, has called on the Internal Security Forces, municipalities, and the Red Cross to "take precautionary and preventive measures to avoid any accidents...
4 February 2025
Families of Beirut port explosion victims call on Aoun and Salam
BEIRUT — The families of victims of the deadly Aug. 4, 2020, explosion at the Beirut Port conducted their traditional sit-in beneath the Emigrant statue, facing the port area of the capital, for...
L'Orient Today staff, 4 February 2025
Bassil: We’ll stay silent on ‘abuse’ if Salam and Aoun accept it
BEIRUT — The head of the Free Patriotic Movement, Gebran Bassil, criticized Amal and Hezbollah on Tuesday for insisting on retaining control of the Finance Ministry. Speaking at a press conference,...
L'Orient Today staff, 4 February 2025
Economist Marwan Iskandar dead at 87
Marwan Iskandar, economist, adviser and financial analyst, passed away Tuesday morning at the age of 87. Author, consultant, banker, and close adviser to former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, who...
4 February 2025
'Double standards': Discontent with Prime Minister-designate Salam grows
Discontent with Prime Minister-designate Nawaf Salam appears to be spreading. While he can take pride in having largely absorbed the anger of Shiite factions, he is facing accusations of "double...
Yara ABI AKL, 4 February 2025
Hezbollah condemns Australian sanctions against Naim Qassem
Hezbollah condemned Tuesday “in the strongest possible terms” Australia's decision to impose sanctions on its secretary-general, Naim Qassem. In a statement, the Shiite organization denounced...
4 February 2025
Armenian Orthodox Church pays final tribute to Archimandrite Kojanian murdered in Bsalim
The Armenian Orthodox Church on Tuesday held a funeral for Archimandrite Anania Kojanian, aged 40, who was found dead on Feb. 1 at his home in Bsalim, in the Metn district. The funeral ceremony,...
4 February 2025
Qatar will support Lebanon in its reconstruction, PM assures Aoun
Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani said Tuesday after a meeting with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun that Qatar is waiting for the formation of a new Lebanese government and...
L'Orient Today staff, 4 February 2025
From Hammam Ezzeddine to an Armenian church: The sounds of Tripoli in an album
This album consists of 15 tracks filled with strange, unclassifiable sounds — an immersive and disorienting journey through a Lebanon on the brink, almost dystopian, yet punctuated by moments of...
Emmanuel KHOURY, 4 February 2025
Closure of schools, technical and university institutions on Monday, Feb. 10, and Friday, Feb. 14
Caretaker Education Minister Abbas Halabi announced on Tuesday the closure of schools, technical, university and higher education institutions, as well as kindergartens, on Monday, Feb. 10, for the...
4 February 2025
Assad regime fueled Lebanon's civil war, says Ahmad al-Sharaa
The Syrian transitional president, Ahmad al-Sharaa, stated on Monday that the Assad regime "fueled" the Lebanese civil war (1975-1990) and "fractured the power to manipulate it to...
4 February 2025
Finance Ministry: Why Yassin Jaber is a bankers’ favorite
Since the start of consultations to form a Cabinet, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has had only one name in mind for the key Finance portfolio. That of Yassin Jaber.In addition to the fact that...
Mounir YOUNES, 4 February 2025
Faraya crime: mother and girlfriend of one of the two suspects in custody
After the army’s intelligence services arrested on Sunday in Akkar J.C. and R.S. for their involvement in the murder of Khalil Khalil (19 years old) in Faraya, Kesrouan, the day before, the State...
Claude ASSAF, 4 February 2025
Israel army says West Bank attack left two soldiers dead
The Israeli army said two soldiers were killed in a shooting attack on a military post in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday. A further six soldiers were lightly wounded when "a terrorist...
4 February 2025
Will a government be formed before Feb. 18 to avoid another delay in the Israeli withdrawal?
Away from the internal wrangling over government formation and the distribution of portfolios, President Joseph Aoun’s main concern is to speed up the process of assembling the next cabinet,...
Scarlett HADDAD, 4 February 2025
West Bank's Jenin camp going in 'catastrophic direction'
The Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank is heading in a "catastrophic direction," the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees said Tuesday, adding that residents had "endured...
4 February 2025
Egyptian political figures call for activist's release
A group of Egyptian politicians, activists, lawyers and journalists called for the release of British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, warning that his mother is in a critical health condition...
4 February 2025
16 arrested by army in Nabi Sheet for firing in the air
The Lebanese army, assisted by an intelligence service patrol from the Bekaa, arrested 16 individuals sought by the justice system in Nabi Sheet (east of Baalbeck) for firing in the air during a...
4 February 2025
After snag with Hezbollah and Amal, PM-designate at odds with Christian parties
Prime Minister-designate Nawaf Salam still has his work cut out for him.After largely smoothing over — though not entirely overcoming — the obstacle with Lebanon’s two main Shiite parties Hezbollah...
Yara ABI AKL, 4 February 2025
Tashnag criticizes 'double standard' in government formation
The Tashnag party criticized on Tuesday the prime minister-designate, Nawaf Salam, urging him to address the composition of the ministerial cabinet "according to unified criteria that ensure...
4 February 2025
Musk takes reins of US Treasury payments, sparking lawsuit
Elon Musk and his aides have taken control of the U.S. Treasury Department's payments system, triggering a lawsuit accusing him of illegally getting access to the private data of millions of...
4 February 2025
New security incidents Monday across Lebanon
As a recent series of crimes and offenses shake public opinion, new incidents occurred Monday across Lebanon. Early Tuesday morning, around 2:30 a.m., unidentified individuals threw a grenade at...
L'Orient Today staff, 4 February 2025
Air transport: Most major airlines have returned to Beirut's international airport
After being deserted for several months, the Rafik Hariri International Airport (RHIA) is gradually returning to its pre-war pace, following the war between Hezbollah and Israel from September to...
Philippe HAGE BOUTROS, 4 February 2025
Syria's Sharaa to discuss defense pact with Turkey's Erdogan, sources say
Syria's transitional President Ahmad al-Sharaa and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan are expected to discuss a joint defense pact in Ankara on Tuesday, including establishing Turkish airbases in...
Suleiman al-Khalidi, Maya Gebeily, Khalil Ashawi & Huseyin Hayatsever, 4 February 2025
Israeli military says troops shoot dead gunman in West Bank
The Israeli army said Tuesday that its troops had killed a gunman who critically wounded two soldiers when he opened fire at a military post in the occupied West Bank. "A terrorist fired at...
4 February 2025
Eyal Zamir, new chief of staff in a post-Oct. 7 Israel
Israel’s new chief of staff, General Eyal Zamir, said on Wednesday that the army’s mission against Hamas in the Gaza Strip “is not over.” Speaking at an official ceremony, Zamir described the...
Amélie ZACCOUR, 4 February 2025
Negotiations for second phase of cease-fire have begun, according to Hamas | Live
20:41 Beirut Time According to our correspondent in North Lebanon, the “Department of Military Operations in Syria” continues to use bulldozers to close illegal crossings on the Syrian...
Muntasser Abdallah, Sarah Abdallah, Nicholas Frakes & Marguerita Sejaan, 4 February 2025
Netanyahu to meet Trump as Israel, Hamas eye Gaza truce talks
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to meet President Donald Trump on Tuesday, as Israel and Hamas say they are ready for negotiations on a new phase in their fragile Gaza ceasefire....
4 February 2025
Salam: government formation progresses according to criteria and reformist trajectory
Designated Prime Minister Nawaf Salam stated Monday that the formation of the government "is progressing" per the criteria he established and within the framework of the "reformist...
L'Orient Today staff, 4 February 2025
Israel PM office says delegation to visit Doha for cease-fire talks
Israel will send a delegation to Doha this week for talks on the second phase of the Gaza cease-fire deal, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday. "Israel is...
4 February 2025
Syria leader heads to Turkey to discuss rebuilding, Kurds
Syria's interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa visits Ankara on Tuesday for talks with Turkey's leaders on rebuilding his land and the volatile issue of Kurdish fighters near the countries'...
4 February 2025
Gaza sick, wounded could get medical care in Japan
The Japanese government is considering offering medical care in the world's fourth-largest economy for sick and wounded residents of Gaza, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said. Ishiba told a...
4 February 2025
After Gaza hostage release, Israeli family demand 'answers' on wife, sons
Relatives of an Israeli hostage freed in the latest Gaza cease-fire swap made an emotional plea Monday for answers from Israeli authorities on the fate of his wife and sons. Yarden Bibas, 35, was...
4 February 2025
Syria vows 'punishment' after car bomb kills 20
A car bomb killed 20 people in northern Syria Monday, authorities said, vowing to punish those behind the attack in an area where Kurdish-led forces and Turkey-backed factions have clashed for...
4 February 2025
Netanyahu goes to Washington as second phase of Gaza cease-fire hangs in the balance: Everything you need to know this Tuesday
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch today:• 9:30 a.m.: The funeral for Archimandrite...
Abbas Mahfouz, 4 February 2025
‘It's about time’: Lebanese Army deployment in southern Lebanon
The Lebanese Army’s long-anticipated deployment in southern Lebanon has sparked a mixture of relief, hope and frustration from residents in the region.In the wake of last year’s war, which killed...
