The United Nations on Thursday fell far short of raising the money it needs for an operation to salvage 1.1 million barrels of oil from a decaying vessel moored off Yemen's coast and avert an...
Arab foreign ministers will meet at the Arab League in Cairo on Sunday to discuss Syria, a League spokesman said, amid a regional push to normalize ties with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad after...
BEIRUT — A small demonstration composed mainly of family members of the August 4, 2020 Beirut port explosion victims gathered late Thursday at the statue of the Emigrant to commemorate the passing...
BEIRUT — The Ghobeiri municipality in Beirut's southern suburbs on Thursday announced it will stop all operations starting Friday until it receives its dues from the Golf Club of Lebanon, a golf...
After weeks of back and forth, the news is finally confirmed. The municipality of Jdeideh, the largest in Metn, is officially dissolved after half of its members threw in the towel in mid-March due...
BEIRUT — Forces of Change MPs Paula Yaacoubian, Melhem Khalaf, Halimé Kaakour and Ibrahim Mneimneh appealed before the Constitutional Council on Thursday against the law mandating the one year...
BEIRUT — General Security (GS) announced Thursday that Syrian refugees wishing to return to Syria can register for repatriation starting Thursday, May 4, at its offices. The announcement was made...
BEIRUT — Depositors' rights associations staged a sit-in on Thursday in front of Beirut Justice Palace, where a European judicial delegation probing alleged corruption is questioning Raja Salameh,...
Central bank Governor Riad Salameh’s term in office will expire in three months. So far, no successor has been named, but the question begs whether it will be possible to appoint a new governor if...
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi called Thursday for "resistance forces" to unite against Israel on his second day in Syria — the first such visit to Tehran's close ally in over a decade of war....
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday launched a new attack against Turkey's LGBTQ+ community as he played up his conservative credentials ahead of a crucial May 14 vote. Turkey's...
BEIRUT — Saudi Arabia's Ambassador to Lebanon Walid Bukhari said Thursday that his country "does not veto" any potential candidates for the Lebanese presidential election, amid deadlock and a...
Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian woman in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, the Palestinian health ministry said, in what the Israeli army called a "stabbing attack."...
BEIRUT — The disciplinary council of judges on Thursday dismissed the Attorney General at the Court of Appeal of Mount Lebanon Ghada Aoun, the state-run National News Agency reported. Contacted...
Sudanese exiled rebel leader Abdel Wahid Nur — a veteran of decades of fighting in the troubled Darfur region — says there can be "no winner" in the war now raging between two rival generals....
BEIRUT — After skipping his scheduled hearings three times, Raja Salameh, the brother of Banque du Liban governor Riad Salameh, finally underwent questioning Thursday by European investigators...
BEIRUT — Lebanese singer and musician Elie Choueiri passed away on Wednesday in Beirut, at the age of 84, the state-run National News Agency reported. Choueiri, who was born on Dec. 27, 1939 and...
BEIRUT — The sweet smell of apples wafts through the air as one walks by a small local shisha cafe in the city. If you live in Lebanon, you probably know this cafe. There is one at every corner,...
The Syrian refugee unhooked some laundry drying in the baking sun and made a wish for this month's Turkish election: "May Erdogan win." A mother from Kurdish-majority Kobane in...
Arab League foreign ministers are to hold emergency meetings Sunday on the conflict in Sudan and Syria's readmission to the bloc, a diplomat said. The meetings come ahead of an Arab summit in the...
KHARTOUM — Fierce fighting could be heard in central Khartoum on Thursday as the army tried to push back the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) from areas around the presidential palace and...
BEIRUT — Fuel prices decreased in Lebanon on Thursday morning, according to the latest tariffs announced by the Energy Ministry. Here are the new prices: • Twenty liters of 95-octane gasoline:...
Israeli authorities said their security forces shot dead three Palestinian men blamed for killing a British-Israeli woman and her two daughters last month, in a raid Thursday in the occupied West...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . European investigators probing alleged corruption by Banque du Liban (BDL) governor Riad Salameh yesterday questioned central...
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
