Claude Semaan, president of the inquiry commission within the Beirut Order of Physicians and a member of the Order's council at the time of the events, was recently convicted of issuing a...
The Syrian Interior Ministry announced Tuesday the dismantling of a cell linked to Hezbollah, whose members had "infiltrated Syrian territory after undergoing intensive specialized training in...
Wind and rain that have hit Lebanon since Sunday, right in the middle of spring, uprooted a tree in the Beit Mery area of Metn, blocking the road and bringing down a medium-voltage pole, according...
Four days after caricatures of Maronite Patriarch Bechara Rai circulated online among Hezbollah supporters — triggering widespread outrage — supporters of the prelate continued to gather in...
BEIRUT — Banque du Liban (Central Bank, BDL) has capped the commission that banks and financial institutions can charge merchants on locally issued bank-card transactions — or the Merchant Discount...
The regional state of alert has been reactivated. On the evening of Monday, May 4, Iran, once again, targeted the United Arab Emirates, nearly a month after the cessation of near-daily attacks on...
The Lebanese president, Joseph Aoun, declared Tuesday that it is "high time for the Lebanese Army to resume its mission and be the sole authority over security in southern Lebanon,"...
The Director-General of the National Social Security Fund (NSSF), Mohammed Karaki, announced Tuesday a new, almost double, increase in family allowances for workers, raising the benefit to LL2.1...
The United States is "not looking for a fight" over the Strait of Hormuz and its cease-fire with Iran still holds, but any attack on commercial shipping will be met with a...
She is French, originally from Tournon-sur-Rhône in Ardèche. He is Lebanese, from Bikfaya in Metn. Lisa Goursaud, 31, and Fouad Gemayel, 33, met in Beirut three years ago, in the offices of...
Could the latest episode in the naval standoff in the Strait of Hormuz signal a return to war?After two months of a mutual blockade of the Strait of Hormuz by Iran and the United States on foreign...
The United Nations voiced grave concern Tuesday over reports of extrajudicial killings allegedly conducted by the security forces in Mali, now plunged into crisis following an assault on ruling...
French President Emmanuel Macron will speak with his Iranian counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian later on Tuesday, as he pushed for Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. "I will be speaking with...
In a case of alleged illicit enrichment involving former Banque du Liban (BDL, central bank) governor Riad Salameh and former Bank Audi CEO Samir Hanna, filed with the public prosecutor's...
The British pound was broadly steady on Tuesday as traders focused on UK local elections on Thursday that could add to the pressure on Prime Minister Keir Starmer, and the standoff between the U.S....
Lebanese in Israel could find themselves at the center of a political battle in the coming weeks, particularly in the context of ongoing efforts to pass a general amnesty law.At a time when Sunni...
Celebrities, including Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny, supermodel Heidi Klum, and singer Katy Perry, walked the carpet at the Met Gala on Monday — many of them unrecognizable. Leaning heavily...
BEIRUT — The U.N. agency for refugees (Unrwa) sounded the alarm Tuesday over a significant increase in skin diseases in the Gaza Strip, due to the spread of rats and parasites in the enclave, which...
BEIRUT — The Foreign Ministry said it “strongly condemns” Iranian attacks targeting the United Arab Emirates with missiles and drones, calling them a “flagrant violation” of the country’s...
Facing a deep financial crisis, the Palestinian Authority (PA) is increasingly at risk of collapse. For months, the Ramallah-based administration has struggled to pay civil servants, its...
BEIRUT — The education ministry said in a statement on Tuesday that it has secured funding from UNICEF to cover overdue payments for substitute teachers, mechanization workers, and school and...
BEIRUT — Belgian Commissioner for Crisis Preparedness and Management at the European Parliament, Hadja Lahbib, who is also responsible for Equality, Inclusion, and Minority Rights, will be on an...
Whenever war descends upon Lebanon, Muntasser Abdallah, our correspondent in the South, sleeps in a separate room from his wife. His phone rings often during the night, as people cut short his...
Turkish nationalist party leader Devlet Bahceli said on Tuesday the jailed head of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) should be given an official role to help advance a peace process aimed...
BEIRUT — In a rather unusual move given their political differences, the leader of the Free Patriotic Movement, Gebran Bassil, was received in Ain al-Tineh by Parliament Speaker and head of the...
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, a far-right figure, said in an interview with Israel's Channel 7 that his son, Benya Smotrich, asked him “not to finish the job in Lebanon, so there...
BEIRUT — The Committee for the Defense of the Armenian Cause in Lebanon announced in a statement that it “sent yesterday a letter to the European Union Ambassador to Lebanon, Sandra De Waele, in...
BEIRUT — Lebanese Forces (LF) leader Samir Geagea said Tuesday that "those who do not recognize what the legitimate president of Lebanon and the government are doing do not recognize the...
U.S. secretary of state Marco Rubio’s meeting with Pope Leo on Thursday will include a “frank conversation” about the Trump administration policies, the US ambassador to the Holy See, Brian Burch,...
Israeli authorities are expected to ask a court to extend the detention of two foreign activists by six days, as the pair face their second hearing on Tuesday, a rights group representing them...
Euro zone government bond yields were a touch lower on Tuesday, in line with softer oil prices following a sharp selloff the previous day, with investors focused on developments in the Strait of...
He is the youngest Cassation public prosecutor in the Lebanese judiciary’s history. Two months before his 50th birthday on June 21, Ahmad Rami al-Hajj was appointed on Thursday to this key judicial...
Two hantavirus cases have been confirmed and five others are suspected among people on a cruise ship stuck off Cape Verde, including three who have died, the WHO said Tuesday. "As of 4 May...
BEIRUT — The head of the executive body of the Amal movement, Moustapha Fouani, said that "the time for talking is over and has given way to commitment" in the face of Israeli attacks and...
BEIRUT — Two days after intervening in Beirut's southern suburbs following rocket and other gunfire by Hezbollah supporters during funeral ceremonies, the Lebanese Army announced it had...
Israel has intensified its strikes in recent days on the Nabatieh district and its capital in southern Lebanon, both with and without evacuation orders, repeatedly targeting localities on the north...
South Korea said Tuesday it will "review its position" on joining U.S. operations in the Strait of Hormuz after President Donald Trump urged Seoul to take part following an apparent...
23:52 Beirut Time Rubio: Peace agreement between Israel and Lebanon is possible, but Hezbollah is 'problem' U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said peace between Israel and Lebanon...
Denmark's freight giant Maersk said on Tuesday that one of its ships successfully sailed through the Strait of Hormuz under U.S. escort. The ship, U.S.-flagged Alliance Fairfax, had been stuck...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Tuesday, May 5, 2026 Some key things to watch today:Heightened U.S.-Iran tensions as the U.S. continues its Hormuz operation.Updates on...
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
