Environmental campaign group Greenpeace on Wednesday denounced as "dangerous" a massive ski resort under construction in northwest Saudi Arabia that this week was named host of the 2029 Asian...
Iran's judiciary on Wednesday rejected any connection between the recent death of a teenage girl and protests over the death in police custody of Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amini. A wave of...
Public school students, who constitute slightly less than a third of the country’s students, returned to classes on Oct. 3. The new school year began in total confusion and disarray. Over the...
BEIRUT — Depositor Hussein Shukr, who entered a branch of Crédit Libanais bank in Haret Hreik, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Wednesday morning in an attempt to recover his illegally...
PARIS — "I am really hoping that in some years from now, after everything has changed, I will be happy to have been involved by taking part in this protest," Iranian woman Hadis Najafi, 22, said in...
BEIRUT — The value-added tax (VAT) on private generator bills has been suspended, the Ministry of Economy and Trade announced Wednesday in response to complaints about the addition of the tax to...
BEIRUT — The European Union will provide Lebanon with an additional €75 million in aid, the European Commissioner for Neighborhood and Enlargement, Oliver Varhelyi, announced Wednesday from the...
A Palestinian was shot dead and at least two others were injured by Israeli forces Wednesday during an operation near Nablus in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian health ministry....
Yesterday was as hectic as the day before for the Lebanese banks. As promised by the Mouttahidoun collective on Monday [Oct.3], depositors took action in several bank branches in the country in a...
DAMASCUS — Syria’s health ministry has recorded 39 cholera deaths and nearly 600 additional cases in an outbreak the United Nations warned is “evolving alarmingly.” A total of 594 cases have been...
BEIRUT — Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea told French Ambassador Anne Grillo on Wednesday that his party will continue to support MP Michel Moawad's candidacy for the Lebanese presidency,...
STOCKHOLM - Scientists Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and Barry Sharpless won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for discovering reactions that let molecules snap together to create...
Anger continued to boil against banking restrictions in Lebanon on Wednesday. New actions against the banks were carried out by depositors, including MP Cynthia Zarazir; a bank in Jbeil was...
As the end of President Michael Aoun's term approaches — and with it, the threat of a double executive vacancy — Maronite bishops pleaded Wednesday for the...
BEIRUT — Depositors are threatening to set bank owners' houses on fire, blaming the Lebanese judiciary for barring access to their frozen bank deposits, Rami Ollaik, lawyer and founder of advocacy...
TEHRAN — Iran’s judiciary has opened an investigation into the death of a teenage girl, who was reportedly killed during protests over the death in police custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini. A...
Nearly half of the 15 appeals to overturn the results of May’s parliamentary elections, submitted in June to the Constitutional Council, should be decided on this week, a source close to the...
DUBAI — Baquer Namazi, an 85-year-old Iranian American who was jailed in Iran on spying charges that the United States called baseless, arrived in Muscat on Wednesday after Iran allowed him to...
BEIRUT — A depositor entered a Credit Libanais bank branch in Haret Hreik, in the southern suburbs of Beirut, on Wednesday attempting to recover his savings, Hasan Jaafar, a founding member of the...
True to his reputation as a clever maneuverer, especially when it comes to building an agreement for the presidential election, Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) leader Walid Joumblatt has...
BEIRUT — Rescue teams extinguished a fire that broke out on Wednesday morning in a Syrian refugee camp in Arsal, Baalbeck-Hermel governorate, that torched 93 tents and left several people with...
BEIRUT — The Cry of the Depositors, an advocacy group defending depositors' rights and associated with previous actions against Lebanese banks, organized a sit-in in front of Banque du Liban in...
BEIRUT — The Energy Ministry announced new, very slightly increased, fuel prices on Wednesday morning. Here are the new prices: • Twenty liters of 95-octane gasoline: LL692,000, up by LL5,000...
BEIRUT — The International Support Group for Lebanon called Wednesday for the election of a president who can "unite the Lebanese people," though the group criticized the government for its slow...
BEIRUT — At 67 years old, Kamal Badaro still has boundless energy for the blues. The multi-instrumental blues music player performs at Quadrangle, a cozy bar in Hazmieh just south of Beirut, at...
BEIRUT —Forces of Change MP Cynthia Zarazir entered a Byblos bank branch in Antelias, Mount Lebanon unarmed on Wednesday morning and forcibly recovered part of her blocked savings in order to pay...
DUBAI — Iran's foreign ministry summoned the British ambassador in Tehran in reaction to "interventionist comments" from the British foreign ministry, the semi-official news agency Tasnim reported...
GENEVA — Bahrain will no longer run in an election to the UN's top human rights body later this month, a UN website showed, after critics drew attention to alleged human rights violations. A UN...
BEIRUT — Lebanon has submitted to the United States a list of changes it would like to see in a proposal on how to delineate a contested maritime border with Israel, a top Lebanese official said on...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . "Could the banks have opposed the financial and monetary policies decided by the state and Banque du Liban?" the...
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
