What L’Orient-Le Jour learnedIran and the United States are preparing for talks on Friday in Oman, which Tehran wants to confine to the nuclear issue. Washington, meanwhile, is pushing to include...
A meeting was held at the Environment Ministry, attended by Minister Tamara Elzein, Brazilian Ambassador Tarcisio Costa, and members of the team of negotiators representing Lebanon, who...
Noor al-Yacoubi is a 27-year-old media coordinator at a local research center, translator and writer. She hasn't left the Gaza Strip since the war began on Oct. 7, 2023, and has been sharing...
On the eve of a regional tour including Syria, Iraq and Lebanon, L'Orient-Le Jour spoke with the French minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Jean-Noël Barrot.Disarming Hezbollah, a support...
The Israeli air force carried out strikes Thursday in the Jezzine and Hasbaya districts, as well as in the Hermel region, claiming to be "attacking Hezbollah targets in several areas of...
The United Arab Emirates has drawn up a plan to build a complex that could host thousands of displaced Palestinians in a part of southern Gaza under Israeli military control, according to a map...
Justice auxiliaries, who had been on strike demanding better pay and improved working conditions, announced on Thursday a gradual return to work in all courts on Thursday, Feb. 5, and Friday, Feb....
The municipality of Rashaya al-Foukhar (Hasbaya district) on Thursday accused hunters from neighboring localities of provoking Israeli artillery fire on its territory by their presence. These...
After years of hardline resistance, is the banking lobby now ready to compromise?Following a harsh reaction in early January to the Cabinet’s adoption of the draft law on restoring financial order...
President Joseph Aoun received French writer and playwright Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt at the Baabda Presidnetial Palace on Thursday, during Schmitt's visit to Lebanon for the presentation of his...
Lebanese Forces (LF) leader Samir Geagea on Thursday declined an invitation from his main Christian rival, Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) leader Gebran Bassil, to take part in a televised debate,...
Famine is spreading in Sudan's western Darfur, U.N.-backed experts warned on Thursday, after the paramilitary takeover of the region's main city al-Fasher triggered mass displacement into...
"I want to win for Lebanon. Making it this far is already a personal victory. I took up the challenge, and I didn't know I'd get this far." Just days before the final of the...
The 2029 Asian Winter Games will take place in the Kazakh city of Almaty, replacing Neom in Saudi Arabia as hosts, the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) announced on Thursday. The event had been due...
Beatrice Eriksson is the co-founder of Repatriate the Children (RTC) Sweden, a children’s rights organization working to raise awareness of children being detained in northeast Syria.Syria stands...
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz urged Iran's leadership to "truly enter talks" on Thursday, the eve of their planned negotiations with US envoys, saying there was a "great fear...
As if the world isn't complicated and layered enough, this week's exhibitions have pushed me to consider the political connotations behind geometric shapes, or maybe the other way around....
Ukraine and Russia swapped over 300 prisoners following "productive" talks in Abu Dhabi on Thursday, as a U.S. mediator conceded that "significant" work lay ahead in the quest...
A bill calling for the United States to impose sanctions on individuals undermining "the integrity of the electoral process in Lebanon" was introduced Monday, Feb. 2, in the U.S. House of...
For decades, Beirut has shown itself in many ways. It served as a hub for Arab intellectuals, center for publishing, for music production, and a lab for cultural modernity.These roles did not...
In a letter addressed to Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem, a senior adviser to Iran's supreme leader said the country is "fully prepared to face any foreign threat," according...
Backed for decades by U.S. funding, weapons, and diplomacy, Israel has become the region’s most powerful and advanced military force, what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called a “super...
Russia and Ukraine agreed on a fresh prisoner swap at "productive" Washington-mediated talks underway in Abu Dhabi, U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff said Thursday, stressing that more work lay...
Sustaining the fight against the Islamic State jihadist group is an "absolute priority" for France, its foreign minister said Thursday after meeting his Syrian counterpart in Damascus....
Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam once again condemned on Wednesday to American television channel CNN the ongoing Israeli attacks on South Lebanon, despite the cease-fire, which he said are...
A shooting in Burj Hammoud that left one man injured resulted from a series of events involving prostitution, drug use and a confrontation among several individuals, according to a statement...
The address has changed, but that's not all. By moving from Mar Mikhael's Armenia Street, Beirut, to Jisr al-Wati-Tahwita (on the outskirts of the capital and Metn, Mount Lebanon), Souk El...
Venezuelan official Alex Saab, a former businessman of Colombian and Lebanese origin who was previously detained in the United States, was reportedly arrested in Venezuela on Wednesday as part of a...
Libyan prosecutors were investigating Wednesday the killing of the son of slain ruler Muammar Gaddafi, Seif al-Islam, once seen by some as Libya's heir apparent despite an international arrest...
In 2015, the countries of the Middle East, much to their frustration, were the ones left out in the Vienna agreement. Today, they are front and center in the U.S.-Iran negotiations, replacing the...
Seif al-Islam Gaddafi, one of the most well-known sons of the ousted Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, was shot dead Tuesday at his home in western Libya by four unidentified armed men.He had been...
21:14 Beirut Time Nuclear: Iran hopes for 'seriousness,' 'responsibility' from US at talks in Oman Iran, which will hold nuclear talks with the United States in Oman on Friday, said...
The president of the Kataeb party, Samy Gemayel, a well-known opponent of Hezbollah, said in a televised interview broadcast Wednesday night that the Shiite party should be completely disarmed...
Ukraine and Russia started a second day of U.S.-brokered talks in Abu Dhabi on Thursday to end Europe's most destructive conflict since World War II, after a first day described as productive...
U.S. Central Command said on Wednesday that it carried out five strikes against multiple Islamic State group targets in Syria, including a weapons storage facilities with 50 precision munitions....
Will Tsahal’s airwaves continue much longer? For several weeks, Israeli military radio Galei Tsahal has been under attack by the Netanyahu government. "It was established as a military station...
Ten people were referred to the Mount Lebanon Criminal Court in the major grade falsification case at the Lebanese University (LU) Faculty of Law and Political Science (Branch 1) in Hadath.They...
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
