Dialysis now priced according to parallel market rate
Lebanese caretaker Minister of Health Firass Abiad announced Wednesday that dialysis will now be priced according to the parallel market exchange rate according to a statement published by the...
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UN chief 'shocked' by violence of Israeli security forces at Al-Aqsa
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was "shocked and appalled" by images of Israeli security forces beating people at the Al-Aqsa mosque in the old city of Jerusalem, his spokesman said...
5 April 2023
$14,000 a month? The real cost of cleaning the Grand Serail
On Monday, Facebook posts emerged about a mutual agreement contract between the Lebanese government and the cleaning company C-Plus for garden and building maintenance at the Grand Serail....
Lyana ALAMEDDINE, 5 April 2023
Israel's Iron Dome activated at border with Lebanon
Israeli's Iron Dome, the country's mobile air defense system, was activated Wednesday afternoon near Kibbutz Snir, near the Lebanese border, an Israeli army spokesman announced via Twitter....
5 April 2023
Odes from the frontiers of sound
BEIRUT — The vocalist warbles continuously — from shishing aspirations and trills to whispering inhalations and the sort of grunts emitted by humans of a certain age trying to pull themselves from...
Jim Quilty, 5 April 2023
Lebanon condemns Israeli police violence at al-Aqsa
BEIRUT — The Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday condemned Israeli police violence against worshippers inside the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. "The ease with which Israeli...
5 April 2023
UN expert expresses 'grave concern' for 'interference' in Beirut blast probe
BEIRUT — A UN expert expressed "grave concern" on Wednesday regarding "interference" in the Aug. 4, port blast investigation, regarding threats against the investigating judge, Tarek Bitar. In a...
5 April 2023
Rai to Christian MPs: What have you done to help elect a president?
BEIRUT — Maronite Patriarch Bechara al-Rai on Wednesday urged Christian members of Parliament to "facilitate" electing a president as Lebanon enters its sixth month with no head of state. ...
5 April 2023
Families of murdered women defend anti-femicide group in Turkey court
The families of women murdered by men demonstrated Wednesday in defense of a prominent Turkish anti-femicide campaign group accused of activity against law and morals. ...
5 April 2023
Turkey condemns Israeli attack at Jerusalem mosque
Turkey on Wednesday denounced the Wednesday morning Israeli assault at Al-Aqsa mosque as "unacceptable," saying the violence violates its "sacred" character. Israeli...
5 April 2023
European investigators to revisit Lebanon in central banker fraud case
BEIRUT — European investigators will return to Beirut in April to question two key people who have been charged in Lebanon in a case involving alleged fraud by Lebanese central bank governor Riad...
5 April 2023
Hamas leader Haniyeh arrives in Lebanon
BEIRUT — The head of Hamas' political bureau, Palestinian leader Ismail Haniyeh, arrived in Beirut Wednesday following a night of Israeli attacks on worshippers at the Al-Aqsa mosque complex in...
5 April 2023
TotalEnergies, Iraq agree on delayed $10 billion project
French energy giant TotalEnergies announced Wednesday an agreement with Iraq on a long-delayed $10 billion project to improve the country's rundown electricity grid after resolving disputes over...
5 April 2023
Lebanon has spent at least two-thirds of its IMF SDR’s
According to figures from the Finance Ministry that were leaked to the local LBCI television channel and later confirmed by the ministry itself, as of the end of January, Lebanon had already spent...
Economics department, 5 April 2023
Suspected of corruption, the Baalbeck mayor resigns
The mayor of Baalbek, Fouad Ballouk, submitted his resignation on March 28. His decision to step down is likely linked to a scandal that circulated on social media in January 2023. Ballouk had...
Zeina ANTONIOS, 5 April 2023
Lebanese Army recieves 6 tons of food aid from Italy
BEIRUT — Six tons of Italian-donated food supplies bound for the Lebanese Army arrived at the Beirut airport, the army tweeted Wednesday. وصلت إلى مطار رفيق الحريري الدولي طائرة عسكرية إيطالية...
5 April 2023
Turkey searches for missing crew after Ukraine-bound ship sunk off southern coast
ISTANBUL — Turkish coast guards were searching for nine missing crew members of a Ukraine-bound commercial ship that sank close to Turkey's southern province of Antalya. The Guinea Bissau-flagged...
5 April 2023
Iran foils drone attack on defense ministry complex in Isfahan: Tasnim
DUBAI — Iran has foiled a drone attack against a Ministry of Defense complex in the central city of Isfahan overnight, the Iranian Tasnim news agency reported on Wednesday, amid mounting tensions...
5 April 2023
Quake anger ebbs in Erdogan stronghold ahead of vote
Latif Dalyan offers shirts and sweatpants at knock-down prices to Turkey's earthquake victims from a storefront surrounded by piles of debris. The last person the 58-year-old shopkeeper wants...
5 April 2023
Official valet parking fee in Beirut increases to LL75,000
BEIRUT — Beirut's Governor Marwan Abboud announced on Wednesday an increase in official valet parking fees in Beirut, now set at LL75,000, the state-run National News Agency reported. The...
5 April 2023
Two injured in Tripoli shooting over private generators
BEIRUT — Two people were injured on Wednesday at dawn after unidentified individuals shot at a seaside cafe in Mina, Tripoli, residents in the area told L'Orient Today 's correspondent in the...
5 April 2023
Top Saudi, Iranian diplomats to meet in China: Official, media
RIYADH — The top envoys for Saudi Arabia and Iran will meet in Beijing on Thursday, an Iranian official and a Saudi-owned newspaper said, as the two regional rivals work to hash out the next steps...
5 April 2023
Iran appoints first UAE ambassador since 2016 as Gulf relations improve
CAIRO — Iran said on Tuesday it had appointed an ambassador to the United Arab Emirates for the first time since 2016, amid a realignment of relations between Gulf states and Iran. The move comes...
5 April 2023
Rahme brothers sanctioned, Salameh hearing postponed, port blast vigil: Everything you need to know to start your Wednesday
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . The US Treasury Department issued sanctions against two Lebanese brothers accused of having supplied “dangerously compromised...
5 April 2023
Israeli police raid Al-Aqsa mosque, rockets fired from Gaza
GAZA/JERUSALEM — Israeli police forcefully entered Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque on Wednesday to remove groups it said were barricaded inside, attacking worshippers and triggering an exchange of...
