Swedish activist Greta Thunberg landed in Greece on Monday alongside scores of fellow campaigners expelled from Israel after trying to ship aid to Gaza, AFP journalists saw. The 22-year-old...
Women and minorities were under-represented in a weekend ballot for members of Syria's transitional parliament, results announced Monday showed, for the first assembly to form since the ouster...
As Israel and Hamas begin indirect negotiations on Monday to end the two-year war in Gaza, the talks will be guided by two men leading their respective delegations. The Hamas delegation is led by...
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen faced bids to remove her for the second time in three months when hard-right and left groups in the European Parliament presented no-confidence...
BEIRUT — Less than 48 hours after Lebanese singer and former Salafist Fadl Shaker turned himself in to authorities, social media began buzzing with reactions, with some users warning of a potential...
BEIRUT — The Public Works and Transport Ministry announced that through its contractor, it is continuing engineering work on the rainwater drainage canals in the Dbayeh area (North Metn), as part...
As scientists ready for next week's Nobel Prize announcements, one awarding body is warning academic freedom is under threat in the U.S. and elsewhere, with political interference risking...
BEIRUT — As the new Syrian parliament members were chosen on Monday through indirect suffrage in the first legislative elections since Assad, Gebran Bassil’s Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) called on...
BEKAA-SOUTH LEBANON — The fragile calm that prevailed throughout the weekend was shattered Monday afternoon by a series of major Israeli airstrikes in the Bekaa, targeting what the Israeli army...
BEIRUT — The president of the International Lebanese Business Movement (Midel), Fouad Zmokhol, said Monday that Lebanon is at a crucial crossroads: Either succeed in building a strong state, or...
Indirect negotiations between Hamas and Israeli delegations who came to Egypt to discuss a cease-fire in Gaza have begun in Sharm el-Sheikh, focusing on discussions over the exchange of hostages...
The European Union is seeking a role in US President Donald Trump's transitional authority for the Gaza Strip, its top diplomat Kaja Kallas told reporters on Monday. "Yes we feel that...
Delegates from Hamas and Israel arrived in the Egyptian resort of Sharm al-Sheikh on Monday, an airport source told AFP, ahead of indirect talks aimed at ending the Gaza war. The negotiations...
BEIRUT — The General Directorate of the Internal Security Forces (ISF) announced Monday that a motorcycle theft and smuggling network has been dismantled in Hay al-Sellom (southern suburbs of...
After extending an olive branch to Saudi Arabia, Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem pressed on again: “Let us unite,” he urged. “Let us build our country together, or the ship will sink with all...
Israel said it deported on Monday campaigner Greta Thunberg and another 170 activists from an international flotilla it prevented last week from delivering aid to Gaza, sending them to Greece and...
Noor al-Yacoubi is a 27-year-old translator and writer. She hasn't left the Gaza Strip since the war began on Oct. 7, 2023, and has been sharing her diaries with L'Orient Today as...
BEIRUT — During Monday’s Cabinet meeting at Baabda Presidential Palace, Nawaf Salam's government reviewed the army’s monthly report on restoring the state’s monopoly on arms and decided to...
Hamas on Monday marked the second anniversary of its "al-Aqsa Flood" operation on Oct. 7, 2023, in a hall at the Burj al-Shemali Palestinian camp near Sour, according to Lebanon’s...
Telecommunications Minister Charles Hage has officially launched the work of the sector's regulatory authority, whose members were appointed last month by the Cabinet after a period of more...
Myrna Kallas, the deputy public prosecutor at the Court of Cassation in charge of international judicial cooperation, traveled to Bulgaria last week, where she handed over Lebanon’s written pledge...
Israel said it deported on Monday 171 more activists who were detained while taking part in an aid flotilla bound for Gaza, including Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg. The Foreign Ministry said...
“The occupation [Israel] must not obstruct the implementation of President Trump’s plan,” a senior Hamas official told AFP on Sunday, ahead of indirect talks with Israeli negotiators in Sharm...
Mobile operator Touch, which shares the Lebanese market with Alfa, announced on Monday in a statement that several subscribers still using old SIM cards experienced connectivity issues following an...
Truck drivers blocked the Dahr al-Baidar road, which connects the Bekaa Valley to Beirut, on Monday morning, protesting the seizure of several of their vehicles by authorities and causing major...
Less than a year ahead of the parliamentary elections and in advance of a Cabinet meeting devoted to the disarmament of militias, several Hezbollah MPs spoke out on Monday to reiterate the...
Paris had a rendezvous last Thursday with a rebirth. In the still-warm air of early autumn, Miguel Castro Freitas made his official debut at the helm of the Mugler house. For the occasion, he...
Sarah Hajjar did not come to this project by chance. When she founded the festival in 2019, she already carried years of experience. After working at UNESCO and Amnesty International France —...
Fourteen years ago, it was just a detour from Damascus. Then a student at the École Normale Supérieure, Gaëtan Bruel left Syria as the situation deteriorated and spent two weekends in Beirut. From...
Justice Minister Adel Nassar stated over the weekend that Lebanon must strengthen transparency in its governance to avoid isolating itself from the rest of the world. These remarks came as the...
The “Battle of Raouche” is expanding. All eyes are now on Monday’s Cabinet session, during which the army will present its first monthly report on the state’s progress toward achieving a monopoly...
Superchief opened on June 18, giving its staff the time to get in sync and fine-tune the details. The name, intriguing and deliberately enigmatic, is sure to spark curiosity."Superchief is,...
France's new prime minister resigned on Monday after less than a month in office, sinking the country further into a political crisis and dealing a fresh blow to President Emmanuel Macron....
Monday’s Cabinet session, dedicated to the restoration of the state’s monopoly over weapons and during which the government will review the Lebanese Army’s first report on the process of disarming...
Nine Swiss members of the humanitarian flotilla for Gaza returned to Switzerland on Sunday after being expelled by Israel, with some claiming to have suffered inhumane detention conditions,...
Iran does not plan to immediately resume talks with European nations on its nuclear program after they reimposed sanctions, an Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on Monday. "We have...
The Lebanese police assured on Sunday that the chemicals, including ammonium nitrate found in storage at a technical school in Tripoli, are "scientific-use chemicals" used in the...
SAIDA — After 12 years spent on the run, the famous Lebanese singer, Fadl Shaker, turned himself in to the Lebanese Army on Saturday. Shaker had retired from music more than a decade ago and grown...
Delegations from Hamas, Israel and the United States are due to convene in Egypt for talks on Monday, with President Donald Trump urging negotiators to "move fast" to end the nearly...
21:39 Beirut Time T hank you for following our live coverage. We'll be back tomorrow morning. 21:14 Beirut Time French-Palestinian MEP Rima Hassan, one of...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Monday, Oct. 6, 2025Some key things to watch today:3 p.m. A Cabinet meeting at the Baabda Presidential Palace: Ten items on the agenda,...
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
