Lebanese journalist Mariam Majdouline Laham, who appeared in the morning before the Central Department of Criminal Investigations, which reports to Prosecutor General Ghassan Oueidate at the Court...
Lebanese authorities are rushing to put their fiscal house in order. The delayed 2023 draft budget, or finance law, which cabinet adopted Aug. 15, was submitted to Parliament on Monday. Cabinet is...
BEIRUT — Lebanon's caretaker Minister of Economy Amin Salam and the International Monetary Fund stressed the "urgent necessity for Lebanon to implement reforms," during a recent meeting, the...
A man and his pregnant wife were found dead, their throats slit, on Wednesday in a resort in Jbeil, reported the state-run National News Agency. The man, a Syrian national, was an employee...
BEIRUT — Lebanon’s government is considering two draft budgets simultaneously. Less than three months from the end of 2023, there is the 2023 budget. Then there is the 2024 draft, a budget that...
BEIRUT — On Wednesday, Amal Mudallali, Lebanon's former Permanent Representative to the UN, denied responsibility for Lebanon's failure to prevent the passing of a United Nations Security...
On Dec. 25, 1994, while many around the world celebrated Christmas, a significant event unfolded in Iran – the passing of a seemingly ludicrous law but with grave implications. After lengthy...
Climate change is driving up more intense and frequent heatwaves, which in turn generate a "witch's brew" of pollutants, threatening the health of humans and all living things, the UN warned...
The conviction and imprisonment of the former Gaza head of World Vision, a major US-based aid agency, violates international law, UN rights experts said Wednesday, demanding that Israel release him...
BEIRUT — Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati said on Wednesday that his government would abide by last week's contested UN decision last week to renew the mandate of the United Nations Interim...
The United States is imposing sanctions on the deputy leader of Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) over human rights abuses, the US envoy to the United Nations will announce during a...
A Syrian family deported from Greece by the EU border protection agency Frontex despite seeking asylum lost a legal fight for damages, according to an EU court ruling Wednesday....
BEIRUT — The Telecoms Ministry is in talks with the cabinet and Energy Ministry so that "one percent" of the Iraqi fuel granted to Électricité du Liban (EDL) via a barter deal can be reserved for...
“Excuse me, your holiness, but I don’t get it.” Maronite Patriarch Bechara al-Rai’s Sunday sermon, expressing openness to Speaker Nabih Berri’s initiative, has caused consternation. Berri had...
US-backed, Kurdish-led forces in Syria declared the "end of military operations" in the country's east Wednesday after days of clashes with local Arab tribes left at least 90 people dead....
2023 is likely to be the hottest year in human history, and global temperatures during the Northern Hemisphere summer were the warmest on record, the EU climate monitor said on Wednesday. ...
A video showing two hooded men shooting at pictures of what appear to be two Christian party leaders in Lebanon, as well as an Israeli flag, has been going viral in Lebanon. In the video,...
Two people died on Tuesday in flash floods from torrential rains that turned the streets of Istanbul into rushing rivers, officials said. The nighttime storm partially...
Saudi Arabia's ambassador to Iran arrived Tuesday in the Islamic Republic, and his counterpart landed in Riyadh, cementing a restoration of ties between the Gulf rivals after a seven-year rupture...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Caretaker Public Works Minister Ali Hamieh announced a public auction for scrap metal debris from the Aug. 4, 2020 Beirut port...
Beirut’s demands, Israel’s terms, and Washington’s stance: Behind the scenes of the negotiations
Lebanon stuck between a rock and a hard place: A US disarmament plan, or an extended expansion to the war?
