It is a white house like no other; a unique piece of architecture in Beirut with its eclectic avant-garde combined with elements of the past. This modernist-style Corm Building, inspired by New...
BAGHDAD — A US citizen was killed on Monday in central Baghdad after a failed attempt to kidnap him, Iraqi police sources said. The body was taken to a hospital in the capital's Karrada district...
BEIRUT — Highways outside Tripoli and Beirut were flooded Monday evening in different areas, blocking traffic after heavy rainfall, L'Orient Today correspondents reported. With public...
BEIRUT — Lebanon recorded 12 new cholera cases in the last 24 hours, bringing the total to 448 confirmed cases, the Health Ministry said in a statement Monday evening, with the caretaker Health...
GENEVA — A series of public hearings with victims of alleged Israeli human rights violations opened at the United Nations in Geneva on Monday, with Israel dismissing them as "sham trials." The...
BEIRUT — Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Joumblatt met on Monday with Iranian Ambassador Mojtaba Amani at his home in Beirut, the state-run National News Agency reported. No information...
BEIRUT — The United States donated 13 Humvee military vehicles, 11 other vehicles and military equipment to the Lebanese Army as part of a US military aid program amid Lebanon's economic and...
The American father and son duo who helped former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn dramatically escape from Japan have been returned to the United States after spending 20 months in Japanese jails,...
Lebanon’s recent signing of a historic maritime border deal with Israel shows that “when there’s political will,” Lebanon is capable of making historic achievements, US Ambassador Dorothy Shea...
Human Rights Watch Monday accused the governments in Damascus and Turkey of exacerbating Syria's deadly cholera outbreak by restricting aid and water flow to the country's Kurdish-held...
BEIRUT — Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri warned on Monday that "Lebanon can endure a few more weeks, but not more" of its current economic crisis and political deadlock amid a total vacancy at the...
BEIRUT — The US embassy in Lebanon announced Monday the expansion of interview waiver eligibility for some Lebanese citizens seeking to renew their B1/B2 tourist and business visas. In a...
Earlier this year, a survey published by the German organization the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung suggested that only 13.6 percent of Lebanese have access to fresh dollars, half of them through their...
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt — United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told countries gathered at the start of the COP27 summit in Egypt on Monday they face a stark choice: work together now to...
BEIRUT — Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati met with several world leaders on the occasion of the COP27, the UN conference being held in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, until Nov. 18 and gathering...
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt — The sister of Egyptian-British hunger striker Alaa Abd el-Fattah landed in Sharm el-Sheikh on Monday to campaign for his release as British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and...
BEIRUT — An armed clash between two families in Hermel in the Bekaa erupted on Monday, resulting in two people being injured, according to L'Orient Today 's correspondent in the area....
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, EGYPT — UN chief Antonio Guterres warned world leaders at a climate summit in Egypt on Monday that humanity faces a stark choice between working together or "collective suicide" in...
BERLIN — Qatar's foreign minister has accused Germany of "double standards" over its criticism of the World Cup host's human rights record and has defended its summoning of the German ambassador,...
BEIRUT — The Energy Ministry on Monday announced an increase in fuel prices. Here are the new prices: • Twenty liters of 95-octane gasoline: LL743,000, up by LL14,000 • Twenty liters of...
BEIRUT — Depositors' rights groups The Depositors' Cry and United (Mouttahidoun) on Sunday protested in Downtown Beirut before moving to other locations to demand the release of two depositors and...
CAIRO — A Saudi Air Force F-15S fighter jet crashed due to a technical malfunction during a routine training mission on Sunday, state news agency SPA cited a Defense Ministry spokesperson as...
BEIRUT — Maronite Patriarch Bechara al-Rai on Monday said that a national dialogue amid a power vaccum at the levels of the presidency and cabinet should be conditioned by "clear...
Lebanon's caretaker prime minister, Najib Mikati, assured Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades on Sunday that there is "no obstacle" in the follow-up of the file on the maritime border...
BEIRUT — Lebanon on Sunday recorded 10 additional cholera cases but no new deaths in the previous 24 hours, the Health Ministry said in its report published on Sunday evening. According to the...
French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday congratulated Benjamin Netanyahu after his victory in last week's elections sealed the former Israeli prime minister's return to power. Netanyahu and...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up. The Health Ministry this weekend launched a vaccination campaign to combat the spread of cholera in northern Lebanon “to ensure...
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?
