The Nida’ el-Ard (“The Earth’s Call”) waste sorting center in Arab Salim is sparkling clean — a sharp contrast with the smelly mountains of trash often associated with Lebanon’s waste management....
The situation for women and girls in Afghanistan has severely worsened since the Taliban took over the country in August 2021. The new regime has banned girls from middle school, high school and...
Tango without gender-defined roles. Women who dance with women. Men who are led by women. The queer milonga was introduced in Argentina at the beginning of the 2000s to break with the stereotypes...
BEIRUT — Every morning at 6:30 a.m., Nasab, Mariam, Nada and Hala get on a bus in Tripoli in northern Lebanon. They make the 80-kilometer trip to attend carpentry classes in Sin el-Fil, just...
The first program for perpetrators of domestic violence was launched in Switzerland in the late 1980s. It wasn't until the early 2000s and the creation of seven programs in five years that anything...
Tamil Nadu is one of the largest and most urbanized states in India. It is also one of the states most threatened by climate change. Since 2019, Supriya Sahu, 54, has been leading Tamil Nadu’s...
One day, when Amanda returned to the apartment she shared with her children and husband, she was shocked to see that he had thrown her belongings into the hallway. The door to her home was locked;...
Organizations and companies that advocate social progress have been struggling to change the reality of profound gender disparity in the information technology market. Data from the IBGE (Brazilian...
“Gender equality is growing more distant. On the current track, UN Women puts it 300 years away,” United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said in a general assembly speech this week....
Women represent only 8 out of 128 members of Lebanon’s Parliament. In the outgoing government, only one of 24 ministers is a woman. Patriarchal, communal, archaic: Politics in Lebanon is a male...
In France, a country that prides itself on being the nation of human rights, “sexism has not diminished, but rather endured,” pointed out the High Council for Gender Equality (HCE) in its annual...
BEIRUT — The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk called for a "serious investigation" into the Aug. 4, 2020 Beirut port explosion to be conducted "without political interference or...
Iran announced Tuesday it had made the first arrests in a spate of mystery poisonings of schoolgirls that has affected more than 5,000 pupils since late November. Supreme...
BEIRUT — Tensions again rose Tuesday between the Lebanese Army and Israeli military on Lebanon's southern border near the town of Houla, where Israeli works are ongoing, a spokesperson for the...
“All Lebanese musicians have left the country. It’s no longer possible to make it here,” Lebanese conductor Harout Fazlian told L’Orient-Le Jour . The Lebanese Philharmonic Orchestra, which...
BEIRUT — A delivery man, who was carrying drugs hidden in sunflower seeds and destined for an inmate in Batroun prison in northern Lebanon, has been arrested, the Internal Security Forces (ISF)...
BAGHDAD — Iranian missile attacks across the Iraqi border are unacceptable and put both civilians and regional stability at risk, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on a visit to the...
Despite the significant political and judicial challenges facing the 2020 Beirut port explosion investigation, the victims' families and civil society remain committed to uncovering the truth and...
JERUSALEM — A group of Israeli air force reservists who are protesting the government's proposed judicial reforms by refusing to take part in a training sortie said on Tuesday they would still turn...
After about seven months of procrastination, Hezbollah has finally shown its hand. “The natural candidate we support for the presidency and who meets our criteria is Sleiman Frangieh,” said party...
Al-Shabaab militants on Tuesday attacked a military base in a Somali town recently recaptured from the Islamists, killing several soldiers, according to local army officials....
Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin said Tuesday he hoped to "strengthen and broaden" relations with Iraq, on a Baghdad visit ahead of the 20th anniversary of the US-led invasion that toppled Saddam...
Israeli troops on Tuesday killed six Palestinians and wounded 11 others during a raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, the Palestinian Health Ministry said in an updated toll. Among the...
BEIRUT — The Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday condemned the Israeli warplane strikes against Syria's Aleppo airport, which caused extensive damage and halted flights to and from...
TASHKENT — Russia and six nations bordering Afghanistan have set up a club to discuss ways to achieve long-term peace in the war-torn nation, with diplomats at the inaugural meeting on Tuesday...
BEIRUT — Dozens of public sector teachers demonstrated on Tuesday in southern Lebanon's Nabatieh and Saida, asking unions to maintain the strike they began in January "until their demands are met,"...
Syrian medics launched Tuesday the first cholera vaccination campaign in the rebel-held northwest since a deadly outbreak began last year, amid increased fears of contagion after last month's...
Iran's deputy interior minister on Tuesday announced the first arrests in a spate of mystery poisonings of schoolgirls that has gripped the country for the past several months....
Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin said in Iraq on Tuesday that US troops were "ready to remain" in the country at Baghdad's invitation in a non-combat role against the Islamic State group....
Qatar's emir named his top diplomat as prime minister Tuesday and brought in a new interior minister in what observers called the completion of a changing of the guard in the wealthy Gulf state....
At 11 a.m., Room One of the criminal chamber was totally empty. In the huge hall of the Beirut Justice Palace, only a few people awaited the start of the trial for the Ansar massacre that made the...
Iraq wants to "strengthen and consolidate relations" with the United States, Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani told visiting Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin on Tuesday....
More than 5,000 Iranian schoolchildren have been affected by a spate of poisonings that has targeted mainly female pupils since late November, according to a lawmaker investigating the cases....
Damage from the catastrophic earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria last month has been estimated at over $100 billion for Turkey alone, the United Nations said Tuesday....
BEIRUT — Lebanon has officially regained its voting rights at the UN General Assembly, which it had lost on Jan. 20 for falling behind on paying its annual contributions to the UN's operating...
HUWARA — Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians in the West Bank village of Huwara overnight on Monday, the scene of a violent rampage last week by dozens of settlers seeking revenge for the...
BEIRUT — The Energy Ministry on Tuesday morning announced a slight increase in fuel prices, except for 95-octane gasoline. Here are the new prices: • Twenty liters of 95-octane gasoline: remained...
BAGHDAD — US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin arrived in Iraq on Tuesday on an unannounced visit barely two weeks before the 20th anniversary of the US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein. "I'm...
Israeli warplanes struck Aleppo airport before dawn Tuesday, causing significant damage that halted flights to and from Syria's war- and quake-battered second city, the defence ministry said. The...
The World Bank is pausing talks over its future engagement with Tunisia following anti-immigrant comments made by the country's president, Kais Saied, according to an internal message to staff seen...
JERUSALEM — Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Monday said a compromise in the government's judicial overhaul plan could be imminent even as protests against the reform continued to spread. Local...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah announced the party’s support for the presidential candidacy of Marada Movement leader...
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
