JERUSALEM — Israel's President Isaac Herzog said on Tuesday he will begin consulting all elected parties on Wednesday before tasking a candidate with forming the next government. The meetings,...
ISTANBUL — Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that Ankara conveyed its expectation to see concrete steps from Sweden to fulfill anti-terrorism obligations under a deal clearing bids...
SHARM EL-SHEIKH — Leaders from poor countries criticized wealthy governments and oil companies for driving global warming, using their speeches at the COP27 climate summit on Tuesday to demand that...
BEIRUT — As Lebanon tackles a growing cholera outbreak for the first time in almost three decades, experts warn infants and young children are the age group most vulnerable to the brutal illness....
BEIRUT — The Lebanese Health Ministry on Tuesday ordered the closure of the B. N. daycare center in Bchamoun, after an 11-month-old boy repeatedly hit another child, aged 15 months, according to a...
BEIRUT — Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati said on Tuesday that Lebanon is vulnerable to climate change effects that could trigger a crash in Lebanon's gross domestic product, exacerbating its...
Lifting the banking secrecy that has been in place in Lebanon since 1956 is one of the cornerstones for the transition to true statesmanship and a new economic and social model. But this shift...
Samantha Power, administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), arrived in Lebanon on Tuesday. She comes for a three-day visit focused on "providing support to the...
WASHINGTON — A US citizen has died in Baghdad, the State Department confirmed on Tuesday, one day after police in Iraq said an American was killed in a failed kidnapping attempt. US officials said...
GENEVA — United Nations experts called on Ankara to release the head of Turkey's medical association, who was arrested after she called for an investigation into allegations of chemical weapons...
BEIRUT — Caretaker Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati denied Tuesday that he had a direct meeting with an Israeli official during the UN climate conference COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt,...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Bahrain has announced two natural gas discoveries in the Al-Joubah and Al-Jawf reservoirs, state news agency BNA said on Tuesday. Nasser bin Hamad Al...
BEIRUT — Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati continued his talks Tuesday with international leaders on the sidelines of COP27, the UN conference on global warming, discussing the...
“It’s hard when you come from countries like ours! I am here for the sake of my children. But it’s hard to stay healthy because I don’t have enough to eat,” one migrant worker in Lebanon told the...
ISTANBUL, Turkey — The Turkish central bank is telling banks that it will continue decisively with policies that have been criticized by the banking sector, two banking sources said....
JERUSALEM, Occupied Palestine — An Israeli store-owner has died after being stabbed in the occupied West Bank two weeks ago, his family said on Tuesday, bringing Israel's death toll from...
BEIRUT — The Prosecutor General at the Court of Appeals of Mount Lebanon, Judge Ghada Aoun, on Tuesday ordered the release of lawyer and activist Rami Olleik and depositor Ibrahim Baydoun, both of...
BEIRUT — The Lebanese lira further depreciated Tuesday evening, trading at LL40,000 to the dollar on the parallel market. Since Monday afternoon, its exchange rate with the US dollar fell from...
BEIRUT — Caretaker Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi said Tuesday that the crime rate in Lebanon has not increased so far this year, despite the many crises the country is facing, in comparison with...
BEIRUT — Caretaker Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi on Tuesday authorized proceedings against the former director general of the Road Traffic Department (Nef'aa), Hoda Salloum, for "professional...
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt — Israel and Jordan on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to move ahead with a water-for-energy deal after an initial examination of the project found it to...
BEIRUT — Caretaker Health Minister Firass Abiad announced Tuesday during a press conference that the cholera vaccine campaign will start next Saturday, will aim at distributing 600,000 doses and...
Major stock markets in the Gulf were mixed in early trading on Tuesday as crude oil prices fell and caution prevailed ahead of the release of US inflation data. Crude prices — a key factor for the...
UN rights chief Volker Turk called Tuesday on Egypt to immediately release Alaa Abdel Fattah, a jailed political dissident who has been refusing food and is now refusing water too. "I urge the...
BEIRUT — The Energy Ministry announced on Tuesday an increase in fuel prices. Here are the new prices: • Twenty liters of 95-octane gasoline: LL777,000, up by LL34,000 •...
QAMISHLI, Syria — Repatriations of foreign woman and children affiliated to Islamic State from detention camps in northeast Syria hit a record high in 2022, Kurdish authorities said on Tuesday....
BEIRUT — The body of a man was found midway up a high voltage electricity pole on the Mina highway in Tripoli, North Lebanon, on Tuesday morning, to L’Orient Today’s correspondent in the area...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — More than 1,000 indictments related to recent "riots" have been issued in Tehran province, judiciary spokesperson Masoud Setayeshi said on Tuesday. Since the...
BEIRUT — One man died Tuesday when a wall collapsed on him in the al-Maloulah neighborhood of Tripoli, L’Orient Today’s correspondent in the North reported, adding that security forces attended...
BERLIN, Germany — A Qatar World Cup ambassador told German television broadcaster ZDF that homosexuality is "damage in the mind," as the Gulf state prepares to host the global tournament in less...
Kuwait is committed to becoming carbon neutral in the oil and gas sector by 2050 and in the whole country a decade after that, Foreign Minister Salem al-Sabah told state news agency KUNA on Monday...
GENEVA — A Palestinian human rights group told a UN panel on Monday it had been subject to threats and "mafia methods" during a campaign of harassment organized by Israel to silence groups...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up. Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati received assurances of international support for Lebanon during a series of meetings at...
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?
