American Robert Francis Prevost, 69, became Thursday the first pope originating from the United States in history. He is said to be a man of listening and synthesis, classified among the moderates,...
A veritable deluge of fire rained down on the Nabatieh region of southern Lebanon on Thursday. During the day, Israel carried out a series of strikes, “among the most intense” since the cease-fire...
With the candidacy period now officially closed for North Lebanon and the Bekaa, 18 mokhtars were already elected uncontested in Zahleh, while in Akkar, 54 others were also elected uncontested...
Parliament's office condemned "Israeli aggression" in Lebanon and called on the government to "act urgently to take the necessary measures to end this aggression," during a...
Hezbollah announced the death of two of its members, Ali Mohammed Shahrour (from the town of Harouf, Nabatieh) and Bassem Ali Assaf (from Arnoun, Nabatieh), in two separate statements on Thursday....
The Vatican announced that American Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected the new pope and leader of the Roman Catholic Church on Thursday and has taken the name Pope Leo XIV a senior cardinal...
The Director General of the Litani Water Authority, Sami Alawieh, announced Thursday in a statement that he presented to the Prosecutor's Office the recent report from the Court of Auditors on...
The United States is no longer demanding Saudi Arabia normalize ties with Israel as a condition for progress on civil nuclear cooperation talks, two sources with knowledge of the matter told...
"Education is not collateral damage — it is the target," says Ehab Abo Khair, spokesperson for al-Israa University in Gaza. Al-Israa University, once a cornerstone of higher education in...
BEIRUT — Hamas' representative in Lebanon, Ahmad Abdel Hadi, said in a Thursday statement that the Palestinian Islamist movement "fully respects the cease-fire" with Israel in Lebanon and is...
BEIRUT — The Amer Foundation announced on Tuesday that the organization, named after Amer Fakhoury, had "won a historic case against Iran." Fakhoury, who died five years ago, was a former...
A UNIFIL patrol was accused Thursday of attempting to remove and dispose of Hezbollah flags and images of killed Hezbollah members in the border area near Aitaroun and Blida, both located in the...
An undated video of a biker brutally kicking another motorcycle, causing the second bike to fall as a bus passes by, circulated on social media Thursday. This incident occurred amid traffic on the...
Palestinian relief efforts warned Thursday that they were on the brink of paralysis in a Gaza Strip facing a humanitarian disaster, where Israel has been blocking aid deliveries for more than two...
Druze leader Walid Jumblatt thanked French President Emmanuel Macron for his "courage and audacity," following the reception at the Elysee on Wednesday of Syrian President Ahmad...
EU threatened on Thursday to tax 95 billion euros worth of U.S. imports, including cars and planes, if negotiations fail to end Donald Trump's tariffs on European products. The European...
During a security operation involving a car chase, a patrol from the Baalbek Customs Task Force apprehended a pickup truck carrying 15 Syrian nationals who had illegally entered Lebanon, Lebanese...
Lebanon’s electricity system has been in free fall since the country’s economy crumbled in 2019. The lira collapsed, highlighting Électricité du Liban’s (EDL) mismanagement as it failed to provide...
Syrian Finance Minister Mohammed Barnieh announced Thursday that Qatar will assist his country in paying public sector salaries, and Washington has granted a partial exemption from sanctions on...
Are we already witnessing a repetition of the spring 2020 scenario, when, during the first round of negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), members of the parliamentary Finance and...
The French ambassador to Lebanon, Hervé Magro, handed a series of documents and maps from the French archives to the Lebanese Foreign Minister Joe Rajji on Thursday, concerning the delimitation of...
BEIRUT — An Israeli drone dropped fake bills with anti-Hezbollah slogans over Naqoura, in the Sour district, on Thursday, locals told our on-site reporter. The yellow and white bills featured...
In a fragile socio-economic context marked by persistent instability and an ongoing war in Lebanon that seems far from over, emigration often appears as the only possible path for Lebanese youth....
The High Court of Justice in London formally accepted a lawsuit filed by Saudi businessman Sheikh Mohammad Omar Kassem Alesayi against Lebanon’s Bank Audi, after ruling that it has jurisdiction to...
Chinese weapons supplied by the United Arab Emirates to the paramilitaries of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been identified in Sudan, in blatant violation of the U.N. arms embargo, Amnesty...
Entering the third year of a brutal civil war involving numerous foreign actors, Sudan reached a breaking point with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), accused of arming and financing the Rapid...
After three years and four months of vacancies in most of the chambers’ presidencies, the plenary assembly of the Court of Cassation is now complete with its 10 members. The appointments of the...
Marc Nassif, a third-year student of physical education and sports at Notre Dame University-Louaize (NDU), set a Guinness world record for the heaviest triceps dips. The principle of dips involves...
At least one dead in new Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon reports ministry
It ends seven weeks of intense American bombing in Yemen. More than 50 days after Washington launched Operation "Rough Rider" aiming to prevent Houthis from attacking commercial ships...
New drone attacks targeted areas in eastern and southern Sudan controlled by the army for the fifth consecutive day on Thursday, which had been spared by the war until recently, according to...
In the hills of Mount Lebanon, my grandmother used to sing a lullaby in a now-vanishing form of Lebanese Arabic, echoing the pre-modern cadence of village storytellers. The words, warm and...
An elderly man plays the oud in a courtyard in Aleppo, his fingers dancing between familiar and urgent movements. Children sit on the rubble-covered ground, listening attentively to both the...
Israel threatened Iranian leaders like never before on Thursday, stating it is ready to subject them to what it 'did to Hezbollah in Beirut and Hamas in Gaza,' four days after a missile...
Thousands of people are expected at St. Peter's Square starting Wednesday to witness the election of Pope Francis' successor. The Vatican is responsible for organizing the ceremony at its...
Pakistani military announced Thursday that it has "shot down up to 25 Israeli-made drones" sent by India onto its territory since the previous evening, following the most violent military...
Israel threatened Iranian leaders like never before on Thursday, stating it was ready to inflict on them what it did “to Hamas in Gaza,” four days after a missile was fired from Yemen on Tel Aviv,...
About one in five women and one in seven men worldwide experienced sexual violence before age 18, which are widespread assaults with devastating effects on health and adult life, according to a...
The Waste to Wealth (W2W) project was selected from nearly 2,700 applications and is among the 100 most innovative projects of Prototypes for Humanity. This initiative brings together professors,...
Syrian Finance Minister, Mohammed Barnieh, announced that Qatar will assist his country in paying public sector salaries and that Washington has granted a partial exemption from sanctions against...
Over 15 missiles were launched at the hills of Nabatieh Fawqa, the hills of Kfartabnit, and the Ali al-Taher forest (all located in Nabatieh), L'Orient Today's correspondent in the south...
The Future Movement is the main group that recalls this date each year, viewing it as a moment of failure against Hezbollah’s forces. As for Hezbollah’s opponents in Lebanon, May 7 serves as an...
Israeli police forces shut down two United Nations schools in Chouafat on Thursday morning, as witnessed by an AFP journalist, with the U.N. agency confirming Israel's closure of its three...
In response to a request from the Environment Ministry, the government canceled on May 2 a decision made on Dec. 4, 2024, by the previous cabinet, granting Chekka cement plants an exceptional...
Global temperatures remained at historically high levels in April, continuing a nearly two-year streak of unprecedented heat on the planet, which is stirring the scientific community regarding the...
Lebanese president, Joseph Aoun, visited the headquarters of the Banque du Liban (BDL) Thursday morning for a meeting with the governor of the institution, Karim Souhaid, and his deputy governors,...
Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, on a tour in the Bekaa and the Baalbeck region at the Lebanese-Syrian border, praised Thursday the commitment of the Lebanese army, emphasizing that it constitutes...
On Wednesday, a warm welcome was extended at Beirut's international airport to travelers coming from the United Arab Emirates: A symbolic scene, which could mark the beginning of the return of...
Iran denied Thursday any involvement in an alleged plot against the Israeli embassy in London, following the arrest of Iranian nationals in the United Kingdom in anti-terrorism operations. On...
Henry Gemayel, now a hotelier and more, is calm and composed. A faint smile plays at the corner of his lips as he speaks slowly, welcoming us into his four-star hotel in the heart of Athens. After...
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
