BEIRUT —Maurice Slim, caretaker National Defense Minister, announced Thursday that transportation allowances for military personnel would be increased to LL1,800,000 per month. He also suggested...
US mediator Amos Hochstein’s return to Beirut has been expected for several days now. Tasked with helping negotiate the demarcation of the maritime border between Lebanon and Israel, Hochstein is...
BEIRUT — "Let no one think they can control Lebanon with their weapons," head of the Maronite Church Bechara al-Rai said in a speech Thursday in yet another dig at Hezbollah, the pro-Iranian party...
BALMORAL, Scotland — Queen Elizabeth, Britain's longest-reigning monarch, the nation's figurehead and a towering presence on the world stage for seven decades, died peacefully at her home in...
“We need a courageous male president... or a courageous female president,” Lebanese-American writer and development expert May Rihani said yesterday at a press conference, as she announced her...
BEIRUT — The countdown is on for Tripoli MP Ashraf Rifi and his allies "We must agree by the end of the month on a pool of candidates [for the presidential elections]," said a member of...
Will the division among the Sunni ranks come to an end?This is the goal Grand Mufti Abdel-Latif Derian hopes to achieve with an upcoming meeting among community members, set to be held at Dar...
BEIRUT — An armed gang reportedly killed a money exchanger and injured another person while trying to rob them Monday night on a road between the villages of Makneh and Younine in the Bekaa Valley,...
BEIRUT — A medical patient's family members attacked a doctor at Tripoli's Islamic Charitable Hospital after a misunderstanding between the two sides, the Health Ministry said Thursday in a...
BEIRUT — Alleged members of an terrorist cell were arrested in a town in West Bekaa on Thursday, the Lebanese Army announced in a statement. Here's what we know: • "Weapons and ammunition were...
BEIRUT — State-owned electricity provider Electricité du Liban issued a statement on Thursday explaining that the thick black smoke seen rising from the Zouk Mosbeh power plant in Kesrouan on...
LONDON — Fears grew on Thursday for Queen Elizabeth II after Buckingham Palace said her doctors were "concerned" for her health and recommended that she remain under medical supervision. The...
The Higher Judicial Council decided Sept. 6 to appoint a substitute investigating judge in the 2020 Beirut port explosion probe, while the current lead investigator, Judge Tarek Bitar remains in...
BEIRUT — The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon’s Korea Battalion on Thursday donated a solar power system to the Lebanese Army; the system is meant to meet more than 60 percent of the...
Priority must be given to the presidential election. But in the wait for a compromise to mature, a cabinet must be there to run the country’s affairs. Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati is aware...
BEIRUT — The US mediator in the Lebanese-Israeli maritime border negotiations, Amos Hochstein, will return Lebanon on Friday, a source at the Presidential Palace told L'Orient Today . L'Orient...
“Me against all. And all against me.” A few weeks before the end of his father-in-law’s six-year term in office, Gebran Bassil declares war on his political opponents, bringing out the heavy...
BEIRUT — Energean, a London-based oil drilling and gas wells company, is on track to start production in the Karish natural gas field "within weeks," their CEO announced in a statement...
BEIRUT — Full-time professors at the state-owned Lebanese University on Thursday announced that they will continue their open strike that started in July and said that they "are not willing to...
BEIRUT — Parliament will meet next Wednesday, Thursday and Friday to discuss the 2022 budget's draft law, the state-run national News Agency reported on Thursday. The deputies are convened by the...
BEIRUT — A resolution to the Ogero employee strike was stalled Thursday when employees rejected a proposal regarding their working conditions, caretaker Telecommunications Minister Johnny Corm said...
BEIRUT — Lebanon's Foreign Affairs Ministry on Wednesday evening condemned the "repeated Israeli attacks" on the airports of Damascus and Aleppo in Syria and considered it "a violation of...
The 36 Lebanese dancers of the "Mayyas" troupe, directed by choreographer Nadim Cherfan, qualified on Wednesday night for the final of the American TV show America's Got Talent for their...
NEW YORK — Authorities in New York announced Wednesday the return of 16 antiquities to Egypt, including five works that were seized from the Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of a probe into...
BEIRUT — The media office of the caretaker Minister of Public Works Ali Hamieh stated Thursday morning that a bomb attached to electrical wires exploded in Hamieh's house garden in his hometown...
BEIRUT — Families of the victims of the Aug. 4, 2020 Beirut port explosion gathered Thursday morning in front of the Justice Palace in Adlieh, for the second day in a row, decrying a Tuesday...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Protesters have begun to gather in front of the Justice Palace in Adlieh this morning, in a continuation from yesterday, when...
CAIRO — Egypt has detected the first monkeypox case in the country, an Egyptian man who has a residency in a European country, the Health Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday. The 42-year-old...
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
