Bkirki's presidential candidate list revealed
BEIRUT — L'Orient-Le Jour obtained on Thursday evening a non-definitive list of potentially consensual presidential candidates whose names are being discussed between Maronite Bishop of...
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Education Ministry's security guards assault Iraqi students in Lebanon
BEIRUT — "Back off! Get out of the way, by God! Get the hell out! Back off, you … Back off, or I'll punch you in the face!" Using these aggressive terms and armed with aluminum poles, law...
9 March 2023
Saied scraps post-revolution city councils
Tunisian President Kais Saied on Thursday dissolved the country's elected municipal councils, seen as a key democratic gain after the 2011 revolt that sparked the Arab Spring....
9 March 2023
UN announces 'major breakthrough' to prevent Yemen oil spill disaster
The United Nations said Thursday it had bought a ship to remove oil and avoid a potentially catastrophic spill from a tanker decaying for years off the coast of war-ravaged Yemen....
9 March 2023
How the Iraq war ignited ‘anti-system’ rhetoric in the West
“Well, it’s just heaven here.” Wearing a red equestrian-style blazer, Norah O’Donnell, anchor of CBS Evening News, expressed her amazement at the breathtaking scenery of Prairie Chapel Ranch. The...
Soulayma MARDAM BEY, 9 March 2023
US targets 'shadow banking' network helping Iran evade sanctions
WASHINGTON — The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on 39 entities, mostly operating in Hong Kong and the UAE, that it said were facilitating Iran's access to the global financial system,...
9 March 2023
Yemeni southern separatists voice frustration over Saudi-Houthi talks
DUBAI — Yemen's main southern separatist group on Thursday voiced concern about direct talks between Saudi Arabia and the Houthi movement and warned against any deal that goes beyond the parameters...
9 March 2023
Palestinian man shot and wounded in Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp
BEIRUT — A Palestinian was wounded by a bullet on Thursday in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh, near Saida in South Lebanon, the state-run National News Agency reported. Tensions have...
9 March 2023
Fourteen migrants drown off Tunisia after wave of racist violence
Fourteen people from sub-Saharan Africa drowned in the Mediterranean, authorities said Thursday in Tunisia, where black migrants have faced a wave of violence since an inflammatory speech by...
9 March 2023
Electricity crisis is worsening poverty in Lebanon, rights group says
BEIRUT — The Lebanese government has failed to uphold the “right to electricity,” New York-based human rights organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Thursday in a report highlighting the...
Richard SALAME, 9 March 2023
Nasrallah calls on public school teachers to end strike
BEIRUT — "I call for the continuation of the school year," Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah said Thursday, urging striking teachers in Lebanon's public sector to return to work like...
9 March 2023
Mikati, ambassadors of several countries voice 'collective support' for IMPACT platform
BEIRUT — Ambassadors of several countries along with Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati voiced, in a joint statement, "their collective support" for the state IMPACT data transparency...
9 March 2023
US 'disturbed' by Jewish settler violence in West Bank: Austin
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, on a visit to Israel, expressed concerns on Thursday about Jewish settler violence against Palestinians and warned against acts that could trigger more...
9 March 2023
Lebanese lira again hits LL90,000 to US dollar on parallel market
BEIRUT — The Lebanese lira on Thursday evening continued its latest plummet in value, again tumbling to LL90,000 to the US dollar on the parallel market. The lira reached a record low in February...
9 March 2023
Israeli reservist colonel dismissed over judicial reform protest
JERUSALEM — The Israeli air force said on Thursday that it had dismissed a reservist officer in the military's first punitive response to protests within the ranks over a judicial overhaul planned...
9 March 2023
'We want our money today': Depositor protests at bank in Hadath
BEIRUT — A depositor held a sit-in at a branch of the Lebanese Swiss Bank in Hadath, south of Beirut, on Thursday in an attempt to claim her money trapped in the bank. In a video shared by the...
9 March 2023
Abbas Ibrahim calls for 'abandoning confessionalism' in politics
BEIRUT — The former head of General Security, Abbas Ibrahim, who left his post earlier this month after reaching retirement age, has called for a secular state in Lebanon and announced that he will...
9 March 2023
Gas prices on the rise for the second time Thursday
BEIRUT — The Energy Ministry announced a second increase in one day in fuel prices on Thursday afternoon. Here are the new prices: • Twenty liters of 95-octane gasoline: LL1,538,000, up by...
9 March 2023
In Israel, Pentagon chief says US 'disturbed' by settler violence
Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin, on a visit to Israel, expressed concerns on Thursday about Jewish settler violence against Palestinians and warned against acts that could trigger more insecurity....
9 March 2023
Turkey restores election funding for pro-Kurdish party
Turkey's top court on Thursday restored the funding of a pro-Kurdish party that has emerged as a kingmaker in crucial May 14 parliamentary and presidential polls. The...
9 March 2023
Lebanon's banks to resume strike on Tuesday
BEIRUT — The Association of Banks in Lebanon announced in a statement Thursday that on March 14 they would resume their open-ended strike, which they launched in early February, citing "arbitrary...
9 March 2023
Happy ending to the Maurice Slim-Joseph Aoun feud
After escalation comes respite. The tug of war between caretaker Defense Minister Maurice Slim of the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) and commander-in-chief of the army Joseph Aoun has finally come...
Yara ABI AKL, 9 March 2023
Israel offers Italy gas, wants it to recognize Jerusalem as capital
ROME — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants to boost economic ties with Italy, he said ahead of a visit to the country, raising the prospect of supplying Rome with natural gas....
9 March 2023
Internet outage in Jeb Jenin area, Bekaa Valley
BEIRUT — Lebanese state-owned telecoms operator Ogero announced on Thursday a breakdown in a fiber optic cable in the city of Jeb Jenin, in the West Bekaa, that led to an internet cutoff in the...
9 March 2023
Commercial plane evades gunfire during deadly clash in Beirut's southern suburbs
BEIRUT — A plane that was landing Wednesday evening in Beirut's international airport appeared to narrowly miss live gunfire taking place at the same time in the nearby Jnah neighborhood in the...
Zeina ANTONIOS, 9 March 2023
West Bank violence, Israeli protests overshadow Pentagon chief visit
Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin was due in Israel Thursday as flaring violence killed three suspected Palestinian militants and protesters again rallied against the hard-right government of Prime...
9 March 2023
Hashish hidden in wooden tables seized at Beirut airport
BEIRUT — Security forces at Beirut's international airport halted an attempt to export more than 14kg of hashish hidden inside three wooden tables, police reported Thursday. The shipment was...
9 March 2023
Child quake victims, flown to UAE, unaware of heartbreak to come
Cradling a pink stuffed animal as she sleeps in a United Arab Emirates hospital, a nine-year-old Syrian earthquake survivor is recovering from the wounds that nearly claimed her life, believing her...
9 March 2023
Gas prices on the rise, fuel oil remains unchanged
BEIRUT — The Energy Ministry announced an increase in fuel prices on Thursday morning. Here are the new prices: • Twenty liters of 95-octane gasoline: LL1,484,000, up by LL32,000 • Twenty liters...
9 March 2023
Israeli forces kill three Palestinians in West Bank: Ministry
Israeli forces shot and killed three Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, the Palestinian health ministry said, with an Israeli official saying they had opened fire first....
9 March 2023
President Saied denies racism following tirade fallout
Tunisia's President Kais Saied on Wednesday denied racism following an outcry after he launched a tirade against sub-Saharan African migrants, fueling a spate of sackings, evictions and attacks....
9 March 2023
Saudi Guantanamo detainee released after 21 years
The United States announced the release Wednesday from the Guantanamo military prison of a Saudi engineer seized over two decades ago as a suspect in the Sept. 11, 2001 al-Qaeda attacks but never...
9 March 2023
Iran dismisses nuclear program criticism: Ambassador
A top Iranian diplomat insisted Wednesday that the Islamic republic was willing to cooperate over its atomic program, even as western powers slammed a "dangerous nuclear escalation."...
9 March 2023
Water cuts, increased insurance fees, cholera discrimination: Everything you need to know to start your Thursday
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign u p. Villages in the Sour and Bint Jbeil districts of southern Lebanon faced a suspension of state water supply yesterday due to a...
