BEIRUT — Parliament’s Finance and Budget Committee has approved a draft law that would formalize capital controls on Lebanese depositors, who since 2019 have been at the mercy of ad hoc...
BEIRUT — The Lebanese lira slid over 7 percent against the US dollar from Tuesday to Wednesday, weakening to more than LL14,500 to the greenback and edging closer to the currency’s lowest-ever...
BEIRUT — Chantal Salloum was forced to close her restaurant, The Barn, in Beirut’s Gemmayzeh area for three hours last week when her water supply stopped. Due to increasingly frequent electricity...
Following Switzerland’s attorney-general’s move to investigate “aggravated money laundering in connection with possible embezzlement to the detriment of the Banque du Liban,” the French national...
The various titles of the L’Orient-Le Jour Group have adapted quickly to keep up with the changing media landscape over the past few years. While part of our team works almost around the clock to...
PARIS — France will convene a virtual meeting of countries on June 17 to drum up support for the Lebanese army as it seeks to weather an economic crisis that has put the military on the verge of...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Lebanese depositors should be able to withdraw the equivalent of up to $800 from their bank accounts as early as the end of this...
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?
