BEIRUT — Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has called for a meeting of the joint parliamentary committees on Tuesday morning to examine several proposed amendments to the electoral law, ahead of the...
Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam arrived in Baghdad Friday afternoon to participate in the 34th Arab League Summit scheduled for Saturday. Salam is accompanied by Foreign Minister Joe Rajji...
BEIRUT — President Joseph Aoun visited Collège Mont La Salle on Friday, his former school, to mark the feast day of the institution’s patron saint, Saint John Baptist de La Salle. Invited by the...
BEIRUT — Finance Minister Yassine Jaber announced Friday that the government has submitted a draft law to Parliament seeking approval for a $250 million loan from the International Bank for...
Foreign policy circles within the U.S. administration floated the idea of assassinating interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa, a U.S. Senator told a Senate hearing on Thursday. The comments, first...
BEIRUT — The international conference announced by France and Saudi Arabia to revive efforts for a peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — centered on the two-state solution —...
The Houthi rebels in Yemen reported Friday Israeli strikes on ports in the Hodeida province, which they control in the south of the country. The rebels' television network Al-Massirah...
At the second stop of his triumphant tour in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, from May 13 to 16, President Donald Trump boasted on Thursday, May 15, of securing up to $4 trillion...
The World Bank (WB) announced on Friday the relaunch of its aid programs in Syria following the payment by Saudi Arabia and Qatar of a remaining debt of $15.5 million owed by the country to the...
BEIRUT — Relations between Lebanon and some Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are slowly thawing after years of diplomatic strain, mainly linked to Hezbollah’s influence in Lebanon.The...
ABU DHABI — U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday capped off a Gulf tour in Abu Dhabi that has seen the securing of multi-billion-dollar deals, a $1.4 trillion investment pledge from the UAE, as...
BEIRUT — On the 77th anniversary of the Nakba, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) held a mass sit-in Friday in front of the UNRWA services center in the southern city of...
Israeli strikes on Gaza have killed more than 250 people since Thursday morning, local health authorities said Friday, marking one of the deadliest phases of bombardment since a truce collapsed in...
BEIRUT — Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam affirmed there will be “no retreat from the project of ensuring that all weapons are exclusively under the authority of the Lebanese state, which is...
His name has been circulating on social media and in local press since acting government commissioner to the military court, Judge Fadi Akiki, initiated legal proceedings against him on Wednesday....
U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to lift sanctions on Syria — announced Tuesday, May 13, in Riyadh and formalized the next day during a meeting with interim Syrian President Ahmad...
Israel’s participation in Eurovision 2025 has sparked criticism and protests, but Yuval Raphael is set to take the stage Thursday evening in the second semifinal. The 24-year-old, a survivor of the...
Électricité du Liban (EDL), the public institution responsible for providing electricity across Lebanese territory, announced Thursday in a statement that it is implementing exceptional measures...
BEIRUT — Residents of Bint Jbeil district's Jmaijmeh village condemned what they called "repeated violations by UNIFIL," accusing the peacekeeping force of "entering the area without Lebanese Army...
The decline in commercial activity continued in 2025, following a very difficult 2024, according to the index developed by the Beirut Taders Association and Fransabank to measure, each quarter, the...
After a forced interruption in 2024 due to the war, the Beirut Arab Book Fair is making a strong comeback for its 66th edition, running from May 15 to 25 at the Seaside Arena on the capital’s...
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that Iran has his administration's proposal and knows it needs to move quickly, a day after saying Washington and Tehran were close to a nuclear deal amid...
Two presidents of the Court of Cassation’s chambers — Nada Dakroub, president of the 8th chamber, and Habib Rizkallah, president of the 9th chamber — were elected by acclamation on Thursday to the...
Will the summer of 2025 see a mass return of expatriates to Lebanon for the holidays? With the end of the war with Israel, the election of a president and the formation of a new government, the...
ANTALYA — The United States is likely to issue some sanctions relief to Syria in the coming weeks following President Donald Trump's announcement that all sanctions targeting Damascus would be...
My question this week is, does music sound better at this time of year? It feels like it to me, but perhaps I am just more prone to romanticising things when the sun is out. Either way, Lebanon is...
Launched in 2020 under the aegis of the French Development Agency (AFD) and the Danish Foreign Affairs Ministry, the project " Rofaqa'a al-Nahr " ("River Companions")...
BEIRUT — The Lebanese Army announced the arrest of 86 individuals who are suspected of firing their guns in the air while celebrating the results of the municipal elections, held in Mount Lebanon...
Food rations that could supply 3.5 million people for a month are mouldering in warehouses around the world because of U.S. aid cuts and risk becoming unusable, according to five people familiar...
Three days later, the suspense came to an end. On Wednesday evening, the results of the municipal elections in Tripoli, held on Sunday, were announced. Among the six lists competing for the city’s...
DUBAI — U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he was returning to Washington after wrapping up his Gulf tour, confirming that he wouldn't be traveling to Turkey with his delegation of...
Since the start of the municipal elections on May 4, the Lebanese Forces (LF) have had the wind in their sails. In the first round of voting held in Mount Lebanon, they scored significant victories...
During his closely watched visit to Saudi Arabia, U.S. President Donald Trump made a surprising announcement. From Riyadh, the Republican billionaire announced the lifting of economic sanctions on...
19:49 Beirut Time Netanyahu threatens more strikes on Yemen Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened to continue striking Yemen until he reaches the leaders of the Houthi...
JERUSALEM — The Israeli military said it intercepted a missile fired from Yemen on Thursday, an attack for which the Houthis later claimed responsibility. Air raid sirens sounded in Jerusalem and...
At the far end of the Cannes SNCF station, a shout alerts the riot police standing guard. Encumbered by five Louis Vuitton suitcases emblazoned with her initials, Anne-Élisabeth stumbles on a...
ISTANBUL — Turkey will take part in two trilateral meetings on Friday in Istanbul as part of renewed diplomatic efforts to end the war in Ukraine, Turkish Foreign Ministry sources said....
Morgan Ortagus, the American envoy to Lebanon, was interviewed Thursday evening on the local channel LBCI. She was asked about the impact on Lebanon of President Donald Trump's visit to the...
