BEIRUT — Confusion abounded at Lebanese General Security on Wednesday regarding the possible relaunch of an online platform to make appointments for passport applications. As rumors about...
BEIRUT — Lebanon's Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib on Tuesday told his Syrian counterpart, Faisal Mekdad, that he is welcome in Beirut "whenever he wants," Lebanese news agency al-Markaziya...
In 1970, Sleiman Frangieh (the elder) was elected president, by a margin of just one vote difference, over his Chehabist competitor, Elias Sarkis. At the time, it was Kamal Joumblatt’s vote that...
BEIRUT — Caretaker Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati met Wednesday with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri in Ain al-Tineh, two days before the PM's participation in the Arab League summit,...
BEIRUT — Beirut's National Museum and all archeological sites in Lebanon will be free of charge for the next four days, a spokesperson for the Culture Ministry told L'Orient Today . The...
French lawyer William Bourdon told L'Orient-Le Jour on Wednesday that the Banque du Liban Governor Riad Salameh is now considered "a fugitive" after an international warrant for his...
BEIRUT — The Hamra Street bookshop-bar’s management has mounted several stacks on wheels, so the literature-containment technology can be used as a design element. Currently three of them collude...
Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit welcomed Syria back into the bloc on Wednesday, as Arab foreign ministers gathered for a preparatory meeting ahead of the full summit. Earlier this...
RIYADH — Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a pariah for more than a decade, is expected to steal the spotlight at Friday's Arab League summit in Saudi Arabia, where he will rub shoulders with...
BEIRUT — The investigating judge in Mount Lebanon, Ziyad Dghaidy, agreed Tuesday to release Hoda Salloum, director general of the Road Traffic Department, on bail, Salloum's lawyer, Marwan Daher,...
This is the month of economic reports on Lebanon. After the Institute of International Finance (IFI) published its report on Friday and Bank Audi issued its report on Saturday, it is the World...
TEHRAN — Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi on Wednesday oversaw, via video-link, the signing of a deal to finance and build an Iranian railway line as...
Paris investigating judge Aude Buresi issued an arrest warrant on Tuesday against Banque du Liban (BDL) governor Riad Salameh, according to a source close to the case. As expected, Salameh did...
BEIRUT — Unidentified individuals set fire to the sewers and infrastructure of a new vegetable market in Tripoli, North Lebanon, which is due to open soon, our correspondent in the north reported...
ANKARA — Turkey's main opposition party determined there were irregularities at 2,269 ballot boxes for the presidential election and at 4,825 boxes for the parliamentary election that took place...
BEIRUT — The Lebanese Energy and Water Ministry announced on Tuesday that the Iraqi government has agreed to increase the amount of fuel Baghdad provides to Lebanon to supply its power plants....
BEIRUT — The Lebanese Army raided the homes of wanted persons in the al-Sharawneh neighborhood in Baalbeck on Tuesday night, seizing a factory for the manufacture of hashish, the army said in a...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up. Banque du Liban (BDL) governor Riad Salameh said he intends to appeal an international arrest warrant issued by the French...
