BEIRUT — Lebanese lawyer and activist Rami Ollaik, founder of the high-profile Mouttahidoun group that advocates for the rights of depositors wronged by Lebanese banks, was involved in an...
BEIRUT — A young man died on Tuesday after falling and drowning in a tank of soybean oil while working at a factory for crushing soybeans and refining oil, located on the outskirts of Selaata,...
BEIRUT — On May 19, Luis Abinader, outgoing President of the Dominican Republic, was re-elected after a resounding victory in the first round. The leader of Lebanese descent received 57.15...
The Iranian government will continue to operate “without the slightest disruption.” With these words, the cabinet announced on Monday morning that President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein...
On Tuesday, Mount Lebanon investigating judge Ziad Dghaidy issued an arrest warrant for Georges Dib, a blogger known as “Dr. Food,” for “manufacturing, trafficking and smuggling drugs abroad.” The...
BEIRUT — The Lebanese police announced on Tuesday in a press release that they had arrested two men for the murder of a young transgender woman, Tala, whose body was found in Dora on May 13. She...
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has backtracked. Following the outcry caused by the missive that UNHCR representative in Lebanon, Ivo Freijsen, addressed to the Interior...
The health ministry in Gaza said Tuesday that at least 35,647 people have been killed in the territory during more than seven months of war between Israel and Palestinian militants....
Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed ben Abdel Rahman al-Thani received Lebanese former Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Joumblatt, his wife Nora and their son...
BEIRUT — UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced in a press release on Monday the appointment of Dutch Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert as the new Special Coordinator for Lebanon. She succeeds...
Following the weapons seized on Monday from a truck that caught fire on the Tripoli-Beirut highway between Batroun and Kfarabida, the army reportedly stopped up to five other similar vehicles in...
Lebanon had been predominantly French-speaking for a significant period and French was its second official language. Recently, there has been a surge in American English. Previously more...
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant described as "despicable" Tuesday a push by the International Criminal Court's prosecutor for warrants to arrest him and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu....
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's wife Asma, who recovered from breast cancer in 2019, has been diagnosed with leukemia, the president's office said on Tuesday. "First...
Palestinian health officials said Israeli forces killed seven Palestinians during a raid Tuesday in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, where the military said it had launched a counterterrorism...
Fuel prices have continued to fall this week, according to the latest price list published by the Energy and Water Ministry published Tuesday. However, the price for a domestic gas cylinder remains...
Israel and Hamas, engaged in heavy fighting in the Gaza Strip, both angrily rejected on Monday moves to arrest their leaders for war crimes made before an international court. The International...
From May 21 to 24, three high-ranking Syrian government officials will be tried in absentia before the Paris Assize Court for the deaths of two French-Syrian nationals, Mazen Dabbagh and his son,...
At 8 p.m. on Sunday, shots were fired into the air near the Kataeb party headquarters in Saifi. Admittedly, this is not the first time that the headquarters of this party, which sees itself as...
On Monday, Israel and Hezbollah engaged in intense clashes, with the party announcing the death of six of its members. According to L'Orient-Le Jour 's South Lebanon correspondent, Milad Houjeiri...
22:16 Beirut Time That's it for today's coverage of the war on Gaza and its repercussions in the region, notably in southern Lebanon where cross-border fighting between Israel and...
Long questioned about her “silence” on the ongoing conflict in Gaza, Amal Clooney has for the first time taken part in the ongoing debate on the prosecution and prevention of war crimes, by...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up. Tuesday, May 21, 2024 Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch today: - Reaction to ICC request to seek...
