Venezuela says it retains 'sovereignty' in US oil deal
Interim leader Delcy Rodriguez voiced assurances on Saturday that Venezuela retains control of its oil under a new agreement that allows the United States significant access to it. The United...
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Turkish, Saudi, Pakistani ministers to hold first defence pact meeting
Turkey will host Saudi Arabia and Pakistan for the first ministerial meeting of their new regional defense grouping on Monday, Turkish sources said Sunday. The Mecca Joint Defense Agreement signed...
AFP, 30 August 2026
Rescuers dig into tunnel as missing toll from Nepal, China flood surpasses 3,000
Rescuers in Nepal and China battled through leg-sucking mud, as well as the threat of rising rivers and a newly formed lake, on Sunday to search for thousands missing after a deadly wall of water...
AFP, 30 August 2026
Israeli minister Ben Gvir boasts of worsening prison conditions for Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails
Israel's far-right national security minister Itamar Ben Gvir boasted on Sunday of worsening conditions for Palestinian prisoners as he toured Israeli prisons holding female inmates. Two...
AFP, 30 August 2026
At least six dead in shipwreck off coast of Northern Cyprus
A cruise ship that departed from the port of Kyrenia/Girne in the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) with nearly 270 people on board capsized Sunday off the coast, killing at...
L'Orient Today staff, 30 August 2026
Houla on verge of becoming 'disaster-stricken village' as Israel intensifies operations in the South
SOUTH LEBANON — Israel continued its military operations and air strikes across southern Lebanon on Sunday. According to reports by our correspondent in the region, Israel carried out another...
L'Orient Today staff, 30 August 2026
In Nancy, Tarick Osseirane puts humanity on Toom's menu
"Behind our window, we also hand out touches of humanity," that could be Tarick Osseirane's mantra, supported by his partner, Yaya, originally from Ivory Coast. Both of them spend...
Anne ILCINKAS, 30 August 2026
Israeli strike on Deir al-Balah kills 2 Palestinians, including 3-year-old boy
An Israeli strike killed two Palestinians, including a three-year-old child, in central Gaza on Sunday, according to local medical sources. According to rescue workers cited by Reuters , the...
L'Orient Today staff, 30 August 2026
Tests loom for newly appointed UK PM as parliament returns from recess
Labour leader Andy Burnham has completed his first month as UK prime minister. Despite a relatively smooth start, the hard trade-offs involved in governing are about to get real as parliament...
AFP, 30 August 2026
In tribute to missing imam, Aoun recalls how 'Sadr refused to turn the South into a bargaining chip'
BEIRUT — President Joseph Aoun reaffirmed Sunday, on the occasion of the 48th commemoration of the disappearance of Imam Moussa Sadr, who went missing in Libya on Aug. 31, 1978, that southern...
L'Orient Today staff, 30 August 2026
The mountain of childhood: just before the Israeli 'outpost'
Akram Musallam is a Palestinian novelist born in 1971 in Talfit, a village in the Nablus governorate. An editor at the Palestinian daily al-Ayyam, he holds a master’s in international studies and a...
Akram Musallam, 30 August 2026
Iran's Khamenei urges Gulf rulers in written message to confront 'real enemy'
Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei urged Muslim countries, particularly those in the Gulf, to unite against what he called their "real enemy" and said divisions among Muslims...
30 August 2026
The US wants to turn the page on UNIFIL: Who will oversee southern Lebanon?
Washington opposes the extension of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL); Beirut is still trying to preserve it, and the United Nations is preparing for what comes next. But as the...
Sylviane ZEHIL at the U.N. headquarters, 30 August 2026
Death toll from Russia strike on Ukraine arms depot rises to 38
The death toll from a Russian strike on an arms depot near Kyiv has risen to 38, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday. The strike on the Ukrainian military depot storing ammunition,...
AFP, 30 August 2026
'The Lebanese government is the sole legitimate interlocutor for discussions,' Washington clarifies
U.S. diplomacy sought Saturday night to dispel any ambiguity over who has the authority to negotiate an Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon and an end to Israeli attacks, insisting that the...
L'Orient Today staff, 30 August 2026
What will Nabih Berri say on Aug. 31?
The commemoration of Amal Movement founder Imam Moussa Sadr’s disappearance in Libya on Aug. 31, 1978, is seen as a major political and media event for Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri. It will be an...
Yara ABI AKL, 30 August 2026
In Kuwait, Shiite marginalization opens a window for Iran
On Bubiyan, a large island in Kuwait separated from Iran by a strip of Iraqi territory, Kuwaiti authorities say they intercepted on May 1 a group of Iranian Revolutionary Guard commandos attempting...