Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Thursday, Oct. 15, 2026 Some key things to watch today:11 a.m.: The Ministry of Culture’s Directorate General of Antiquities launches the official platform for the first global archive of Lebanese identity, in the presence of Culture Minister Ghassan Salameh and Italian Ambassador Fabrizio Marcelli at the National Library in Sanayeh. 12 p.m.: The Public Administration Employees Association will hold a press conference alongside a sit-in outside the Ministry of Industry. 3 p.m.: Cabinet meeting at Grand Serail.Rubble litters the ground of a street in the Mar Mikhael Church neighborhood, in the southern suburbs of Beirut, after an Israeli strike, on March 7, 2026. (Credit: Mohammad Yassine/L'Orient-Le Jour) Israel threatens attacks on Beirut's southern suburbs and...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Thursday, Oct. 15, 2026 Some key things to watch today:11 a.m.: The Ministry of Culture’s Directorate General of Antiquities launches the official platform for the first global archive of Lebanese identity, in the presence of Culture Minister Ghassan Salameh and Italian Ambassador Fabrizio Marcelli at the National Library in Sanayeh. 12 p.m.: The Public Administration Employees Association will hold a press conference alongside a sit-in outside the Ministry of Industry. 3 p.m.: Cabinet meeting at Grand Serail.Rubble litters the ground of a street in the Mar Mikhael Church neighborhood, in the southern suburbs of Beirut, after an Israeli strike, on March 7, 2026. (Credit: Mohammad Yassine/L'Orient-Le Jour) Israel threatens attacks on Beirut's southern suburbs and...