Tripoli will be without a mayor and deputy mayor until Friday, after former Mayor Ahmad Qamareddine and former Deputy Mayor Khaled al-Wali were ousted by the Tripoli Municipal Council. The council members Tuesday gave Qamareddine and Wali votes of no confidence in a meeting headed by the ex-mayor in the presence of north Lebanon Gov. Ramzi Nohra.
Lawmakers Tuesday appeared set to endorse a controversial half-year postponement of a mandatory accountability provision needed
Tripoli Mayor Ahmad Qamareddine and deputy mayor Khaled al-Wali Tuesday received votes of no confidence from the Tripoli Municipal Council.
The Environment Ministry plans to request at least $5 million to establish a so-called sanitary landfill in place of a local dump in Dinnieh whose closure earlier this year has led garbage to pile up in several municipalities.
Children under 5 are most at risk of dying from road accidents, with the percentage of infants that die due to traffic accidents almost double that of older...
Parliament recently endorsed a long-awaited law creating an anti-corruption commission, which proponents say would supercharge efforts to combat graft in a...
Students in Lebanon’s capital came last in the 2019 Baccalaureate, according to figures published by the Education Ministry Tuesday.
Parliament’s Finance and Budget Committee has approved the draft 2019 budget with a LL500 billion drop ($330 million) in expenditures, its chair said Tuesday...
Dozens of immigrants lined up Tuesday at a major Mexico border crossing, waiting to learn how the Trump administration’s plans to end most asylum protections...
No more Instagram for Roger Stone. Facebook and Twitter are out, too. A federal judge barred Stone from posting on social media Tuesday after finding that the...
Regime airstrikes Tuesday killed 11 civilians in opposition-held northwest Syria, the target of months of bombardment by the government and its ally Russia, a...
Paramilitary men beat and tortured to death a civilian in Sudan’s war-torn Darfur region, a doctors committee linked to the country’s protest movement said...
Lebanese fisherman Hasan Younes has been diving the same waters off his coastal hometown for three decades, but has never seen anything like this year, as...
Top officials Tuesday stepped up a flurry of political activity aiming to overcome obstacles preventing the Cabinet from meeting for the second week in a row...
Finance Minister Ali Hasan Khalil said that Tuesday’s session of the Finance and Budget Committee should be the last devoted to studying the draft 2019 state...
The United States Tuesday sanctioned three high-ranking Hezbollah members, the first time Washington has taken aim at sitting MPs from the party.
Treasury sanctions MP Mohammad Raad, MP Amin Sharri and Wafic Safa
US sanctions 3 Hezbollah members, including MP and security chief
A senior Lebanese Forces official Tuesday warned that Lebanon couldn’t afford a deteriorating political situation due to the massive economic challenges...
Prime Minister Saad Hariri Tuesday tasked his political adviser with meeting President Michel Aoun as part of ongoing efforts to mitigate the fallout from the...
A Cabinet minister aligned with the Free Patriotic Movement said Tuesday that the impasse prompted by the shooting in Aley last weekend was “heading toward a...
Tourism Minister Avedis Guidanian Tuesday told President Michel Aoun that the summer tourism season remains strong, while also admitting to concerns in the...
Following the early-morning release of the results of the Baccalaureate exams, the Internal Security Forces has warned against celebratory gunfire.
Lebanese citizens, refugees and stateless people all encounter bureaucratic and cost issues in accessing hospital care in Lebanon.
“Only employ legal workers and benefit from the grace period,” a banner on the Labor Ministry’s website reads.
Customs officials at Beirut’s Rafik Hariri International Airport seized 44 kilograms of gold from two passengers arriving from Istanbul Monday.
A military judge Monday indicted a Saudi national and a senior Lebanese security official for attempting to smuggle over 20 kilograms of Captagon to Saudi...
The Litani River Authority Monday filed a complaint against the owner of a car wash near Sidon for polluting a nearby irrigation canal.
Eight men have been arrested for gang raping a 14-year-old Syrian girl in south Lebanon, the Internal Security Forces said Monday.
Parliament’s Finance and Budget Committee is expected to reconvene Tuesday after the country’s finance minister and the committee head ironed out a number of...
The fate of Prime Minister Saad Hariri’s government appeared to hang in the balance Monday due to a widening rift over referring the deadly Aley clashes to...
A military judge Monday indicted a Saudi national and a senior Lebanese security official for smuggling over 130,000 Captagon pills to Saudi Arabia, a...