Brazil is considering designating Lebanese group Hezbollah a terrorist organization, as President Jair Bolsonaro increasingly aligns his government with the U.S. on foreign policy.
Lebanese monitoring stations have detected no rise in radiation levels after a mysterious explosion in northern Russia, the director of the Lebanese Atomic Energy Commission said Monday. “Until now, we have normal readings for all 26 stations in Lebanon,” Bilal Nsouli told The Daily Star. “There is no risk at all.”
Defense Minister Elias Bou Saab Monday dismissed criticism of his handling of illegal border crossings as a “political attack” by the Lebanese Forces.
The industry minister Monday ordered the closure of more than a dozen noncompliant factories in Baalbeck and the Bekaa Valley as part of a crackdown on businesses that were dumping waste and untreated wastewater into the Litani River basin. According to Industry Minister Wael Abu Faour, the owners of the factories set to be closed have been ignoring the deadlines his office had given them to install wastewater treatment machines and stop dumping waste into the river.
Next Monday, Aug. 12 the world will celebrate the “International Youth Day” under the theme “Transforming Education” to stress on the importance of having...
The environment minister Tuesday announced what he termed a “solution” to a 4-month-old garbage crisis in four northern districts that would soon see trash...
The Internal Security Forces chief Tuesday rejected accusations by Maronite Patriarch Beshara Rai that the agency had tortured detainees and fabricated...
Hundreds of Palestinian refugees gathered in front of the Canadian Embassy Tuesday morning decrying their situation in Lebanon and requesting asylum in the...
The Pentagon said Monday it tested a conventionally configured ground-launched cruise missile with a range of more than 500 kilometers, the first such test...
As Afghanistan mourned the 63 people killed in a suicide bombing at a Kabul wedding, a brother of the groom spoke through tears of his weariness at the...
In the years before Syria’s war the boatmakers of Arwad used to sell their wooden vessels along the Mediterranean coast down to Lebanon and up to Turkey, but...
For three young Libyans plucked from a deflating dingy in the Mediterranean, the perils of trying to cross the sea were still preferable to what they had left...
Sitting at a plastic table outside her sandwich shop in Beirut, Nadine Yazbeck says she wishes the government would deal with the stench from the local trash...
The last time Samuel Boutros stepped into the Lebanese monastery of St. Anthony of Qazhaya was in 1978.
The Progressive Socialist Party Tuesday ratcheted up a political confrontation with President Michel Aoun, by accusing Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil of full...
Prime Minister Saad Hariri Tuesday praised relations between Russia and Lebanon, in a letter to his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev marking the 75th...
The Lebanese Army commander said Tuesday that the Army was carrying out its role in protecting the country and maintaining security on the border despite...
President Michel Aoun and Prime Minister Saad Hariri sent condolences Tuesday to Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, condemning the Cairo blast that...