BEIRUT: Plans to link Beirut to the Bekaa Valley via train have picked up steam in recent weeks after parliamentary committees approved a law authorizing...
BEIRUT: The Cabinet will hold a special session next week devoted to tackling the growing national garbage crisis, Environment Minister Fadi Jreissati said...
BEIRUT: Beirut Mayor Jamal Itani Sunday said that trees would not be cut down as part of a project to build a parking lot and new garden in place of the Mufti...
BEIRUT: Today the resistance is stronger than ever before, despite Israeli efforts to destroy it during the 2006 conflict, Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hasan...
BEIRUT: Prime Minister Saad Hariri Friday asked for work to be suspended on an emergency solution to a garbage crisis in the north so that another location...
BEIRUT: The notorious former head of Syrian Air Force Intelligence, Jamil al-Hassan, received cardiac treatment at the American University of Beirut Medical...
BEIRUT: The environment minister Tuesday announced what he termed a “solution” to a 4-month-old garbage crisis in four northern districts that...
BEIRUT: Student groups and an MP have called on the American University of Beirut to reverse a recent decision to begin billing students in U.S. dollars...
BEIRUT: A Dutch metal band has canceled its upcoming concert at the Byblos International Festival in solidarity with Lebanese indie-rock group Mashrou’...
BEIRUT: Passenger traffic at Beirut’s international airport is set to spike over the next two weeks before new measures go into effect that will help...
BEIRUT: It’s easy to simply blame the Byblos International Festival for axing Mashrou’ Leila’s Aug. 9 concert, but that would be a...
BEIRUT: The Lebanese indie-rock band Mashrou’ Leila will no longer play at this summer’s Byblos International Festival, its performance having...
BEIRUT: Two Druze politicians Sunday rejected a formula crafted by General Security chief Abbas Ibrahim to resolve a dispute that has paralyzed the government...
BEIRUT: While endorsing the draft 2019 state budget was a good first step, Lebanon must enact more serious reforms to unlock funds pledged at last...
BEIRUT: Works to begin expanding the Jounieh highway will begin within weeks, after two Lebanese companies won tenders Wednesday to carry out the project, an...
BEIRUT: Lebanon was gripped Wednesday by fears that garbage could return to the streets of Beirut and Mount Lebanon four years after the 2015 garbage crisis,...
BEIRUT: A number of activists critical of the controversial Bisri Dam project have been interrogated by the Internal Security Forces’ Anti-Cybercrime...
BEIRUT: Electricity generator owners cannot afford to pay a new tax on their units that has been included in the 2019 budget, a spokesperson for a committee...
BEIRUT: Prime Minister Saad Hariri Thursday defended the 2019 draft budget as a serious effort to put Lebanon’s finances on the right track, dismissing...
BEIRUT: Lawmakers are almost certain to ratify the draft 2019 state budget this week despite near-unanimous agreement among MPs that it did not do enough to...
BEIRUT: Lawmakers Tuesday appeared set to endorse a controversial half-year postponement of a mandatory accountability provision needed to ratify the draft...
BEIRUT: 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...
BEIRUT: The Tripoli Municipality Sunday pledged to fund the reconstruction of about 150 kiosks that were destroyed in a blaze over the weekend in the northern...
BEIRUT: The Energy Ministry Friday launched a prequalification round for companies interested in building two new power plants in Lebanon, a significant step...
BEIRUT: Lebanon will struggle to deal with a wildfire season that may prove to be its worst in many years because of subpar firefighting capabilities that...