BEIRUT: Beirut Gov. Ziad Chebib is facing backlash over a decision to destroy unlicensed, temporary structures used by locals and NGOs on the Ramlet al-Baida...
EIRUT: “Our situation is critical - hospitals are heading toward closure,” billboards that went up around Beirut Friday read. The billboards are...
BEIRUT: Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Joumblatt told The Daily Star Thursday that he was “beginning to” oppose the controversial Bisri...
BEIRUT: The Environment Ministry has for the first time set locations for two waste incinerators in a 10-year solid waste management road map that also calls...
TRIPOLI, Lebanon: “I remember, but my head hurts. When I try to think about it, my head hurts.” Those were the only words Saber Mrad, 33, was able...
BEIRUT: Several hundred Syrian refugees have been displaced from an informal settlement in the Baalbeck town of Deir al-Ahmar since the imposition Wednesday...
BEIRUT: Some 37,000 employees in Lebanon’s state institutions and administrations were hired in a manner that skirted employment laws, according to the...
BEIRUT: Cabinet once again missed a self-set deadline to complete study of the draft 2019 budget Wednesday during a session that lasted barely three hours,...
BEIRUT: Of the 128 MPs that entered Parliament last year, half had never been members before. One year on, what have some of these freshmen MPs learned, what...
BEIRUT: On May 22, 2018, a new set of lawmakers replaced MPs who had occupied Parliament for nine years, and who were widely seen to be emblematic of...
BEIRUT: Calls to abolish Lebanon’s kafala sponsorship system for migrant domestic workers have been on the rise after recent high-profile reports...
BEIRUT: Stopgap works to vertically increase the Burj Hammoud landfill’s capacity are likely to begin by August after the government’s failure to...
BEIRUT: Cabinet once again postponed its endorsement of the 2019 draft budget Wednesday after failing to study its most controversial austerity measures,...
BEIRUT: Ten years ago, the Lebanese government endorsed a landmark master plan that for the first time regulated land use across the entire country. Aiming to...
BEIRUT: As turtles have begun landing on Lebanon’s shores to lay their eggs, the Environment Ministry is working to limit the threats they face by...
BEIRUT: A controversial high-voltage power line project in Mansourieh poses no health risks, Energy Minister Nada Boustani said Friday, citing a number of...
BEIRUT: Chaotic protests over a high-voltage power line project in Mansourieh took a sharp sectarian turn Wednesday, setting the stage for further...
BEIRUT: The chair of Parliament’s Media and Communications Committee Wednesday announced recommendations aimed at limiting the fall in revenue from the...
BEIRUT: Cabinet will endorse Lebanon’s 2019 draft budget by Friday at the latest, Information Minister Jamal Jarrah announced Tuesday after the sixth...
BEIRUT: Cabinet Monday postponed discussion of the 2019 draft budget without endorsing controversial articles that have caused strikes from public sector...
BEIRUT: Several hundred protesters took to the streets Sunday to demand better working conditions for migrant domestic workers and call for the abolishment of...
BEIRUT: A lack of seriousness on the part of its officials means Lebanon will have to rely on the international community – not its government –...
BEIRUT: MP Nicolas Sehnaoui Thursday said there was nothing racist about a Free Patriotic Movement-sponsored Labor Day post he shared on social media that...
BEIRUT: MP Nicolas Sehnaoui Thursday said there was nothing racist about an FPM-sponsored Labor Day ad he had shared that called on businesses not to hire...