Parents at the French Embassy-affiliated school Grand Lycee Franco-Libanais called for a sit-in on campus for Tuesday to protest a teachers’ strike that saw...
A marathon six-hour Cabinet session ended Monday with the approval of a series of items, and marked the conclusion of the term of Prime Minister Saad Hariri’s...
The protests that rippled across Russia ahead of Vladimir Putin’s fourth inauguration as president followed a familiar script.
Lebanese American University students and environmental activists completed the maiden voyage Sunday of the country’s first ever Phoenician-style trireme made...
Education Minister Marwan Hamadeh said Sunday that recent United States sanctions on Hezbollah would slow the formation of Lebanon’s new government, the...
A woman heads out of her home in Sidon, rushing to get to her destination before sunset marks the break of the day’s fast.
A group of business-minded women from around the world gathered in Lebanon over the weekend to take part in Lebanon’s first women-only vintage car rally.
Agriculture Minister Ghazi Zeaiter met Sunday with wheat farmers from eastern Lebanon who demanded to be compensated for losses they had incurred due to an...
The United Kingdom ranks around 22nd among countries in terms of population. Its economy is somewhere between the fifth- and seventh-largest in the world in...
Two weeks ago was Teacher Appreciation Week, and I intended to write on the subject, but a more newsy topic intervened.
The sanctions against Iran reinstated by U.S. President Donald Trump raise two all-important questions that have no convincing answers.
Throughout Lebanon, young people are being lured from the peripheries to lucrative opportunities in the capital or the prosperous Gulf, but in south Lebanon’s...
Energy Minister Cesar Abi Khalil launched a tender book Friday for the import and supply of liquefied natural gas, in a significant step towards securing...
In many parts of the world, there are simply no more conventional freshwater resources available to meet growing demand.
The owner of a Lebanon-based company hit by a French assets freeze Friday denied allegations of links to a chemical weapons program in Syria.
The 10th edition of Beirut Spring Festival opened early this year, with “70 Years of the Nakba,” an outdoor photo exhibition at the Samir Kassir Square,...
The ongoing war of words between Tenders Department head Jean Aliyyeh and Central Inspection Bureau chief George Attieh is worsening as a result of political...
The Higher Defense Council decided during a meeting Friday to take “necessary security measures” to stem violent crime in eastern Lebanon’s Baalbeck, council...
President Donald Trump’s dismissive treatment of Europe is beginning to erode the trans-Atlantic alliance, which for many decades has been the central pillar...
The world’s most important bilateral relationship – between the United States and China – is also one of its most inscrutable.