Energy and Water Minister Cesar Abi Khalil and the Council for Development and Reconstruction on Saturday launched a treatment plant and sewage system project for Batroun and its surrounding area, the state-run National News Agency reported.
Prime Minister Saad Hariri Friday pleaded with his supporters to vote in high numbers, warning of attempts by rivals to defeat the Future Movement, in the PM’s latest drive to rally his power base ahead of next month’s general elections deemed “crucial” by all feuding parties.
Official sources say that President Michel Aoun’s speech Wednesday calling for the separation of Cabinet and Parliament is not a new stance by the country’s leader.
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United States Central Command head Gen. Joseph Votel discussed military cooperation with Lebanon as well as regional security developments during Friday...
A wall built to contain a burgeoning Tripoli dumpsite is progressively cracking and quivering behind the weight of a 37-meter-high pile of decomposing trash...
The Foreign Ministry demanded UNHCR refrain from issuing further statements on refugee returns in a statement addressed to the body’s Lebanon representative...
A man was arrested for assaulting a female minor and posting nude photos of the alleged victim online without consent, the Internal Security Forces said Friday.
Miguel Diaz-Canel has been the presumptive next president of Cuba since 2013, when Raul Castro named the laconic former provincial official to the important...
Daesh (ISIS) militants agreed to give up their last pocket in Damascus Friday, state media reported, as the government seeks to retake the entire Syrian...
At the New York City convenience store where he works the overnight shift, Radad Alborati takes a sip of coffee and surveys his life. His wife is stuck in...
Unprecedented Western strikes against regime targets in Syria yielded a lot of political chest-thumping but no hope that the seven-year war would end soon or...
Washington’s strong stance against the actions of Hezbollah has filtered into the Lebanese diaspora that supports the group,.
The newly introduced preferential vote will play a major role in the upcoming parliamentary elections as political sources say some parties will take...
Lebanese University professors announced Friday that they will extend their strike for another week starting Monday, after concluding a meeting with Education...
Speaker Nabih Berri and President of the General Confederation of Lebanese Workers Bechara Asmar on Friday discussed the living conditions of union workers...
A man has been arrested for assaulting a female minor and posting inappropriate nude photos of the alleged victim to her Instagram account, the Internal...
President Michel Aoun said Friday that the Tripartite Military Committee that brings together Israeli and Lebanese military representatives under the...
A section of the wall built to keep Tripoli's trash mountain from collapsing into the Mediterranean Sea buckled for the second time this week, a security...
Progressive Socialist Party head Walid Jumblatt sharply criticized Prime Minister Saad Hariri in an interview published in Lebanese daily Al-Joumhouria...
Maronite Patriarch Beshara Rai Friday morning laid the foundation stone for a Maronite church to be constructed in Doha, Qatar – which Lebanese news outlets...
Authorities have arrested three men accused of stealing LL23 million ($15,000) in merchandise from a mobile phone store in the Metn town of Jal al-Dib, the...
A hot air balloon marked with the Israeli flag crashed Thursday into an electrical pole in the Chouf town of Baaqlin, causing an explosion and a power outage,...
Over 3,000 refugees in Lebanon have been forcibly removed from their dwellings following systematic “mass evictions” conducted by 13 municipalities across the...
The following crimes have been reported Thursday.
Hezbollah was again the focus of a new bipartisan bill by two United States congressmen presented to the House of Representatives calling for an investigation...
Education Minister Marwan Hamadeh said Thursday that he would work to pass a law to amend salaries for educators before the end of the current Parliament’s...
Lebanon residents should beware of eating certain wild herbs, mushrooms and fish that are poisonous to humans, a Health Ministry source told The Daily Star...
Dozens of people with disabilities gathered Thursday in Beirut’s Riad al-Solh Square as Cabinet met, protesting inaccessible polling stations in the hope of...
Popular Bloc head Myriam Skaff Thursday expressed her support for legalizing the production of cannabis and regulating its use for medical purposes.
The Free Patriotic Movement Thursday said a party circular giving FPM polling station delegates fuel coupons on Election Day was not leaked – as some had...
The Foreign Ministry said Thursday it would re-evaluate the role of the U.N.’s refugee agency in Lebanon after it released a statement on the return of...
Three people suspected of dumping pathological waste in south Beirut's Hay al-Sellom cemetery after collecting the tissue from local hospitals have been...
A 22-year-old woman of Lebanese descent was killed last month by her ex-boyfriend, who stabbed her 40 times, slit her throat, and shot her twice as she tried...
Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri Thursday said that there was an urgent need for dialogue between Iran and Saudi Arabia.