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30 Mar 2024

Israel ‘starting to focus on specific targets in southern Lebanon’

08 Jan 2024

Screens at Beirut airport hacked with anti-Hezbollah message

13 Dec 2023

Beirut airport flooded due to heavy rain ahead of holidays

16 Oct 2023

Gaza and the Beirut exit scenario

26 Aug 2023

On Beirut’s Hamra Street, culture fades while poverty and begging prevail

26 Aug 2023

Israeli spy cell held at Beirut Airport

07 Aug 2023

Lebanon facing food security threat as Beirut port silos yet to be rebuilt

06 Jul 2023

‘Lebanon is sick, and officials do not want to treat its illness,’ says Maronite patriarch

26 Mar 2023

Outrage in Lebanon after PM’s last-minute decision to delay daylight savings

24 Jan 2023

Judge resumes stalled Beirut port blast investigation

13 Jan 2023

Families of Beirut port blast victims stage mass sit-in

12 Aug 2022

Crew of Lebanese Army boat rescued after vessel catches fire during security operation

04 Aug 2022

On Beirut blast anniversary, Christian patriarch condemns government

23 Jul 2022

Smoldering Beirut port silo at risk of collapse as grain ignites

01 Jul 2022

Beirut airport booming despite some departments on strike

22 May 2022

Rich Lebanese buy ‘island passports’ as crisis bites

08 May 2022

Lebanese parliamentary elections: Second phase of expat voting scheduled for Sunday

19 Apr 2022

Anger in Beirut’s southern suburbs over increased thefts and shootings

11 Mar 2022

Two Hezbollah members guilty of 2005 Hariri slaying on appeal: UN tribunal

08 Mar 2022

Activists assaulted after trying to remove Soleimani poster at Beirut Book Fair

02 Mar 2022

US officials target corruption, terror funding in Beirut talks

18 Jan 2022

Protest by families of Beirut blast victims brings Palace of Justice to standstill

07 Nov 2021

Uproar over ‘Hezbollah pressure’ on Lebanese military judiciary

19 Oct 2021

Lebanon elite united against Beirut port probe seen as survival threat

19 Oct 2021

Hajjar, the Arabian prince of Japanese pearls

15 Oct 2021

UN condemns armed violence outside of state authority in Beirut

12 Oct 2021

Beirut blast judge issues arrest warrant for former finance minister Khalil

05 Oct 2021

Lebanese judiciary resists Hezbollah threats and political pressure

03 Oct 2021

Cancer of corruption is destroying Lebanon’s soul

26 Aug 2021

Emirates gives Beirut travelers extra baggage allowance to assist crisis torn country

25 Aug 2021

Lebanese students face bleak return to classrooms amid energy crisis, currency collapse

11 Aug 2021

President’s ‘greed for power’ maintains Lebanese stalemate

04 Aug 2021

Why the trauma does not end for Beirut blast survivors

02 Jul 2021

Beirut blast judge to start questioning top politicians, news agency reports

08 Jun 2021

Lebanon president okays $197 million treasury loan to avoid electric blackout

06 Jun 2021

Judiciary to simulate welding operation that preceded Beirut blast

24 May 2021

Lebanese capital is determined to survive

06 Apr 2021

Beirut’s blast-hit silos must be demolished, experts warn

03 Apr 2021

Beirut’s famous cafes drained by dollar crisis, stifled by pandemic

07 Mar 2021

Explosion sound heard at Beirut neighborhood caused by tyre burst

21 Feb 2021

Lebanese leadership under fire over by-election delays

18 Feb 2021

Japan to contribute ¥1.7bn yen as emergency assistance to Lebanon

15 Jan 2021

Lebanon a country of exceptions that needs a new vision

03 Jan 2021

Lebanon on the brink of a virus ‘catastrophe’

01 Jan 2021

Many Lebanese, their hopes in tatters, say they fear what 2021 will bring

24 Dec 2020

Beirut port explosion: Nearly five months on, residents’ trauma has healed little

21 Dec 2020

Beirut’s traditional buildings inspire festive decorations

20 Dec 2020

Arab League calls for speedy formation of Lebanese govt

13 Dec 2020

Secular Lebanese student groups see political success amid national crisis

10 Dec 2020

Thousands of Lebanese workers to strike over latest govt. spending cuts

03 Nov 2020

Four years down, two to go: Lebanese president enters tough final stretch in office

31 Oct 2020

Security forces keep radical protesters away from French Embassy in Beirut

16 Oct 2020

Lebanese MPs criticize delay of consultations to choose new prime minister

05 Oct 2020

Lance Armstrong leads Beirut bike tour to help blast victims

05 Oct 2020

Saad Hariri could lead Lebanese government again

17 Sep 2020

Warnings as Lebanon misses government formation deadline

15 Sep 2020

Blaze rips through Zaha Hadid-designed Beirut souk building

13 Sep 2020

Troops form human barrier as rival protesters clash in Beirut

12 Sep 2020

Exhausted rescue workers soldier on at Beirut port

12 Sep 2020

Lebanon faces hurdles to deliver cabinet on time

09 Sep 2020

Italy’s premier urges Lebanon to form Cabinet, start reforms

05 Sep 2020

Italian PM to visit Beirut in wake of devastating port blast

04 Sep 2020

Lebanon’s army finds 4 tonnes of explosive material near Beirut port

03 Sep 2020

Lebanon PM designate pledges to form ‘expert govt’ in record time

02 Sep 2020

Macron warns Lebanese politicians of ‘last chance’

31 Aug 2020

Lebanon blast could cost more than $8bn: World Bank

30 Aug 2020

Half of Lebanese could face food shortages: UN

28 Aug 2020

France presses Lebanon to reform and avoid ‘risk of disappearing’

27 Aug 2020

Lebanon could ‘lose control’ of coronavirus outbreak: PM Diab

27 Aug 2020

Macron returns to Beirut next week to press for reform and reconstruction

23 Aug 2020

British music teacher to walk London Underground route to raise money for Beirut

21 Aug 2020

UAE-based Alserkal Avenue hosts ‘A Day for Beirut’ to raise funds for Lebanon  

18 Aug 2020

Amidst destruction, Beirut’s Osaka Sushi lounge shares a story of hope

18 Aug 2020

Traumatized Lebanon awaits Rafic Hariri murder verdict

14 Aug 2020

Beirut emergency law sparks fears of army crackdown

13 Aug 2020

UNESCO to protect Lebanon as 60 historic buildings ‘risk collapse’

13 Aug 2020

'Gladiator' star pitches in to rescue blast-hit Beirut eatery

13 Aug 2020

Abandoned by state after explosion, Lebanese help each other

13 Aug 2020

Cash for chaos as brokers swoop in on battered Beirut after blast

13 Aug 2020

‘Dubai will be my new Beirut,’ say grieving Lebanese workers

13 Aug 2020

Over half of Beirut health facilities ‘non-functional’: WHO

12 Aug 2020

Children in Beirut suffer from trauma after deadly blast

12 Aug 2020

Although badly broken, Lebanon can be put back together

12 Aug 2020

A week on from catastrophe, Lebanon remembers Beirut victims

11 Aug 2020

Qatari sociologist blames plastic surgery, blasphemy, homosexuals for Beirut blast in expletive-filled online rant

11 Aug 2020

UN chief calls for independent inquiry into Beirut explosion

10 Aug 2020

Alexandra Najjar: The face of Beirut’s man-made tragedy

08 Aug 2020

Grief to anger as disaster-hit Beirut braces for protests

08 Aug 2020

At Beirut’s ‘ground zero’, race to find survivors

07 Aug 2020

World Food Programme plans wheat imports for Beirut

07 Aug 2020

French President Macron’s visit touches a chord in shellshocked Beirut

07 Aug 2020

Macron tells Lebanon ‘you are not alone’ during visit to traumatized Beirut

07 Aug 2020

Japanese woman experiences the warmth of Lebanese people amid explosion

06 Aug 2020

Fear of food shortages after Beirut explosion hits grain reserves

06 Aug 2020

Beirut wakes up to a nightmare after port explosion kills 135

05 Aug 2020

Initial investigations point to negligence as cause of Beirut blast

05 Aug 2020

About 100 Japanese residents in Lebanon confirmed safe

05 Aug 2020

Ghosn's house damaged in Beirut explosion

04 Aug 2020

Crisis-weary Lebanon braces for Hariri tribunal verdict

24 Jul 2020

How Lebanon saw the 1984 killing of Middle East scholar and AUB President Malcolm Kerr

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