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    • Friday, 25 August, 2023
      Lebanon prime minister cleared after Monaco corruption probe

      Investigation into Najib Mikati and his family members closed because of insufficient evidence

      Najib Mikati
    • Sunday, 20 August, 2023
      The Big Read
      ‘The magician’: Riad Salameh and the plundering of Lebanon

      The rise and fall of the discredited central banker mirrors that of a country blighted by hubris, deceit and corruption

      A montage showing demonstrators with Lebanese flags and a banner depicting a mugshot of former Lebanon central bank governor Riad Salameh
    • Wednesday, 16 August, 2023
      How To Spend It In...
      How to spend it in . . . Batroun, north Lebanon

      HTSI’s creative director Rasha Kahil on finding peace around the bustling holiday town

      Beit al Batroun in northern Lebanon
    • Friday, 11 August, 2023
      Long-awaited auditor report slams governance at Lebanon central bank

      Report describes an institution mired in opaque practices, bad governance and lacking adequate risk management

    • Thursday, 10 August, 2023
      Lebanon’s ex-central bank chief hit with sanctions for alleged graft

      US, Canada and UK say Riad Salameh and several associates engaged in ‘unlawful self-enrichment schemes’

      Riad Salameh, former governor of the Banque du Liban
    • Monday, 31 July, 2023
      Lebanon central bank’s first deputy takes over as interim governor

      Wassim Mansouri warns that country has ‘last chance’ to pass laws needed to pull it out of economic crisis

      Wassim Mansouri
    • Sunday, 30 July, 2023
      Lebanon fails to find successor to central bank chief as term ends

      Deputy governors to meet government to broker deal and agree on radical set of economic measures

      Riad Salameh
    • Saturday, 29 July, 2023
      Middle Eastern politics & society
      Hizbollah’s new tactics spook Israel on Blue Line border with Lebanon

      Each side accuses the other of stepping up provocations at one of the region’s tensest frontiers

    • Tuesday, 18 July, 2023
      Carlos Ghosn
      Ghosn says he filed $1bn lawsuit so Nissan managers cannot ‘sleep quietly’

      Former Nissan chair says he is not seeking revenge but wants ‘small compensation for the damage’ since 2018 arrest

      Carlos Gohn taking part in an online news conference
    • Friday, 14 July, 2023
      Sovereign debt
      Lebanon’s buried treasure

      A good loophole is hard to find

    • Wednesday, 12 July, 2023
      Lebanon central bank deputy calls for urgent replacement of departing governor

      Salim Chahine says successor to Riad Salameh must be named soon to avoid further slide in volatile pound

      People sit near Lebanon’s Central Bank building
    • Monday, 10 July, 2023
      InterviewPhilippe Jabre
      Philippe Jabre’s taste for an unexpected second act

      Hedge fund trader is now third-generation owner-manager of Beirut brewer Brasserie Almaza

      Philippe Jabre, hedge fund trader turned brewer
    • Monday, 5 June, 2023
      News in-depth
      Foot-dragging over central bank chief underscores Lebanon dysfunction

      Country was grappling with a leadership vacuum and an economic collapse even before the arrest warrants for Riad Salameh

      A Lebanese bank depositor joins a Beirut protest against the economic crisis
    • Tuesday, 16 May, 2023
      France issues arrest warrant for Lebanon central bank chief

      Riad Salameh failed to appear before Paris investigators over corruption and money-laundering

      Riad Salameh speaks at a press conference
    • Tuesday, 9 May, 2023
      Investments
      Directors’ Deals: Gas firm’s co-founder is more liquid

      General uncertainty over energy groups affects Energean’s share price

    • Thursday, 4 May, 2023
      Judge investigating Lebanon’s central bank chief is ousted

      Ghada Aoun dismissed amid multiple corruption probes against country’s political and financial elite

      Lebanese judge Ghada Aoun speaks to reporters
    • Monday, 10 April, 2023
      Israel
      Netanyahu reverses decision to fire Israeli defence minister

      Prime minister says he is putting argument on judiciary with cabinet colleague ‘behind us’ as security tensions mount

      Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, centre, arrives for a press conference in Tel Aviv on Monday
    • Friday, 7 April, 2023
      Israeli-Palestinian conflict
      Three killed in Israel as tensions rise in the wake of al-Aqsa raid

      West Bank shooting and death in Tel Aviv cap day of violence setting security challenge for hardline government

      An Italian tourist was killed and five injured when a car drove on to a cycle path in Tel Aviv on Friday
    • Friday, 7 April, 2023
      Israeli-Palestinian conflict
      Israel strikes Hamas targets in Gaza and Lebanon

      Weapons manufacturing sites and tunnels hit, says Israeli military

      UN peacekeeping troops inspect a destroyed bridge
    • Friday, 7 April, 2023
      Israeli-Palestinian conflict
      Israel hits targets in Lebanon and Gaza as tensions mount

      Netanyahu says response will ‘exact heavy price’ after rockets are fired at Israel amid clashes at al-Aqsa mosque

      Smoke rises above buildings in Gaza City
    • Thursday, 6 April, 2023
      HTSI
      The Lebanese jewellers finding inspiration amid crisis

      A diaspora of makers are forging dazzling new paths

      Noor Fares gold, amber, amethyst, aquamarine, carnelian, citrine, tourmaline, moonstone, pink hex, quartz and tanzanite Rainbow necklace, £9,500
    • Tuesday, 28 March, 2023
      OutlookRaya Jalabi
      Lebanon fails the test of time

      The decision to delay daylight savings plunged the country into a crisis of conflicting time zones

      A watch seller adjusts a clock in Beirut, where a delay in the move to daylight saving time would have shaved an hour off the daily Ramadan fast
    • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
      Money laundering
      Lebanon’s central bank chief in court to face money-laundering allegations

      Riad Salameh for the first time appears in front of European investigators probing the accusations

      Riad Salameh speaks in an interview
    • Tuesday, 14 March, 2023
      Lebanon’s banks begin strike action over ‘arbitrary’ judicial decisions

      Closures are the latest blow for the country’s depositors who are already struggling to access their own money

      Lebanese depositors queue to withdraw money from a Fransabank branch in Beirut
    • Monday, 6 February, 2023
      Re-opening of Beirut blast probe reignites feud inside Lebanon’s judiciary

      Stalled investigation has been mired by accusations of interference and rows over role of judges

      Families of victims of the August 2020 Beirut port explosion
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