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The Daily Star closes down after yearslong financial struggle
BEIRUT — The long-running Lebanese English-language newspaper The Daily Star has closed up shop after struggling financially for years. Management notified the paper’s staff of the decision on...
Abby Sewell, 1 November 2021
Mikati talks to foreign leaders on sidelines of COP26 climate change conference
BEIRUT — Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Monday held meetings with an array of foreign leaders on the sidelines of the COP26 UN conference on climate change, which is being held this week in...
Rana Tabbara, 1 November 2021
Prime Minister Najib Mikati has met with Qatar's emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, at the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, the premier's office tweeted, adding that the emir confirmed his country’s foreign minister will visit Beirut
1 November 2021
Lebanon has registered 201 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. Seven people have died, raising the death toll to 8,509
1 November 2021
Lebanon’s foreign minister invites Saudis for talks to ease row: AFP
BEIRUT — Lebanon’s foreign minister on Monday called for talks with Saudi Arabia to ease a spiraling diplomatic row sparked by remarks made by the Lebanese information minister on the Yemen war....
1 November 2021
Saida Governmental Hospital employees have suspended their open-ended strike, which began a month ago, and will start welcoming patients as of tomorrow, they announced, saying the hospital administration and Health Ministry have agreed to work on their demands
1 November 2021
Recently sanctioned MP says he believes US was provided with “false information”
BEIRUT — After meeting with President Michel Aoun on Monday MP Jamil al-Sayyed (Ind./Baalbeck-Hermel) again defended himself in relation to the US sanctions recently imposed on him, saying that he...
1 November 2021
Aoun advocates “direct dialogue” to resolve diplomatic rift with Saudi Arabia
BEIRUT — President Michel Aoun on Monday advocated “direct dialogue” between Lebanon and Saudi Arabia, and expressed his hope that the countries would have “the best relations,” as the diplomatic...
1 November 2021
Patriarch Bechara al-Rai’s ‘faux pas’ divides Christian public opinion
This is probably one of those few times when a compromise done “the Lebanese way” causes such an outcry as to achieve the very opposite of its original aim. The barter which Maronite Patriarch...
Jeanine JALKH, 1 November 2021
Researchers estimate a 300 percent increase in toxic emissions due to generator use in electricity crisis
BEIRUT — A group of researchers at the American University of Beirut said in a statement on the ongoing electricity crisis that the level of toxic emissions in the country may have increased by 300...
1 November 2021
Clarification: A DHL official told L'Orient Today that in compliance with Saudi Arabia's directive, DHL has sent shipments from Lebanon to Saudi Arabia back to Lebanon and will return the packages to their owners. The official said the packages are not stuck with Lebanese Customs
1 November 2021
The public administration employees' association has announced in a statement that they will launch an open strike starting Thursday to call for a list of demands including increases to retirement allowances, health and food support, gasoline coupons and reduced working hours
1 November 2021
Parcels sent via the DHL shipping company from Lebanon to Saudi Arabia are stuck with Lebanese Customs following a diplomatic crisis between the two countries that led Saudi Arabia to ban all Lebanese imports, a DHL employee told L'Orient Today
1 November 2021
Diplomatic row between Lebanon and Gulf states, Kurdahi says resignation “out of the question,” officials head to climate change conference: Everything you need to know today
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up. A dramatic diplomatic spat erupted over the weekend between Lebanon and Saudi Arabia as well as other Gulf states. On Friday...
