Ramadan will begin Saturday in Lebanon
BEIRUT — Dar al-Fatwa, the highest Sunni religious body in Lebanon, announced on Friday that Saturday, April 2 will mark the first day of the holy month of Ramadan. Here’s what we know: ...
Your search results: 25 articles
Lebanon has registered 352 COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. Four people have died, raising the death toll to 10,306
1 April 2022
Man found dead in Nahr el-Assi river
BEIRUT — The body of a 27-year-old man was found on Friday in Nahr el-Assi river in Hermel where he fell while fishing, reported our correspondent in the region. Here’s what we know: ...
1 April 2022
'Akkar the Change' electoral list formed in Akkar I electoral district
BEIRUT — The “Coalition for Change and Revolution” and the “Union of Akkar Revolutionaries” completed their electoral list “Akkar the Change" with seven candidates on Friday. Here’s what we know:...
1 April 2022
AUB to open campus in Cyprus
BEIRUT — The American University of Beirut is set to open a satellite campus in the Cypriot city of Paphos by September 2023. Here’s what we know: • The Cyprus News Agency quoted...
Mohamad El Chamaa, 1 April 2022
Berri launches Amal-Hezbollah joint electoral campaign in South Lebanon II
BEIRUT— Parliament speaker Nabih Berri said on Friday that Lebanon’s future depends on the upcoming May 15 parliamentary elections during a speech in al-Msayleh, South Lebanon where the...
1 April 2022
ABL issues statement pledging full cooperation with IMF delegation
BEIRUT — The Association of Banks in Lebanon stressed on Friday its “full and permanent cooperation” with the delegation from the International Monetary Fund, which is currently on an official...
1 April 2022
Former Minister Kabbani announces electoral list in Beirut II
BEIRUT — Former Minister Khaled Kabbani announced the formation of an electoral list in the Beirut II electoral district, named “Beirut Confronts,” which he will head, from the Riviera Hotel Friday...
1 April 2022
Two more candidate lists registered in South III and Bekaa II
BEIRUT — “Together towards change,” an opposition group in the South III electoral district, and “Our Bekaa First” in the West Bekaa-Rachaya district registered their electoral list with the...
1 April 2022
Parliamentary majority at the heart of the legislative battle
The situation resembles that in 2009. That year, the June legislative elections were held more than a year after armed Hezbollah members invaded Beirut and the mountains of the Chouf district on...
Salah HIJAZI, 1 April 2022
Sheikh Abdel Latif Derian encourages Sunnis to vote in May
BEIRUT — Lebanon's top Sunni religious authority, Mufti Sheikh Abdel Latif Derian, on Friday urged Lebanese citizens to participate “without hesitation” in the May 15 legislative elections, which...
1 April 2022
Russian Foreign Minisry invites Lebenese students who fled Ukraine to study in Russia
BEIRUT — Education Minister Abbas Halabi received a letter from the Russian Foreign Ministry via the Russian Ambassador on directives to facilitate the registration of Lebanese students in Russian...
1 April 2022
Joyce Azzam trekked across Lebanon Mountain Trail in the icy cold
The unseasonably cold weather in Lebanon during the month of March may have discouraged many hikers, but not the new ambassador of the Lebanon Mountain Trail (LMT), Joyce Azzam, who did not...
1 April 2022
Independent electoral list registered in Mount Lebanon I
BEIRUT — An independent list of candidates for the May 15 parliamentary elections in the Mount Lebanon I constituency, which includes Kesrouan and Jbeil, “the Independent Heart of Lebanon,” was...
1 April 2022
Interior minister says EDL will provide $16 million worth of power during elections
BEIRUT — State electricity provider Electricité du Liban (EDL) will provide $16 million worth of electricity during the legislative elections, which is a 30 percent overrun of the electoral budget,...
1 April 2022
Marada candidate given permission to repave highway in Batroun
BEIRUT — The Public Works Ministry has authorized Marada Movement’s Joseph Michel Najem, a candidate in May’s parliamentary elections, to repave a road in Batroun at his own expense, a spokesperson...
Wael Taleb, 1 April 2022
Judge Aoun appeals release of Raja Salameh
BEIRUT — Mount Lebanon Public Prosecutor Judge Ghada Aoun filed an appeal on Friday contesting the decision of the first investigating judge at the Mount Lebanon Court of Appeal, Nicolas Mansour,...
1 April 2022
Shortages set to last while we wait for Lebanese generic medicines to fill the gap
While they have been taking chronic diseases medications for years, including for diabetes and hypertension, Claude* and her husband had no choice but to bring their medicines from abroad, at a...
Zeina ANTONIOS, 1 April 2022
Independent list of candidates announced in South I
BEIRUT — An independent list of candidates for the May 15 parliamentary elections, “We are the Change,” was registered in South I Saida-Jezzine district, L’Orient Today’s correspondent in the area...
1 April 2022
Protesters barge into and vandalize Energy Ministry
BEIRUT — Protesters entered and vandalized the Ministry of Energy and Water on Friday, where they tore down and ripped up a portrait of Lebanese president Michel Aoun to protest increasingly...
1 April 2022
"Pre-Election Excuses in C Minor," by the Art of Boo
Bernard Hage, illustrator, cartoonist and musician and author of "Anatomy of a Hummus Plate," published in April 2021 by L'Orient-Le Jour and available on www.theartofboo.com, tries to make...
26 February 2022
Inside the world of Samer Halwani, a Lebanese collector of vintage cameras
People tend to forget. Therefore, the camera and its cousin, the video camera, are considered to be among the most emblematic artifacts of the past two centuries — a tale that Samer Halwani knows...
Philippe HAGE BOUTROS, 1 April 2022
Bekaa municipality to be disbanded after losing half its members
BEIRUT — Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi Friday announced a decision to disband the municipality council of Ablah in Zahle and the assignment of its authorities to the governor of the Bekaa, Judge...
1 April 2022
New official fuel prices: 20 liters of 95-octane gasoline decreased by LL13,000 to LL462,000. 20 liters of 98-octane gasoline decreased by LL13,000 to LL473,000. 20 liters of diesel now cost LL521,000, down LL31,000. A cylinder of household gas now costs LL328,000, down LL1,000
1 April 2022
Raja Salameh stays in jail, Riad Salameh is a no-show, complaints filed against Bitar: Everything you need to know to start your Friday
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . After an order to release Raja Salameh on LL500 billion bail was blocked , the decision in the matter now lies with the...
