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Speaking with the BBC, caretaker PM Hassan Diab said he opposes ending subsidies without an alternative plan to protect consumers. He also said Lebanon refuses to be a drug smuggling gateway. Earlier this week, Saudi Arabia banned Lebanese produce imports over narcotics smuggling

1 May 2021

Lebanon has registered 930 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. Twenty-four more people have died, bringing the death toll to 7,302

1 May 2021

Residents of Baalbeck organized a protest in solidarity with workers around the country, the NNA reports. "On Labor Day, we pledge allegiance to the homeland and not to the leaders," a demonstrator said

1 May 2021

Dead fish that washed up on the Litani River's shores have been smuggled to markets and sold, posing a health risk to residents who consume them, the Health Ministry has said

1 May 2021

The army has said it stopped five Lebanese and seven Syrians in the Bekaa Valley and North who were allegedly trying to smuggle 7,500 liters of gasoline and 300 liters of diesel fuel from Lebanon into Syria

1 May 2021

The Labor Ministry, in coordination with the National Social Security Fund, has completed the draft of a law that would create a system to provide short-term payments and health coverage for unemployed Lebanese, caretaker Labor Minister Lamia Yammine wrote on Twitter

1 May 2021