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France and its partners are working on a financing mechanism for Lebanon, Macron says

PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday he was working with international partners to create a financial mechanism to ensure important public services can continue to work in...

10 June 2021

Shortages of basic goods are wreaking havoc on daily life in Lebanon

BEIRUT — Shortages in Lebanon’s key sectors have wrought chaos in the country as fears loom that the worst economic crisis since the Civil War will force an end to a state subsidy program for...

Ghada Alsharif, 10 June 2021

Amid ongoing medicine and supply shortages, pharmacies across the country have announced that they will close over the weekend, the NNA reports

10 June 2021

Lebanon has registered 229 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. Five more people have died, bringing the total death toll to 7,785

10 June 2021

BDL has issued a statement claiming that the amount of imported petrol, diesel and household gas is currently 10 percent greater this year compared with the same period last year, saying the supply is enough to meet Lebanon's demand for at least 10 days

10 June 2021

Generators in Saida will stop running on Tuesday morning due to local diesel shortages, the head of the local generator owners' association has said in comments published by the NNA. He added that generator owners will not resort to buying diesel on the black market

10 June 2021

Caretaker Health Minister Hamad Hassan ordered a raid on a warehouse in Beirut's Hamra area that was allegedly hoarding subsidized medical equipment and infant milk in order to sell them on the black market, the NNA reports

10 June 2021

Only six out of 16 cranes at Beirut port’s container terminal are operational due to difficulties transferring money to suppliers abroad for spare parts and equipment needed for “urgent” maintenance and repair, the International Chamber of Navigation in Beirut says

10 June 2021

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has called for a session of the joint parliamentary committees on June 16 to discuss draft laws including the creation and financing of caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab’s proposed electronic ration card for vulnerable families

10 June 2021

The General Directorate of Oil has warned in a statement against the improper storage and stockpiling of fuel “in anticipation of subsidies being removed,” calling for people’s lives not to be put at risk “in the interest of financial gain”

10 June 2021

Hospitals may be forced to suspend kidney dialysis next week if they do not receive the supplies needed for the procedure, the private hospitals’ syndicate has warned in a statement. It blames stock shortages on an ongoing dispute between medical importers and BDL over subsidies

10 June 2021

George Brax, a gas station owners’ syndicate member, has hit out at the central bank’s alleged failure to provide dollars for fuel imports, saying in a statement that “whoever spends billions of dollars of depositors’ money can afford a few million … to stop the humiliation”

10 June 2021

Demonstrators have blocked the main highway that connects Tripoli to Akkar near the town of Abdeh in protest of worsening living conditions, the Traffic Management Center reports

10 June 2021

Iraq doubles fuel oil pledge, lira plunges again, new COVID-19 jab center opens: Everything you need to know today

Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Lebanon is now set to receive 1 million tons of heavy fuel oil from Iraq — twice the amount originally agreed on — caretaker...

10 June 2021