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Families of victims of the Beirut blast have gathered in front of caretaker Interior Minister Mohamed Fehmi’s house, denouncing his refusal to allow the prosecution of General Security chief Abbas Ibrahim. Some protesters have jumped a gate and entered the property’s grounds
10 July 2021
Lebanon has registered 327 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. Two more people have died, bringing the total death toll to 7,873
10 July 2021
Internet and phone line services have been cut in several areas of the Chouf due to overloaded generators, Ogero, the state-owned telecoms provider, has announced. Such outages have become regular occurrences amid the ongoing power and fuel shortages in the country
10 July 2021
Five Energia shells and four mines with detonators were found in a dumpster in the Sin al-Fil area of Beirut this morning, the General Directorate of the ISF has said in a statement. The find follows the discovery last month of 16 RPGs and five shells in another Beirut dumpster
10 July 2021
Protesters have blocked roads across Lebanon, including in Saida, Akkar, Markaba in south Lebanon and at the Cola bridge in Beirut, the NNA reports. In some areas, demonstrators have gathered in front of EDL branches to protest the prolonged power outages of recent weeks
10 July 2021
The Zahrani power plant will resume operations tomorrow morning, Électricité du Liban has announced, stating that payment has now been made for the fuel needed to power the plant. The tanker carrying the fuel has begun unloading, EDL added
10 July 2021
A fire on the outskirts of Mais al-Jabal in south Lebanon has caused the explosion of eight cluster bombs left behind in the area by Israeli forces, the NNA reports. Firefighters attended the scene. No casualties were reported as a result of the detonations
10 July 2021
Baalbeck Festival goes virtual in crisis-hit Lebanon
BEIRUT — Lebanon’s annual Baalbeck Festival was held Friday in virtual form with the famed Roman ruins a part of its backdrop, as an expression of hope in the crisis-hit country....
10 July 2021
‘The worst adventure in my life’: Those desperate to leave a collapsing Lebanon pursue ever riskier routes out
WADI KHALED, Akkar — Eight years after fleeing from Hama to Lebanon, Youssef was desperate to leave by any route possible, even if that route took him back under the bombing he had fled. His wife...
Abby Sewell, 10 July 2021
RHUH head Firass Abiad has tweeted that vaccines at the hospital are safely stored in refrigerators supported by two generators and a UPS system with an eight-hour capacity. His reassurance follows the cancelation of COVID-19 vaccine marathons planned for today due to power cuts
10 July 2021
The per-gram bread price has risen again. Bakeries will now sell 883-gram bread bundles for LL4,000 — a 5.82 percent price-per-gram increase — and 408-gram bundles for LL2,750, a 5.15 percent price-per-gram increase. The prices at shops are LL250 higher per bundle
10 July 2021
On Lebanese ‘apathy’
It is undeniable that over the last month things in Lebanon have become significantly worse. The country has toppled off “the brink” upon which, according to some journalists, it has been teetering...
