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Aoun condemns ‘campaign’ against patriarch after sermon critical of Hezbollah
BEIRUT — President Michel Aoun on Tuesday condemned criticism of Lebanon’s Maronite patriarch after he expressed opposition to the Iran-backed Shiite group Hezbollah, warning that insults...
10 August 2021
Lebanese queue for cooking gas amid economic crisis
Lebanese lined up in long queues Tuesday to stock up on cooking gas following warnings of imminent shortages, as an economic crisis eats away at supplies of basic imports....
10 August 2021
Hezbollah detainees released after last week’s rocket fire, rocket launcher returned
BEIRUT — Four Hezbollah fighters who had carried out rocket attacks at Israel on Friday have been released, and the rocket launcher returned to the Shiite party. Here’s what we know: • A...
10 August 2021
Firefighters have put out a fire that broke out in dry grass and rubble near entrance No. 14 to the Beirut port, the Beirut municipality has said. A fire in Warehouse 12, where hundreds of tons of ammonium nitrate were stored, caused the Aug. 4, 2020, blast, which killed over 200
10 August 2021
More than half of Lebanon’s migrant workers need help: UN
BEIRUT — More than half of Lebanon’s migrant workers are in need of “urgent humanitarian assistance” to survive an economic crisis that has plunged most of the population into poverty, the UN...
10 August 2021
Queues form in front of gas warehouses
BEIRUT — Lines formed Tuesday in front of gas supply points in the south of the country following warnings over the weekend that Lebanon only has a sufficient stock of gas cylinders to last one...
10 August 2021
Hourslong queues have again formed at gas stations in Beirut, Sidon and Zahrani this morning, after easing slightly over the past two weeks
10 August 2021
Gasoline disputes, diesel crisis, subsidies’ future: Everything you need to know today
Three men were killed yesterday in the north of the country in two separate disputes over the purchase of gasoline. Hussein Jaber and Alaa Ahmad were found dead in the Bab al-Tabbaneh...
