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How Lebanon’s political class took out the lead investigator into the Beirut port explosion

The bombshell came around 1 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 18: Fadi Sawwan, the lead investigator into the Beirut port blast, the most complex case in the history of Lebanese justice, was removed from his...

Jeanine JALKH, 11 March 2021

Lebanon has registered 3,518 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. Fifty more people have died, bringing the total death toll to 5,230

11 March 2021

"We are heading toward a blackout” unless Parliament approves an advance payment to EDL, caretaker Energy Minister Raymond Ghajar has said after a meeting with President Michel Aoun. FPM MPs last week asked for an urgent law to be passed granting EDL LL1.5 trillion to import fuel

11 March 2021

Fehmi says Lebanon's security forces have reached 'rock bottom'

BEIRUT — Lebanon’s caretaker interior minister said on Wednesday the country’s security forces were drained and unable to fulfil their duties as a financial meltdown and political deadlock bite....

11 March 2021

Caretaker Interior Minister Mohamed Fehmi has told VDL News that Lebanon’s security forces are drained and unable to perform “90% of our duties.” Fehmi’s comments follow army chief Gen. Joseph Aoun’s remarks that soldiers are “suffering and starving" amid the economic crisis

11 March 2021

Roads reopen, a march in Saida, bread prices hiked: Everything you need to know to start your Thursday

Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . After more than a week of widespread roadblocks by protesters in response to the deteriorating economic situation, most...

11 March 2021