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Is there even a glimmer of light left at the end of Saad Hariri’s tunnel?

He hardly ever leaves his house and appears to be anxious and agitated most of the time. Hariri is mad at the world. He is mad at his political opponents and his former benefactors, President...

Mounir RABIH, 11 May 2021

Authorities announce a two-day total lockdown over Eid al-Fitr

BEIRUT — Lebanese authorities will enforce a two-day total lockdown for Eid al-Fitr to prevent large gatherings and the subsequent spread of coronavirus during the holiday, the country’s Disaster...

11 May 2021

Lebanese authorities have announced a two-day COVID-19 lockdown for Eid al-Fitr, starting at 5 a.m. on the first day of the religious holiday marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan. The first day of Eid has yet to be confirmed as it is determined by the sighting of the moon

11 May 2021

The US Treasury says it has imposed sanctions on seven Lebanese individuals with ties to Hezbollah and its microfinance agency Al-Qard al-Hassan, alleging six of them used US-sanctioned Jammal Trust Bank to transfer half a billion dollars over the past decade

11 May 2021

Lebanon has registered 544 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. Twenty more people have died, bringing the total death toll to 7,527

11 May 2021

Some 200 protesters have gathered at the Mar Elias Palestinian refugee camp and will begin a march towards the Shatila Palestinian refugee camp in solidarity with Palestinians facing expulsion from Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood

11 May 2021

The army says it has arrested six people and seized some 19,500 liters of gasoline as well as subsidized foodstuffs allegedly intended to be smuggled to Syria. The seizures come amid an ongoing campaign to prevent the smuggling of subsidized goods

11 May 2021

Lebanon must fix debts, end prosecutor action or face power cut, says Turkish firm

ISTANBUL/BEIRUT — Turkey’s Karadeniz, which supplies electricity to Lebanon from power barges, said on Tuesday Beirut must halt legal action to seize its vessels and sort out arrears or it will...

11 May 2021

Karadeniz says it will keep supplying power on the condition that Lebanon overturns its financial prosecutor’s decision to seize the company’s power barges amid a legal dispute and presents payments for debts owed, a spokesperson for the Turkish firm has told Reuters

11 May 2021

Lebanon faces "total darkness," as the Turkish company Karadeniz announced it will stop operating its floating power barges amid a legal dispute, the head of Parliament's energy committee, Nazih Najem, said in a statement. The barges provide about a fifth of Lebanon's electricity

11 May 2021

President Michel Aoun has released a statement calling on the international community to intervene to “prevent Israel from continuing its aggressions” in occupied Palestine

11 May 2021

Judge Ali Ibrahim has ordered the owners of containers full of hazardous materials that were removed from the Beirut port by the German company Combilift to compensate the Lebanese state within a week for the $2 million it paid for their removal, a judicial source told L'Orient Today

11 May 2021

The Lebanese Army raided a farm outside the town of Bodai, west of the city of Baalbeck, where they found a laboratory containing illegal narcotics as well as equipment and machines used to produce them, the NNA reports

11 May 2021

Victims of financial collapse in Lebanon resort to the French courts

The Collective Association of Victims of Fraudulent and Criminal Practices in Lebanon and Sherpa on April 30 filed a legal complaint to the Paris financial prosecutor against unnamed individuals...

Muriel ROZELIER, 11 May 2021

Private hospitals’ strike, migrant smuggling surge, Palestinian solidarity protests: Everything you need to know today

Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up. Private hospitals announced a “warning strike” to protest the verdict in a high-profile medical malpractice case. The hospitals’...

11 May 2021