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Cabinet meeting adjourned amid reported dispute over Bitar removal
BEIRUT — Cabinet’s weekly meeting, the third session of the new government, was halted midway through and adjourned until tomorrow, amid discussions about the latest developments in the Beirut...
12 October 2021
The Association of Banks in Lebanon has announced that all banks will be closed on Thursday following "attacks on the Bank of Beirut." This news comes after hundreds of protesters faced off with riot police outside of the downtown branch of Bank of Beirut last week
12 October 2021
Lebanon has registered 568 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. Five people have died, raising the death toll to 8,394
12 October 2021
In a meeting with National Commission for Lebanese Women head Claudine Aoun Roukoz, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri expressed his support for a proposed law setting a quota for women in Parliament and promised to schedule a vote on it at the next session, L'Orient-Le Jour reports
12 October 2021
Family members of detainees who were arrested in connection with the Beirut port blast gathered outside the Justice Palace in Beirut to protest the slow pace and the repeated halting of the investigation, local media reported
12 October 2021
Judge Ali Ibrahim has filed smuggling and money laundering charges against Maroun Sakr, Ahmad Al Zein and Saadallah al-Solh, who are suspected of involvement in the case of ammonium nitrate seized in the Bekaa last month, the NNA reports
12 October 2021
Port probe suspended a second time after after MPs lodge new complaint against Bitar
BEIRUT — The 2020 Beirut port blast probe was suspended for a second time on Tuesday pending new complaints against the lead investigator by two current MPs and former ministers, a judicial source...
12 October 2021
The Beirut port blast investigation has been suspended again pending new complaints filed at the Court of Cassation against Judge Tarek Bitar by sitting MPs and former Ministers Ali Hassan Khalil and Ghazi Zeaiter, a judicial source told L’Orient Today
12 October 2021
Beirut port blast investigator Judge Tarek Bitar has issued an arrest warrant for MP and former Finance Minister Ali Hassan Khalil, who failed to appear for a scheduled interrogation before Bitar today
12 October 2021
Ardem Patapoutian: The journey of a boy from Beirut who won the Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize laureate Ardem Patapoutian’s story begins with an Armenian family living in the heart of Beirut, eight years before the outbreak of the 1975–90 Civil War. It reached another pinnacle...
Nour BRAIDY, 12 October 2021
Zahrani oil facility fire, third cabinet meeting, Nasrallah criticizes Bitar: What to know today
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up. A fuel storage tank at the Zahrani oil facility in southern Lebanon went up in flames yesterday, and firefighters battled for...
