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Protesters demonstrate outside Premier Mikati’s luxury Beirut residence
BEIRUT — Dozens of protesters gathered late Saturday afternoon outside Prime Minister Najib Mikati’s luxury residence in downtown Beirut, near the up-scale Zaitunay Bay restaurant complex and the...
12 February 2022
President Aoun concerned lack of funding could be used as pretext to cancel parliamentary elections
BEIRUT — In an interview with Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar , President Michel Aoun said that lack of state funds for organizing the parliamentary elections scheduled for May 15 could be used as a...
12 February 2022
Former Kataeb MP resigns from party post after being passed over as a candidate for upcoming parliamentary elections
BEIRUT — Former Kataeb MP Samer Saadeh on Saturday announced he was resigning as the party’s local head in the northern town of Batroun in protest over not being selected as one of its candidates...
12 February 2022
Lebanon’s Foreign Ministry calls on its nationals in Ukraine to “take the utmost care”
BEIRUT — The Lebanese Foreign Ministry on Saturday called on the country’s citizens in Ukraine to “take the utmost care,” amid heightened fears amid mounting concerns Russia might invade the...
12 February 2022
ISF arrests alleged railroad track thieves after surveillance operation
BEIRUT — The Internal Security Forces (ISF) announced Saturday arrested a group of people allegedly stealing tracks from Lebanon’s long-defunct railroad lines after conducting a surveillance...
12 February 2022
Parents of Lebanese students abroad protest in Tripoli for promised financial support
BEIRUT — Parents of Lebanese students pursuing higher education abroad staged a protest in Tripoli on Saturday calling on President Michel Aoun to sign into law legislation that would allow...
12 February 2022
Deep haircutting and freezing depositors savings is not the solution
A document recently leaked to the press reveals that the government committee in charge of preparing a plan for the resolution of the large outstanding public debt to be negotiated with the IMF...
12 February 2022
Fuel sector syndicate warns of danger of unlicensed trucks transporting gas cylinders
BEIRUT — The Syndicate of Owners of Domestic Gas Filling Centers on Saturday sounded a warning on danger of unlicensed trucks transporting gas cylinders, a day after a truck transporting domestic...
12 February 2022
Activists call new draft contract for domestic workers ‘an absolute scandal’
BEIRUT — A new standard labor contract for migrant domestic workers drafted by the Ministry of Labor has angered activists and NGOs, who claim that it would make the situation of the workers, whose...
