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The national COVID-19 vaccine committee has recommended a third vaccine dose for a number of categories, including those who previously took the Sinopharm vaccine, those with low immunity and people ages 75 years and older who got their second shot at least 6 months ago
13 October 2021
Can Firass Abiad heal Lebanon?
Some people’s names are apt. Firass Abiad is seemingly one of them. Abiad is Arabic for “white.” As white as the snow? The answer from his professional and immediate circles has been pretty much in...
Marie Jo SADER, 13 October 2021
Lebanon has registered 692 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. Six people have died, raising the death toll to 8,400
13 October 2021
A strike at Rafik Hariri University Hospital has been suspended after nine days and all departments have reopened, the hospital's management said in a statement. Workers did not get all of their demands met, particularly regarding salaries, one of the strikers told L'Orient Today
13 October 2021
Dust-up over canceled play sheds light on Lebanon's censorship system
BEIRUT — When a play put on by a group of university students at a popular Hamra theater was halted earlier this month under pressure from a security agency, it was just the latest in a series of...
Rana Tabbara, 13 October 2021
Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea called for a "peaceful general closure" in case of an attempt to remove port blast investigating judge Tarek Bitar "by force." It was unclear if he would call for supporters to counter-protest at Hezbollah and Amal's planned protest tomorrow
13 October 2021
Mikati awaits the opportunity for rapprochement with Syria
Will Prime Minister Najib Mikati take the road toward rapprochement with Damascus? Although the time does not seem ripe to renew ties with Syria, political forces once united under the March 8...
Mounir RABIH, 13 October 2021
This afternoon’s cabinet session has been postponed indefinitely, a tweet from the Lebanese presidency said. The session was adjourned yesterday after the ministers were at odds on whether to take an official position on Beirut blast investigator Tarek Bitar’s conduct
13 October 2021
Tension over Beirut blast probe nudges Lebanon into new crisis
BEIRUT — Growing tension over a judicial probe into last year’s Beirut port blast threatens to push Lebanon into yet another political crisis, testing Prime Minister Najib Mikati’s new...
13 October 2021
Lebanese lira back in freefall after brief recovery
BEIRUT — The lira sold for more than 20,000 to the US dollar on Wednesday, losing almost all the value it regained following the announcement of a new government last month. The pound, officially...
13 October 2021
Hezbollah and the Amal Movement have called for a protest tomorrow at 11 a.m. near the Beirut Justice Palace “to demand the end of the politicization of the Beirut port blast probe,” a Hezbollah spokesperson told L’Orient Today
13 October 2021
Search-and-rescue operation ongoing for missing men after plane crashes off northern coast
BEIRUT — A search is ongoing for two men who were aboard a training plane that crashed into the Mediterranean Sea off Lebanon’s northern coast on Tuesday morning, a statement from the Lebanese...
13 October 2021
Two sisters were killed and a third woman was injured when the facade of a dilapidated building collapsed in Tripoli, L’Orient-Le Jour reports. The injured woman was taken to a nearby public hospital
13 October 2021
An aircraft belonging to the Lebanese aviation club with two men on board crashed into the sea off the coast of Halat, Tripoli, a statement from the prime minister’s office said. A dedicated team is collaborating with the Civil Defense on a search-and-rescue operation, it added
13 October 2021
The lira-to-US dollar exchange rate dropped sharply this morning, with exchangers telling L’Orient Today that dollars are buying and selling for upwards of LL20,500. The lira was last trading this low in mid-August
13 October 2021
Port explosion probe suspended, cabinet adjourns over Bitar, women MPs quota: What to know today
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up. The 2020 Beirut explosion investigation has once again been suspended after a new legal complaint was filed against the lead...
