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Security forces beat, tear gas protesters angered by minister’s decision to protect a top official from prosecution
BEIRUT — Protesters demanding justice for those killed in the Beirut port explosion were beaten and tear gassed by security forces on Tuesday evening outside the home of caretaker Interior Minister...
Emily Lewis, 13 July 2021
French firm plans to turn grain from the Beirut port blast into compost
BEIRUT — A French firm aims to turn tons of rotting grain at Beirut’s devastated port into compost, the company said Tuesday, nearly a year after Lebanon’s worst peacetime disaster ravaged its...
13 July 2021
Lebanon has registered 494 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. Two more people have died, raising the death toll to 7,879
13 July 2021
Families of the victims of the Aug. 4 Beirut port explosion have attempted to storm caretaker Interior Minister Mohamed Fehmi’s house in Beirut, carrying mock caskets. Fehmi recently reneged on his promise to allow General Security chief Abbas Ibrahim to be prosecuted in the case
13 July 2021
Public hospital says it will shut its doors on Thursday if the government fails to pay
BEIRUT — One of Lebanon’s public hospitals has threatened to shut its doors this week if it does not get funds urgently needed to purchase medical supplies and pay employees. Sibline Governmental...
Tala Ramadan, 13 July 2021
Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri has called President Michel Aoun to postpone today’s meeting, the NNA reports. The two men, who have been at loggerheads over the formation of a new government for over eight months, are now scheduled to meet tomorrow
13 July 2021
Parliamentary elections will take place in spring 2022, President Michel Aoun has tweeted, adding that he fears parties will “take advantage of the difficult economic and living conditions to influence voters’ choices” and so he will welcome EU observers during polling
13 July 2021
Caretaker Finance Minister Ghazi Wazni has announced via Twitter that he has sent a letter to the prime minister’s office requesting approval to increase the transportation allowance for public sector workers from LL8,000 to LL24,000
13 July 2021
Private generator owners in Saida are halting their operations “until further notice” due to lack of diesel, the NNA reports. Business owners in the city have been intermittently blocking main roads since yesterday in protest of the lack of state and generator electricity provision
13 July 2021
The number of children working on Lebanon’s streets has spiked, Save the Children reports, noting that children as young as five are selling black market fuel. The NGO say 306 cases of child labor have been reported so far in 2021, compared to 346 in total in 2020
13 July 2021
A treatment plan is emerging for the 20,000–30,000 tons of grain still in-situ at the silos destroyed in the Beirut port blast, France’s trade minister has tweeted, thanking French firm Recygroup for proposing solutions. In January, the firm was authorized to study the silos
13 July 2021
A dozen people are standing in solidarity with the pharmacy owners attacked yesterday in Tariq al-Jadideh. A pharmacist confirmed that groups will gather outside pharmacies and ministries to reject arbitrary attacks and the system followed in supplying medications
13 July 2021
Opportunity beckons for local producers, but lack of support, reliable infrastructure thwart their rise
BEIRUT — With the price of imported cheese skyrocketing, the Grate&Crumble cheese factory saw an opportunity. The Lebanese family-owned business branched out, producing new offerings, such as...
Tala Ramadan, 13 July 2021
‘Great frustration’: Foreign diplomats in Lebanon despair
BEIRUT — As Lebanon’s economy tanks, foreign envoys are resorting to increasingly undiplomatic language to make clear their exasperation with politicians who demand bailout cash without delivering...
13 July 2021
Generator fees double, EU sanctions, Berri’s port probe assurances: Everything you need to know today
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Generator subscription prices are set to double this month as fuel costs rise. A monthly 5-ampere subscription — enough to...
