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Lebanon has registered 1,632 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. Five more people have died, raising the death toll to 7,967
13 August 2021
Cooking gas supplies will be depleted in five days unless new shipments are received, said Farid Zeinoun, who heads the gas sector employees union, adding that new shipments wouldn’t be delivered until the Energy Ministry and BDL agree on new prices after BDL ended fuel subsidies
13 August 2021
Fuel importers are refusing to sell to gas stations amid a pricing standoff
BEIRUT — Fuel importers are refusing to distribute their stocks to gas stations amid a standoff over pricing with the Energy Ministry after confusion ensued from the central bank’s decision to...
Richard SALAME, 13 August 2021
‘Nothing left’: In crisis-hit Lebanon, bread too is scarce
BEIRUT — Michael Hamati emerged from a long queue at a Beirut bakery, sweat dripping from his forehead, as Lebanon’s economic collapse sparks increasing shortages including over bread....
13 August 2021
Bad times for Hezbollah in Lebanon
If 2019 was the year of the popular uprising and 2020 that of the economic and financial crisis, it appears that 2021 is, so far, the year of the “Hezbollah problem.” The question of Hezbollah was...
Anthony SAMRANI, 13 August 2021
Dollar debate keeps Lebanon’s poorest families waiting for World Bank-funded cash assistance
BEIRUT — As subsidies on fuel and other essential imports continue to crumble, implementation of a World Bank-funded program to give cash assistance to Lebanon’s poorest families remains on...
Abby Sewell, 13 August 2021
Internet provider Ogero has announced that due to fuel shortages its internet services have been halted in areas of Akkar, including Arida and Abboudieh.“Our technical team is following up on the issue,” Ogero’s statement adds
13 August 2021
Gas station owners syndicate spokesperson calls on politicians, BDL to agree fuel subsidies’ future before supplies run out
BEIRUT — George Brax, spokesperson for the syndicate of gas station owners, on Friday called on politicians and Banque du Liban Gov. Riad Salameh to agree on the fate of fuel subsidies before fuel...
13 August 2021
Parliament Deputy Speaker Elie Ferzli has indicated the legislature will not permit the central bank to use its mandatory reserves to continue subsidizing fuel, stating, “The chamber will not legislate on the stranglehold on obligatory reserves”
13 August 2021
More temperature test than opening salvo: Analysts consider recent flare-ups in Hezbollah–Israel tensions
BEIRUT — Last week’s dramatic flare-up along the southern border with Palestine, when on Aug. 6 Hezbollah fired a volley of rockets in response to Israel’s first airstrike in Lebanon since 2014,...
Richard SALAME, 13 August 2021
Demonstrators have blocked the road at the Sultan Brahim restaurant in Jnah, south of Beirut, the Traffic Management Center reports, while protesters have cut the Beddawi highway in the north near the Mankoubine crossing. The protests follow BDL’s decision to end fuel subsidies
13 August 2021
A Palestinian was injured when a grenade, thrown overnight in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh near Saida, exploded, the NNA reports
13 August 2021
Parliament session canceled, fuel subsidies still halted, hospitals on the brink: Everything you need to know today
Yesterday’s Parliament session to discuss a parallel investigation into the Beirut blast was canceled after it failed to gain quorum when a majority of MPs boycotted it. MPs affiliated with the...
