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Parliament passes a liability waiver for COVID-19 vaccines as multiple hospitals announce they are full
BEIRUT — Lebanon’s Parliament passed a law permitting the use of emergency vaccines Friday, the second day of an unprecedented 11-day total lockdown as hospitals battle the country’s most...
Ghada Alsharif, 15 January 2021
President Michel Aoun has announced he has signed off on a treasury advance of LL50 billion to the Higher Relief Commission to continue distributing compensation to people whose property was damaged in the Beirut port blast. The government previously distributed LL100 billion
15 January 2021
Al Jadeed has reported that Judge Ghassan Oueidat withdrew the arrest warrant for Mortada on the basis that, as a journalist, Mortada should have been summoned to appear before the public prosecutor, not military intelligence
15 January 2021
Lebanon has registered 6,154 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, setting a new record, while 44 more people have died from the virus — also the highest number on record — bringing the death toll to 1,825
15 January 2021
Dangerous liaisons: How finance and politics are inextricably linked in Lebanon — part I of II
The unprecedentedly violent financial crisis that broke out in Lebanon at the end of 2019, and turned into an acute economic depression, caught most Lebanese by surprise. For most experts,...
Nada Maucourant Atallah, 15 January 2021
Dangerous liaisons: How the ‘system’ got the better of the ‘technocrats’ — part II of II
It is one year into the crisis, but despite the scale of the situation, the achievements of Hassan Diab’s government remain scant. From its rescue plan to canceling contracts with the forensic...
Nada Maucourant Atallah, 15 January 2021
Army intelligence officers surrounded Al Jadeed TV in an attempt to arrest journalist Radwan Mortada, who had refused to appear for questioning on charges of “insulting the army and fabricating crimes against the military establishment,” press freedom group SKeyes reported
15 January 2021
How to avoid further gentrification in the aftermath of the Beirut port explosion
Pictures and videos of areas devastated as a result of the Aug. 4 Beirut port explosion have permeated the media. Many of them may even become politicized, visual icons of what happened that...
Public Works Studio, 15 January 2021
Protesters blocked the main road leading to Al-Nour Square in Tripoli in opposition to the countrywide total lockdown, which began yesterday, and to demand the government secure basic necessities for families in need before confining them to their homes, the NNA reports
15 January 2021
The International Committee of the Red Cross has handed over Hassan Qassem Zahra, the Lebanese shepherd who was kidnapped by Israeli forces on Tuesday and released today, to the Lebanese Army, which is investigating the circumstances of his capture, the army said in a statement
15 January 2021
Parliament also pushed back a deadline for public servants to disclose their assets and wealth as required under the illicit enrichment law — an anti-corruption bill passed in October 2020 — from later this month to the end of March
15 January 2021
Parliament has passed a law permitting the use of emergency vaccines and waiving liability for pharmaceutical company Pfizer, which had required the measure as a first step to moving forward with a deal to supply COVID-19 vaccines to Lebanon
15 January 2021
Flights between Beirut and Aleppo resumed Friday for the first time in a decade. The Syrian Air flight from Beirut to Aleppo was also the first to arrive after the reopening of the city’s airport after a monthslong closure due to the COVID-19 crisis, Syrian state media reported
15 January 2021
UNIFIL will launch an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the shepherd’s kidnapping, it said in a statement, adding that he had been released to the UN force in Naqoura and handed over to the Lebanese authorities through the International Committee of the Red Cross
15 January 2021
Israel has released Hassan Qassem Zahra, the Lebanese shepherd kidnapped in Kfar Shuba on Tuesday, a Lebanese Army spokesperson has confirmed to L'Orient Today
15 January 2021
Caretaker Finance Minister Ghazi Wazni has ordered the payment of LL67 billion owed by the Health Ministry to private hospitals for the year 2020, the NNA reports
15 January 2021
A group of men has been arrested for selling counterfeit Lebanese currency in and around Tripoli, the Internal Security Forces reports, adding that the group defrauded a man of $11,000 in exchange for LL96 million in forged notes
15 January 2021
Emergency vaccine vote, hospitals overwhelmed, storms ahead: Everything you need to know to start your Friday
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Parliament meets this afternoon to vote on a fast-tracked law authorizing the emergency use of COVID-19 vaccines. While Lebanon...
