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Health Ministry says it is working to secure medications used in drug addiction treatment
BEIRUT — The Health Ministry issued a statement Monday evening saying it is “endeavoring on more than one level to prevent interruptions'' in the supply of medications used to treat drug addiction,...
15 November 2021
Turkey’s foreign minister arrives in Lebanon
BEIRUT — Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu arrived in Beirut Monday evening, the state-run National News Agency reported. During his time in the country, Çavuşoğlu is expected to meet...
Wael Taleb, 15 November 2021
Environment minister says weekend wildfires were ‘man made’
BEIRUT — Environment Minister Nasser Yassin said Monday that the wildfires that broke out in several areas of the country since Saturday “are of human origin” and called for the continuation of the...
15 November 2021
Avoiding the intergenerational poverty trap in Lebanon
Lebanon’s economic meltdown has had near irreversible consequences on critical sectors of the economy. The country’s descent into economic collapse has been quick and disorienting, with a decline...
Fadi Nicholas NASSAR, 15 November 2021
Parliament speaker calls for end to ‘deadly stagnation’ of Mikati’s government
BEIRUT — Parliament Speaker and the head of the Amal Movement Nabih Berri called Monday for an end to the “deadly stagnation” that has led to the suspension of cabinet meetings for more than a...
15 November 2021
Medication shortages jeopardize recovery for opiate addicts
BEIRUT — Amid Lebanon’s ongoing economic crisis and widespread shortages of crucial medicines, some 1,200 recovering heroin addicts might soon no longer be able to get the medication used in their...
Tala Ramadan, 15 November 2021
Lebanon has registered 231 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. Six more people have died, raising the death toll to 8,588
15 November 2021
Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has scheduled a session on Wednesday for the finance and budget and the administration and justice parliamentary committees to discuss a draft capital control law. Parliament last month sent the law back to the committees for further discussion
15 November 2021
Premier Najib Mikati has stressed the importance of investigating the large wildfires that broke out over the weekend, calling for the arrest of “those who caused them,” the NNA reports. Mikati was speaking following a meeting with Environment Minister Nasser Yassin
15 November 2021
FPM Leader Gebran Bassil has questioned in a tweet why Lebanese judges have not yet investigated BDL head Riad Salameh, asking “is this how we bring trust back in the Lebanese lira?” Luxembourg last week joined France and Switzerland in opening an inquiry into Salameh
15 November 2021
In a bid to resolve the diplomatic spat with Gulf countries, President Michel Aoun met Lebanon's ambassadors to Saudi Arabia, Fawzi Kabbara, and to Bahrain ,Milad Nammour, as well as Lebanon's chargé d'affaires in Kuwait, Hadi Hashem, Aoun tweeted. He provided no further details
15 November 2021
Luxembourg opens criminal inquiry into Lebanon central bank governor
BEIRUT — Luxembourg judicial authorities have opened "a criminal case" in relation to Lebanese central bank Governor Riad Salameh and his companies and assets, a judicial spokesperson in the...
15 November 2021
The mobile telecommunications network and internet services of operator Alfa have been down for more than a month in the northern villages of Akkar al-Atiqa and Daoura, L'Orient's correspondent in the area reports. Residents have called on Alfa to find a solution
15 November 2021
‘Our bar was about humanity and love’: Iconic queer-friendly Bardo shutters after 15 years
BEIRUT — “The last night of Bardo was an emotional rollercoaster,” said Lary BS, a 35-year-old queer comedian and clothing stylist. “Everyone I knew was there, and we were all happily dancing and...
Wael Taleb, 15 November 2021
France has donated about 1 million euros worth of medical equipment to Lebanon, including 30 oxygen concentrators, 25 respirators, 50,000 antigen COVID-19 tests and 200,000 masks, according to a statement from the French Embassy in Lebanon
15 November 2021
A small number of protesters blocked roads Al-Nour Square in Tripoli and Saida's Nijmeh Square with burning tires to demonstrate against worsening living conditions
15 November 2021
Lauded Lebanese poet dies, weekend wildfires, spat with Gulf rages on: Everything you need to know to start your Monday
The celebrated Lebanese-American poet, author, painter and journalist Etel Adnan died in Paris on Sunday at the age of 96. Adnan was born in Beirut in 1925 to a Greek mother and a...
