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‘It feels like the beginning of the end’: COVID-19 vaccination campaign gets into full swing, but there’s a long road ahead
BEIRUT — The national COVID-19 vaccination campaign got into full swing on Monday as hospitals began their first full week of inoculations with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. At 9 a.m., a small...
Emily Lewis, 15 February 2021
As Lebanon’s banks struggle to raise capital, a deadline looms
BEIRUT — Paralyzed by financial crisis and riven with political risk, a number of Lebanon’s banks are struggling to meet a central bank target to raise their capital defenses by 20 percent by the...
Tom Arnold, 15 February 2021
The Lebanese army says it has resumed the distribution of aid for owners of homes damaged by the Aug. 4 Beirut port explosion, handing out over LL2 billion in aid today with dispensations set to continue tomorrow
15 February 2021
An Israeli soldier fired three times in the air along the Lebanese border outside Houla to “terrorize young men from the village who were near the Blue Line” across from an Israeli military post, the NNA reports
15 February 2021
Lebanon has registered 1,739 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. Forty-four more people have died, bringing the total death toll to 4,037
15 February 2021
Inspectors from the Economy Ministry’s Consumer Protection Directorate, with the support of State Security, raided a “cement black market” in northern Lebanon’s Koura, the NNA reports. Cement prices in Lebanon are capped at LL240,000 a ton by the government
15 February 2021
Saad Hariri discussed the issue of Russia sending COVID-19 vaccines to Lebanon during a phone call with the Russian presidential envoy to the Middle East and North Africa, according to the premier-designate’s press office
15 February 2021
Ogero has announced that Lebanon might experience internet connectivity issues tomorrow due to maintenance work in Marseille, France, on the India-Middle East-Western Europe (IMEWE) submarine communications cable system
15 February 2021
Less than half of Lebanon’s top tier banks will be able to meet the target, set by the central bank, of a 20 percent capital increase by the end of February, banking sources told Reuters, adding that the deadline might be extended
15 February 2021
Activists held a rally outside the Justice Palace in Beirut to protest the arrest of demonstrators while demanding accountability for the Aug. 4 Beirut port explosion, before joining other activists gathered outside the nearby Military Tribunal, the NNA reports
15 February 2021
Activists blocked the eastbound lane of the road outside the MTC Touch building in Beirut to demonstrate against the Military Tribunal’s continued detention of Tripoli protesters arrested last month
15 February 2021
The Beirut port blast probe is underway again. Here’s where it stands and what lies ahead
BEIRUT — It has been more than six months since the launch of what was promised would be a quick investigation into the Aug. 4 Beirut port explosion. What has instead transpired is a slow, opaque...
Ghada Alsharif, 15 February 2021
Caretaker Finance Minister Ghazi Wazni has said he received a letter from BDL governor Riad Salameh saying the central bank will comply with a forensic audit, the NNA reports. The letter will be sent to Alvarez & Marsal, the firm that last year ended its contract to audit BDL
15 February 2021
Protesters are gathering in front of the Military Tribunal amid a heavy deployment of security forces in the area. The demonstrators are demanding the release of over a dozen protesters detained in Tripoli last month who activists and lawyers say the court illegally questioned
15 February 2021
COVID-19 vaccines have arrived at Saida Governmental Hospital and Jbeil’s Hôpital Notre Dame des Secours, the NNA reports. Inoculation of health care workers is set to begin shortly. Some 28,500 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine arrived in Lebanon on Saturday
15 February 2021
Vaccination kick-off, Hariri-Aoun tussle, Beirut explosion probe: Everything you need to know this Monday
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Lebanon launched its COVID-19 inoculation campaign after the arrival of 28,500 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. The...
