Fire Brigade isolates, stops sulfuric acid leak at Beirut port
BEIRUT — A sulfuric acid leak from a shipping container stored at Beirut port was stopped Thursday, the state-run National News Agency reported. Here’s what we know : • Beirut Fire...
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MPs express support for Lebanon’s amended maritime border claims
BEIRUT — A coalition of opposition MPs made a statement Thursday announcing their support for the amendment of law 163 to delineate Lebanon’s maritime borders through Line 29 amid disputes over...
16 June 2022
Lebanon has recorded 590 Hepatitis A cases since the beginning of 2022, the Health Ministry announced on Thursday
16 June 2022
Parliamentary committees meet Thursday to set their priorities
BEIRUT — The Administration and Justice Committee held its first meeting of its four-year term Thursday, with committee head MP George Adwan (LF/Chouf) saying it will prioritize working on...
Ghadir Hamadi, 16 June 2022
Special Tribunal for Lebanon sentences Merhi and Oneissi to life in prison
BEIRUT — The Special Tribunal for Lebanon sentenced Habib Merhi and Hussein Oneissi to life imprisonment Thursday, after they were convicted for the February 14, 2005, bombing that killed 22,...
16 June 2022
Constitutional Council has received 15 appeals to the election results
BEIRUT — Unsuccessful candidates in the 2022 parliamentary elections submitted 15 appeals to the Constitutional Council in the past month, the head of the Constitutional Council Judge Tannous...
16 June 2022
Lebanon court rejects recusal of judge in central bank chief graft probe
BEIRUT — A Beirut court has rejected a request by a judge to recuse himself from filing corruption charges against Lebanese central bank governor Riad Salameh, a senior judicial source told...
16 June 2022
Extending emergency plan, UN says a staggering 2.2 million Lebanese require emergency aid
BEIRUT — UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Lebanon Najat Rochdi during her announcement of the extension of Lebanon’s Emergency Response Plan at the United Nations Economic and Social...
Farah-Silvana Kanaan, 16 June 2022
How Gebran Bassil escaped political survival mode
Some of his opponents wanted to see him dead and buried. The most despised figure of the Oct. 17 uprising and sanctioned by the United States, he was losing ground in the local Christian arena, and...
Mounir RABIH, 16 June 2022
Lebanese Army arrests more than 34 people trying to illegally flee to Europe by sea
BEIRUT — The Lebanese Army announced in a statement Thursday the arrest of 34 people between the Sarafand and Saida regions who were preparing to illegally sail to Europe. Here’s what we know:...
16 June 2022
22,111 Israeli military aircraft have violated Lebanese airspace since 2007
Lawrence Abu Hamdan, who defines himself as a “private ear” rather than as an artist, launched the AirPressure.info platform, which is the result of a two-year research revealing the numerous...
Gilles Khoury, 16 June 2022
Amid deadline for electoral appeals, Zeina Mounzer (Beirut II) files appeal against two MPs
BEIRUT — Unsuccessful candidate in the 2022 parliamentary elections, Zeina Mounzer (Beirut II), who ran on the same electoral list with member of Parliament Fouad Makhzoumi, filed an appeal to the...
Sally Abou AlJoud, 16 June 2022
Report documents harrowing accounts of ‘systematic’ use of gender-based and sexual violence during Lebanon’s Civil War
*Trigger warning: this article describes accounts of violence, rape, sexual assault, and mutilation and may be upsetting or traumatic to some readers. Please take care. “They threw...
Zeina ANTONIOS, 16 June 2022
Protests over flour shortages in Tripoli and warnings over expired flour in South Lebanon
BEIRUT — Workers from the Union of Bakeries Thursday morning blocked the road in front of the Serail in Tripoli, North Lebanon, to protest flour shortages while the union in the South warned that...
16 June 2022
Hariri killers to be sentenced in absentia as end looms for Lebanon tribunal
A UN-backed court for Lebanon will sentence two Hezbollah members in their absence Thursday for the 2005 assassination of former premier Rafic Hariri in what could be the cash-strapped...
16 June 2022
The last Jews of Lebanon, a life shrouded in secrecy
In a shopping center in the capital, three-year-old Eve* is restless. She climbs from one carousel to another, prancing around the wooden horses. She is younger than the other children around her....
Stéphanie KHOURI, 16 June 2022
Offshore exploration deadline, parliamentary consultations, endangered seals: Everything you need to know to start your Thursday
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . The Energy Ministry announced yesterday that it will extend the deadline for energy companies to apply for pre-licenses to...
