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Internet service in previously impacted areas has been restored, Ogero told L’Orient Today, adding that additional, “preventive” maintenance will be performed at 4 a.m. tomorrow
16 September 2021
A “technical failure” has caused internet service interruptions in “a number of areas,” according to the state-owned telecom provider, Ogero. The company could not immediately be reached for further information
16 September 2021
Lebanon has registered 647 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. Six more people have died, raising the death toll to 8,224
16 September 2021
The cabinet approved its ministerial statement. It will now be submitted to Parliament for a vote on whether to grant the government confidence. A draft statement listed IMF negotiations, reforms called for by donors to unlock aid and the 2022 parliamentary elections as priorities
16 September 2021
EU lawmakers call for Lebanon sanctions if new government fails
BRUSSELS — The European Union should still consider imposing sanctions on Lebanese politicians who block the progress of the new government, the EU’s Parliament said on Thursday, calling...
16 September 2021
A man has been killed by a stray bullet while on his balcony in Tripoli’s Bab al-Tabbaneh neighborhood, when a personal dispute in the area escalated into gunfire, our sister publication, L’Orient-Le Jour, reports
16 September 2021
Fuel distributers did not deliver gas to stations today based on an Energy Ministry decision to indefinitely postpone subsidized fuel deliveries until it assesses the fuel currently in the market, Georges Fayad, who heads the petroleum importers association, told L’Orient Today
16 September 2021
Water rationing in Mount Lebanon and Beirut due to diesel shortages
BEIRUT — Residents in several areas of Mount Lebanon and Beirut appear set to experience water rationing after the water utility serving them said it ran out of diesel to sustain its operations....
16 September 2021
‘Lebanon is a prison’: Migrant domestic workers struggle to leave collapsing Lebanon
BEIRUT — Tigets last saw her son when he was 2 years old, before she left Ethiopia to find work in Lebanon that would allow her to support him. That was four years ago. In the beginning, the...
Tala Ramadan, 16 September 2021
Beirut blast judge issues arrest warrant for former minister after hearing no-show
BEIRUT — The judge leading Lebanon’s investigation into last year’s devastating Beirut port blast issued an arrest warrant for an ex-minister who failed to appear for questioning Thursday, a...
16 September 2021
First Iranian fuel deliveries reach Lebanon
AL-AIN, Baalbeck — Dozens of tanker trucks carrying Iranian fuel arranged by Shiite militant group Hezbollah arrived in shortage-hit Lebanon Thursday. As they entered from...
16 September 2021
Beirut explosion investigator Judge Tarek Bitar issued an arrest warrant in absentia for ex-Public Works Minister Youssef Fenianos after he failed to appear for questioning today, a judicial source told L’Orient Today. Fenianos’ hearing has repeatedly been postponed
16 September 2021
Iranian fuel begins arriving in Lebanon
BEIRUT — Trucks filled with Iranian fuel began entering Lebanon through Syria on Thursday, arriving to jubilant supporters in the blackout-ridden country. Here’s what we know so far: ...
16 September 2021
Local money exchangers surveyed by L’Orient Today say they are buying US dollars for around LL14,000. For those selling dollars, prices range from LL14,200 to LL14,700 per greenback. This marks the strongest exchange rate for the lira since June
16 September 2021
Ministerial statement vote, fuel shipments arrive, inflation clocks triple digits: All you need to know today
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up. The incoming government is expected to vote on a ministerial statement today before legislators debate whether to give the...
