Protesters block the road around Mikati's home in Tripoli
BEIRUT — Protesters blocked the road around caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati's house in Mina, Tripoli Friday evening, according to L'Orient Today 's correspondent in the North. Here's...
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Uber drivers to go on strike Monday
BEIRUT — Uber drivers will go on strike between 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 19, the head of the Uber drivers committee, Darwish Taha, told L'Orient Today on Friday. Here's what we know:...
Wael Taleb and Richard SALAME, 16 September 2022
Hamas and Syria: Normalization after a decade of rupture
Hamas announced Thursday the resumption of diplomatic relations with the Syrian government — a move that came much to the Syrian regime’s delight but dismayed the opposition to the Damascus regime....
Noura DOUKHI, 16 September 2022
Death toll from Jordan building collapse rises to 13
The death toll from the collapse of a residential building in the Jordanian capital this week has risen to 13, local authorities said on Friday, after further bodies were found. At least 25 people...
16 September 2022
Berri suspends parliamentary session until Sept. 26
BEIRUT — Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri suspended a second parliamentary session on Friday afternoon during a vote on the 2022 draft budget, Berri's press office reported. The session is...
16 September 2022
Cabinet formation: Grounds for cautious optimism?
“This time, the meeting lasted half an hour and not a few minutes. When I return from my trip [to the UK and New York] I will meet again with President Aoun. And I will not leave the palace until I...
Yara ABI AKL, 16 September 2022
Sabra and Shatila: What we know and (still) don’t know 40 years later
Two kids play on an abandoned field at the entrance to Shatila, a Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut. Plastic bags, weeds and stacked crates litter the ground. At their feet, a mass grave: About...
Lyana ALAMEDDINE and Soulayma MARDAM BEY, 16 September 2022
After a series of bank holdups, Mawlawi says security forces will be tough in imposing law
BEIRUT — “Security apparatuses in the country have met together and came up with a strict plan to impose law and order in the country in order to protect depositors and citizens,” said caretaker...
16 September 2022
Bread prices rise again in Lebanon
BEIRUT — While all eyes were on the series of bank holdups across Lebanon on Friday by depositors desperate to beg for a few scraps of their own savings, the Ministry of Economy and Trade...
16 September 2022
Following heated discussions, vote on 2022 budget delayed until Sept. 26
BEIRUT — A vote on the 2022 draft budget went unfinished in Parliament on Friday after many MPs withdrew from the session, forcing House Speaker Nabih Berri to call a suspension due to lack of...
16 September 2022
Erdogan urges end to war In Ukraine 'as soon as possible'
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday told a regional summit attended by Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin that he wanted the war in Ukraine to end "as soon as possible". Erdogan has...
16 September 2022
Israel preparing to connect to Karish gas field
Israel's Energy ministry said Friday it was set to conduct tests on the Karish maritime field, in a potentially contested area with Lebanon, ahead of connecting it to Israel's gas network. The...
16 September 2022
Serial bank holdups by depositors across Lebanon: Follow our coverage of the day
21:02 Beirut Time This concludes our live coverage for the day. Thank you for following us. 20:28 Beirut Time Abed Soubra left Tariq al-Jdideh's Blom Bank in...
16 September 2022
UK police: two officers stabbed in central London
LONDON — Two police officers were stabbed early Friday in central London and hospitalized after encountering “a male with a knife,” the capital’s police said, amid massive security ahead of the...
16 September 2022
Armed man enters Blom Bank in Beirut, situation under control: statement to Reuters
BEIRUT - An armed man entered a branch of Blom bank in the Lebanese capital's Tariq al-Jdideh neighborhood, Blom Bank told Reuters in a statement, adding that the situation was under control....
16 September 2022
Slight decrease in gasoline and diesel prices, gas cylinder prices on the rise
BEIRUT — The Ministry of Energy announced new fuel prices on Friday, Sept. 16. Here are the new prices: • Twenty liters of 95-octane gasoline: LL679,000, down by LL1,000 • Twenty liters of...
16 September 2022
Lebanese rejoice after 'Mayyas' win America's Got Talent
BEIRUT — Lebanese celebrated the local dance troupe "Mayyas" on Thursday after it won the America's Got Talent TV contest , stoking joy and pride in a country battered by years of political and...
16 September 2022
Erdoğan wanted to meet Syria's Assad, according to Turkish media
ISTANBUL — Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan had expressed a wish to meet President Bashar al-Assad if the Syrian leader had attended a summit being held in Uzbekistan, a report in Turkey's...
16 September 2022
Two depositors in Beirut and South Lebanon storm banks, demanding their own money
BEIRUT — Two depositors, in Beirut and South Lebanon, took bank employees and citizens hostage and demanded their money Friday morning. Around noon, an armed man entered the Blom bank branch in...
16 September 2022
Kabiit town in Akkar buries the victims of Wednesday's gunfight
BEIRUT — During the burial of three people of the same family killed on Wednesday in Kabiit town shooting in Akkar, the family of the victims vowed Friday to “take matters into their own hands” if...
16 September 2022
'Miracle' in Amman as baby pulled alive from collapsed building
AMMAN — Jordanian mother Israa Raed said she was indescribably happy Thursday, after emergency workers rescued her four-month-old daughter Malak from the rubble of a collapsed building in the...
16 September 2022
Water disruptions, promises on government formation, protesters demand activists' release: Everything you need to know to start your Friday
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . “Neither the government, nor its president, nor its finance minister should brag about the completion of this draft budget,”...
