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Hoteit issues second video, asserting he spoke freely when calling for the port blast investigator’s resignation

BEIRUT — “I was not forced to say what I had to say in the video circulated on Friday,” Ibrahim Hoteit, former spokesperson for the families of the victims of the 2020 Beirut port explosion,...

Tala Ramadan, 17 October 2021

Hundreds gather on rainy Sunday to mark the two-year anniversary of the Oct. 17 uprising

BEIRUT — Amid intermittent downpours, hundreds of protesters gathered at several locations across Beirut on Sunday before joining other demonstrators in Martyrs’ Square in Downtown to mark the...

Tala Ramadan, 17 October 2021

A fire that broke out in fields of dry grass in Jabal al-Sheikh Abdel Wahab, near the village of Birqayel in Akkar, is rapidly gaining ground, L’Orient-Le Jour reports. Locals have called on the Civil Defense for assistance, it adds

17 October 2021

The Oct. 17 anniversary demonstrators have moved with the “torch of the revolution” from Martyrs’ Square to the Beirut port. They will now light the torch there at 6:07 p.m.

17 October 2021

A dispute between two families today in the Wadi Jamous village in Akkar degenerated into armed clashes and rocket fire, L’Orient-Le Jour reports, adding that the army intervened to calm the situation and as yet no details are available on the number of injuries in the incident

17 October 2021

The mobile telecommunications networks of operators Alfa and MTC temporarily went offline this afternoon in Hermel, in the north of Bekaa, the NNA reports. The causes of the failure have not been identified

17 October 2021

More protesters have arrived at Martyrs’ Square. Over 300 people are now present and are gathering near the ‘torch of the revolution’ which will be lit at 6:07 p.m. — a time symbolic for being the moment at which the 2020 Beirut port explosion occurred

17 October 2021

Around 100 people have gathered in Martyrs’ Square in Downtown Beirut to mark the two-year anniversary of the Oct. 17, 2019 uprising. Dozens meanwhile have gathered at Adlieh to march to Martyrs’ Square

17 October 2021

Lebanon has registered 554 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. Six people have died, raising the death toll to 8,425

17 October 2021

Lebanon’s October 2019 protests weren’t just about the ‘WhatsApp tax’

Two years ago, on Oct. 17 2019, the people took to the streets across Lebanon with an unprecedented sense of unity, calling for the downfall of the entire political and economic power structure...

Sahar Mandour, 17 October 2021

Hezbollah does not want to be drawn into a civil war: Raad

BEIRUT — Hezbollah parliamentary group leader Mohammad Raad has said that his party is keen not to get drawn into a civil war, but would make the Lebanese Forces pay the price for Thursday's...

17 October 2021

Once upon a time there was a thawra

The “revolution fist” is still standing in Martyr’s Square in Beirut. In the city center, a few passersby walk indifferently past shops bearing the scars of looting. They stroll by the imposing...

Lyana ALAMEDDINE, 17 October 2021

The Lebanese Army is investigating a solider who in video footage appears to have shot at protesters during Thursday’s demonstration organized by Hezbollah and Amal, which ended in a firefight that left seven dead, the army stated via its Twitter account last night

17 October 2021