BEIRUT — Doctors and people undergoing addiction treatment told L’Orient Today this week that recovering heroin addicts are being given expired medications by the Health Ministry. “I give up on...
BEIRUT — One in two children in Lebanon is at serious risk of physical, emotional or sexual violence as families struggle to cope in the country’s deepening economic crisis, according report...
BEIRUT — After a food blogger described a struggling kaak vendor in Tripoli as “cheap” for the amount of cheese filling he put in the circular bread shell, social media leapt to his defense. The...
BEIRUT – Health Minister Firas Abiad, speaking to local news outlet Al Saham , said that the decision to place the country in another lockdown will depend on the number and scale of COVID-19...
BEIRUT — Prime Minister Najib Mikati announced Friday that some 166,000 applications have been found eligible for a social assistance program designed to help the country’s most vulnerable...
BEIRUT — A British court ruled on Friday in favor of a Lebanese bank in a case brought by a depositor barred from transferring funds abroad because of capital controls in place since Lebanon's...
BEIRUT – Lebanese president Michel Aoun ratified on Friday a law to implement the World Bank-funded Emergency Social Safety Net program, the state-run National News Agency reported . Here’s what...
Although President Michel Aoun has taken a disapproving tone, the Amal Movement and Hezbollah do not think that the time has yet come for concessions to be made. The allies insist on stalling the...
BEIRUT – Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib held a meeting with Prime Minister Najib Mikati to discuss plans to cut the ministry’s budget in order to reduce government spending....
BEIRUT – The General Assembly of the Association of Banks in Lebanon held a virtual meeting yesterday with the US Treasury Department’s new Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence...
BEIRUT — A little more than a year ago, a trio of heavyweight international organizations announced what was billed as an innovative new structure for channeling aid to Lebanon, which was then...
BEIRUT – Khaled Mechaal, head of Hamas’s political bureau abroad, met with Prime Minister Najib Mikati Thursday evening and once again expressed his organization’s support for the “stability and...
BEIRUT – Fuel prices rose for a second time this week on Friday. Here’s what we know: • It has only been three days since fuel prices went up, with the last increase coming on...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up. Banque du Liban issued a new circular elaborating on an earlier statement about dollar withdrawals. Circular 161 states that...
Beirut’s demands, Israel’s terms, and Washington’s stance: Behind the scenes of the negotiations
Lebanon stuck between a rock and a hard place: A US disarmament plan, or an extended expansion to the war?
