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The Future Movement's office in Akkar issued a statement inviting interested residents to register for the Sputnik Light COVID-19 vaccine, secured by PM-designate Saad Hariri. Unlike Sputnik V, the one-shot Sputnik Light vaccine has not been tested or approved for use in Lebanon

17 April 2021

A batch of 47,970 COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech has been delivered to Lebanon, bringing the total number of Pfizer doses delivered to 391,950, the Health Ministry has announced

17 April 2021

Lebanon has registered 1,695 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. Thirty-two more people have died, bringing the total death toll to 6,886

17 April 2021

Aoun, accompanied by FPM supporters, has attempted to raid the office of wholesale exchange company Mecattaf in Awkar for a second time as part of her investigations into exchangers' parallel market dealings. Speaking with MTV, the company's head denied any wrongdoing

17 April 2021

Caretaker Justice Minister Marie-Claude Najm called on the Judicial Inspection Body to review Aoun's removal from financial cases. The request came following an emergency meeting held after Aoun, backed by supporters, defied the order and raided a wholesale money changer in Awkar

17 April 2021

Najm said Oueidat's dismissal of Aoun and the fallout "go beyond a dispute between two judicial authorities" and are evidence of the judiciary's politicization. Oueidat is considered close to Premier-designate Saad Hariri, while Aoun is considered an ally of President Michel Aoun

17 April 2021

Two airplanes carrying 22 tons of foodstuffs donated by the Moroccan king to the Lebanese Army landed at the Beirut airport this morning, the army says in a statement. The delivery is the first batch in a donation that will total 90 tons

17 April 2021

The FPM has issued a statement calling on those who "believe in reform" to reject "the abuse" of the judiciary. Lebanon's top prosecutor, Ghassan Oueidat, recently dismissed Judge Ghada Aoun, who is close to the FPM, from cases related to "important financial crimes"

17 April 2021

Speaking with LBCI, State Security Maj. Joseph Naddaf says he was brought up on charges of allowing ammonium nitrate to enter Beirut's port in 2013. Naddaf goes on to deny the charges, pointing out that he began working there in 2019. He was released from jail on Thursday

17 April 2021