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Lebanon has registered 488 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. One more person has died, raising the death toll to 7,884

17 July 2021

Civil Defense has put out a fire in Beirut’s harbor, a source from the port told L’Orient Today. Tires separating two ships, one designated for transporting animals and fodder, the other for oil products, had caught fire. The cause remains unknown

17 July 2021

The FPM has warned of “great chaos” if a new cabinet is not formed quickly. The party’s founder, President Michel Aoun, has failed to agree to cabinets with two separate premier-designates over the past 10 months

17 July 2021

Assad says funds frozen in Lebanese banks are the biggest impediment to investment in Syria

BEIRUT — Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Saturday that the main impediment to investment in the country was money stuck in ailing Lebanese banks. In a speech after...

17 July 2021

Électricité de Zahlé has announced it will begin cutting power for four hours per day on Monday due to an inability to buy diesel at the official price. The move follows announcements earlier this month of rationing for industrial customers and cutting power to street lights

17 July 2021

The head of the National Executive Vaccine Committee, Petra Khoury, has tweeted that 98.6% of Lebanon’s current COVID-19 cases are among unvaccinated people, warning that the country’s health care system is “currently at the brink” and “can’t absorb another wave” of infections

17 July 2021