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Hospitals in blast-hit northern Lebanon grapple with outages
BEIRUT — Hospitals in the Akkar region of northern Lebanon, where a fuel tank explosion killed at least 34 people this week, struggled to operate on Tuesday as life-threatening power cuts and...
17 August 2021
Parliament to discuss fuel crisis on Friday
BEIRUT — Parliament will convene on Friday to discuss what to do about a fuel crisis that has brought much of the country to a halt and sparked deadly violence. Speaker Nabih...
17 August 2021
A deep dive into the ration cards that will replace BDL subsidies ... eventually
BEIRUT — Lebanon’s caretaker government is adding the final touches on a controversial $556 million program that aims to make direct payments to vulnerable Lebanese households to help them afford...
Omar Tamo, 17 August 2021
Lebanon has registered 1,178 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. Six more people have died, raising the death toll to 7,988
17 August 2021
The ISF has arrested the politician Jad Dagher, L’Orient-Le Jour, reports. Dagher, the Sabaa party’s secretary-general, had threatened Tarek Merhebi in a Facebook post after the MP withdrew a lawsuit against protesters who broke into his home in the aftermath of the Akkar explosion
17 August 2021
The meeting between Mikati and Aoun on the cabinet's formation has ended, with the premier-designate describing it as “positive” and saying he hoped the country would have a government soon
17 August 2021
The Serbian government has donated 20,000 Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccines to Lebanon, the country's Foreign Affairs Ministry has announced. It is the first batch of a total 40,000 vaccines the country plans to donate to Lebanon, the ministry said
17 August 2021
MP Tarek Merhebi says he withdrew a complaint he filed against protesters who were accused of stealing of $13,000; several bank cards; a hard drive; and other “valuables” when they stormed his house on Sunday following the explosion in Akkar
17 August 2021
Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati has arrived in Baabda to resume discussions with President Michel Aoun on the government formation. This is the 11th meeting between the two officials since Mikati’s designation
17 August 2021
Several people have been injured after gunfire erupted in the Kafaat area of Beirut's southern suburbs and a gas pump was set on fire, prompting the Lebanese Army to intervene
17 August 2021
Électricité de Zahlé announced that it will provide only 12 hours of electricity a day due to diesel shortages. The utility, which previously provided local residents with 24/7 power, said the decision comes after EDL has not provided electricity to the area in almost two days
17 August 2021
A soldier died today from injuries sustained in the fuel tanker explosion that took place in Akkar in the early hours of Sunday morning, L’Orient-Le Jour reports. The soldier’s death raises the total number killed in the blast to at least 34
17 August 2021
Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri will convene a Parliament session on Friday. The session will address a letter sent by President Michel Aoun asking the legislature to discuss the central bank’s decision to end fuel subsidies
17 August 2021
Protesters gather outside ISF headquarters in Achrafieh
BEIRUT — Dozens of demonstrators gathered in front of the Internal Security Forces headquarters in Beirut’s Achrafieh neighborhood on Tuesday morning to demand the release of several activists...
17 August 2021
A further 11 people were summoned today, while three remain in detention, in connection to the storming of MP Tarek Merhebi's house following Sunday’s Akkar fuel tank blast that killed at least 33, a lawyer for the Lawyers' Committee for the Defense of Protesters told L'Orient Today
17 August 2021
‘Despite all the crises rocking Lebanon, climate change must be placed at the heart of reforms’
The catastrophic wildfires that broke out in Lebanon and around the Mediterranean, the unprecedented melting of glaciers, the record temperatures: all the signs were there. The latest global report...
Suzanne BAAKLINI, 17 August 2021
The army seized 65,000 liters of diesel and 48,000 liters of gasoline during a warehouse raid in Zouk Mosbeh, Kesrouan, it said on its Twitter account. The army added that it has distributed the fuel to hospitals and bakeries in the area
17 August 2021
Tleil death toll climbs, army raids, Ogero outages: Everything you need to know today
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . The death toll from Sunday morning’s fuel tanker explosion in Akkar has climbed to at least 33, including a child ....
