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The Lebanese Army announced on Twitter today that it has distributed $125,000 donated by the Netherlands to 250 store owners whose businesses were damaged by the Beirut port explosion
18 November 2021
A shipment of 33,000 doses of anesthetics and blood cancer drugs donated by Lebanese businessmen via the country's embassy in South Africa will reach Lebanon today and will be given to the Health Ministry, a ministry Spokesperson told L'Orient Today
18 November 2021
Prime Minister Najib Mikati announced that public employees will receive an increase in the daily transportation fee from LL24,000 to LL64,000 as well as an additional two half-month salaries ranging between LL1.5 million and LL3 million for the months of November and December
18 November 2021
The Civil Defense announced today that it has signed an agreement with the French Embassy in Lebanon, approved by the Interior Ministry, that includes the admission of French experts to launch training camps for Civil Defense volunteers
18 November 2021
The Court of Cassation spent hours today deliberating lawsuits filed by MPs Ghazi Zeaitar and Ali Hassan Khalil in October against the state for "grave mistakes" attributed to a judge and two advisors tasked with reviewing all suits against Beirut blast head Tarek Bitar without reaching a decision
18 November 2021
Banks are willing to start lending again if Parliament legislates to protect repayment currency, ABL head says
BEIRUT — The head of the Association of Banks in Lebanon Salim Sfeir told Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Thursday that commercial banks are willing to start giving loans again on the condition that...
Wael Taleb, 18 November 2021
Lebanon has registered 1,018 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. Ten more people have died, raising the death toll to 8,616
18 November 2021
Man attempts to set himself alight outside Hasbaya school
BEIRUT — A man attempted to set himself on fire outside at the public girls’ school in Hasbaya on Thursday as he denounced a decision taken by the Education Minister Abbas Halabi to close secondary...
18 November 2021
Unaffordable drugs, panicked patients and misplaced anger: The aftermath of the Health Ministry’s medication price hikes
BEIRUT — At the Mazen Pharmacy on Corniche al-Mazraa on Wednesday, Dania, 34, was in for a shock. Her father’s hypertension medication, Amlor, previously priced at LL15,000, had risen overnight to...
Tala Ramadan, 18 November 2021
Labor minister proposes raising public sector daily transport allowance to LL65,000
BEIRUT — Labor Minister Mustafa Bayram proposed Thursday increasing the daily transport allowance for public sector workers to LL65,000. The allowance is presently set at LL24,000 per day after...
18 November 2021
Kuwait places 18 people accused of funding Hezbollah in pre-trial detention
BEIRUT — Kuwait has placed 18 people accused of financing Lebanon-based Hezbollah under a 21-day pre-trial detention, the Kuwaiti daily Al-Qabas reported Thursday. The nationality of those arrested...
18 November 2021
Salameh’s self-audit, electoral law complaint filed, expelled envoys warn of ‘worse to come’: Everything you need to know to start your Thursday
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Riad Salameh announced that he had had a “reputable firm” look into his investments and transactions and published the results,...
