Queues form at Saida gas stations
BEIRUT — Queues started to form Saturday at numerous gas stations in Saida amid rumors of a looming fuel crisis, L’Orient Today ’s correspondent in the area reported. Here’s what we know:...
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The wheels of negotiation are in motion: Who will be Lebanon’s next prime minister?
One month to the day after the legislative elections, President Michel Aoun finally fulfilled his constitutional mission. On Wednesday, Aoun summoned the elected MPs to binding parliamentary...
Yara ABI AKL, 18 June 2022
How foreign powers could break Lebanon’s gridlock
OXFORD, United Kingdom — Lebanon’s political economy is gridlocked. The country’s political leaders will not commit to the kinds of economic reforms that it needs, because doing so would undermine...
Jamal Ibrahim Haidar and Adeel Malik, 18 June 2022
Rai says performance of the political class is 'despicable'
BEIRUT —- Maronite Patriarch Bechara al-Rai described during a homily delivered on the occasion of the end of the synod of catholic bishops on Saturday the Lebanese political class’s performance as...
18 June 2022
Mikati denies legal proceedings against him in Europe
BEIRUT — Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati, who was charged in 2019 for illicit enrichment in relation to subsidized housing loans, denied that new proceedings have been initiated against him...
18 June 2022
What's on the line? How Lebanon may come up empty handed in maritime border negotiations
BEIRUT — Amos Hochstein, the United States mediator in the Lebanese-Israeli maritime border negotiations, in an interview with the US-based Alhurra TV channel Tuesday after two days of meetings...
