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Premier Najib Mikati has instructed Foreign Minister Abdullah Bou Habib to ask international authorities to prevent Israel from drilling for oil and gas in the disputed maritime area between it and Lebanon. The UN must dissuade Israel from conducting such operations, Mikati said
18 September 2021
Lebanon seizes dangerous fertilizer in country’s east
BEIRUT — Lebanese authorities have seized 20 tons of ammonium nitrate — the same chemical behind a deadly explosion last year at Beirut’s port — in the eastern Bekaa Valley, state media reported on...
18 September 2021
Two people were wounded this afternoon in clashes between rival factions Jund al-Sham and Fateh in the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in Saida, L’Orient-Le Jour reports. The groups exchanged fire using anti-tank rockets and automatic weapons
18 September 2021
New Agriculture Minister Abbas Hajj Hassan has denounced as an environmental crime the illegal felling of trees and called for legal action against anyone involved in the practice. Felling of trees for firewood has risen of late amid unprecedented increases in fuel prices
18 September 2021
Incoming Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi has inspected 20 tons of ammonium nitrate seized in the al-Solh neighborhood of Baalbeck, a ministry spokesperson told L’Orient Today
18 September 2021
Residents of several villages in Akkar have been living without electricity for two weeks, disabling them from carrying out agricultural works, L’Orient-Le Jour reports, adding that blackout resulted from the theft of 500 meters of electric cable in the area
18 September 2021
SDRs only strengthen Lebanon’s corrupt elites
As Lebanon scrambles for any morsel of financial salvation, the IMF has made international headlines by allocating $1.135 billion in Special Drawing Rights to the cash-strapped nation. The total...
Hassan Wehbe and David Wood, 18 September 2021
Another convoy of trucks carrying Iranian fuel arrives overnight
BEIRUT — Another convoy of trucks loaded with Iranian diesel arrived in Hermel in the north Bekaa shortly before midnight, our sister publication L’Orient-Le Jour reported. Here’s what we know:...
18 September 2021
The ministerial statement of the incoming government
BEIRUT — On Thursday, Lebanon’s newly formed government adopted its ministerial statement — a nine-page document detailing its priorities for its term in office. Amid the country’s sprawling...
