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A day after seizing 20 tons of ammonium nitrate in the eastern Bekaa, the ISF intelligence services today arrested the owner of the warehouse where chemical was found as well as the truck driver who transported it there, L’Orient-Le Jour reports
19 September 2021
Another wildfire — the fourth this year — has broken out in Lebanon’s Wadi Jahannam area, L’Orient-Le Jour reports. Residents of the area are calling on the Lebanese Army to send helicopters to extinguish the fire as the locality in which it is burning is difficult to access
19 September 2021
Reflecting on Premier Najib Mikati's comment deploring the arrival of Iranian fuel to Lebanon as a “violation of Lebanon’s sovereignty,” a spokesperson for Iran’s Foreign Ministry said Sunday that the delivery of Iranian fuel was “a normal purchasing process by Lebanese traders”
19 September 2021
Residents of Wadi Khaled in Akkar have asked for help after a spring that supplies the area with water for drinking and agricultural irrigation dried up. The municipality has called on the authorities to identify the cause of the spring drying up, L’Orient-Le Jour reports
19 September 2021
Lebanon has registered 616 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. Four people have died, raising the death toll to 8,236
19 September 2021
General Security chief Abbas Ibrahim has said in a radio interview that he is “ready to appear before Judge [Tarek] Bitar,” who is leading the investigation into the 2020 Beirut port explosion, if the new Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi authorizes his prosecution
19 September 2021
On three wheels: Tuk tuks find their place in the Bekaa’s transportation sector
BARR ELIAS, Zahle — Throughout the central plains of the Bekaa Valley, the tuk tuks have become ubiquitous. The small, three-wheeled vehicles, painted in loud primary colors, can be found rolling...
