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Army arrests four fugitives from military prison in Bekaa
BEIRUT — The Lebanese army announced Sunday that it had arrested four fugitives in the Hermel area who had escaped from a military prison in the Bekaa on Christmas Eve. Here's what we know: ...
2 January 2022
Abiad says ready to shut down country if COVID-19 spread accelerates
BEIRUT — Health Minister Firass Abiad said Sunday he is "ready to make the decision to close the country if the speed of the spread of the coronavirus accelerates," a proposal so far rejected by...
2 January 2022
Bassil: We don't want to tear up Mar Mikhael agreement, but improve it
BEIRUT — The head of the Free Patriotic Movement Gebran Bassil said Sunday that he is not ready to end the Mar Mikhael agreement concluded in 2006 between his party and Hezbollah, but that it...
2 January 2022
Rai calls for 'national dialogue supervised by the UN'
BEIRUT — The head of the Maronite church Bechara al-Rai called Saturday, during the celebration of a religious service for the new year, for a “national dialogue supervised by the United Nations in...
2 January 2022
Four family members die of carbon monoxide poisoning in South Lebanon
BEIRUT — Four members of a Syrian family, a mother and her three children, died overnight from Saturday to Sunday of carbon monoxide poisoning in Kharayeb in South Lebanon, our local correspondent...