Your search results: 18 articles
Climate change will ‘exacerbate’ the raft of challenges Lebanon already faces: Mikati
BEIRUT — Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Tuesday said that climate change will exacerbate the impacts of the country’s crippling economic crisis and called on international partners to help the...
Ghada Alsharif, 2 November 2021
Foreign minister says Lebanon wants dialogue with Riyadh, not demands about Hezbollah
BEIRUT — Lebanon’s foreign minister said Saudi Arabia was dictating impossible terms by asking the government to reduce the role of Iran-backed Hezbollah, adding that Beirut's row with Riyadh...
Maha El Dahan and Laila Bassam, 2 November 2021
Speaking at the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, Prime Minister Najib Mikati expressed his appreciation for Saudi Arabia's “keenness to launch the Green Middle East Initiative” and warned that climate emergencies could hinder economic and social improvements in Lebanon
2 November 2021
Legislative elections will be held ‘on time’ Aoun tells European Parliament delegation
BEIRUT — Parliamentary elections will be held “on time” and preparations to start negotiations with the International Monetary Fund are underway, President Michel Aoun told a group from the...
Rana Tabbara, 2 November 2021
Judge Tarek Bitar met with the families of the firefighters killed in the 2020 Beirut port blast today and told them no political pressures will affect him and he will continue the probe into the explosion “till the end,” their spokesperson William Noun told L’Orient Today
2 November 2021
Lebanon has registered 822 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. Six people have died, raising the death toll to 8,515
2 November 2021
The ISF has issued a statement saying it apprehended a 17 year old in Akkar who allegedly belongs to the ISIS terrorist group and had been planning an attack on one of the area's religious sites
2 November 2021
Bahrain's Foreign Ministry has issued a statement urging its citizens to "leave Lebanon immediately" due to the "tense situation" and reiterating its call for its citizens not to travel to Lebanon. The move comes amid a diplomatic crisis between Lebanon and Gulf Arab countries
2 November 2021
Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi tweeted that he has ordered the ISF to remove a poster insulting Saudi Arabia from where it is displayed on the road leading to the Beirut airport. Last week, Saudi Arabia cut diplomatic ties with Lebanon over comments made by another minister
2 November 2021
US’s Blinken has ‘productive’ meeting with Mikati as talks with world leaders continue on sidelines of COP26 conference
BEIRUT — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken tweeted on Tuesday that he had a “productive” meeting with Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati, to whom he reiterated Washington’s continued efforts...
2 November 2021
During the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, Prime Minister Najib Mikati met with Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres, who promised that he will visit Lebanon before the end of the year, Mikati's office said on Twitter
2 November 2021
The iconic Syrian singer Sabah Fakhry has died today at age 83, the Syrian Information Ministry announced. Fakhry, who was born in Aleppo, was widely considered one of the last greats among Arab singers
2 November 2021
Issues with the Parliament building's electricity forced the Information and Telecommunications Committee meeting to move to the building's library, local media reported. The committee has been studying telecom service interruptions caused by the country's fuel and power crises
2 November 2021
The Internal Security Forces said in a statement that they have arrested in Tripoli the alleged head of a gang that stole two private generators in Zouk Mkail and Sarba, in the Kesrouan area. The rest of the gang has yet to be found, the statement added
2 November 2021
Saudi escalation: Why has it happened and what are the consequences for Lebanon?
The Saudi decision to ban imports from Lebanon, recall its ambassador and expel the Lebanese ambassador from the kingdom is undoubtedly a disproportionate reaction. It comes after Information...
Anthony SAMRANI, 2 November 2021
The Litani River Authority announced that a court hearing will take place in Baalbeck today on criminal complaints the authority filed against the Liban Lait dairy company's owner and the owners of the Sadara Group and Tabarak companies for allegedly polluting the Litani River
2 November 2021
Diplomatic deadlock, The Daily Star closes, public administration employees strike: All you need to know today
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up. Lebanon’s diplomatic rift with Saudi Arabia dominated its government ministers' discussions and remarks on the sidelines of...
