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In Tripoli, a total blackout is already almost a reality

In Tripoli, electricity blackouts can spark violent reactions. Rumors of a child’s death after his breathing machine stopped working were among the reasons for the eruption of residents’ anger in...

Alexandre KHOURI, 2 July 2021

Lebanon has so far registered nine cases of the COVID-19 Delta variant, caretaker Health Minister Hamad Hassan has tweeted, adding that they arrived on flights from Ethiopia, Riyadh, UAE and Baghdad. Earlier today Hassan had announced Lebanon’s first three cases of the variant

2 July 2021

‘We should be very worried’: Health experts sound alarm as Lebanon detects its first cases of the Delta variant

BEIRUT — Caretaker Health Minister Hamad Hassan said in a tweet Friday night that Lebanon has to date detected nine cases of the highly transmissible COVID-19 Delta variant, having earlier...

Emily Lewis, 2 July 2021

EDL has warned it will shut down its Zahrani and Deir Ammar power plants if it runs out of gas oil, saying stocks are low because a tanker waiting off the coast has not been paid. In the meantime, EDL will ration fuel to make stocks last as long as possible

2 July 2021

Sitting MPs and former ministers Ali Hasan Khalil and Ghazi Zeaiter have issued a statement confirming their willingness to appear before Beirut port explosion investigator Judge Tarek Bitar and “take the necessary measures to assist in the investigations,” the NNA reports

2 July 2021

Lebanon has registered 210 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. Two more people have died, raising the death toll to 7,856

2 July 2021

Caretaker Interior Minister Mohamed Fehmi says he will give Judge Tarek Bitar permission to prosecute General Security chief Abbas Ibrahim, local media outlets report

2 July 2021

The Health Ministry has confirmed three cases of the COVID-19 Delta variant in Lebanon

2 July 2021

Port investigator Tarek Bitar has asked for permission to prosecute top officials, including General Security chief Abbas Ibrahim and three former ministers who presently hold seats in Parliament

2 July 2021

Port investigator Tarek Bitar has asked for permission to prosecute top officials

BEIRUT — Port explosion investigator Tarek Bitar on Friday requested permission to prosecute a raft of current and former Lebanese officials in a move reminiscent of the actions that got his...

Ghada Alsharif, 2 July 2021

Judge Tarek Bitar, lead investigator into the Beirut port blast, issued a decision to release two detainees, General Security Maj. Daoud Fayad and engineer Nayla al-Hage, the external technical inspector of the repair work in warehouse 12, a judicial source tells L'Orient Today

2 July 2021

Renewing humanitarian power in Lebanon and Syria

On May 28, 2021 , the Syrian Arab Republic became one of the 34 executive board members of the 74th World Health Assembly of the World Health Organization through an uncontested procedure. Twelve...

2 July 2021

The per-gram price of bread bundles has risen for the second time this week. Bakeries will now sell 876-gram bundles for LL3,750 — a 7.69 percent price-per-gram increase — and 390-gram bundles for LL2,500, a 5.8 percent price-per-gram increase. The prices at shops are LL250 more

2 July 2021

RHUH head Firass Abiad has said numbers suggest that COVID-19 hospitalizations seem to be rising, and on Thursday RHUH registered its highest positive test rate in weeks. He warned against minimal precautions and said a recent increase in activities “will facilitate a new spread”

2 July 2021

Fuel deliveries, fewer lira in circulation, Vatican visit: Everything you need to know to start your Friday

Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up. Gas stations started receiving fuel deliveries on Thursday night, distributors and station owners told L’Orient Today ....

2 July 2021