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Months before national elections, MPs begin debating the electoral law

When the date for the next parliamentary elections, May 8, 2022, was leaked in the media, the joint parliamentary committees chose to debate the draft laws to amend (or to simply change) the...

Suzanne BAAKLINI, 2 September 2021

Service taxi rates to rise to LL10,000 if agreement with Diab is kept, union leader says

BEIRUT — The official price of a shared service taxi is expected to rise from LL6,000 to LL10,000 on Oct. 1 if an agreement reached with caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab is upheld, the head...

2 September 2021

Lebanon has registered 1,121 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. Nine more people have died, raising the death toll to 8,070

2 September 2021

The Lebanese Army has received 202 tons of medical and food supplies donated by Spain, the military tweeted. In recent weeks, the army has accepted donations from foreign countries as it faces financial difficulties stemming from the country's economic crisis

2 September 2021

A woman who set herself on fire in Tripoli is in stable condition and expected to live, a representative of Al-Salam Hospital told L'Orient Today. The woman, a Syrian refugee in her 20s, attempted the act upon learning her immigration application was still pending, the NNA said

2 September 2021

The security council for North Lebanon has banned motorbikes from 10 p.m. till 6 a.m. in Tripoli and its surroundings, and ordered gas station owners in the province to open from 10 a.m. till 5 p.m. under penalty of closure

2 September 2021

Caretaker Economy Minister Raoul Nehme has directed private generator owners to install meters at their own expense within six months, the NNA reports. The original deadline for such installations was Sept. 30, 2017

2 September 2021

What will become of the Beirut port blast probe that the political ruling class is trying to sabotage?

It is no longer simply a path strewn with pitfalls the investigative judge has to tread to reveal the circumstances of the Aug. 4 Beirut Port explosion and those responsible for it. It appears that...

Claude ASSAF, 2 September 2021

After a parliamentary Finance and Budget Committee meeting, MP Ibrahim Kanaan said there is no "rigid proposal" to change the exchange rate for bank withdrawals, but "we do wonder why the LL3,900 withdrawal is still accepted, as the black market dollar is continuously increasing”

2 September 2021

Truck drivers at the Beirut port announced that they will postpone an open-ended strike that had been set to start today to protest the devaluation of their salaries until Monday, while awaiting the Ministry of Labor's decision on whether they will receive a raise

2 September 2021

The General Directorate of State Security in Lebanon announced it has resumed its work at the Aboudiyeh border crossing after a seven-day interruption due to an internet outage in the area linked to fuel shortages

2 September 2021

The Public Primary Schools Teachers League in Lebanon announced in a statement that its members will hold nationwide protests on Sept. 7 if authorities fail to increase teachers' salaries and transportation stipends, among other demands. Public schools are set to open Sept. 27

2 September 2021

Aid to ease the fuel and water crises, Iranian fuel lacks sign-off from the state, vaccine push ahead of schools reopening: Everything you need to know today

Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . The United Nations allocated $10 million to help ease severe fuel and electricity shortages at health and water facilities in...

2 September 2021