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What do we know about Hezbollah’s troops?
Monday was the first time Hassan Nasrallah appeared to lay bare the number of fighters within his party’s ranks. The Hezbollah leader said on Monday evening that he had 100,000 men under his...
Salah Hijazi, 20 October 2021
Lebanon has registered 778 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. Four people have died, raising the death toll to 8,438
20 October 2021
Ibrahim Hoteit has submitted a letter at the Justice Ministry demanding Tarek Bitar’s removal as Beirut blast probe investigator, a ministry source told L’Orient Today. Hoteit, who formerly represented a committee of victims’ families, recently began speaking out against Bitar
20 October 2021
General Confederation of Lebanese Workers head Bechara al-Asmar criticized the "chaotic lifting of subsidies" without having launched the ration card program or having set up other programs to help with fuel and medicine costs, as he said the previous government had agreed to do
20 October 2021
Lebanon central bank audit demanded by creditors to resume
BEIRUT — A New York-based firm contracted by the Lebanese government is to resume its audit of the central bank on Thursday in line with creditors’ demands, the Lebanese presidency and a top...
20 October 2021
Aoun also met with Finance Minister Youssef Khalil and James Daniell, managing director of Alvarez & Marsal, to discuss the firm's plans to relaunch its forensic audit of Banque du Liban tomorrow
20 October 2021
President Michel Aoun met today with Amos Hochstein, the new US mediator in the Lebanon's currently-suspended maritime border demarcation talks with Israel to discuss "the future of the negotiation process," Aoun said in a statement
20 October 2021
BDL’s balance sheet also shows an additional LL642.4 billion in circulation over the same period, bringing the total to LL42.3 trillion. Increasing the local currency money supply often drives inflation
20 October 2021
BDL's foreign assets, comprising mainly reserves, fell by $21 million in the first half of October and now stand at $18.77 billion, its latest balance sheet shows. The biweekly drop is less than this year’s average of about $300 million, likely due to the reduction in subsidies
20 October 2021
Research group report points to "sharp and dangerous decline" in Lebanon's agricultural production
BEIRUT — Lebanese agricultural production saw a “sharp and dangerous decline” in 2020, a newly released report by the Lebanese Center for Research and Agricultural Studies (CREAL) found....
Abby Sewell, 20 October 2021
Official fuel prices have once again increased sharply. The prices of 20 liters of 95-octane and 98-octane gasoline have risen by 25%, to LL302,700 and LL312,700 respectively, while the same quantity of diesel is LL270,700, a 15% increase. Cooking gas now costs LL229,600 per tank
20 October 2021
Early elections set, IMF negotiations activated, deadly Akkar clashes: Everything you need to know today
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up. Parliament agreed yesterday, in the first meeting of its regular session, to move up next year’s legislative elections from May...
20 October 2021
‘Torture, abuse’ await returning Syrian refugees: HRW
Syrian refugees returning to their war-battered country have faced alleged torture, arbitrary arrests and extrajudicial killings, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Wednesday. A report titled "'Our...
