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Who is Tarek Bitar, the judge who will take over the Beirut port investigation after Fadi Sawwan’s removal?

BEIRUT — Less than two days after his predecessor’s abrupt removal from the Beirut port explosion case, Judge Tarek Bitar was at work in his office in Beirut’s Justice Palace Saturday, poring...

Ghada Alsharif, 20 February 2021

Lebanon has registered 2,323 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. Forty more people have died, bringing the total death toll to 4,297

20 February 2021

The second batch of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine has arrived in Beirut, local media have reported. A total of 2.1 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine are expected to arrive in batches on a weekly basis over the coming months

20 February 2021

A Turkish delegation visited Al Aqsa Hospital in the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian camp, which has been newly designated to treat COVID-19 patients, and donated five oxygen machines and five blood oxygen monitors, a member of the camp's popular committee told L'Orient Today

20 February 2021

The UN Security Council has given the green light to keep the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, a UN-backed tribunal formed to investigate the 2005 assassination of Lebanon’s former prime minister Rafik Hariri, operating and funded for at least the rest of this year, the AP reported

20 February 2021

The newly appointed lead investigator in the Beirut explosion probe, Judge Tarek Bitar, has gone to his office in Beirut’s Justice Palace to review the case in preparation to begin work on the investigation, the NNA reports

20 February 2021