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Parliament grants confidence to Mikati’s ‘Together for the Rescue’ cabinet
BEIRUT — Lebanon’s Parliament voted to grant confidence to Najib Mikati’s new cabinet on Monday, empowering it to officially begin its stated mission of setting Lebanon on a course of reforms that...
Ghada Alsharif, 20 September 2021
Beirut blast probe head Judge Tarek Bitar has agreed to release Wajdi Karkafi, a port employee, and Raed al-Ahmad, a Syrian employed by the maintenance company working at warehouse 12, a judicial source told L’Orient Today. Both were detained following the Aug. 4, 2020 blast
20 September 2021
Lebanon has registered 302 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. Four more people have died, raising the death toll to 8,240
20 September 2021
Several hospitals, orphanages and organizations in Saida have today received fuel imported from Iran, L’Orient-Le Jour reports. The distribution, carried out by al-Amana, a network of gas stations affiliated with Hezbollah, was supervised by the party's officials in the area
20 September 2021
Government or not, a political return to the Gulf remains far-fetched
Like Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, Prime Minister Najib Mikati is also turning eastward, but not in the direction of Iran or China, but rather Saudi Arabia — Lebanon’s former ally —...
Mounir RABIH, 20 September 2021
Parliament has adjourned for a two-hour lunch break. The session, which will culminate in MPs voting on whether to give Najib Mikati’s new government confidence, will resume at 5:30 p.m.
20 September 2021
Rescuers have freed six people trapped at the bottom of a deep valley in North Lebanon since Sunday, L’Orient-Le Jour reports. It earlier reported that just five people were stuck in the valley located between Namrin and Bqarsouna
20 September 2021
A young woman was killed on Sunday evening when shots were fired during a fight among several young men on the terrace of a restaurant in Kesrouan, the NNA reports. A stray bullet reportedly hit her, killing her instantly. Police are still looking for the suspect
20 September 2021
Rescuers have been deployed to retrieve five people who have been stranded since yesterday in the bottom of a 225-meter-deep valley located between Namrin and Bqarsouna, North Lebanon, L’Orient-Le Jour reports. How the people came to be stuck in the valley remains unclear
20 September 2021
Judge Tarek Bitar has postponed former Premier Hassan Diab’s hearing in the Beirut port explosion probe until Oct. 4. Diab had been scheduled to appear before the judge today but is reportedly abroad on a pre-planned trip to visit his children
20 September 2021
Guilt-riven Lebanon expats ship aid as crisis bites at home
DUBAI — Lebanese expats in the wealthy UAE, many of them riven with guilt, are scrambling to ship essential goods and medicine to family and friends in their crisis-stricken home country. “How can...
20 September 2021
Following an almost one-hour delay due to power cuts, MPs have convened to scrutinize the ministerial statement of Prime Minister Najib Mikati’s cabinet and vote on whether to give the new government confidence
20 September 2021
Cabinet confidence vote, more Iranian fuel arrives, ammonium nitrate seized: All you need to know today
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up. Parliament will convene this morning to examine the new cabinet’s ministerial statement before voting on whether to grant...
