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Despite major steps forward in domestic violence law, lockdowns expose the many shortcomings that remain

BEIRUT — Over the past year, women in Lebanon and around the world faced increased rates of domestic violence as the COVID-19 lockdown forced families into long periods of confinement, but the year...

Rana Tabbara, 21 January 2021

Firass Abiad, the director of Rafik Hariri University Hospital, tells MTV that there are 22 people with COVID-19 at his hospital’s ER with no space available for them, warning that the situation at hospitals is catastrophic

21 January 2021

Following the meeting earlier of Parliament’s health committee, MP Assem Araji (Future/Zahle) says COVID-19 vaccines won’t be limited to Lebanese nationals, pointing out that 80 percent of all residents should be inoculated to control the epidemic

21 January 2021

Lebanon has registered 67 COVID-19 deaths in the last 24 hours, setting a new record for the fourth day running, while 4,594 people have tested positive for the virus. The total death toll now stands at 2,151

21 January 2021

The Lebanese army says an officer sustained a serious leg injury today during a foot patrol when a landmine exploded outside the Bekaa town of Majdal Anjar

21 January 2021

Banque du Liban says in a statement that it has transferred funds to secure COVID-19 vaccines from COVAX, adding that it has also transferred funds owed to hospitals under a World Bank loan allocation for treating COVID-19 patients

21 January 2021

Residents across Lebanon felt a tremor, with the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre reporting a magnitude 5.0 earthquake 39 kilometers southeast of Nicosia, Cyprus

21 January 2021

A Lebanese army intelligence patrol has raided a captagon plant in the Bekaa village of Boudai, arresting a number of people and seizing a large quantity of the drug as well as machines for manufacturing the narcotic, according to a statement by the army

21 January 2021

The Health Ministry will launch a platform to register the names of those who want to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, the head of Parliament’s health committee, MP Assem Araji (Future/Zahle), has announced

21 January 2021

Central bank governor Riad Salameh said in a statement that he has answered all Public Prosecutor Ghassan Oueidat’s questions related to the Swiss judicial authorities’ inquiry into money transfers, adding that he had made no transfers from BDL's accounts or budgets

21 January 2021

Authorities extend Lebanon’s total lockdown until Feb. 8 as coronavirus overwhelms hospitals

BEIRUT — Lebanon will extend its total lockdown, set to expire on Jan. 25, for an additional two weeks to better contain the spread of the coronavirus, caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab’s...

Georgi Azar, 21 January 2021

The countrywide total lockdown will be extended until Feb. 8, the Presidency of the Council of Ministers announced

21 January 2021

The Higher Defense Council meeting at Baabda palace to decide whether to extend the countrywide lockdown has begun. Yesterday, the national scientific committee for COVID-19 recommended a two-week extension

21 January 2021

What’s behind the case against Jean Kahwagi, and how a judicial maze and banking secrecy may derail the probe

BEIRUT — Behind the headlines of the blockbuster illegal enrichment charges against Lebanon’s former army chief and seven other former security officers lies an opaque investigation that has failed...

Albin Szakola, 21 January 2021

Firass Abiad, the director of Rafik Hariri University Hospital, has tweeted that Lebanon is facing “an uncontrolled epidemic” with little spare health care capacity, and that easing the lockdown would “lead to a collapse of the health system” and more deaths

21 January 2021

The World Bank has reallocated $34 million of a previously approved loan to provide vaccines for more than 2 million people in Lebanon. The organization said the vaccines are expected to arrive by early February

21 January 2021

Lockdown decision, tempers at the airport, bank sale: Everything you need to know to start your Thursday

Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Top Lebanese authorities meet today to decide whether to extend the COVID-19 lockdown, after the country suffered record death...

21 January 2021