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The body of a 14-year-old girl has been found with gunshot wounds in the Metn town of Beit Shabab, the NNA reports. The girl, identified only by her initials M.H., had gone missing just hours before

21 March 2021

Lebanon has registered 2,968 new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours. Forty-two more people have died, bringing the total death toll to 5,757

21 March 2021

PSP leader Walid Joumblatt received a call from LDP leader Talal Arslan to avoid fallout from clashes this morning in the Aley village of Deir Qoubel that left one injured, the PSP says. Local media reported that the clashes broke out between supporters of the rival Druze parties

21 March 2021

Caretaker Justice Minister Marie-Claude Najm visited Georges Abdallah in prison in France on Friday, the NNA reports. Abdallah, who was sentenced to life for the murders of a US attache and an Israeli diplomat, has been eligible for release since 1999, but had requests rejected

21 March 2021

Akkar’s Qobeiyat municipality has announced that residents can register to receive the Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine via a dedicated municipal platform. It added that the doses were secured by local Future MP Hady Hobeiche as part of a donation made by Premier-designate Saad Hariri

21 March 2021

Dozens of protesters are marching from Beirut’s Tallet Khayat neighborhood toward the Information Ministry in Sanayeh to present the National News Agency and Radio Liban with a copy of a “rescue plan” for Lebanese TV stations

21 March 2021

Maronite Patriarch Bechara al-Rai said in his Sunday sermon that he hopes Monday’s meeting between President Michel Aoun and Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri will result in the formation of a “rescue government of specialists after all the waiting and collapse”

21 March 2021