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Ghada Aoun has secured servers and documents enabling her to press on with the Mecattaf probe, lawyer says

BEIRUT — Judge Ghada Aoun has secured computer servers and documents believed to hold information that is crucial to investigations of money laundering and illicit enrichment allegedly carried out...

Georgi Azar, 22 April 2021

Judicial Inspection Authority head Judge Barkan Saad has summoned Ghada Aoun for questioning about her refusal to comply with Public Prosecutor Ghassan Oueidat's decision to dismiss her from financial crimes cases, a judicial source tells L'Orient Today

22 April 2021

Food importers say BDL is delaying payments, casting further doubt on the subsidy program’s viability

BEIRUT — Dollar payments from Banque du Liban that are needed to import basic goods are allegedly being delayed by months — which could be the latest indication that the central bank’s subsidy...

Omar Tamo, 22 April 2021

The army says it has arrested two people and seized 30,000 liters of diesel that they were allegedly intending to smuggle out of Lebanon. The seizure comes amid a campaign to prevent the smuggling of subsidized goods

22 April 2021

Caretaker Justice Minister Marie-Claude Najm has tested positive for COVID-19, Najm wrote in a tweet, calling on everyone she has come in contact with this week to follow COVID-19 prevention measures

22 April 2021

Lebanon has registered 1,512 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. Thirty people have died, bringing the total death toll to 7,057

22 April 2021

Pope promises Lebanon visit, calls for end to political deadlock

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis promised Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri on Thursday that he would visit the country, but only after political forces put aside differences for the good...

22 April 2021

Pope Francis will visit Lebanon, but only after a government is formed, Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri said following his visit with the pope

22 April 2021

At the meeting, President Aoun criticized the security officers’ use of force, saying they “must control security peacefully,” while caretaker Interior Minister Mohamed Fehmi defended the ISF officers, saying they had acted “within the scope of controlling security,” Aoun reported

22 April 2021

During a security meeting convened by President Michel Aoun, officials discussed clashes that broke out yesterday between security forces and pro-Aoun demonstrators amid a raid by Judge Ghada Aoun on Mecattaf Holding Group’s office in Awkar, the president said in a statement

22 April 2021

Saad Hariri has met with Pope Francis, the PM-designate’s office said in a statement. The two discussed the role the Vatican can play to help Lebanon in its current crises. Hariri gave the pope an art piece depicting St. George and the dragon by Palestinian Christians in Colombia

22 April 2021

Lebanon is halfway to the 80% herd immunity target for COVID-19, parliamentary health committee chair MP Assem Araji told VDL radio 93.3. Rafik Hariri University Hospital head Firass Abiad has said that about 45% of the population is immune due to either infection or vaccination

22 April 2021

President Michel Aoun has announced a security meeting at noon with the caretaker prime minister, ministers of defense and interior and security officials. A presidential source said it would discuss preparations for the upcoming holidays and a review of recent security incidents

22 April 2021

Prices of gas and diesel fuel have decreased by LL100 per 20 liters, the Energy Ministry announced. The prices are now set at LL38,400 for 95-octane gasoline, LL39,600 for 98-octane and LL25,900 for diesel

22 April 2021

Aoun raids again, COVID-19 indicators improve, Hariri to meet Pope Francis: Everything you need to know today

Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Judge Ghada Aoun again raided the office of the money exchange group Mecattaf, a day after the Supreme Judicial Council asked...

22 April 2021