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Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi has called on municipal authorities to unblock drainages ahead of expected thunderstorms on Thursday. The meteorology department at Beirut airport said to expect high winds, lower temperatures and isolated rainfall in parts of Lebanon overnight
22 September 2021
Lebanon has registered 718 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. Seven more people have died, raising the death toll to 8,253
22 September 2021
Food and transportation prices nearly quadruple year-on-year in August
BEIRUT — The cost of food and transportation nearly quadrupled between August 2020 and August 2021, new data from Lebanon’s Central Administration of Statistics show. Prices of food and...
Ghada Alsharif, 22 September 2021
Port blast investigator Tarek Bitar met with Justice Minister Henri Khoury today regarding an alleged threat to the judge’s personal security, the NNA reports. News broke Tuesday that Bitar allegedly received a threat from Hezbollah’s security chief. The party has yet to comment
22 September 2021
Attorneys for Youssef Fenianos, the former public works minister charged with criminal negligence in the Beirut port blast probe, asked the Court of Cassation to remove Judge Tarek Bitar from the case due to “legitimate suspicion” of bias, a judicial source told L’Orient Today
22 September 2021
Lebanese eager to leave the country line up at General Security
It is 10 a.m. at General Security’s public relations bureau in the neighborhood of the capital surrounding the Beirut National Museum. More than 100 people have come to renew their passport and...
Zeina ANTONIOS, 22 September 2021
Demonstrators have blocked the highway passing near Tripoli’s governmental serail to protest local gas station closures, the NNA reports. Fueling stations across the country have shut down recently due to supply shortages and fluctuating prices
22 September 2021
Fuel prices hiked to more than LL200,000 — almost a third of Lebanon’s monthly minimum wage
BEIRUT — The state hiked fuel prices yet again on Wednesday, sending the cost of 20 liters of gas soaring to more than LL200,000 — almost a third of Lebanon’s monthly minimum wage. Here’s what we...
Richard SALAME, 22 September 2021
Social Affairs Minister Hector Hajjar said in a statement that registration for the ration card program for vulnerable families, meant to begin Sept. 15, is delayed while he, the premier and the finance and economy ministers work out the “mechanism and criteria to implement” it
22 September 2021
Left on their own amid the crisis, Lebanon’s elderly care homes face the unknown
Almost all of Lebanon’s care homes have been hit by the unprecedented and acute crisis that has beset the country. Today, as studies focus on the long-term consequences of the country’s ongoing...
Salah Hijazi, 22 September 2021
MPs’ interrogations scheduled, threat against Bitar, gasoline deliveries: What to know today
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up. Judge Tarek Bitar scheduled interrogations for three sitting MPs yesterday in relation to the Beirut port explosion probe. MP...
