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Hezbollah deputy leader launches new tirade against port probe investigator Bitar

BEIRUT — Hezbollah’s deputy secretary-general Naim Qassem on Saturday launched a new diatribe against the head of the investigation into the 2020 Beirut port explosion, Judge Tarek Bitar, saying he...

23 October 2021

Lebanon has registered 627 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. Four people have died, raising the death toll to 8,449

23 October 2021

Environment Minister Nasser Yassin has told Radio Liban that he is working on a “new approach” to the country’s waste crisis, focusing on both emergency and long-term solutions to the problem. He added he hopes to report new findings on how to address the matter next week

23 October 2021

The Amal Movement has in a tweet accused the FPM of trying to exploit the Mar Mikhael agreement — which forged the latter’s alliance with Hezbollah — “to sow discord and harm the alliance represented by the true duality between the Amal Movement and Hezbollah”

23 October 2021

Judge issues search and investigation warrant again former MP Khaled Daher

BEIRUT — The assistant government commissioner to the Military Court, Judge Hani Hilmi Hajjar, has issued a search and investigation warrant, valid for one month, against former MP Khaled Daher, at...

23 October 2021

As import subsidies gradually end, delays mire two major programs to support the country’s most vulnerable

BEIRUT — As a dramatic spike in the price of fuel accompanying the phasing-out of import subsidies sparked protests and calls for strikes around Lebanon in recent days, two long-awaited programs to...

Abby Sewell, 23 October 2021

Police are trying to disperse demonstrators staging a sit-in in front of the Jeb Jennine branch of Electricité du Liban in the Bekaa to protest severe power rationing, after they blocked all access to the branch and some entered the building

23 October 2021

Israeli army says it has seized drugs and weapons that were being smuggled into the country from Lebanon

BEIRUT — The Israeli army announced on Saturday that it had foiled an “attempted smuggling operation on the border with Lebanon” and seized weapons and drugs. Here’s what we know:  ...

23 October 2021

Two years after protests, Lebanon activists set sights on vote

BEIRUT — Two years after a now-defunct protest movement shook Lebanon, opposition activists are hoping parliamentary polls will challenge the ruling elite’s stranglehold on the country....

23 October 2021