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After yet another political snub, the head of state refuses to admit defeat
Alarmed and frightened, the Lebanese are looking at yet another standoff in the long-standing feud between President Michel Aoun and Banque du Liban Gov. Riyad Salameh. The president, who vowed...
Jeanine JALKH, 23 August 2021
Lebanon has registered 624 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. Three people have died, raising the death toll to 8,014
23 August 2021
A Lebanese woman was killed when a car she was riding in was shot at in Hermel. Local police have launched an investigation into the shooting
23 August 2021
A 26-year-old sergeant in the Internal Security Forces has died after being struck by a vehicle while he was organizing a fuel line outside a gas station on the highway in Haret Sakhr, Jounieh
23 August 2021
The head of the General Confederation of Lebanese Workers, Bechara al-Asmar, has called for a weeklong strike starting tomorrow morning to step up pressure for an increase to the minimum wage and a recalculation of wages on the basis of the parallel market exchange rate
23 August 2021
Ogero said it suspended operations in several towns in Aley, including Abay, Baysour, Kfar Matta, Qabr Shmoun and Souk al-Gharb, as well as in Qubb Elias, Zahle. The Qubb Elias shutdown was due to diesel shortages, Ogero said, without specifying the cause for the Aley suspensions
23 August 2021
Wazni agrees to pay out long-delayed World Bank cash assistance program in USD
BEIRUT — The Lebanese government has agreed to pay out long-delayed World Bank-funded cash assistance in US dollars, resolving a major obstacle to getting money into the hands of some of Lebanon’s...
Abby Sewell, 23 August 2021
How Hezbollah perceives the mounting hostility toward it among the Lebanese
Hezbollah is surrounded by crises. In the wake of the 2020 Beirut port explosion, the party began drawing up worst-case scenarios. When caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab resigned, there was talk...
Mounir RABIH, 23 August 2021
The Lebanese government agreed in writing to pay cash assistance from a World Bank-funded social safety net program for vulnerable families in US dollars, the Bank’s Levant director, Saroj Kumar Jha, said. The agreement removes a major hurdle to the loan’s long-delayed implementation
23 August 2021
The interrogation of former army intelligence head Camille Daher in relation to the Beirut port explosion has been postponed until Sept. 8, his lawyer’s office told L’Orient Today. Lead blast investigator Tarek Bitar had been scheduled to question Daher today
23 August 2021
The US State Department has offered a reward of up to $5 million for information leading to the arrest of Hezbollah figure Khalil Youssef Harb. The US accuses Harb of overseeing Hezbollah’s operations in several countries and illegally funding pro-Iranian rebels in Yemen
23 August 2021
Caretaker Education Minister Tarek Majzoub has announced that public schools will resume classes on Sept. 27, while private schools will return between late September and early October. Majzoub added that attendance will be mostly in person
23 August 2021
Iran is ready to ship more fuel to Lebanon if needed, says Iranian official
DUBAI — Iran said on Monday it is ready to ship more fuel to Lebanon if needed, a day after the leader of Lebanon’s Iran-aligned Hezbollah group said more vessels carrying Iranian fuel would...
23 August 2021
Fuel shortages are again this morning causing countrywide disruption. In Tripoli, residents struggled to find busses take them to work due to the lack of gasoline. Meanwhile, protesters cut roads in Tripoli and Chekka, as well as at Dora and Zouk, and in Damour, the NNA reports
23 August 2021
New fuel prices, looming water crisis, Akkar blast death toll rises: Everything you need to know this Monday
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Fuel will be subsidized using a new exchange rate of LL8,000 to the dollar — at least for the next few weeks. Following a...
