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Caretaker Economy Minister Raoul Nehme has suspended sales of Spring Chtoura brand canned peas after testing found the product failed to meet food safety standards, the NNA reports. Amid the country's worsening electricity shortages, food safety has become a growing issue
25 August 2021
Decision allowing businesses to buy diesel with fresh dollars further complicates the fuel market
BEIRUT — Aiming to tackle fuel shortages, Lebanon’s Energy Ministry issued a decision this week that will allow businesses to purchase unsubsidized diesel imports using their own fresh dollars — a...
Richard SALAME, 25 August 2021
Lebanon has registered 1,593 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. Five people have died, raising the death toll to 8,024
25 August 2021
The Emirates airline has announced that, in light of Lebanon's "severe shortage of essential goods and medicines," it will give an extra checked baggage allowance to passengers traveling to Beirut so they can bring in needed items from this week through the end of September
25 August 2021
The syndicate of private hospitals in Lebanon has announced that "most hospitals' [diesel] stockpiles are not enough for two days." Hospitals have issued such warnings repeatedly over the past weeks, but the government has been unable to resolve the country's diesel crisis
25 August 2021
The night their world exploded: Victims and families share their accounts of the deadly Akkar blast
TLEIL, Akkar — They were soldiers, schoolboys, farmers and refugees. They came to get fuel so they could drive to tend their orchards or to report to duty at their army posts. Teenagers came to...
Abby Sewell, 21 August 2021
Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati has postponed today's scheduled visit to Baabda to discuss government formation with President Michel Aoun until tomorrow, local media report. Tomorrow will mark one month since he was designated to the post
25 August 2021
One person has died and two others were wounded in a fight that broke out last night between residents of Akkar al-Atiqa and Fneideq over logging, according to security sources. The Lebanese Army has deployed to the area to prevent further escalation
25 August 2021
Impending internet outages, water shortages, security force raids: Everything you need to know today
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up. Lebanon is teetering “on the edge” of a nationwide internet outage , the head of the state-owned telecom company told...
