Lebanon beats the Philippines in the FIBA World Cup Qualifier
Beirut — Lebanon’s national basketball team beat the Philippines on Thursday in the qualifiers for the FIBA World Cup. Here’s what we know: • After a head-to-head match, Lebanon...
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Children in Lebanon are deprived of the basics, robbed of their dreams, losing trust in their parents: UNICEF report
BEIRUT — “My son does not trust me anymore and does not call me ‘baba’ [dad] — because I am not fulfilling my role as a father. I feel that there is no more respect from children towards their...
Farah-Silvana Kanaan, 25 August 2022
Zahrani power plant to shut off Friday amid fuel oil shortage, EDL warns
BEIRUT —Electricité du Liban’s last operating power plant in Zahrani, South Lebanon, has run out of fuel oil and will go out of service by Friday afternoon, the state electricity provider warned in...
25 August 2022
Art installation in Ehden highlights James Webb Space Telescope’s journey deep into space
BEIRUT — In the mountainous town of Ehden in northern Lebanon, a local artist with a passion for space exploration has installed an artwork inspired by NASA’s largest optical telescope, the James...
Sally Abou AlJoud, 25 August 2022
Budget and Finance Committee completes examination of 2022 draft budget
Meeting in Beirut between 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m., the Finance and Budget Committee completed Thursday its review of the draft budget for 2022, but failed to decide on all outstanding issues, MP...
Economic Service, 25 August 2022
Inas Fakih's scooter-taxi for women in Beirut’s southern suburbs
It’s only 10 AM and Inas Fakih has already picked up several customers on her scooter-taxi. In jeans and a T-shirt, a cap on her head, she roams Beirut’s southern suburbs every day, as well as the...
Zeina ANTONIOS, 25 August 2022
UPDATE: Nearby motorists bulldoze burnt trees at scene of Akkar forest fire
BEIRUT — People driving cars, trucks and tractors reportedly flocked to the scene of a fire that had raged Thursday morning in the Akkar governorate town of Qobayat, in order to collect the burnt...
25 August 2022
Electricity outages close civil administration offices in Akkar district
BEIRUT — The administration in charge of the civil status registers of Qobeiyat, in Akkar, North Lebanon, closed its doors Thursday due to lack of electricity, preventing the inhabitants of more...
25 August 2022
Finance and Budget Committee passes 2022 budget, sending it to Parliament's General Assembly
BEIRUT — Parliament’s Finance and Budget Committee MP Ibrahim Kanaan (FPM/Metn) on Thursday said in a tweet following the committee’s meeting that despite the committee not having fully decided on...
25 August 2022
Port blast victims' families hold sit-in to demand silo fires be extinguished
BEIRUT — Families of the victims of the 2020 Beirut port explosion organized a sit-in Thursday at the Beirut port to peacefully protest the authorities’ inaction in the face of the fire burning at...
25 August 2022
UPDATE: Environment Ministry to supervise removal of grains from destroyed silos, will take more than two weeks
BEIRUT — Firefighters in coordination with the administrations responsible for the port commenced the process of cooling the Beirut port silos’ northern block, the last section of which collapsed...
Mohamad El Chamaa, 25 August 2022
Mariana, a waitress, is working hard to prepare for the start of the academic year
Originally from Batroun in North Lebanon, Mariana moved in June to the heart of the Lebanese capital —the neighborhood of Achrafieh, not far from the café where she works as a full time waitress....
Julien RICOUR-BRASSEUR, 25 August 2022
Six catering companies threaten to halt food provision to prisons if ministry does not pay outstanding bills
BEIRUT — Six catering companies warned in a letter addressed to caretaker Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi on Thursday that they will halt providing foodstuffs to prisons if seven months of...
25 August 2022
Alfa and Touch employees strike
BEIRUT — Employees of the two mobile telecommunications companies in Lebanon, Alfa and Touch, began a strike Thursday demanding better salaries, the state-run National News Agency reported. The...
25 August 2022
Submarine searching for bodies from migrant boat sinking finds boat off Tripoli coast
BEIRUT — A submarine crew on Thursday found the boat that sank in April while it had been carrying dozens of passengers hoping to make an irregular route to Europe, the Lebanese Army tweeted. It...
Sally Abou AlJoud, 25 August 2022
The lifting of gasoline subsidies is underway
It has continued to partially reduce this ratio, despite the announcement of their lifting for almost a year, while gasoline subsidies mitigating the increase in prices of 20 liters of 95 and...
Philippe HAGE BOUTROS, 25 August 2022
Fuel sector unions demand higher profits, submarine resumes shipwreck search, Cabinet formation stalls: Everything you need to know to start your Thursday
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Fuel sector representatives called on the Ministry of Energy to “increase the US dollar profit margin” in its fuel price lists....
