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Security forces use tear gas and rubber bullets against protesters on the second night of unrest in Tripoli

TRIPOLI/BEIRUT — Tensions flared for the second night running in Lebanon’s second city of Tripoli as security forces once again cracked down on protests against the COVID-19 lockdown. In the...

26 January 2021

The Lebanese Red Cross says it has transported six people wounded in the demonstration in Tripoli’s Al-Nour Square to local hospitals

26 January 2021

Protesters have blocked the Elia junction in Saida with burning tires, rejecting COVID-19 restrictions, the NNA reports. Demonstrators have also blocked the road at the Aramoun-Bshamoun intersection in Aley as well as Akkar's Jouma highway with burning tires

26 January 2021

Overwhelmed hospitals face ‘exponentially worse’ pressure as COVID-19 claims a record number of lives

BEIRUT — Lebanon’s hospitals are struggling to cope under the grueling pressure of treating an endless stream of COVID-19 patients as the pandemic reached its deadliest day yet. The coronavirus...

Emily Lewis, 26 January 2021

Lebanon has registered 73 COVID-19 deaths in the last 24 hours, setting a new record, while 3,505 people have tested positive for the virus. The total death toll now stands at 2,477

26 January 2021

The Lebanese Army launched tear gas at protesters in Tripoli, dispersing crowds in Al-Nour Square and in front of the Serail, a correspondent for our sister publication L’Orient-Le Jour reports

26 January 2021

Dozens of protesters in Tripoli marched to the homes of MPs, condemning corruption in the country and demanding the return of stolen public funds, the NNA reports

26 January 2021

Dozens of people have gathered in front of Tripoli’s Serail and Al-Nour Square, protesting against worsening living conditions under the COVID-19 lockdown. This follows yesterday’s anti-lockdown protests in Tripoli in which 41 people were wounded

26 January 2021

Protesters have blocked the Jiyyeh highway in both directions at Barja junction to protest the country’s dire economic situation, which has been exacerbated by a strict coronavirus lockdown, the NNA reports. Protesters also blocked Beddawi International Highway in the north

26 January 2021

Caretaker Finance Minister Ghazi Wazni said via Twitter that he has transferred the 2021 general budget draft to the Presidency of the Council of Ministers. The Constitution sets the end of January of the year in question as the deadline for budget approval

26 January 2021

Protesters have blocked Corniche al-Mazraa with overturned trash containers as they voice their opposition to the countrywide total lockdown that has been extended to Feb. 8. Yesterday, protests in Tripoli over the same concern ended in clashes with security forces

26 January 2021

A delegation from the Al-Minya Industrialists and Merchants Union has visited caretaker Industry Minister Imad Hoballah to lobby him to "exclude the industrial sector from the lockdown," the NNA reports

26 January 2021

The launch of an online registration platform for receiving the COVID-19 vaccine has been delayed until Thursday, Al Jadeed reports. The platform’s launch was initially scheduled for yesterday, but it was postponed until today before being delayed again

26 January 2021

A deliveryman impersonator has been caught in possession of a military gun as well as stolen cash (LL3.8 million and $450), credit cards, and motorcycle keys, the ISF said in a statement, adding that the man said he was part of a gang that stole from over 13 areas in Lebanon

26 January 2021

Firass Abiad, director of Rafik Hariri University Hospital, has said in a tweet that RHUH will admit COVID-19 patients to a new 10-bed UNHCR-funded ICU expansion tomorrow. But, he said, staff will remain under pressure as the ER continues to admit over 20 COVID-19 patients daily

26 January 2021

COVID-19 surge, Tripoli clashes, Najm talks Salameh: Everything you need to know to start your Tuesday

Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . The COVID-19 surge continues to challenge Lebanon’s overwhelmed hospitals, with ICU hospitalizations climbing to 930 yesterday...

26 January 2021

Caretaker Justice Minister Marie-Claude Najm told Al-Hurra TV that BDL Gov. Riad Salameh is being protected by the political class, including Speaker Nabih Berri, PSP leader Walid Joumblatt and PM-designate Saad Hariri, while FPM and Hezbollah were not pushing to dismiss him

26 January 2021