Canada sanctions Iran morality police as protests flare
OTTAWA, Canada — Canada announced sanctions against Iranian officials on Monday over the Islamic Republic’s lethal crackdown on protests in the country. The protests, sparked by the death of...
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Iran says US attempting to use unrest to weaken country
DUBAI — Iran accused the United States Monday of using the unrest triggered by the death of a woman in police custody to try to destabilize the country, and warned such action would not go...
26 September 2022
Forces of Change MP calls for dissolution of parliamentary police
BEIRUT —Forces of Change MP Halimé El Kaakour on Monday called for the "dissolution of the parliamentary police" — a security body whose agents are directly assigned by the Parliament Speaker —...
26 September 2022
Ukrainian ship carrying corn and oil arrives in Tripoli port
A Ukrainian ship carrying 7,000 tons of corn and 20,000 tons of vegetable oil arrived in Tripoli's port Monday morning, according to the state-run National News Agency. Russia's invasion of...
Wael Taleb, 26 September 2022
Heightened military presence in Saida after series of violent clashes
BEIRUT — The Security Council for South Lebanon held an exceptional meeting Monday following a series of unrelated security incidents in Saida last week and over the weekend. The...
26 September 2022
Lebanon’s public debt hits new high: $101.1 billion
Lebanon’s public debt reached a record high at the end of April 2022: $101.1 billion, according to the figures recently published by the Finance Ministry and relayed in a Byblos Bank report....
OLJ Economic News Service, 26 September 2022
BDL lowers Sayrafa monthly withdrawal limit
Banque du Liban reduced the monthly dollar withdrawal limit on its Sayrafa platform, two separate sources confirmed to L’Orient-Le Jour Monday. The limit had been fixed since late spring...
Philippe HAGE BOUTROS, 26 September 2022
Free admission to all archaeological sites in Lebanon on Tuesday
BEIRUT — Entry to archaeological and cultural sites will be free on Tuesday, caretaker Culture Minister Mohammad Mortada announced via the state-run National News Agency. This decision is...
26 September 2022
Sheikh Qaradawi, Islamist champion of Arab revolts, dies at 96
BEIRUT — Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawi, a spiritual guide to the Muslim Brotherhood who championed the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings and unsettled rulers in Egypt and the Gulf with his Islamist...
26 September 2022
In Syrian north, women protest over death of Iran's Amini
QAMISHLI, Syria — Hundreds of women protested in Kurdish-controlled northern Syria on Monday over the death of an Iranian Kurdish woman in the custody of Iran's morality police, with some cutting...
26 September 2022
‘They are pushing our children toward a sure death’
In her house, plunged into darkness due to uninterrupted power cuts, in Bab al-Ramel, one of the most populous neighborhoods of Tripoli, Oum Moustapha Mesto mourns the death of her son and three of...
Souhayb JAWHAR, 26 September 2022
Iran steps up arrests of activists, journalists
PARIS — Iran is stepping up arrests of activists and journalists in a crackdown against civil society as anti-regime protests continue to rage nationwide, activists said on Monday. Eighteen...
26 September 2022
Derian seeks to put the Sunni community back in the game
A priori, the initiative has been a success. Grand Mufti Abdel-Latif Derian gathered the vast majority of Sunni representatives from across the political spectrum on Sept. 24 at Dar al-Fatwa.The...
Jeanine JALKH, 26 September 2022
Is reducing the prison year to six months the solution to prison overcrowding?
The detention conditions in Lebanon’s prisons are marked by a conspicuous lack of food — and what is available is of poor quality — medications and health care. In many cases, detainees remain...
Anne-Marie El-HAGE, 26 September 2022
ISF catches 17 of 19 inmates who escaped from Jounieh prison on Friday
BEIRUT — The Internal Security Forces on Monday arrested four of 19 prisoners who escaped from a Lebanese prison Friday, bringing the arrest toll to 17, the state-run National News Agency...
26 September 2022
Iran says 450 protesters arrested in northern province
Authorities in a northern Iran province have arrested 450 people during more than 10 days of protests following a young Kurdish woman's death in morality policy custody, state media reported...
26 September 2022
Demonstrators push toward Parliament during budget session, tear gas fired
BEIRUT — Demonstrators pushed their way close to the Lebanese Parliament building in downtown Beirut Monday morning to protest against the potential adoption of the 2022 draft budget, which MPs are...
26 September 2022
US-mediated proposal on maritime border between Lebanon and Israel expected this week, Aoun says
BEIRUT — A written proposal conveyed by US envoy Amos Hochstein, who is mediating the indirect maritime border negotiations between Lebanon and Israel, is "expected to arrive in Baabda before the...
26 September 2022
Scuffle breaks out at Saida bank as country's banks reopen
BEIRUT — Customers and security staff at a BLOM bank branch in southern Lebanon's Saida scuffled on Monday, the first day banks reopened following a more than weeklong closure due to a series of...
26 September 2022
Parliament approves 2022 budget 3 months before the year ends
BEIRUT — Parliament approved the 2022 budget with a 63-vote majority Monday night, a little more than three months before the end of the year. According to the National News Agency, 37 MPs voted...
26 September 2022
Rights groups urge civilian investigation into Syrian detainee's death by alleged torture
BEIRUT — Rights groups condemned on Monday the death last month by alleged torture of Bashar Abed Al Saud, a Syrian detainee who had been held at a regional office of the State Security in Bint...
26 September 2022
Shipwreck deaths mount, banks to reopen, Parliament to resume budget vote: Everything you need to know to start your Monday
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Banks will partially reopen today in a “compromise between the need to serve customers … and the need to ensure the safety of...
