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Taxi drivers blocked roads in Hamra and Raouche in Beirut with their cars, videos circulating on social media show. Land transport unions had planned a general strike on Wednesday to protest skyrocketing fuel prices, but it was postponed
28 October 2021
Free Patriotic Movement head Gebran Bassil said in a tweet after the US announcement of sanctions on businessman Dany Khoury that Khoury is not his partner in politics or in business. US officials had linked Khoury to Bassil in a statement. The US also sanctioned Bassil last year
28 October 2021
US sanctions two Lebanese businessmen and a member of Parliament
BEIRUT — The U.S. Treasury on Thursday imposed sanctions on two top Lebanese contractors and a lawmaker close to the Hezbollah movement over alleged large-scale corruption that undermined the rule...
28 October 2021
Hezbollah released a statement responding to Saudi Arabia's decision to label the Al-Qard Al-Hassan association as a terrorist entity and to ban dealing with it. Hezbollah described the move as a "humiliating obedience to the US and a desperate favor to the Zionist enemy"
28 October 2021
Tayyouneh probe suspended as detainees seek to remove judge
BEIRUT — The Court of Appeal notified military court Judge Fadi Akiki today of the request filed by the detainees in the Oct. 14 Tayyouneh clashes to remove him from the investigation, meaning that...
Wael Taleb, 28 October 2021
Syria and Jordan reach deal over electricity transfer to Lebanon
AMMAN — Lebanon, Syria and Jordan have reached a deal to transfer electricity to Lebanon which is suffering an acute energy crisis, ministers from the three neighboring countries said on...
28 October 2021
The US has placed new sanctions on Lebanese businessmen Jihad al-Arab and Dany Khoury and MP Jamil al-Sayyed (Ind./Baalbeck-Hermel) for alleged corruption and "undermining the rule of law," The US Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control said in a statement
28 October 2021
Lebanon has registered 663 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. Eight people have died, raising the death toll to 8,480
28 October 2021
The consumer affairs division of the Economy Ministry said today that it has fined a number of private generator owners for not following the official price per kilowatt-hour set by the ministry for their provision of electricity, the NNA reports
28 October 2021
The Association of Muslim Scholars criticized in a statement the Saudi ambassador's demand to discharge Information Minister George Kurdahi from his position over comments he made about the Saudi-Yemeni war, saying that it is a "blatant interference in Lebanon's internal affairs"
28 October 2021
Former Public Works minister Ghazi Zeaitar has filed a suit against the Lebanese state for "grave mistakes" attributed to Beirut port explosion investigator Tarek Bitar, a judicial source told L'Orient Today. Once notified, Bitar must suspend any investigation relating to Zeaitar
28 October 2021
Labor Minister Mustafa Bayram told Al Jadeed that there is currently no plan to increase the official minimum wage, currently set at LL675,000 a month. He added that daily transportation allowances for private sector employees will be set at a value of not less than LL60,000
28 October 2021
Children of Lebanese mothers and non-Lebanese fathers continue to face hurdles in education
BEIRUT — Earlier this month, the administration of the public Lebanese University issued a decision requiring that foreign students pay their tuition fees in cash dollars at the official exchange...
Tala Ramadan, 28 October 2021
Israeli army troops opened fire in the air above two Lebanese farmers conducting agricultural work outside the village of Mais al-Jabal near the border with occupied Palestine, the NNA reported
28 October 2021
The parliament session in Beirut's UNESCO Palace has ended
28 October 2021
Former minister Nouhad Machnouk has filed a suit against the Lebanese state regarding the Beirut port blast probe, a judicial source told L'Orient Today
BEIRUT – MP Nouhad Machnouk (Independent/West Beirut) has filed a suit against the Lebanese state, setting the stage to bring to a halt judge Tarek Bitar’s investigation into the former minister, a...
28 October 2021
Parliament has once again voted to move parliamentary elections forward to Mar. 27, 2022 from the originally schedule May 8 date. President Aoun earlier in October kicked back the amendment to the legislature for further consideration after it voted in favor of the date change
28 October 2021
Lebanon's parliament has convened in Beirut's UNESCO Palace to discuss amendments to the electoral law and a raft of proposed draft laws
28 October 2021
Lebanese parliament once again approves earlier elections in contentious session
BEIRUT — Following a back and forth with President Michel Aoun regarding proposed amendments to the law for next year’s parliamentary elections, the Parliament approved earlier elections in a...
Tala Ramadan, 28 October 2021
Beirut port blast investigating judge Tarek Bitar has suspended the questioning of former PM Hassan Diab scheduled for Thursday
BEIRUT — The judge heading Lebanon's investigation into the devastating Beirut port explosion suspended the interrogation of former Prime Minister Hassan Diab on Thursday after Diab filed a suit...
Maha El Dahan, 28 October 2021
Parliament tackles raft of proposed laws, Diab sues Lebanese state, Saudi Arabia upset over Kurdahi comments: What to know today
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Parliament will vote today on a raft of key proposals including the electoral law for next year’s elections, which has been...
