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Lebanese Army offers tourists helicopter joyrides
BEIRUT — The Lebanese Army will start offering tourists helicopter joyrides this week in a bid to boost the coffers of one of the crisis-hit country’s key institutions. An...
29 June 2021
Animals starve in Lebanon’s zoos as economy crumbles
BEIRUT — Thin and frail, the two big cats scarcely moved as they lay on the concrete floor of their cage while, nearby, an emaciated Syrian brown bear anxiously paced his enclosure....
Issam Abdallah, 29 June 2021
Ration card or election tool? Lebanon’s subsidies retargeting plan goes before Parliament
BEIRUT — Parliamentarians will convene on Wednesday to vote on a $556 million “exceptional credit” law that will fund ration cards to replace the current subsidies scheme. But the vote is taking...
Omar Tamo, 29 June 2021
The president of Banin Charity Association, Mohamed Beydoun, told L’Orient Today that Oueidat will examine CCTV footage from Lebanese Swiss Bank to judge whether individuals associated with the NGO had assaulted bank employees
29 June 2021
Public Prosecutor Ghassan Oueidat has released Banin Charity Association’s president and director-general after summoning the pair over yesterday’s incident at Lebanese Swiss Bank in Hamra, which saw a crowd linked to the NGO storm the premises demanding access to the NGO’s funds
29 June 2021
Judge Tarek Bitar, lead investigator into the Beirut port blast, heard the testimony of two witnesses today and will hear from 10 more by the end of the week, a judicial source told L’Orient Today. Bitar will also rule on the release requests of 13 detainees this week
29 June 2021
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said in a tweet that he and the foreign ministers of France and Saudi Arabia in a meeting today stressed the need for Lebanon’s authorities to “show real leadership” and implement reforms necessary to stabilize the economy
29 June 2021
Lebanon has registered 185 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. Three more people have died, bringing the total death toll to 7,848
29 June 2021
Turkish firm Karpowership says its two offshore power barges will resume providing electricity to Lebanon starting today, Reuters reports
29 June 2021
Protesters have resumed blocking roads across the country, including in Saida and Beirut’s Karantina and Corniche al-Mazraa areas, local media report. The Energy Ministry raised fuel prices today in a bid to ease severe shortages as the national currency plummets to record lows
29 June 2021
Salim Sfeir has been re-elected as chairman of the Association of Banks in Lebanon for a second consecutive term. Yesterday ABL announced that all bank branches in Lebanon would close today after dozens of protesters stormed a bank in Beirut and reportedly assaulted staff
29 June 2021
In a meeting earlier today, Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah and Hamas’ leader, Ismail Haniyeh, discussed Israel’s 11-day assault on Gaza last month and the “depth of the existing relationship” between the two groups, al-Manar reports
29 June 2021
This couple is determined to force the Interior Ministry’s hand on civil marriage
A notary officiated the civil marriage of Abdallah Salam and Marie-Joe Abi-Nassif on June 15, 2019, in Beirut. A glimmer of hope filled their eyes when they said, “I do.” Eager, in their words, to...
Nour BRAIDY, 29 June 2021
Lebanon hikes fuel prices to shore up foreign currency reserves
BEIRUT — Lebanon hiked fuel prices by more than 30 percent on Tuesday as it reduced subsidies that have eaten away at the central bank’s foreign currency reserves amid a painful economic...
29 June 2021
Following a meeting of the Higher Defense Council, President Michel Aoun called for people not to continue blocking roads, saying that “this would amplify [people’s] suffering [due to] the difficult financial and economic conditions,” a statement from the presidency reported
29 June 2021
The hike in fuel prices will lead to a 5–10 percent increase in the price of agricultural products, the head of the Bekaa farmers’ association, Ibrahim Tarshishi, told the newspaper Annahar
29 June 2021
The ISF has seized 100,000 captagon pills that were hidden in a batch of sterilization equipment set to be shipped to Saudi Arabia, the organization reported in a statement, adding that it had arrested three individuals who allegedly admitted to being part of the operation
29 June 2021
Fuel prices shot up after the government shifted the fuel subsidy rate to LL3,900 to the dollar. Twenty liters of 95-octane gas cost LL61,100 (up LL15,900); 98-octane gas, LL62,900 (up LL16,300); and diesel, LL46,100 (up LL12,800). A household gas tank costs LL37,600 (up LL9,200)
29 June 2021
Fuel prices hiked, banks shut, RHUH rations power: Everything you need to know to start your Tuesday
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up. Fuel prices have shot up following the government’s decision to subsidize fuel imports at an exchange rate of LL3,900 to the US...
