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Scooters banned at night and more roadblocks in Tripoli amid an increase in crime

As soon as night falls in Tripoli, scooters are no longer allowed to circulate, and roadblocks in the city are multiplying. These decisions were taken during an emergency meeting of the...

Souhaib Jawhar, 30 August 2021

The European Union has placed Lebanon back on the list of countries subject to COVID-19 related travel restrictions. The United States, Israel, Kosovo, Montenegro and the Republic of North Macedonia were also placed back on the list. Lebanon recorded 775 new Covid-19 cases Monday

30 August 2021

Families of the victims of the Beirut port blast demonstrated in front of top prosecutor Ghassan Oueidat's house in Baabda, accusing him of obstructing justice with regards to the explosion's investigation. The judge, surrounded by a security detail, came down to meet with them

30 August 2021

Lebanon has registered 775 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. Four people have died, raising the death toll to 8,048

30 August 2021

Three people were killed and three injured in an explosion at the Al-Shami factory for water heaters in Burj Al-Barajneh, Civil Defense regional head Saad Ahmar told L'Orient Today. The explosion was a result of some welding works being done at the factory, Ahmar said

30 August 2021

Another man seriously burned in the fuel tanker explosion in Akkar has died from his injuries, the NNA reports, naming the victim as Taleb al-Hasan. Hasan was receiving treatment in Kuwait at the time of his death

30 August 2021

General Security chief Abbas Ibrahim, who is close to both both President Michel Aoun and Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati, is mediating between them to break the obstacles preventing government formation, a source close to the presidency told L'Orient Today

30 August 2021

Tales of fumbling in the dark

First comes the absurdity, then, the drama. Without power at night, Lebanon is under a bell dome — a cone of silence from which some laughter, but mostly tears, break out. Sometimes, they even...

Julien RICOUR-BRASSEUR, 30 August 2021

The Alfa telephone network was interrupted for thousands of users for several hours after batteries were stolen from the company’s infrastructure in Kfar Meshki, near Rashaya in the Bekaa, LBCI reports. Twenty rechargeable batteries, estimated to be worth $20,000, were stolen

30 August 2021

To continue benefitting from subsidized flour, bakeries must now provide a weekly report of the number of bread bundles sold and the names of distributors who buy them, caretaker Economy Minister Raoul Nehme has announced, saying the move aims to end the black market for flour

30 August 2021

The National Federation of Worker and Employee Trade Unions in Lebanon and the truck drivers’ syndicate at the Beirut port have announced a strike starting from 6 a.m. tomorrow to protest the devaluation of their lira-denominated salaries amid the currency’s collapse

30 August 2021

Drug hoarding arrest, a third Iranian fuel ship, Syrian activists’ detained: Everything you need to know today

A former head of Lebanon’s pharmacists’ syndicate was arrested yesterday on accusations that he illegally stored vital medicines in an Ain al-Mreisseh warehouse. More than 130 boxes of medical...

30 August 2021