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The Litani River Authority will lodge a judicial complaint over KFC-branded waste found on the river’s banks

BEIRUT — The Litani River Authority is preparing to lodge a judicial complaint against the owners of the Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise in Lebanon after it found a large quantity of KFC-branded...

31 July 2021

Lebanon has registered 984 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. Three more people have died, raising the death toll to 7,906

31 July 2021

The Free Patriotic Movement has called in a statement for Lebanese officials to give up their immunity in relation to the Beirut blast probe and testify as requested before the investigating judge. Judge Tarek Bitar has sought to lift immunity from three sitting MPs

31 July 2021

Two new fires have broken out near the village of Akkar al-Atiqa in northern Lebanon, the NNA reports. The reports of the new fires come after flames, which had ravaged the region since Wednesday, appeared to have been brought under control on Friday evening

31 July 2021

‘I’m expected to pay for their crime’: Many left with lifelong disabilities continue to foot huge medical bills

BEIRUT — The last time Abbas Mazloum walked was on Aug. 4, 2020. That day, less than 2 kilometers away from Beirut port, Mazloum was at the Mar Mikhael restaurant where he worked as a chef. He was...

Ghada Alsharif, 31 July 2021

Taxi drivers briefly blocked the highway leading to Tripoli near the Palma resort this afternoon to protest the lack of fuel, L’Orient-Le Jour’s journalist Philippe Hage Boutros reports

31 July 2021

Electricité du Liban warns of even more drastic electricity rationing

BEIRUT — Electricité du Liban warned on Saturday that it may have to further ration, or even completely halt, its already severely restricted supply of power to the country if it fails to secure...

31 July 2021

Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Joumblatt has issued an “open letter” on Twitter accusing certain media groups of propagating aggression against him and his family, including “calls for hatred and murder,” without naming any specific media outlets

31 July 2021

One person has been killed during an army raid on a drug-manufacturing operation in the Baalbeck-Hermel region, the Bekaa correspondent for our sister publication L’Orient-Le Jour reports

31 July 2021

Navigating Lebanon’s looming water crisis

UNICEF’s representative in Lebanon, Yukie Mokuo, caused a media storm in the country on July 23 when she declared in a statement that most water pumping will gradually cease across the country in...

Nadim FARAJALLA, 31 July 2021

"One Year Since the Beirut Port Explosion: Justice Now," by the Art of Boo

Bernard Hage, illustrator, cartoonist and musician and author of "Anatomy of a Hummus Plate," published in April 2021 by L'Orient-Le Jour and available on www.theartofboo.com, tries to make...

31 July 2021