Joseph Bahout: No civil war, for now
Sectarian incidents over the weekend between the residents of Christian-majority Maghdoucheh and Shiite-majority Anqoun in southern Lebanon, against the backdrop of fuel shortages and the...
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Thousands of out-of-stock pills found in raids, minister says
BEIRUT — Nearly 7,000 pills of out-of-stock medicine were seized during further warehouse raids, caretaker Health Minister Hamad Hassan announced on Tuesday. Here’s what we know: ...
31 August 2021
Lebanon has registered 1,040 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. Five more people have died, raising the death toll to 8,053
31 August 2021
Port blast investigator Tarek Bitar has issued an arrest warrant for senior customs official Hani Haj Shehadeh after questioning him for six hours today, a judicial source tells L’Orient Today. State prosecutor Ghassan Khoury charged Shehadeh in the case in November
31 August 2021
Lebanon’s ‘new poor’ pull children out of private school
BEIRUT — Roula Mrad wanted to give her children a head start in life with a private education, but Lebanon’s economic crisis is forcing her to move them to the substandard state system. “My...
31 August 2021
Caretaker Health Minister Hamad Hassan said that following a judicial order, the ministry will distribute confiscated medicine and infant formula free of charge at its centers
31 August 2021
Parliament’s Finance and Budget Committee, chaired by MP Ibrahim Kanaan, has approved an additional allocation of LL1,200 billion for the urgent needs of the army and the health, fuel and education sectors. The allocation still needs to be approved in Parliament before it can be disbursed
31 August 2021
Lebanese millers warn of production halt due to fuel shortages
BEIRUT — The Lebanese flour millers’ association said on Tuesday fuel shortages were threatening bread production and mills would gradually stop working after supplies ran out....
31 August 2021
Caretaker Interior Minister Mohamed Fehmi warned in an interview with Al Joumhouria newspaper that “there aren’t enough ISF members to monitor the gas stations and prevent smuggling and illegal storage,” explaining that many members are deserting due to insufficient pay
31 August 2021
Truck drivers at the Beirut port are on strike today to protest the devaluation of their salaries, the head of the Federation of Workers and Employees Trade Unions told L’Orient Today, saying that if demands are not met an open-ended strike will ensue from Thursday
31 August 2021
A new side hustle: Some find opportunity in filling up their neighbors’ cars amid fuel crisis
BEIRUT — In the midst of the fuel crisis, Moustapha Wehbe has found a new side hustle. The 19-year-old university student goes to his food delivery service job during the day, comes back home at 8...
Tala Ramadan, 31 August 2021
Fuel prices have decreased slightly. The price of 20 liters of 95-octane gas fell by LL1,600 to LL126,600; 98-octane, by LL1,600 to LL130,800; and diesel, by LL700 to LL98,100. A tank of household gas now costs LL91,400
31 August 2021
Factory blast kills four, Akkar toll climbs again, UNIFIL mandate renewed: Everything you need to know today
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . An explosion at Al-Shami factory for water heaters in Burj al-Barajneh yesterday killed four people. The explosion was triggered...
