Several banks set to lower 161 withdrawal limits
According to information relayed by several local media outlets and confirmed by L'Orient Today through two banking sources, several banks in Lebanon are preparing to decrease the withdrawal...
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Geagea to all opposition forces: We have a responsibility to elect a rescue president
BEIRUT — During the 32nd mass of the “martyrs” of the Lebanese Forces who died during Lebanon's Civil War, the party’s leader Samir Geagea addressed “all opposition groups,” asking them to come...
4 September 2022
Hochstein in Lebanon 'at the end of next week'
BEIRUT — The American envoy Amos Hochstein, who supervises the indirect negotiations between Lebanon and Israel over their common maritime border, will visit Beirut at the end of next week, Deputy...
4 September 2022
Rain of medals for young Lebanese fencers
It has been a long time since a Lebanese fencing team has known such a harvest. From Aug. 26 to 31, the Lebanese youth shone on the boards of the Jordanian capital. At the West Asian junior fencing...
Gabriel BLONDEL, 4 September 2022
Families of the Aug. 4 blast victims gather in front of the port, 25 months after the tragedy
BEIRUT — To mark the 25th month since the explosion, relatives of the those killed in the deadly Aug. 4, 2020 port blast gathered Sunday afternoon in front of the Statue of the Emigrant, opposite...
4 September 2022
Shooting in Tripoli leaves one dead
BEIRUT — One woman was killed Sunday during a shooting in al-Mutran Street in Tripoli, after a fight broke out between a group of men, according to L’Orient Today ’s correspondents in the...
4 September 2022
Palestinians fire on bus with Israeli troops in West Bank, six hurt
JORDAN VALLEY, West Bank — Palestinians fired on an Israeli bus on a desert highway in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, Israeli military authorities and medics said, wounding five soldiers and the...
4 September 2022
Lebanese bank amnesty disguised as capital control law
A draft law on capital controls adopted by the government was studied by the joint parliamentary committees last Tuesday and then postponed indefinitely. Several versions of the bill have already...
Sibylle RIZK, 4 September 2022
Rai: 'The intentional presidential vacancy is a betrayal'
The head of the Maronite Church Bechara al-Rai said Sunday that "the intentional presidential vacancy is a betrayal," while some people fear a total political vacuum in the executive power in...
4 September 2022
Israeli military to conduct exercises on the border with Lebanon until Tuesday evening
BEIRUT — Israeli military exercises are set to begin Sunday at the border between Lebanon and Israel, and will continue until Tuesday evening, according to Arabic-speaking Israeli army spokesman...
4 September 2022
Seventy Lebanese migrants stuck aboard broken down boat
BEIRUT — Seventy Lebanese migrants are stuck aboard a broken down boat off the Maltese and Italian coasts, MP Ashraf Rifi (Independent/Tripoli) tweeted Sunday. Here’s what we know: ...
4 September 2022
From north to south, boats sail with slogans affirming Lebanon's right to its offshore gas wealth
BEIRUT — A number of boats set out from the port of Tripoli in the north, and Saida and Sour in the south, towards Naqoura, close to the Lebanese border with Israel on Sunday, to express the...
4 September 2022
'Environmental crime” in Byblos says MP Najat Aoun Saliba
BEIRUT — Opposition MP Najat Aoun Saliba tweeted Sunday morning about “an environmental crime” in which more than 1,000 perennial pine trees were cut down in Mayfouq-Byblos under the pretext...
4 September 2022
Hamas authorities execute five Palestinians
GAZA— Gaza's ruling Hamas Islamists executed five Palestinians on Sunday, two of them on charges of espionage for Israel that dated back to 2015 and 2009, the Interior Ministry said. The dawn...
