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Egypt close to finalizing arrangements for gas supplies to Lebanon
CAIRO — Egypt is finalizing arrangements to start supplying gas to Lebanon soon under a plan to help ease Lebanon’s power crisis, the two countries’ energy ministers said after meeting on...
5 October 2021
Mikati says family’s wealth is legal in response to ‘Pandora Papers’
BEIRUT — Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati’s family wealth comes from a communications business that has been audited in the past and is legal, a statement by his office said on Tuesday in...
5 October 2021
Judge Tarek Bitar has reportedly set interrogation dates for MPs Ali Hassan Khalil (Oct. 12), Nohad Machnouk (Oct. 13) and Ghazi Zeaiter (Oct. 13) in the Beirut port explosion probe. Former Premier Hassan Diab’s questioning has been set for Oct. 28
5 October 2021
Postgraduate studies amid the collapse: Chadi’s story
BEIRUT — Chadi Abdullah, a first-year master’s student in dentistry, often reminisces about his undergraduate years. In those not-so-far-gone days — before the onset of Lebanon’s economic crisis in...
Rana Tabbara, 5 October 2021
The Lebanese University’s full-time professors committee has announced that full-time professors will protest their salaries’ devaluation by refusing to teach indefinitely, though they will correct entrance exams in a gesture of goodwill toward new Education Minister Abbas Halabi
5 October 2021
Lebanon has registered 728 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. Seven people have died, raising the death toll to 8,363
5 October 2021
Free Patriotic Movement head Gebran Bassil said during a televised interview that more than 4,000 diaspora voters have so far registered to vote in the 2022 elections. He also voiced his opposition to anything other than minor amendments to the electoral law
5 October 2021
The army has announced that it seized 28,275 kilograms of ammonium nitrate — the same chemical whose detonation caused the Beirut port explosion — and arrested three suspects linked to it during a raid on a gas station in Arsal, Baalbeck. The suspects are undergoing interrogations
5 October 2021
A group of Sunni MPs has proposed amending Article 21 of the Constitution to lower the voting age from 21 to 18. “I don't think there is a reason some 18-year-olds should not participate in political life by voting and amplifying their voices,” MP Sami Fatfat (Future/Dinieh) says
5 October 2021
Beirut port explosion: Who has an interest in sidelining the lead investigator?
The same ludicrous scenario was playing out once again. Seven months after having gotten rid of Fadi Sawwan, the judge initially appointed to investigate the 2020 Beirut port explosion, the...
Salah Hijazi, 5 October 2021
The Lebanese University Workers' Association has announced a strike for the month of October, during which they will only be working on Wednesdays, to protest the disparity between the financial support allocated for academic and non-academic staff, the NNA reports
5 October 2021
The military court, chaired by General Mounir Chehade, handed down a death sentence to four Syrian men convicted in the killing of Lebanese Army forces during 2014 battles between the army and the al-Nusra Front in Arsal, while one man was sentenced to life in prison, NNA reports
5 October 2021
‘Doxxing’ activists dole out virtual justice for Lebanon collapse
BEIRUT — Livestreams of politicians being harangued at restaurants and screenshots of bankers' addresses: frustrated by the lack of accountability for their country's collapse, Lebanon's digital...
Timour Azhari, 5 October 2021
Polish authorities warn would-be migrants in Lebanon against Belarus route
BEIRUT — The Polish Embassy in Lebanon posted a statement from the country’s foreign ministry warning would-be asylum seekers against trying to enter Poland by way of Belarus. Since the summer, a...
5 October 2021
Port investigation head judge Tarek Bitar resumed work Tuesday after the Beirut Court of Appeals rejected claims against him by MPs Nouhad Machnouk, Ali Hassan Khalil and Ghazi Zeaiter, L'Orient-Le Jour reports. The MPs have no immunity until Parliament returns to session Oct. 19
5 October 2021
The Access Center for Human Rights, which has been tracking the case of six Syrians who were arrested near the Syrian embassy in Baabda in August, called on authorities to implement General Security's Sept. 14 decision to release them. The Center says the men are still detained
5 October 2021
Apartment prices in Beirut in 2021: How much is an apartment in Achrafieh?
This is part I of a three-part series on property prices in Beirut. The next part will focus on Ras Beirut, while part III will focus on Downtown. The real estate market in Beirut has changed...
Guillaume Boudisseau, 5 October 2021
Port blast appeal tossed, public hospital workers strike, Beirut-born Nobel laureate: What to know today
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . The Beirut port blast probe can resume after the Beirut Court of Appeals rejected lawsuits from three MPs who requested head...
