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The Education Ministry has canceled ninth grade brevet exams and equivalent vocational and technical exams due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the situation in the country. The 12th grade baccalaureate exams will go ahead
5 July 2021
Hezbollah is laying the groundwork to make Iran’s plan a reality
“If the state does not have what it takes, we will negotiate the purchase of fuel from Tehran,” Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah said on June 8. As Lebanon grappled with its ongoing...
Mounir RABIH, 5 July 2021
Lebanon has registered 101 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. Two more people have died, bringing the total death toll to 7,863
5 July 2021
BDL Gov. Riad Salameh has said in a statement that the central bank will pay invoices for imports of wheat and chronic disease medications prioritized by the Health Ministry. BDL will meet invoices up to a limit of $400 million to avoid using its mandatory reserves
5 July 2021
The United States administration is preventing Lebanon from getting help from “friendly nations” in the East, such as China, Hezbollah Secretary-General Hasan Nasrallah has said
BEIRUT — The United States administration is preventing Lebanon from getting help from “friendly nations” in the East, such as China, Hezbollah Secretary-General Hasan Nasrallah has said. “There...
Emily Lewis, 5 July 2021
Twenty-four out of 36 sites along Lebanon’s coast are safe for swimming, the National Council for Scientific Research’s annual report states. Of the unsafe sites, 8 are highly polluted, including the Selaata coastal waters, where researchers recorded dangerous chemical pollution
5 July 2021
The central bank is in the process of opening a line of credit for the import of gas oil for the Deir Ammar and Zahrani power plants, L’Orient-Le Jour reports. Électricité du Liban warned on Friday that it would be forced to shut down these plants if it did not receive the fuel
5 July 2021
Parliament’s Media and Communications Committee and state telecoms company Ogero have agreed to draft a law granting Ogero additional funds to ensure it can keep buying fuel and providing services. Internet outages are increasingly common amid generator failures and power cuts
5 July 2021
Bassam Tleis, who heads the land transport unions, told L’Orient Today that he will meet with caretaker Premier Hassan Diab on Tuesday to try to procure monthly ration cards for drivers that will be loaded with LL500,000 and also cover fuel expenses
5 July 2021
How Hezbollah infiltrated the Lebanese state — part II of II
Part II: Hezbollah’s takeover of the Lebanese state. Read Part I here. Scores of people flocked to Beirut’s Riad al-Solh Square, waving Lebanese flags and chanting slogans calling for unity....
Mounir RABIH, 5 July 2021
A family of five in Lebanon now has to spend more than three times the minimum wage for main meals for a month — or about LL2.1 million a month — while about three-quarters of families have a monthly income of less than LL2.4 million, a report from the Financial Crisis Observatory has found
5 July 2021
Bread crisis averted, medicine stocks low, COVID-19 Delta variant: Everything you need to know today
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up. Possible hitches in bread production have been avoided for the time being after bakeries began receiving diesel. The head of the...
