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Brevet students rejoice at exam cancelation while baccalaureate candidates question why their papers must go ahead
BEIRUT — Lebanese brevet students breathed a sigh of relief on Monday evening when the Education Ministry announced the cancelation of their official exams. The news came after weeks of back and...
Tala Ramadan, 6 July 2021
Lebanon has registered 294 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. Two more people have died, bringing the total death toll to 7,865
6 July 2021
Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani has arrived in Beirut for an official visit aimed at resolving the 11-month cabinet formation deadlock. The minister is set to meet with President Michel Aoun, PM-designate Saad Hariri and Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri
6 July 2021
The deterioration of cranes at Beirut port is slowing down the unloading of ships and causing severe congestion, the International Chamber of Navigation in Beirut has said. In June the chamber said only six of 16 cranes were operational due to difficulties paying for spare parts
6 July 2021
The Union of Governmental Hospital Workers has called for the payment of late salaries and increased living allowances, saying that staff are “financially, economically and psychologically exhausted” and now face an extra burden due to the arrival of the COVID-19 Delta variant
6 July 2021
As Parliament’s Administration and Justice Committee met to discuss a draft capital control law, committee head Georges Adwan questioned the law’s value in the absence of structural financial reform. “Without a comprehensive recovery plan ... what are we talking about?” he said
6 July 2021
Hospitals expect to receive diesel to run their generators from Wednesday thanks to a “serious promise” by the General Directorate of Oil to meet their fuel needs, private hospital syndicate head Sleiman Haroun has announced
6 July 2021
State Security says it has opened an investigation into a fight that broke out earlier today at a gas station in Furn al-Shubbak between members of the agency. Videos shared on social media show security officials, some in uniform and others in civilian clothes, exchanging blows
6 July 2021
The pharmacy owners’ association has threatened a full strike unless it receives a list of medicines that will be subsidized by tomorrow. Pharmacies have shut down in recent weeks to protest drug shortages that they blame on delays in BDL honoring payments for subsidized goods
6 July 2021
Clashes broke out this afternoon between a number of people who gathered before the Energy Ministry in Beirut to protest electricity cuts and security forces who tried to open the road, the NNA reports
6 July 2021
Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has called for a joint committee session on Friday to discuss a request from the lead investigator into the Beirut port explosion to lift parliamentary legal immunity from three MPs
BEIRUT — Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has called for a joint session on Friday to discuss a request from the lead investigator into the Beirut port explosion to lift parliamentary legal immunity...
Wael Taleb, 6 July 2021
Lebanon is ‘days away’ from social explosion, Diab warns
BEIRUT — Lebanon is a few days away from a social explosion, caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab warned on Tuesday, calling on the international community to save a country in deep economic...
6 July 2021
In a speech on Tuesday, caretaker Premier Hassan Diab said Lebanon is on the verge of a collapse “whose repercussions will resonate outside Lebanon's borders,” calling on the international community to help save the country from a “social explosion.”
6 July 2021
Ruinous food costs, beach pollution, exam cancelations: Everything you need to know to start your Tuesday
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up. A month’s worth of main meals for a family of five now costs more than three times Lebanon’s minimum wage. The finding, from a...
