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Social affairs minister says World Bank has conditions before it will fund ration card program
BEIRUT — Social Affairs Minister Hector Hajjar said Monday that the World Bank demanded three conditions before agreeing to fund a ration card program meant to assist vulnerable families in...
7 March 2022
BDL rents Parisian offices from a former companion of Riad Salameh
New reports on Lebanon’s Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh’s assets and fortune continue to emerge. In October 2021, French investigators dedicated two days to searching the premises of a BDL...
Nada MAUCOURANT ATALLAH, 7 March 2022
Parliament's Finance and Budget Committee approves additional appropriation to finance overseas voting
BEIRUT — Parliament’s Finance and Budget Committee on Monday approved both funding for passports and an additional appropriation to finance elections abroad, the committee’s head MP Ibrahim Kanaan...
Rana Tabbara, 7 March 2022
Return of the fuel lines gives Lebanese drivers flashbacks of last summer's crisis
BEIRUT — A line of people waiting to fill up their cars with fuel this morning at the Medco gas station in Baabda was longer than it had been in months. Global oil prices have escalated...
Kim Makhlouf, 7 March 2022
Mawlawi: Holding elections on time more important than voting megacenters
BEIRUT — Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi Monday said that implementation of voting megacenters during the upcoming parliamentary elections, scheduled for May 15, “is a good reform step, but the...
7 March 2022
Brawl breaks out at Beirut Book Fair after visitors try to remove Qassem Soleimani poster
BEIRUT — A scuffle broke out this morning at the Beirut International and Arab Book Fair after a visitor attacked a poster of Iranian Quds Force commander Qassem Solaimani, who was...
Farah-Silvana Kanaan, 7 March 2022
Police arrest two Syrians suspected of involvement in the murder of Hubert Fattal
BEIRUT — Lebanese Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi announced Monday that police have arrested two Syrians suspected of being involved in the murder of Hubert Fattal , CEO of the Fattal...
7 March 2022
Opposition is organizing its list in Baalbeck-Hermel
"Against confessionalism ... Thawra!" The atmosphere in Tammouz Hall, in the middle of Baalbeck, was galvanized Sunday. After the audience recited the slogans of the October 17, 2019, protest...
Salah HIJAZI, 7 March 2022
Iraq and Lebanon announce measures to consolidate trade ties
BEIRUT — Following meetings between Iraqi and Lebanese delegations, Industry Minister Georges Bouchikian announced that Lebanese will have access to six-month-long multiple-entry visas to Iraq,...
7 March 2022
Lebanon's central bank opens lines of credit to facilitate wheat imports
BEIRUT – Industry Minister Georges Bouchikian said Monday that Banque du Liban has opened lines of credit for wheat imports following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Lebanon imports 60 percent of...
7 March 2022
Cryptocurrency gives rise to new ‘mining’ towns in Lebanon
IQLIM AL-KHARRUB — It’s a quiet Sunday afternoon in the middle of the Chouf mountains. Families make their way for a weekend picnic in the nearby forest. People are racing on their ATVs in the...
Mohamad El Chamaa, 7 March 2022
Stock of fuel in Lebanon 'sufficient for 15 days,' energy minister says
BEIRUT — Energy Minister Walid Fayad assured Monday that “the stock of fuel [in Lebanon] is sufficient for at least 15 days.” Meanwhile, cars continued to queue at gas stations for a third...
7 March 2022
Ogero announces service outage in Ras Beirut
BEIRUT — State telecommunications provider Ogero announced a service outage in the Ras Beirut area on Sunday night due to the overloading of its generators, the company tweeted. Here’s what we...
7 March 2022
Another evacuation flight of Lebanese in Ukraine lands at Beirut international airport
BEIRUT — Some 105 Lebanese students pursuing university degrees in Ukraine arrived in Beirut late Sunday night from Warsaw, the capital of Poland, the state-run National News Agency reported....
7 March 2022
New gasoline crisis fears, budget draft changes, Fattal CEO murdered: All you need to know this Monday
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Amid fears of a new fuel shortage, lengthy queues reappeared at gas stations across Lebanon over the weekend. The long queues...
