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Labor Minister decrees Palestinians can work in professions requiring syndicate membership
BEIRUT — Labor Minister Mustafa Bayram amended on Wednesday the regulations regarding professions restricted to Lebanese nationals, allowing Palestinians to work in trade-union regulated...
Abbas Mahfouz, 8 December 2021
Lebanon has registered 1,994 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. Nine people have died, bringing the death toll to 8,804
8 December 2021
What are the crisis-exit scenarios being prepared for Lebanon?
As things stand today, there is no clear vision as to the direction Lebanon is heading in. For many stakeholders, however, the land of the cedars cannot keep going down this path without rethinking...
Mounir RABIH, 8 December 2021
Relatives of detainees demand expedited trials and general amnesty, Bitar meets with port blast detainees' relatives
BEIRUT - Relatives of detainees in Lebanese prisons demanded that their incarcerated family members’ cases be processed and called for early release measures Wednesday, while Judge Tarek Bitar met...
8 December 2021
Due to the strong winds the country is experiencing, the Traffic Management Center has called on people not to park their vehicles near trees, billboards, or anything that could be blown over onto the driver or their vehicle
8 December 2021
Land transport unions’ strike cannot be averted: Tlais
BEIRUT — Land transport unions head Bassam Tlais told L’Orient Today that the unions’ strike planned for Thursday will go ahead across Lebanon and sit-ins will take place at assorted locations...
Tala Ramadan and Abbas Mahfouz, 8 December 2021
Electricité du Liban workers' union again calls for protests, this time from Thursday through Saturday
BEIRUT — For a second week in a row, the Electricité du Liban workers' union called on its members to stage sit-ins to protest the lack of renovations to its headquarters in Beirut and the...
8 December 2021
Aoun says efforts are underway to remove obstacles to restarting cabinet meetings
BEIRUT — President Michel Aoun assured Wednesday that “calls are underway to remove the obstacles to the resumption of cabinet meetings.” Cabinet last convened on Oct. 12, but no meeting has been...
8 December 2021
Bitar resumes work on port blast investigation
BEIRUT — Beirut port blast investigation head Judge Tarek Bitar resumed work on the probe in his office at the Justice Palace on Wednesday after he was officially informed of the Court of Appeal’s...
8 December 2021
Is Lebanon capable of turning the page on its current chapter?
The crisis plaguing Lebanon is in large part the result of a political system that appears to have run out steam and is unable to reinvent itself. Governance has been paralyzed for years, while...
Mounir RABIH, 8 December 2021
Suspected Syria to Lebanon human smuggling ring dismantled
BEIRUT - The Internal Security Forces arrested on Dec. 3 three men suspected of organizing illegal crossings at the Lebanese-Syrian border, it announced in a statement Wednesday. Here’s what we...
8 December 2021
In Baabda, Grillo defines Paris’ red lines
A few days after the launch by French President Emmanuel Macron of a Saudi-French initiative to restore relations between Beirut and Riyadh — following the recent diplomatic row over now former...
Yara ABI AKL, 8 December 2021
Saudi Arabia, Oman urge Lebanon to prevent ‘terrorist acts which destabilize the region’
BEIRUT — In a joint statement issued Tuesday, Saudi Arabia and Oman urged Lebanon to prevent “terrorist acts which destabilize the region.” Here’s what we know: • The statement,...
8 December 2021
General Security frees US journalist hours after rights groups issue statement demanding her release
BEIRUT — The US journalist Nada Homsi, who was detained on Nov. 16, has been released, Diala Haidar, a human rights campaigner at Amnesty International, told to L’Orient Today on Wednesday...
Tala Ramadan, 8 December 2021
Blast probe to resume, IMF in Beirut, Hezbollah MP’s brother briefly kidnapped: All you need to know today
The probe into the 2020 Beirut port explosion is set to resume after a weekslong pause brought on by legal challenges. On Tuesday, a Beirut Court of Appeals rejected a suit filed by former...
