Lebanon: The spectacle of disintegration
It was clear to everyone that hunger, poverty, the absence of a state and of leadership would set the country alight, starting with Tripoli. As foreseen, violence is in the streets. And this is...
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In-store grocery shopping resumes as ICU occupancy falls slightly for some hospitals
BEIRUT — As the gradual eight-week phasing out of the strict coronavirus lockdown began Monday, hospitals continued to struggle under the strain of running near-full COVID-19 units. The Health...
Emily Lewis, 8 February 2021
Lebanon has registered 2,063 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. Sixty-one more people have died, bringing the total death toll to 3,677
8 February 2021
Former army chief Jean Kahwaji has been summoned to appear Thursday before Judge Fadi Sawwan as a witness in the Beirut port explosion case, a judicial source told L'Orient Today. Sawwan has also set several other hearings related to the investigation, the NNA reports
8 February 2021
Those wishing to go to a supermarket are required to fill out a permit request form at covid.pcm.gov.lb, specifying the location of the store they will visit. They will then receive a permit — valid for two hours — and a QR code, which will be scanned upon arrival at the store
8 February 2021
There was crowding at the entrances to some newly reopened supermarkets today, with revised lockdown rules requiring shoppers to have their permits scanned upon entrance. The new procedures have led, in some cases, to confusion and bottlenecks
8 February 2021
The family of murdered activist Lokman Slim, in a statement, denied reports that they are not cooperating with local authorities. While some of his family members have called for an international investigation, the statement said they are cooperating with the local investigation
8 February 2021
Caretaker Justice Minister Marie-Claude Najm and the head of the Supreme Judicial Council, Judge Suhail Abboud, have extended the suspension of sessions in courts and judicial offices, excluding sentencing sessions, until Feb. 22, the NNA reports
8 February 2021
Eviction has become an all too familiar scenario in refugee and migrant worker communities
BEIRUT — For nearly a year, Khaled and his two young daughters have been without a home, after he lost his job as a tutor and was unable to keep up with rent payments. Since then, the small Syrian...
Emily Lewis, 8 February 2021
President Michel Aoun has said that the German company tasked with disposing of chemicals found at the Beirut port has removed inflammable substances stored in 52 containers and is ready to transport these substances, the NNA reports
8 February 2021
Riad Salameh’s lawyer has presented formal pleas challenging the case brought against the BDL governor by Judge Nicolas Mansour, the NNA reports. Salameh faces charges in relation to the alleged misuse of millions of dollars provided by the central bank to fund imports
8 February 2021
Dozens of protesters are staging a sit-in in front of the military court in Beirut to demand the release of those detained following demonstrations in Tripoli at the end of January
8 February 2021
Judge Charbel Bou Samra has issued an arrest warrant for Ibrahim Ghazal — who is reportedly in Turkey — in relation to the murder of his wife Zeina Kanjo, the NNA reports. Kanjo, who had previously filed domestic violence complaints, was found dead in Ghazal's apartment
8 February 2021
The chair of Parliament’s health committee, MP Assem Araji (Future/Zahle), told VDL radio 93.3 that the UK variant of COVID-19 is spreading in Lebanon, but the country “does not have laboratories to detect if the strain is rapidly spreading”
8 February 2021
Firass Abiad, the general manager of Rafik Hariri University Hospital, has tweeted that the facility aims to inoculate more than 500 people per day once the COVID-19 vaccine rolls out next week. The priority will be to vaccinate health care personnel first, he said
8 February 2021
MP Jean Obeid (Azm bloc/Tripoli) has died from COVID-19, the NNA reports
8 February 2021
Jean Obeid dies, phased lockdown lifting, calls for Slim murder probe: Everything you need to know this Monday
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Jean Obeid has died of complications from COVID-19. The Tripoli MP had served in several ministerial roles, including as foreign...
