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Open Sky Aviation has issued a statement offering condolences to the families of three people killed when one of its aircraft crashed in Kesrouan on Thursday afternoon. It says an investigation is ongoing and the victims’ families will be told as soon as it reaches a conclusion
9 July 2021
Lebanese digital rights organization SMEX has recommended against using the Health Ministry’s “GrabAJab” vaccination website because personal data submitted to it is not secure and vulnerable to hacking. SMEX has also called on the ministry to conduct a digital security audit
9 July 2021
Armed men have opened fire on an electricity station in the Baalbeck neighborhood of Sharawena in protest of ongoing power cuts, L’Orient-Le Jour’s local correspondent reports. It is the second such incident in two days
9 July 2021
Production at the Deir Ammar power plant should gradually resume Saturday morning after payment was made to the fuel supplier and a tanker that had been waiting at sea began unloading gas oil, EDL has announced. A second tanker is still awaiting payment off the coast of Zahrani
9 July 2021
The Health Ministry will hold successive meetings on Monday to discuss potential solutions to ongoing medicine shortages, including launching tenders for state insurance companies to import chronic disease medication, the ministry says in a statement
9 July 2021
During a visit to Saudi Arabia on Thursday, the US and French ambassadors to Lebanon “stressed the desperate need for a fully empowered government that is committed to and able to implement reforms,” a joint statement released on Friday says
9 July 2021
One man’s crisis is another man’s livelihood: A parallel market initiative nourished by the fuel shortage
Ali, 40, has a family to provide for but no job. For him, the countrywide fuel crisis is an unlikely gift. In the everyday challenge that drivers face to find gasoline, he has found an unexpected...
Mohammed YASSINE, 9 July 2021
Lebanon has registered 404 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. Two more people have died, bringing the total death toll to 7,871
9 July 2021
Caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab has sent a letter to the caretaker interior, energy, justice, defense, finance and economy ministers, as well as the General Directorate of State Security, asking them to combat the smuggling and hoarding of fuel and the manipulation of prices
9 July 2021
MP and former Interior Minister Nouhad Machnouk said from Ain al-Tineh that he is “ready to give all the input needed” for the Beirut blast probe. Investigating Judge Tarek Bitar requested Machnouk’s and two other MPs’ parliamentary immunity be lifted so he could prosecute them
9 July 2021
Families of victims of the Aug. 4 explosion have blocked the road in front of the Interior Ministry in Sanayeh, chanting “down with Mohamed Fehmi.” Caretaker Interior Minister Fehmi rejected Judge Tarek Bitar’s request to interrogate General Security head Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim
9 July 2021
In a report submitted to Judge Tarek Bitar, French forensic experts have ruled out an airstrike as the cause of the Aug. 4 Beirut port explosion, a source close to the investigation has told L'Orient-Le Jour
9 July 2021
The Caretaker Prime Minister Mohammad Fahmi has rejected Beirut blast investigator judge Tarek Bitar’s request to question Chief Security Abbas Ibrahim Reuters reported.
BEIRUT — Lebanon’s caretaker interior minister has rejected a request by the lead investigator on the Beirut port explosion to question the country’s security chief, judicial and security sources...
9 July 2021
Only five out of 16 cranes at Beirut port’s container terminal are now operational, the International Chamber of Navigation in Beirut said in its second statement this week decrying the deterioration of port facilities due to trouble transferring funds abroad for spare parts
9 July 2021
Parliamentarians will decide on MPs’ immunity in blast probe in two weeks’ time
BEIRUT — Lebanon’s parliamentarians have set a 15-day timeline to reach a decision on whether or not to lift immunity from three sitting MPs, a media spokesperson at Parliament Speaker Nabih...
Ghada Alsharif, 9 July 2021
Parliament will decide whether to lift immunity from three MPs “within 15 days,” after Parliament’s Secretariat and the Administration and Justice Committee finish reviewing Bitar’s request, a spokesperson from Speaker Nabih Berri’s Ain al-Tineh residence told L’Orient Today
9 July 2021
The Bekaa, North Lebanon and South Lebanon water establishments have announced that they will have to ration water due to diesel shortages and power cuts. A similar announcement was made yesterday by the Beirut and Mount Lebanon Water Establishment
9 July 2021
A scuffle broke out on Friday between security forces and families of victims of the Beirut blast outside Speaker Nabih Berri’s residence, as a meeting was held to discuss Judge Tarek Bitar’s request to lift immunity from three MPs
9 July 2021
With shelves empty, pharmacy owners must choose between pressuring BDL and keeping their doors open for needy residents
BEIRUT — A general strike called for on Wednesday has brought Lebanon’s pharmacy owners to a crossroads, several owners told L’Orient Today : strike to pressure the central bank to honor subsidy...
Rana Tabbara, 9 July 2021
Électricité de Zahlé, which until now has provided 24/7 electricity in Zahle and surrounding villages, announced that it is rationing power for industrial customers and asked customers to conserve energy to avoid power cuts for residential users
BEIRUT — Power cuts have finally reached even Électricité de Zahlé, which for years has been seen as a success story in the midst of Lebanon’s chronic electricity issues. Until now, the company...
Abby Sewell, 9 July 2021
Caretaker Interior Minister Mohamed Fehmi has rejected Judge Tarek Bitar’s request to question the head of General Security, Abbas Ibrahim, in the Beirut blast probe, sources tell Reuters
BEIRUT — Lebanon’s caretaker interior minister has rejected a request by the lead investigator into the Beirut port explosion to question one of its top security chiefs, according a document seen...
9 July 2021
A Syrian man has died after being shot in the head by a stray bullet while standing on his balcony in Fneideq, Akkar, the village’s mayor told L’Orient Today. The shot was fired during a fight that broke out on Thursday at a nearby gas station over whose turn it was to gas up
9 July 2021
Power plants in Zahrani and Deir Ammar have shut down, EDL has announced, after BDL failed to open lines of credit with foreign banks to pay for two gas oil shipments that have been anchored off the Lebanese coast since June 28 and July 4
9 July 2021
The lira’s value continued its nosedive on Friday, with money exchangers buying and selling US dollars for more than LL19,000
BEIRUT — The lira’s value continued its nosedive on Friday, with money exchangers buying and selling US dollars for more than LL19,000. Speaking with L’Orient Today , several exchangers variously...
9 July 2021
Plane crash kills three, parliamentary immunity debate, water supply disruption: Everything you need to know today
Three people were killed when a small recreational plane crashed in Kesrouan. The Cessna aircraft, owned and operated by the aviation company Open Sky, came down close to residential buildings...
