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FUEL SHORTAGES Fuel prices hiked to more than LL200,000 — almost a third of Lebanon’s monthly minimum wage
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Social Affairs Minister Hector Hajjar said in a statement that registration for the ration card program for vulnerable families, meant to begin Sept. 15, is delayed while he, the premier and the finance and economy ministers work out the “mechanism and criteria to implement” it
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Prime Minister Najib Mikati met late today with BDL Gov. Riad Salameh and Finance Minister Youssef Khalil to discuss the “economic recovery plan that the government plans to announce soon,” the premier’s media office reported
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Relatives of the Beirut port blast victims are protesting outside Public Prosecutor Ghassan Khoury’s house in Zouk Mikhael, accusing him of serving political interests and demanding he step aside. To date, no top officials have been held accountable for the deadly 2020 blast
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Prime Minister Najib Mikati is due to meet with French President Emmanuel Macron in France this Friday over a working lunch, L’Orient-Le Jour reports, citing the Élysée Palace’s agenda
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PORT INVESTIGATION Hezbollah threat targets port investigator; interrogations for three sitting MPs scheduled
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Army Intelligence has dismantled a terrorist cell affiliated with ISIS in Tripoli, the Lebanese Army reported via its Twitter account. The cell reportedly began activity last June and is responsible for the assassination of retired first adjutant Ahmad Mrad in August
14:55
Lebanon has registered 652 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. Six more people have died, raising the death toll to 8,246
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Baalbeck Mayor Fouad Baouk, accompanied by a police patrol, went around giving warnings to local food sellers that haven’t lowered prices following the recent appreciation of the lira’s market value, threatening to issue arrest warrants unless prices are adjusted, the NNA reports
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Gas station owners syndicate spokesperson Georges Brax told the NNA that tankers carrying about a two weeks’ supply of fuel, or over 100 million liters, are expected to offload today, which should lead a number of gas stations to reopen and temporarily alleviate fuel shortages
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