Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Catch up on yesterday's live coverage.Wednesday, March 12, 2025.Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch today:• 10 a.m.: Cabinet session at the Presidential Palace in Baabda. Army and security appointments expected.• The status of a Lebanese soldier abducted by Israel who was supposed to be released Wednesday.• Updates on the Gaza cease-fire as talks in Doha resume. Federal Bank ordered to pay back savings to depositor who held up a branch in 2022: A Beirut court ordered Federal Bank to restitute $178,000, in cash, to depositor Bassam al-Sheikh Hussain, who sued to access his savings after retrieving part of his informally frozen funds at gunpoint in 2022. A month after Aballah al-Sai, gas canister in hand at a Bekaa BBAC branch, became the first depositor to...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Catch up on yesterday's live coverage.Wednesday, March 12, 2025.Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch today:• 10 a.m.: Cabinet session at the Presidential Palace in Baabda. Army and security appointments expected.• The status of a Lebanese soldier abducted by Israel who was supposed to be released Wednesday.• Updates on the Gaza cease-fire as talks in Doha resume. Federal Bank ordered to pay back savings to depositor who held up a branch in 2022: A Beirut court ordered Federal Bank to restitute $178,000, in cash, to depositor Bassam al-Sheikh Hussain, who sued to access his savings after retrieving part of his informally frozen funds at gunpoint in 2022. A month after Aballah al-Sai, gas canister in hand at a Bekaa BBAC branch, became the first depositor...