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Lebanon has registered 300 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. Five people have died, raising the death toll to 8,430
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In a statement, the Amal Movement says Thursday’s Tayyouneh clashes were incited with the aim of causing civil strife, and accused Judge Tarek Bitar of being responsible. “We will not allow this to happen,” it adds, calling for Bitar’s removal from the Beirut blast probe
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CABINET Mikati says cabinet will not convene before finding a solution to disagreements over the port blast probe
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One person has been injured as armed fighting continues for a second consecutive day between two rival families in the area of Wadi Jamous in North Lebanon, L’Orient-Le Jour reports
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PORT INVESTIGATION Hoteit issues second video, asserting he spoke freely when calling for the port blast investigator’s resignation
18:39
A fire that broke out in fields of dry grass in Jabal al-Sheikh Abdel Wahab, near the village of Birqayel in Akkar, is rapidly gaining ground, L’Orient-Le Jour reports. Locals have called on the Civil Defense for assistance, it adds
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The Oct. 17 anniversary demonstrators have moved with the “torch of the revolution” from Martyrs’ Square to the Beirut port. They will now light the torch there at 6:07 p.m.
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A dispute between two families today in the Wadi Jamous village in Akkar degenerated into armed clashes and rocket fire, L’Orient-Le Jour reports, adding that the army intervened to calm the situation and as yet no details are available on the number of injuries in the incident
17:14
The mobile telecommunications networks of operators Alfa and MTC temporarily went offline this afternoon in Hermel, in the north of Bekaa, the NNA reports. The causes of the failure have not been identified
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More protesters have arrived at Martyrs’ Square. Over 300 people are now present and are gathering near the ‘torch of the revolution’ which will be lit at 6:07 p.m. — a time symbolic for being the moment at which the 2020 Beirut port explosion occurred
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