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Waste management company Ramco will stop collecting trash in Beirut, Metn and Kesrouan this week if the government does not agree to pay it in local dollars, rather than lira, company director Walid Bou Saad told L'Orient Today. "It could be any day," he warned
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Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri met with President Michel Aoun this afternoon, the president's office says. This was the pair's second meeting this weekend as Hariri works to form what he has pledged will be a government of specialists
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The Interior Ministry has ordered 63 towns and villages to go on lockdown from Monday at 6 a.m. until Nov. 2 to prevent the spread of COVID-19. All bars and nightclubs in Lebanon are to remain closed and a 1-6 a.m. curfew remains in place
17:22
A man has been killed in a forest fire in the Jezzine town of Mjaydel, the NNA reports. Civil Defense is on the scene trying to extinguish the blaze, which has now surrounded a number of homes
15:51
Former MP Sayed Akl has died at age 89 after a long battle with illness. He was elected to represent Batroun in 1968, 1992, 1996 and 2000.
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The Disaster Risk Management unit has warned of a high risk of forest fires across Lebanon today, with extreme risk in areas including Jbeil, Chouf and Nabatieh as temperatures reach 35°C. Meanwhile, efforts are ongoing to put out a blaze in the Sur Nature Reserve
20:28
Lebanon registers 1,427 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the number of active cases to 35,906. Three more people have died from the virus, raising the death toll to 562
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The pharmacists' syndicate has called on central bank governor Riad Salameh to exempt the medical sector from a recent rule requiring cash lira to make use of the official, subsidized exchange rate for vital imports, warning of "catastrophic" consequences to the sector otherwise
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Civil Defense head Raymond Khattar has instructed the organization's units to refill their trucks with fuel from the army by the end of the month as temporary funds provided through the Higher Relief Committee run out, he tells L'Orient Today
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The exchange rate has returned to approximately LL7,000 to the dollar, according to money changers surveyed by L'Orient Today
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