17:10
16:58
George Adwan, speaking on behalf of the Lebanese Forces, said the party is not interested in holding any ministry. He put forward no specific demands, but said politicians do not have the luxury of time and that a cabinet should be formed in a week to 10 days
16:15
For the first time since mid-August, the dollar market price drops below LL7,000, following today's parliamentary consultations held by PM-designate Saad Hariri on forming a new government
16:08
Assaad Hardan, speaking on behalf of Syrian Social Nationalist Party, says that his party wants to form a government quickly and stressed on the need to implement reforms while focusing on social security issues
15:38
Teymour Joumblatt, speaking on behalf of the Progressive Socialist Party, says that they ask that a government of specialists is formed according to the French initiative, swiftly and without obstruction
15:09
Hezbollah’s parliamentary bloc leader Mohammad Raad says that his party advised Hariri against forming a mini-cabinet and emphasized the importance of tackling the COVID-19 pandemic
14:37
Free Patriotic Movement leader Gebran Bassil says following his meeting with PM-designate Saad Hariri that his party did not put forward any specific demands for the cabinet formation other than there being one unified approach to prevent obstruction and delays
14:17
Unidentified individuals overnight stole 140 meters of telephone cable between Batroun and Besbina leading to the town of Edde, cutting off service for 100 lines, OGERO's media relations office tells L'Orient Today, adding that a maintenance team is working to restore service
13:28
Caretaker Finance Minister Ghazi Wazni has transferred LL850 million to the Lebanese Civil Aviation Authority to pay night-shift wages for technicians at the Beirut airport until the end of the year, the NNA reports
13:15
Saad Hariri has arrived at Parliament to begin talks on forming a new government, the NNA reports
12:22
Firass Abiad, the general manager of Rafik Hariri University Hospital, tweets that the number of emergency admissions to the Cardiac Care Unit of his hospital has “doubled recently mainly due to an increase in patients with heart failure unable to find needed medications”
11:45