Lebanese Forces MP Anis Nassar told Al-Jadeed last night that his party would join the parliamentary consultations scheduled for Thursday, but would not nominate anyone as premier 19 October 2020 07:13
The Tashnag party could split from the FPM, its long-standing ally, on the nomination of the next prime minister, its leader Hagop Pakradounian says in an interview with Al-Jadeed 18 October 2020 22:18
A group of families of students studying abroad will gather Monday at 10 a.m. outside the Presidential Palace to demand Michel Aoun sign a law recently passed by Parliament regarding financial transfers to students outside Lebanon, the NNA reports 18 October 2020 21:52
Lebanon has recorded 1,002 new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, bringing the number of active cases to 33,704. Three more people have died from the virus, raising the death toll to 520 18 October 2020 21:12
Two brothers working at a construction site in Majdlaya died after they fell off scaffolding, the mayor of the village outside Zgharta tells L’Orient Today 18 October 2020 20:18
The Lebanon Economic Committees, a private-sector lobby group, will hold a meeting Monday at 3 p.m. to discuss the threats facing the economy, the NNA reports 18 October 2020 18:29
Dozens of retired ISF officers who met in the Akkar town of Jibrayel issued a statement criticizing the high hospital costs they are facing, the NNA reports 18 October 2020 18:07
President Michel Aoun denies that he had any role in the release of a Saudi prince convicted in 2019 for captagon smuggling, saying he rejected a petition to pardon the prince the same day his travel ban was lifted 18 October 2020 17:38
General Security arrested members of a group of workers at the Beirut airport accused of facilitating the illicit migration of Lebanese and Palestinians to Europe, the NNA reports 18 October 2020 16:56
Caretaker Health Minister Hamad Hassan has called on private hospitals to make additional beds and ICUs available ahead of the winter, which he warned might bring an increase in coronavirus cases, the NNA reports 18 October 2020 16:06
The Interior Ministry has ordered 79 towns and villages to go on lockdown from Monday at dawn until Oct. 26 to prevent the spread of COVID-19. All bars and nightclubs in Lebanon are to remain closed until further notice 18 October 2020 16:03
Caretaker Public Works Minister Michel Najjar announced that he has tested positive for COVID-19, local media report 18 October 2020 13:56
The Hasbaya district commissioner has ordered the city's public high school to close for 14 days after a teacher tested positive for COVID-19, the NNA reports. Public high schools opened last week for the start of an academic year thrown into disarray by the pandemic 18 October 2020 13:48
Maronite Patriarch Bechara al-Rai has criticized the delays to forming a government, four days after President Michel Aoun postponed consultations on designating a new prime minister until Oct. 22 18 October 2020 13:12
Caretaker Health Minister Hamad Hassan told Ad-Diyar that the geographically limited lockdowns on towns have not succeeded in preventing the spread of COVID-19 and that it’s necessary to expand measures to large cities 18 October 2020 11:53
The ISF says that it rolled up what it dubbed "one of the most dangerous robbery gangs" in the Bekaa, with one of the alleged criminals shot and injured by security forces when he tried to lob a grenade at them during his arrest 18 October 2020 11:51