Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh left office today after 30 years on the job. Unfortunately, him leaving doesn't change much as Lebanon's caretake government has failed to appoint a permanent successor, and Salameh's deputy Wassim Mansouri will take over but wants "guarantees" from the government to agree on a radical set of economic measures. The only problem is that the government is a resigned one, and is barely able to meet, which means that whatever…

Rami Adwan, Lebanon’s ambassador to France, is currently being investigated for rape & sexual assault following complaints by two former embassy employees. One of the employees, named Ava, claimed that she was raped in May 2020 in a private apartment belonging to Ambassador Adwan and that she “provided the police with WhatsApp messages on that evening and the following day, explicitly accusing him of rape", according to French investigative website Mediapart. French authorities have apparently…