Emirates To Offer Extra Baggage Allowance For Returning Lebanese Travellers

Emirates Airlines will be offering an additional 10kg of baggage on trips from the UAE, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and Australia back to Beirut and an additional piece of luggage totaling 23kg for Emirates customers travelling to Beirut via Dubai from the United States, Canada, Brazil, Zambia, Angola, Guinea, Senegal, South Africa, Ivory Coast and Ghana. The offer starts this week until the 30th of September 2021 and is aimed to help Lebanese pack more…

Meteorite in Hermel?

I first read about the meteorite buried underground in Hermel on Twitter but thought it was a joke, until I saw Annahar's article on that matter. So apparently, NASA got in touch with the Hermel municipality 7 months ago, and informed them about the potential presence of a huge meteorite in the city's plot # 2604. For some reason, the head of the municipality only recently decided to start digging in that plot without informing…

Over 6.5 Million Liters of Fuel & Diesel Seized By The Lebanese Army

After a series of raids that lasted three days, the Lebanese Army stated yesterday that they've seized 4,392,735 liters of fuel and 2,212,140 liters of diesel. The majority of the fuel was sold while 1,671,737 liters of diesel were distributed to some hospitals and ovens and EDZ. As for the rest, they were distributed for free to citizens and the army took its share as well. Someone mapped the amount of diesel seized by area…

The Snoubar Skatepark: A New Skatepark at Horsh Beirut

Beirut has a new skate park: The Snoubar Skatepark located at Horsh Beirut. This project is a collaborative effort led by Make Life Skate Life and the Lebanese Skateboarding Association with the support of Decathlon, CHPO Brand and Air France. This is supposedly Lebanon's first ever public skate park and the aim is to create a safe place for local youth to skateboard, improve their psycho-social wellbeing and make friends. In August 2020, after the…
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Beirutportexplosion.com

4 years ago
It’s been over a year since the Beirut Port blast, the third-largest non-nuclear explosion in history, took place and and the survivors are still grieving and waiting for justice. What’s clear for now is that ...
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Tutti Frutti is Shutting Down For Good

4 years ago
Lebanon is losing one of its best cocktail shops Tutti Frutti due to the ongoing crisis. The shop owner made the announcement on Facebook few days ago and thanked his customers for their loyalty for ...
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BDL Has Officially Ended Fuel Subsidies, Prices to Jump By 5-6 Times

4 years ago
Fuel subdivides are over. BDL announced it today and it is now up to the Energy Minister to set new fuel prices, which will be at least 5 or 6 times higher than the current ...
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HRW Report on #BeirutBlast: “They Killed Us From The Inside”

4 years ago
Nothing summarizes what happened on August 4 better than the most recently published HRW report “They Killed us from the inside”. A 127- page report detailing the incompetence, mismanagement and negligence of the Lebanese authorities ...
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