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Najib
Oct 03, 2020 08:08
Lebanon’s Interior Ministry announced yesterday a weeklong lockdown of 111 towns and villages across the country due to a high number of coronavirus infections. The decision was taken based on the numbers provided by the new official COVID-19 map, but many towns are disputing the numbers and some people are claiming the map uses place of origin, not place of residence, to register someone’s infection, but this hasn't been denied or confirmed yet. Nevertheless, assuming…
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Najib
Oct 03, 2020 02:54
The answer is NO. The amendments introduced do make the illicit enrichment law a much better one but the draft passed does not extend to the president, the prime minister, speaker of parliament, members of parliament, ministers and others who enjoy immunity. The bill's wording does include everyone, but Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said we need a session to amend the constitution in order to waive immunity for everyone and that did not happen.
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Najib
Oct 01, 2020 06:13
Three weeks after US placed sanctions on Berri's top aide finance minister Ali Hassan Khalil, Lebanon's Parliament Speaker came out today to announce that Lebanon and Israel have asked that the United States mediates talks on disputed maritime borders. Noting that the sea demarcation agreement will eventually be submitted to the U.N. to become an official document, Berri answered a reporter’s question by saying that the framework agreement was reached prior to the latest U.S.…
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Najib
Oct 01, 2020 04:35
Our foreign currency reserves have reached a critical level and the Central Bank was expected to stop subsidizing fuel, wheat and medicine a while back. The Beirut port blast delayed things a bit, but there are serious talks now about no longer subsidizing the fuel, especially after smuggling to Syria has resumed. Let's face it: the authorities are too incompetent to stop the smuggling, and there are parties facilitating the matter even, so the only…
Health
5 years ago
Lebanon launched a new portal to map the daily number of COVID-19 cases across the country. The portal, which includes a color-coded map indicating the risk level per area, is a joint work between the ...
Critiques
5 years ago
France’s youngest president ever Emmanuel Macron held a news conference today to discuss the situation in Lebanon and accused the country’s political leaders of collective betrayal for failing to form a government within the agreed-on ...
Alcohol
5 years ago
Bloomberg shared an article promoting Lebanese wines to its readers and shared links to shops where some bottles can be found abroad, but they forgot to mention the ultimate website for buying Lebanese wines, 209lebanesewine.com ...
Critiques
5 years ago
Lebanon’s Education Ministry received 8,000 laptops as a gift back in 2017, and they’re still stuck in the ministry because the Microsoft Enterprise agreement was never renewed, or at least that’s what they’re claiming. The ...
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