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Lebanon is preparing for the treatment of bank losses and the return of deposits, but the decisive question remains: who will pay? Bank shareholders, Bank of Lebanon, State or depositors will have to absorb losses according to a still disputed hierarchy. His choice will determine the true cost of Lebanese financial restructuring.
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Lebanon is claiming over $1.3 billion from career operators through 1,509 recovery orders. But no payment has yet been received. Operators now challenge the calculations before the courts, making the legal validity of claims the real issue of the national environmental record.
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After the Nazareth issue in Ashrafieh, a question arose: were other Lebanese religious schools experiencing similar difficulties? No additional establishment can yet be identified with certainty. But rising costs, real estate, management transfers and fragility of congregations could announce a silent restructuring of private education in Lebanon.
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The possible reshuffle of the government of Nawaf Salam goes beyond the replacement of a few disputed ministers. Energy, Environment and above all Foreign affairs crystallize relations of force between Baabda, the Lebanese Forces and the Prime Minister. Changing these portfolios could reopen the political agreement that established the firm in 2026.
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The eighth round of negotiations between Lebanon and Israel was postponed to October, with no new dates announced. Washington controls the summons while Israeli elections complicate the calendar. Behind this postponement is the order of concessions: Israeli withdrawal, disarmament, Lebanese deployment and mutual security guarantees.
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More than one hundred large taxpayers were referred to the financial prosecutor's office after tax injunctions remained ineffective. The Department of Finance has a still confidential nominative list. Between recovery, reduction of penalties and possible prosecution, an unknown remains: how much do these companies actually owe to the Lebanese Treasury today?
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A Frenchman filed a complaint in Paris against X after the alleged grubbing-up by the Israeli army of 600 centenary olive trees in southern Lebanon.
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Inflation in Lebanon reached 16.66 per cent over one year in August 2026, compared with 15.69 per cent in July, according to the Central Statistical Office. Prices also increased by 1.40 per cent in one month after two slight monthly decreases. Energy, transport and education are among the fastest growing jobs. In Nabatiyeh, the index increased by 2.12% in August, but the CAS reports significant difficulties in direct price collection.
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After the Deir Mimas incident, Israel's attention to the denominational identity of a Lebanese officer revives a sensitive question: Does Israel seek to influence military assignments in South Lebanon? A list of officers was reportedly already circulated in July, which was denied by a Lebanese military source and never officially confirmed since.
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Washington reportedly sought, even before Joseph Aoun's election, to reduce the five to a Saudi American tandem. The Lebanese President reportedly resisted on 15 January. A few months later, direct negotiations with Israel placed the United States at the centre of a deeply transformed diplomatic architecture around the Lebanese issue.
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Joe Saddi reportedly started to evoke a possible resignation on the background of a financial impasse at Electricity Lebanon. Public administrations would not pay their bills while EDL must finance fuel and production. Behind the possible departure of the minister is the credibility of the electricity and financial recovery of the Lebanese State.
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A six-month extension of UNIFIL is being circulated as a transitional scenario to avoid a security vacuum in South Lebanon after 2026. Beirut calls for an international presence under UN auspices, while diplomats, regional and Western partners are still discussing the future mechanism, based on persistent Israeli positions in the South.
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The re-entry of 2026 reveals the first signs of a school recomposition in Lebanon. Private payback, war-related travel, damaged facilities and increasing cost of studies change family choices. The figures remain incomplete, but one question dominates: where are the students changing schools today?
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The destruction of houses, schools and infrastructure in southern Lebanon gives the Israeli presence a dimension that goes beyond one-off military occupation. Israel claims to want to neutralize Hezbollah and secure its border. But the consolidation of positions, the earthworks, the destruction of the building and the impossibility of the return of many inhabitants and the targeting of state institutions create the material conditions of a prolonged presence. These facts do not prove an official annexation project, but they make the temporary nature of occupation increasingly difficult to sustain.
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Human Rights Watch challenges the Israeli use of white phosphorus ammunition in Lebanon and calls for the strengthening of international law on incendiary weapons. The NGO had already documented the use of white phosphorus in at least 17 municipalities in southern Lebanon and concluded that some uses in residential areas illegally exposed civilians to serious risks. In Boustane, at least 173 people needed care after an attack in October 2023.
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More than a year after Joe Saddi's arrival, reforms in the electricity sector are moving forward, but cuts persist. EDL provided approximately four hours per day in July 2026 and was missing nearly 1,000 MW. Regulation, solar, batteries and international financing prepare for the future, without further improving the Lebanese public service.
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The Israeli forces are increasing the dynamiting of homes and infrastructure in southern Lebanon. Further destruction was reported on 25 and 26 August in Majdal Zun, Ainata, Zawtar al-Sharqiya, Doubeih and Bint Jbeil area. There is still no verified evidence that an entire village has been razed this week. However, precedents show the extent of the phenomenon: in Dhayra, Amnesty International recorded 264 buildings destroyed, or 71 per cent of the municipality's buildings.
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In Lebanon, Israel is accused of a burning land policy: 160 km2 have been burned since October 2023, half of which are agricultural land.
Read articleLebanon is claiming over $1.3 billion from career operators through 1,509 recovery orders. But no payment has yet been received. Operators now challenge the calculations before the courts, making the legal validity of claims the real issue of the national environmental record.
Read articleAfter the Nazareth issue in Ashrafieh, a question arose: were other Lebanese religious schools experiencing similar difficulties? No additional establishment can yet be identified with certainty. But rising costs, real estate, management transfers and fragility of congregations could announce a silent restructuring of private education in Lebanon.
Read articleThe re-entry of 2026 reveals the first signs of a school recomposition in Lebanon. Private payback, war-related travel, damaged facilities and increasing cost of studies change family choices. The figures remain incomplete, but one question dominates: where are the students changing schools today?
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The sale of the Nazareth school in Ashrafieh was reportedly suspended after the mobilization around its future. A new solution would emerge: entrusting the management of the establishment to the Antonins through a rental formula. For some 1,500 students, the school would remain open, but the conditions for this recovery remain unknown.
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Roger Feghali and Joseph Matar finished the second day of the 48th Lebanon International Rally in the lead on Toyota GR Yaris. The record winner in the race ahead of Bassel Abu Hamdan and Firas Elias over Skoda Fabia RS, while Alex Feghali and Marc Haddad are temporarily in third place. Six specials remain to be played on Sunday before the arrival and award ceremony scheduled for 7 p.m. in Kaslik.
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Approximately 200 pharmacies have already closed in Lebanon and nearly 700 more are reportedly threatened, while the offices must absorb the increase in their expenses, the cost of stocks, the weakness of purchasing power and now the increase in electronic payments. Beyond the profitability of the sector, these closures could reduce access to medicines in the less well-served regions and accelerate the concentration of pharmacies in the most profitable urban areas.
Read articleLebanon is preparing for the treatment of bank losses and the return of deposits, but the decisive question remains: who will pay? Bank shareholders, Bank of Lebanon, State or depositors will have to absorb losses according to a still disputed hierarchy. His choice will determine the true cost of Lebanese financial restructuring.
Read articleMore than one hundred large taxpayers were referred to the financial prosecutor's office after tax injunctions remained ineffective. The Department of Finance has a still confidential nominative list. Between recovery, reduction of penalties and possible prosecution, an unknown remains: how much do these companies actually owe to the Lebanese Treasury today?
Read articleInflation in Lebanon reached 16.66 per cent over one year in August 2026, compared with 15.69 per cent in July, according to the Central Statistical Office. Prices also increased by 1.40 per cent in one month after two slight monthly decreases. Energy, transport and education are among the fastest growing jobs. In Nabatiyeh, the index increased by 2.12% in August, but the CAS reports significant difficulties in direct price collection.
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In Lebanon, the IMF demands that bank shareholders absorb losses before depositors, at the heart of an intense media battle.
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The IMF mission was completed on 18 September in Lebanon with a priority issue: the Financial Gap Act, which is to determine the allocation of losses and the modalities for returning deposits. Yassine Jaber now links the beginning of repayments to its adoption. Nabih Berry demands that all deposits be secured, while Governor Karim Souaid announces $8.1 billion returned by the end of 2026 and calls for only financially feasible commitments.
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The Lebanese Ministry of Economy and Commerce reports the price of medium-sized white bread loaf sold in bakeries to £5,000. It now costs £80,000, compared to 75,000 before. The Department explains this increase by increasing production costs, including doubling the price of fuel oil, which accounts for approximately 22% of bread production costs. Checks must verify compliance with the new official tariff.
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Lebanon officially returned to Egypt 37 antiquities seized in 2020 at the port of Beirut. The ceremony took place on Wednesday 16 September 2026 at the Beirut National Museum between Lebanese Minister of Culture Ghassan Salamé and Egyptian Ambassador Alaa Moussa. The objects, including masks, Coptic textiles, amulets, statues and two wooden coffins, had been discovered in a container. Six years of verification proved their Egyptian origin.
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In the Egyptian myth of Osiris, Byblos occupies an unexpected place: the chest containing the body of the murdered god would have drifted to the Lebanese coast, before being locked in a tree become royal column. A story of mourning, sea, sacred wood and ancient ties between Egypt and Phoenicia. Byblos is not [...]
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More than 250,000 students in Lebanon have been denied education or severely affected by displacement, closures and the transformation of schools into shelters. But the crisis far exceeds the lost class days. More than half of first-year students would have basic mathematics gaps, while more than eight out of ten sixth-year students would have problems with the division. These results, already visible before the last war, show that Lebanon must now organize a genuine national catch-up programme.
Read articleThe Tiro Association for the Arts and the Istanbouli Theatre announces the 13th edition of the Lebanon International Theatre Festival in Beirut, which will be held from 19 to 22 September. The festival will host shows from Lebanon, the Arab world and other countries around the theme: "Theatrical theatre is a show that carries [...]
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Khaled El-Enany completed his visit to Lebanon with an inspection of the archaeological site of Al-Bass in Tyre, where Unesco must contribute $100,000 to start restoration work. At the same time, the Minister of Culture Ghassan Salamé asked the organisation to help send a neutral mission to the Beaufort fortress. Lebanese experts are currently unable to access the facility because of the Israeli presence and are seeking to determine whether nearby explosions have caused internal damage.
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The five forts of Jabal Amel were listed in July as a World Heritage Site under an urgent procedure and simultaneously placed on the World Heritage List at Risk. The visit to Lebanon of the director general of Unesco, Khaled El-Enany, now highlights the concrete consequences of this recognition. Expertise, documentation and mobilization of funding can be strengthened, but no international registration guarantees the physical security of monuments in an area always exposed to military operations.
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