Lebanon / Crisis: retail fuel sales now banned

Lebanon / Crisis: retail fuel sales now banned

The Interior Ministry has now banned the sale of fuels - gasoline or fuel oil - retail in cans, because of the dangers this...
Update on the situation at 12 p.m.: Israeli strikes and Hezbollah retaliation continue

South Lebanon: Israeli forces attempt to remove Hezbollah flags

The Israeli forces attempted this afternoon to remove 5 Hezbollah flags from the Shebaa farms in southern Lebanon, said a dispatch from the National...
Saad Hariri will not name a successor

Government: cold shower after the hope aroused yesterday

Contrary to initial information, the meeting between Prime Minister designate Saad Hariri - following his return to Lebanon after several weeks of absence -...
Lebanon: Shoura Council condemns banks to grant depositors foreign currency

Lebanon: Shoura Council condemns banks to grant depositors foreign currency

The State Shura Council issued a decision stopping the implementation of the basic circular issued by the Governor of the Banque du Liban on...
New court ruling against Lebanese banks

New court ruling against Lebanese banks

Lebanese banks have once again lost in a case filed by an NGO, learns-o, on June 1. However, like previous decisions, this decision is...
Manipulation électorale et présidentielle: comment les Libanais ont été trompés sur le taux de change

The Lebanese pound in slight deterioration on Tuesday

The parity of the Lebanese pound deteriorates slightly on the black market, with an exchange rate of 12,975 LL / USD on the buy...
The Ministry of Energy publishes a new price list for district generators

Sharp rise in electricity prices for generators

The Ministry of Energy and Water Resources has published a new price list for district generators for the month of May. This includes a...
The Lebanese economic crisis, probably one of the three worst crises since the 19th century (World Bank)

The Lebanese economic crisis, probably one of the three worst crises since the 19th...

The authors of a new report published by the World Bank estimate that the he economic and financial crisis in Lebanon is probably one...
Lebanon / Crisis: Sharp drop in imports and moderate drop in exports in 2020

Lebanon / Crisis: Sharp drop in imports and moderate drop in exports in 2020

Faced with the establishment of informal capital controls, imports to Lebanon have sharply declined. Thus, 11.3 billion dollars of goods were imported into Lebanon,...
Lebanese books. Photo credit: François el Bacha for Libnanews.com

Lebanon / Crisis: 17.7% increase in money supply in the first 4 months

The money supply increased by 17.7% in the first 4 months of the year, says the Banque du Liban. Now 34,420.7 billion Lebanese pounds...
The Minister of Industry with representatives of the company which will manufacture the Sputnik V vaccine in Lebanon. Photo Credit: Dalati & Nohra

Lebanon expected to produce Russian anti-covid vaccine soon

The contract to manufacture the Russian anti-covid vaccine in Lebanon is expected to be signed during the second week of June, said outgoing Minister...
Explosion of the Port of Beirut: Complaint in London against Savaro and relatives of the Current of the Future attack judge Tarek Bitar

Explosion of the Port of Beirut: the French technical report sent to the Lebanese...

The Lebanese judicial authorities received the French technical report concerning the explosion of the Port of Beirut, after several months of waiting. It is...
The meeting between Speaker of the House Nabih Berri and Prime Minister designate Saad Hariri. Photo credit: Lebanese Parliament

Hariri back in Lebanon and the next ministers not to be candidates for the...

Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri finally arrived in Lebanon late Monday morning. He visited the president of the chamber to discuss the latter's initiative to...
A vandalized Christian cemetery in Beirut

A vandalized Christian cemetery in Beirut

The evangelical cemetery of Ras el Nabeh was vandalized during the night of Thursday to Friday, we learned this Monday via a dispatch from...