The announcement comes a day after PM-designate Saad Hariri resigned, unable to break 9 months of deadlock with President Michel Aoun.
The COVID-19 positivity rate has drastically increased in Lebanon as the COVID-19 delta variant spreads amongst residents.
Last night, riot police violently beat and tear gassed the families of Beirut blast victims in a protest facing Fahmi’s Kraytem residence.
The European Union said it hopes to develop the legal framework for a “sanctions regime” targeting Lebanese leaders.
Hariri and Aoun have so far failed to agree on a government that could possibly aid Lebanon through its unprecedented financial meltdown.
"We’re living in a country where the hospitals don’t have medicine, and the pharmacies are closed," said Jouri al-Sayyed's uncle.
Abbas Ibrahim said he is not above the law, but would only appear for questioning if “administrative and legal frameworks” are met.
Almost half of Lebanon’s newly recorded coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours have been reported to be the highly contagious Delta variant.
“The covid situation in Lebanon is not reassuring," Firass Abiad, Director of Rafik Hariri University Hospital (RHUH), tweeted.
Parliament approved over half a billion dollars in cash assistance on Wednesday to help over 500,000 of Lebanon’s poorest families...
Protestors also stormed the Qadisha Electricity Company in an attempt to restore the power supply to several areas across the city.
Turkey’s Karpowership decided to resume its electricity supply to Lebanon, effective as of yesterday afternoon. The decision comes as part of a goodwill gesture, as Karpowership decided to pursue “constructive dialogue to identify solutions to the existing issues over the coming days and weeks”, reported the National News Agency (NNA)....