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Lebanon’s Grand Mufti Calls for Election of ‘Ethical’ President

Lebanon’s Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdullatif Derian called on Saturday for the election of a president who is “ethical and responsible.” The president must be “wise, have a sense of national responsibility, integrity and ability to bring together all Lebanese,” he told a delegation of Sunnis MPs at Dar al-Fatwa in…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Lebanon’s ‘Wonder Woman’ in hiding after bank heist

Sali Hafiz has been lauded as a hero in Lebanon after she entered a bank with a replica gun and demanded her money.

Al Jazeera

Israel's Right Accuses Lapid of Surrendering to Hezbollah

Former Likud MK Danny Danon accused on Tuesday Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid of offering major concessions in the agreement between Lebanon and Israel to demarcate the maritime borders. “These concessions amount to a maximum surrender to Hezbollah,” the Israeli former deputy said. His comments came amid statements in Tel…

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Members of Arab Peace Initiative Committee Meet in New York

Members of the Arab Peace Initiative Committee met in New York on Tuesday on the sidelines of the 77th United Nations General Assembly. The roundtable meeting was convened at the invitation of Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah and Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit. It marked…

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IMF Adamant on Linking Agreement with Lebanon to Reform Laws

Lebanese caretaker Economy Minister Amin Salam affirmed on Tuesday that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) delegation visiting Beirut this week carries a very clear message stressing an urgency that Lebanon approves and passes reform laws. “The IMF carries a very clear message, which is the urgency in approving these laws;…

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Lebanon’s Past Echoes Its Grim Present in Exhibition

In a war-scarred Beirut heritage house turned museum, archives of Lebanon's troubled past fuse with artistic depictions of its grim present to portray a country seemingly in perpetual turmoil. Newspaper clippings, film negatives and diary entries from the years before Lebanon's 1975-1990 civil war tell a story of government corruption,…

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Beirut Protesters Demand Release of Bank Heist Detainees

Protesters scuffled with Lebanese security forces Monday outside the Justice Ministry in Beirut, demanding the release of two people arrested last week during a bank heist. The clash came as a delegation from the International Monetary Fund held meetings in Beirut with officials over the country’s economic meltdown and the…

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Beirut protesters demand release of bank heist detainees

Protesters in Lebanon have scuffled with security forces outside the Justice Ministry in Beirut demanding the release of two detainees who were involved in a bank heist last week

The Independent UK

Lebanon Seizes 1 Mn Captagon Pills Intended for Smuggling to Kuwait

The Lebanese authorities have thwarted an attempt to smuggle one million Captagon pills to Kuwait via Sudan. The Minister of Interior and Municipalities in the caretaker government, Bassam Mawlawi, said that the illicit haul was heading to Kuwait via Sudan and was seized by the Lebanese security services in Beirut…

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Head of Lebanon's Victorious Mayyas Dance Troupe Chides Politicians

The choreographer leading a Lebanese dance troupe that shot to fame by winning the 'America's Got Talent' TV contest castigated Lebanese politicians and called for revolution upon landing back in Beirut Friday. Dozens of relatives offered the Mayyas troupe flowers at Beirut airport while thousands of Lebanese were glued to…

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Lebanon to shut banks after string of raids by people taking out life savings

The break-ins reflect public anger at the banks’ strict controls on cash withdrawals, as a result of the financial crisis

Evening Standard

Palestinians commemorate horrific 1982 massacre in Beirut

Hundreds of Palestinians have commemorated the 40th anniversary of the horrific killings in a refugee camp in Beirut that left hundreds of people dead during Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon

The Independent UK

Lebanese depositors storm banks amid historic economic crisis

Lebanese depositors, including one armed with a hunting rifle, broke into at least four banks Friday to demand their trapped savings, a sign of growing chaos in the small Mediterranean nation amid a historic economic meltdown.

France 24

Depositors storm four banks as Lebanon's cash crisis worsens

Lebanese depositors have stormed at least four banks to demand their trapped savings, signaling growing chaos amid the country's economic meltdown

The Independent UK

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Al Jazeera

Lebanese banks to close next week after more branches are stormed

At least eight banks were held up by depositors in Beirut and other parts of country demanding access to their money.

Al Jazeera

Sabra and Shatila massacre: What happened in Lebanon in 1982?

Israeli-backed Phalange militia killed between 2,000 and 3,500 Palestinian refugees and Lebanese civilians in two days.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Lebanese Activists Promise More Bank Raids after Woman Retrieves Locked Savings

A Lebanese activist group on Thursday vowed to organize more bank heists to help people retrieve their locked savings as the country's years-long economic crisis continues to worsen. Activists from Depositors' Outcry group accompanied Sali Hafez into a Beirut bank branch on Wednesday, and she was able to retrieve some…

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People are ‘robbing’ banks in Lebanon – to take their own money

Lebanon is suffering from an economic crisis since 2019, plunging three-quarters of its population below poverty.

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A woman with a toy gun grabs her savings from a Beirut bank

She broke into a bank branch, taking $13,000 from her trapped savings amid strict limits on withdrawals set by Lebanese banks. She said she needed the money to fund her sister's cancer treatment.

The Independent UK

‘Nothing to lose’: Woman holds up Beirut bank to get £11,000 from savings for sister’s cancer treatment

‘I had begged the branch manager before for my money,’ says Sali Hafez

Asharq Al-Awsat

Woman with Toy Gun Grabs Trapped Savings from Beirut Bank

A woman accompanied by activists and brandishing what she said was a toy pistol broke into a Beirut bank branch on Wednesday, taking $13,000 from her trapped savings. Sali Hafez told the local Al-Jadeed TV that she needed the money to fund her sister’s cancer treatment. She said she had…

France 24

Refugees fear deportation as Lebanese authorities plan forced return of Syrians

Lebanon is drawing up a controversial plan to deport thousands of Syrian refugees every month. The country is in the midst of an economic meltdown and its government says it can no longer host more than 1 million Syrians. NGOs, though, say forced deportations are illegal and that Syria is…

The Independent UK

Armed woman breaks into Beirut bank, takes trapped savings

Eyewitnesses say an armed woman and a dozen activists broke into a Beirut bank branch and took more than $13,000 from her trapped savings

Reuters

Depositors take hostages at commercial bank in Beirut - security source

A group of depositors, at least one of whom is armed, took hostages at Blom bank in central Beirut on Wednesday, a security source said.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Lebanese Caution after Hochstein Lauds ‘Very Good Progress’ in Maritime Border Talks

The US mediator arbitrating negotiations of the maritime border between Lebanon and Israel, Amos Hochstein, reported “very good progress” towards arranging for a deal that benefits the Lebanese economy. Hochstein’s optimism followed his meetings with several Lebanese officials in Beirut. Many in Lebanon remain “cautious” as the results of talks…

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