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Battling Cholera, Lebanon Gets First Vaccines, and Sharp Words, from France

Lebanon took delivery on Monday of its first vaccines to combat a worsening cholera outbreak - together with sharply worded criticism of the crisis-hit country's crumbling public health infrastructure from donor nation France. By Sunday, cases of cholera - a disease typically spread through contaminated water, food or sewage -…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Nov 1, 2022

Russia to Donate 25,000 Tons of Wheat to Lebanon

Russia will donate 25,000 tons of wheat to crisis-hit Lebanon, the public works minister said on Monday. Russia would also donate 10,000 tons of fuel oil to Beirut, minister Ali Hamie told Reuters, without elaborating. The Russian embassy in Lebanon did not respond to a request for comment. News of…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Nov 1, 2022

Lebanon Requests Dropping Terrorist Label of Hezbollah in Arab Summit Closing Statement

Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati arrived in Algiers on Monday to take part in the two-day Arab League summit that kicks off on Tuesday. The summit is being launched on the same day that Lebanon plunged in presidential vacuum with the parliament failing to elect a successor to President…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Nov 1, 2022

We’re doing part-time security work, jokes Lebanon boss after break-ins at base

Michael Cheika said his Lebanon players detained an intruder on Saturday night.

The Independent UK · Oct 30, 2022

Lebanon president leaves with no replacement, crisis deepens

President Michel Aoun has left Lebanon’s presidential palace, marking the end of his six-year term without a replacement

The Independent UK · Oct 30, 2022

Lebanon President Approves Gov't Resignation, Leaves with No Replacement

Lebanese President Michel Aoun left Lebanon's presidential palace Sunday marking the end of his six-year term without a replacement, leaving the small nation in a political vacuum that is likely to worsen its historic economic meltdown. As Aoun’s term ends, the country is being run by a caretaker government after…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Oct 30, 2022

Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun leaves office amid crisis

President Michel Aoun leaves office a day earlier than his mandate ends as parliament fails to agree on his successor.

Al Jazeera · Oct 30, 2022

Lebanon: Rai Accuses Officials of Creating Post-Aoun Political 'Vacuum'

Maronite Patriach Beshara al-Rai accused the Lebanese authorities of creating a political vacuum by leaving the presidency unfilled with outgoing president Michel Aoun's term ending on Monday. Al-Rai said in his Sunday sermon that officials had "left this supreme and essential presidency in a vacuum, either deliberately, or out of…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Oct 30, 2022

Aoun's presidency ends leaving power vacuum in crisis-hit Lebanon

Michel Aoun, the 89-year-old Christian president who presided over Lebanon's cataclysmic financial meltdown and the deadly Beirut port blast, left the presidential palace on Sunday with his term ending, leaving a void at the top of a failing state.

Reuters · Oct 30, 2022

Outgoing President Says Lebanon at Risk of ‘Constitutional Chaos’

Outgoing Lebanese President Michel Aoun told Reuters on Saturday his nation could be sliding into "constitutional chaos", with an unprecedented situation of having no one in line to succeed him and a cabinet that is operating in a caretaker capacity. Aoun is set to leave the presidential palace on Sunday,…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Oct 29, 2022