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Lebanon's independent, critical English news service. A sister publication of @LOrientLeJour

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Aug 14, 2021
AUB Medical Center says it will run out of electricity on Monday morning, causing 40 adults and 15 children on respirators to die immediately unless authorities enable it to acquire diesel for its generators
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Mar 20, 2021
The Beirut port explosion was so powerful, it shook earth’s ionosphere, researchers from India and Japan have found. Using GPS data, the scientists found the blast was similar to volcano eruptions in its effect on the ionosphere, which begins around 50 kilometers above sea level
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Jan 9, 2025
🟥 [#Picture] First photos of newly elected President Joseph Aoun at Baabda Palace 📸 Mohammed Yassin
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Jul 28, 2025
🟥 [#Pictures] Soha Bechara, former Khiam prisoner, carries roses during the transportation of Ziad Rahbani's body out of a hospital in Hamra. 📸 Mohammed Yassine/ L'Orient Today
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Aug 25, 2021
The Emirates airline has announced that, in light of Lebanon's "severe shortage of essential goods and medicines," it will give an extra checked baggage allowance to passengers traveling to Beirut so they can bring in needed items from this week through the end of September
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Jul 1, 2021
A UNICEF survey found that 77 percent of the households in Lebanon do not have enough food or enough money to buy food, and 15 percent of families halted their children’s education amid the economic crisis. UNICEF warned that children are “bearing the brunt” of Lebanon’s collapse
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Nov 26, 2024
🚨 [#Breaking] Civilians in Beirut are heading to seek shelter at the American University Hospital amid Israeli evacuation orders in central Beirut. (Photo sent by local residents to L'Orient Today)
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Oct 4, 2021
The Beirut appeals court has rejected requests by Nohad Machnouk, Ghazi Zeaiter, and Ali Hasan Khalil to remove Judge Tarek Bitar from the port blast investigation, allowing his work to resume. The court also fined the politicians LL800,000 each for bringing an arbitrary claim
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Jul 28, 2025
🟥 [#InPictures] Hamra filled with emotion: thousands of Lebanese paid their final respects to Ziad Rahbani, honoring his timeless legacy. Between applause and tears, the crowd sang for Ziad, etching his name forever in the heart of Lebanon. 🎥 @Moe_Yassn 🎬 @BaalbakyAly
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Jun 15, 2021
Lebanon’s men’s national football team has qualified for the 2023 Asian Cup and progressed to the third round of the 2022 World Cup qualifiers
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Mar 2, 2021
For the first time in Lebanon’s history, the exchange rate at shops selling dollars has hit LL10,000. The previous highest daily rate registered was LL9,800 to the dollar, recorded on July 2
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Jan 1, 2021
Beirut hospitals are no longer able to take new coronavirus patients, the secretary-general of the Lebanese Red Cross George Kettaneh told LBCI, adding that they are looking into the possibility of transferring patients to hospitals outside the capital and Mount Lebanon
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Sep 21, 2021
Lebanon’s tech-savvy youth are increasingly turning to cryptocurrency to shield themselves from currency depreciation, get money in and out of the country and try to make up the losses they have suffered from the economic crisis. Via @Reuters:
Young Lebanese driving crypto ‘revolution’ after banks go bust
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Jul 28, 2025
🔴 [#Live] Sitting in the church with her daughter, Fairuz mourned her son's coffin. As she entered the church, she sang "Ana al-Oum al-Hazina" (I am the grieving mother), a religious hymn usually sung at Easter. 📸 Mohammed Yassine/ L'Orient Today
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