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Lebanon Announces First Cholera Case in Almost 30 Years

Lebanon’s health ministry on Thursday announced the crisis-hit country’s first case of cholera in decades. The announcement comes as neighboring war-torn Syria is struggling to contain a cholera outbreak that has spread across the country over the past month. Lebanon began a downward spiral in late 2019 that has plunged…

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Lebanon and Israel 'at critical stage' in maritime border talks –U.S. Official

Lebanon and Israel are at "a critical stage" in negotiations to demarcate their shared maritime border and "gaps have narrowed," a U.S. official said on Thursday.

Reuters

Maritime gas deal in jeopardy as Israel ‘rejects’ Lebanon changes

Israel said it will reject list of amendments that Beirut had requested to a draft deal on maritime border delineation.

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Israel rejects Lebanon's changes to draft maritime deal

The major crisis in the U.S.-mediated talks could lead to a military escalation between Israel and Hezbollah.

Axios

Lebanon Years Away From Gas Riches Despite Israel Deal, Analysts Say

Lebanon is nearing agreement with Israel over a maritime dispute involving offshore gas fields, but the cash-strapped country still faces an uphill struggle towards unlocking potential hydrocarbon riches, analysts said. "A deal would mark one step forward but it does not mean that Lebanon has become a gas- or oil-producing…

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Israel rejects Lebanese revisions to U.S.-mediate maritime deal

Israel rejected on Thursday revisions requested by Lebanon to a U.S.-mediated border demarcation proposal, throwing into doubt years of diplomatic efforts to enable both enemy countries to extract gas in or around a disputed Mediterranean prospect.

Reuters

Judge Fines Lebanese Bank Heist Figure, Issues Travel Ban

A Lebanese judge on Thursday fined and issued a six-month travel ban to a woman who stormed her bank with a fake pistol and took her trapped savings to cover her sister's cancer treatment. Lebanon’s cash-strapped banks have imposed strict limits on withdrawals of foreign currency since 2019, tying up…

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Explainer-Israel, Lebanon closing in on maritime border deal

Lebanon and Israel are closer than ever to signing a deal demarcating their maritime border, opening the door to new oil and gas exploration, after years of U.S.-brokered negotiations.

Reuters

Israel Rejects Lebanese Revision Requests on Maritime Deal

Israel on Thursday rejected revisions requested by Lebanon to a US-mediated border demarcation proposal, throwing into doubt years of diplomatic efforts to enable both enemy countries to extract gas in or around a disputed Mediterranean prospect. The draft deal, which has not been made public, had a mostly warm preliminary…

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Lebanon says maritime deal 'make or break' after Israel snubs request for changes

Lebanon said U.S.-brokered talks to demarcate its maritime border with longtime foe Israel were at a "make or break" point on Thursday after Israel rejected revisions to a draft deal requested by Beirut, throwing years of diplomatic efforts into doubt.

Reuters

Fleeing Lebanon to escape poverty: At least 100 die in migrant shipwreck

Three years into Lebanon's devastating financial collapse, some 80 percent of the population is now living below the poverty line. The situation is driving more and more people to risk their lives on the open seas. Last month, at least a hundred people drowned when a migrant boat capsized off…

France 24

Lebanese lawmaker demands trapped bank savings

A Lebanese member of Parliament has entered a bank branch near Beirut demanding some of her trapped savings to cover medical expenses

The Independent UK

Israel Govt to Approve Maritime Border Deal with Lebanon Despite Right-Wing Opposition

Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid and Defense Minister Benny Gantz stressed that their government would overcome political and legal objections to the agreement with Lebanon on maritime border demarcation. They assured the Israeli and Lebanese public that the decision of the Supreme Court in Jerusalem to conduct an examination of…

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Lebanese Lawmaker Frees $8,500 in Trapped Bank Deposits

A Lebanese lawmaker entered a bank branch, accompanied by lawyers, and freed more than $8,000 in trapped dollar deposits on Wednesday to pay for surgery, her lawyer said. Cynthia Zarazir, who was elected to parliament in May, is the latest in a growing number of angry depositors who have forced…

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Lebanon Suggests Amendments to Maritime Border Deal with Israel

Lebanon has submitted to the United States a list of changes it would like to see in a proposal on how to delineate a contested maritime border with Israel, a top Lebanese official said on Tuesday. US envoy Amos Hochstein has shuttled between Lebanon and Israel since 2020 to seal…

Reuters

Lebanon suggests amendments to U.S. on maritime border deal with Israel

Lebanon has submitted to the United States a list of changes it would like to see to a proposal on how to delineate a contested maritime border with Israel, a top Lebanese official said on Tuesday.

Al Jazeera

Armed depositors hold up more banks in Lebanon over restrictions

The incident comes amid a wave of bank hold-ups as people grow frustrated over informal capital controls.

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Depositors Storm 4 Lebanese Banks, Demanding Their Own Money

Lebanese depositors, including a retired police officer, stormed at least four banks in the cash-strapped country Tuesday after banks ended a weeklong closure and partially reopened. As the tiny Mediterranean nation's crippling economic crisis continues to worsen, a growing number of Lebanese depositors have opted to break into banks and…

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Depositors, some armed, storm 3 Lebanese banks over withdrawal limits

Outraged depositors, at least two of them armed, stormed three commercial banks across Lebanon on Tuesday over withdrawal limits imposed on most clients throughout the country's financial meltdown.

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Netanyahu Threatens Scrapping Lebanon Gas Deal If He Wins in Upcoming Election

With Israel and Lebanon close to reaching agreement on a maritime border demarcation, Israeli opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu is threatening to roll back from the deal if he wins in upcoming parliamentary elections. Netanyahu’s position was met with pushback from Israeli officials who are now fighting internal conflict regarding the…

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Lebanon: Aoun Hopes a New President Gets Elected Within Constitutional Limit

Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun voiced hopes on Tuesday that a new president is elected within the constitutional deadline to succeed him when his term ends on October 31. Aoun said he “hopes the presidential elections are held within the constitutional timeframe,” in order for him to hand the post to…

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Lebanon to Send Remarks on US Draft on Maritime Border with Israel

Lebanon will send its comments on a US proposal to delineate its maritime border with longtime foe Israel to the American official mediating talks by Tuesday, a top Lebanese official said on Monday. US envoy Amos Hochstein has shuttled between Lebanon and Israel since 2020 to seal a deal that…

Al Jazeera

The Lebanese farm regenerating soil and promoting food security

Farm based on respecting the ecosystem is sheltered from the changing market amid global food insecurity.

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Lebanon Mulls Response to US-mediated Maritime Border Proposal

Lebanon leaders are holding a meeting Monday to discuss a US proposal to demarcate the maritime border with Israel -- a step that could allow both countries to explore offshore resources. Lebanon said it had received Saturday a written "offer" from US envoy Amos Hochstein - who is mediating talks…

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Lebanon's Rai Refuses to Tie Election of President to ‘Consensus’

Lebanon’s Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rai slammed on Sunday the parliament, rejecting the call to elect a new president of the republic through “consensus”. Parliament had convened on Thursday for the election, but failed in naming a head of state. Speaker Nabih Berri said he would call parliament to session again…

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