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BEIRUT: Lebanon’s caretaker government is under mounting pressure to hold by-elections to fill 10 vacancies in the country’s parliament caused by resignations and the recent deaths of two MPs from COVID-19.
In recent months the parliament has lost 10 of its 128 members, raising doubts about legal issues in calculating the quorum, especially with regard to critical sessions, since there is an imbalance of the pact.
Eight MPs submitted a collective resignation in protest against the corruption of the ruling authority after the Beirut port explosion.
Three of the eight were Kataeb (Phalanges) MPs, while the others were either independent or had left their parliamentary blocs.
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BEIRUT/LONDON: Lebanese author and activist Lokman Slim, 59, was found dead on Thursday morning in the southern region of Zahrani. His killing was the first of a Lebanese Shiite anti-Hezbollah figure since 2004.
News of Slim’s disappearance broke on Thursday morning after nothing was heard from him on Wednesday evening after he started travelling home from visiting family in the southern village of Niha.
Rasha Al-Ameer, Slim’s sister, announced his disappearance on social media, asking for information to help recover him.
But in the early hours of Thursday morning, the news changed from a missing person to an assassination after Slim’s body was found in his car in one of the orchards of the Al-Adousiya area.
BEIRUT, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Lebanon will gradually ease strict coronavirus lockdown in force since Jan. 11 in four two-week stages starting from Monday, the country s caretaker government said on Friday.
Lebanon imposed a 24-hour curfew when cases spiked after lax measures over the Christmas holiday period sent infections soaring and pushed hospital capacities to the limit.
Lebanon is dealing with a devastating financial crisis that has paralysed banks and the lockdown faced resistance amid concerns over soaring unemployment, inflation and poverty.
In Tripoli, Lebanon s poorest city, protests culminated last week in the burning of the municipality building as demonstrators clashed with police.
Lebanon to ease coronavirus lockdown in four stages from Monday Reuters 2/5/2021
BEIRUT, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Lebanon will gradually ease strict coronavirus lockdown in force since Jan. 11 in four two-week stages starting from Monday, the country s caretaker government said on Friday.
Lebanon imposed a 24-hour curfew when cases spiked after lax measures over the Christmas holiday period sent infections soaring and pushed hospital capacities to the limit.
Lebanon is dealing with a devastating financial crisis that has paralysed banks and the lockdown faced resistance amid concerns over soaring unemployment, inflation and poverty.
In Tripoli, Lebanon s poorest city, protests culminated last week in the burning of the municipality building as demonstrators clashed with police.