Al-Mustaqbal Movement leader ex-PM Saad Hariri performed the Eid al-Fitr prayer Sunday at the Imam Ali Mosque in Tariq al-Jedideh, in the presence of former MP Ammar Houry and a number of religious figures and dignitaries and a crowd of worshipers.
Upon leaving the mosque, worshipers and a large group of people from Tariq al-Jedideh – a Mustaqbal bastion -- gathered around Hariri and reiterated their support for him.
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Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Latif Daryan stressed Sunday that Dar al-Fatwa, the country's highest Sunni Muslim religious authority, does not tolerate any “marginalization” of the premiership or “encroachment on the prime minister's powers.”
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The Health Ministry said that eleven people have tested positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus on Saturday, showing a slight decline after a worrisome sudden increase over this week.
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Speaker Nabih Berri scheduled a legislative session to be held next week, according to a statement from his office on Saturday.
Full StoryPresident Michel Aoun congratulated the Lebanese in general and Muslims in particular on the occasion of Eid el-Fitr and the Resistance and Liberation Day, the Presidency said on Saturday.
“Eid comes this year at a time when Lebanon is going through a difficult stage that has been aggravated by the coronavirus pandemic, distancing people from each other and causing more concern after the increasing infection numbers,”Aoun said.
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The Lebanese Army has closed “90 percent” of the illegal border crossing used to smuggle different kinds of merchandise, mainly flour and diesel oil into Syria, MTV station reported on Saturday.
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The crazy rise in prices of food supplies and the uncontrolled devaluation of the national currency will see an improvement “if the Central Bank governor keeps his promise and interferes,” al-Joumhouria daily reported on Saturday.
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Health Minister Hamad Hasan on Friday described the major spike in Lebanon's coronavirus cases over the past 48 hours as "shocking" but he reassured that there is no virus "community spread" in the country.
Full StoryHizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah announced Friday that Israel is “cautious and worried about Lebanon” and “fears going to war.”
“Some might say that there is mutual deterrence but mutual deterrence is a victory for Lebanon,” Nasrallah noted in a televised speech marking Quds Day.
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Acting Beirut First Investigative Judge Charbel Abu Samra on Friday interrogated the deputy head of the money changers union, Elie S., nine top money changers and a bank manager in the case of currency manipulation.
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