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      Aya Iskandarani

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      Aya Iskandarani is a correspondent for The National in Beirut, previously based in Abu Dhabi and Paris.
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      Cancer patients protest in Beirut against shortages of medicines that threaten the treatment of tens of thousands of people. AFP
      Lebanon: Former pharmacists' chief arrested over hoarded medicines

      Rabih Hassouna is close to former premier Saad Hariri’s Future movement

      LebanonAugust 29, 2021
      The Lebanese army said it had arrested Syrian citizens who had entered the country illegally. AFP
      Men from Daraa disappear near Syrian embassy in Beirut

      Lebanese army says it had arrested Syrian citizens who entered country illegally

      LebanonAugust 28, 2021
      Migrant workers queue for Covid-19 vaccines in Beirut.
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      Lebanon's migrant workers queue for vaccines in Covid-19 marathon

      Many foreign labourers without papers have been unable to receive inoculations

      LebanonAugust 26, 2021
      Pharmacists protest in Beirut against critical conditions in the country's health system. AFP
      Lebanon's medical workers granted priority at petrol stations

      Doctors and nurses have struggled to travel to work amid severe fuel shortages

      LebanonAugust 23, 2021
      Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said a tanker carrying fuel oil set sail from Iran to Lebanon on Thursday. Reuters
      Diesel shipment from Iran puts Lebanon at risk, experts say

      Taking delivery could expose the country to US sanctions and shows Hezbollah’s growing hold

      LebanonAugust 21, 2021
      Hassan Nasrallah, the head of Lebanon's Shiite movement Hezbollah, announced the delivery of Iranian fuel during a televised speech on August 19. AFP
      Hezbollah leader: Iranian tanker carrying fuel oil to sail for Lebanon today

      Lebanon is in the midst of a severe fuel shortage that has caused long queues at petrol stations and extended power cuts

      MENAAugust 19, 2021
      Despair after the fuel tanker explosion killed at least 28 in Akkar.
      Akkar explosion victims feel abandoned and humiliated after tragedy

      Blast which killed 28 has come to symbolise the human cost of Lebanon’s collapse

      LebanonAugust 18, 2021
      French President Emmanuel Macron gestures as he visits a devastated street in Beirut, Lebanon, on August 6, 2020, a day after a massive explosion devastated the Lebanese capital. AFP
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      French initiative needed 'more than ever' one year after Beirut blast

      Lebanese leaders promised Emmanuel Macron reform after explosion but failed to deliver

      LebanonAugust 04, 2021
      Former Lebanese prime minister Saad Hariri says it is not the time to try to influence Lebanese public opinion. AFP
      Saad Hariri: Beirut blast anniversary no launchpad for electoral campaigns

      Lebanon’s former prime minister condemns political rivals and calls for international probe into explosion

      LebanonAugust 03, 2021
      A Lebanese soldier sits in an armoured vehicle as the army deploys amid clashes in the Khalde area, south of Beirut.
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      'A declaration of war': tensions in Lebanon's Khalde after Hezbollah clashes

      Residents fear renewed violence after funeral procession turned into sectarian confrontation

      LebanonAugust 02, 2021
      Lebanese army are deployed after an ambush on Shi'ite mourners.
      Camera7
      Lebanon: Four killed in vendetta clashes between Hezbollah and local clan

      Lebanese army issues a warning to anyone carrying weapons

      LebanonAugust 01, 2021
      Residents relax on Batroun beach, north of Beirut, Lebanon.
      No vaccine, no beach in Lebanon under new Covid rules

      New rules are meant to halt the spread Delta variant as infections soar

      LebanonAugust 01, 2021
      The Beirut Bar Association has given its approval to prosecute attorneys and former ministers Ali Hassan Khalil, pictured, and Ghazi Zeaiter in the port blast investigation. Reuters
      Beirut Bar Association lifts immunity from members charged in blast probe

      Ghazi Zeaiter and Ali Hassan Khalil are still protected from prosecution because they are sitting legislators

      LebanonJuly 28, 2021
      A massive fire in Kobayat, north of Lebanon
      Play14:10:08
      'Gigantic' bushfire threatening lives in north Lebanon, Red Cross says

      Sixteen teams of about 50 to 60 people each from the agency are trying to evacuate villages

      LebanonJuly 28, 2021
      Lebanese Red Cross volunteer paramedics speak to a patient with Covid-19 in a Beirut suburb. Tom Nicholson for The National
      Lebanon records highest number of new Covid-19 cases since April

      Fears of a new wave driven by the Delta variant of the coronavirus grow as cases climb

      LebanonJuly 27, 2021
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