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      Jamie Prentis

      Jamie Prentis

      Lebanon correspondent
      Location
      Beirut
      Jamie is a British journalist and has been a correspondent at the Beirut bureau since March 2022, where he covers Lebanese affairs and the wider region. Before that he was a reporter at the London bureau for nearly four years. Before joining The National he worked for the Libya Herald and covered the country for outlets including The Times.
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      UN peacekeepers and Lebanese soldiers at a border fence between Lebanon and Israel. AFP
      Play21:04:00
      Hezbollah calls for restricted UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon

      The UN Security Council is scheduled to discuss extending Unifil's mandate on Wednesday

      LebanonAugust 29, 2023
      Germany experienced an influx of migrants escaping violence during the Lebanese civil war. AFP
      Camera16
      MPs petition UN to help find Lebanese missing in Syria

      Hundreds of Lebanese are thought to have been forcibly disappeared in Syria many years ago

      LebanonAugust 28, 2023
      Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati, Lebanon's caretaker Energy Minister Walid Fayad and Lebanon's Public Works and Transport caretaker Minister Ali Hamie are pictured at TransOcean Barents drilling rig offshore Lebanon, in this handout released by Dalati Nohra, Lebanon August 22, 2023. Dalati Nohra / Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY
      Play22:48:53
      Concerns mount only Lebanon's elite would strike it rich from oil

      Experts say reforms are needed to ensure any discovery benefits the masses

      MENAAugust 28, 2023
      Wassim Mansouri, Lebanon's acting central bank governor, says there is urgent need for reforms. Reuters
      Play28:43:44
      Lebanon central bank will not print money to cover deficit

      Wassim Mansour took on the role after long-time bank governor Riad Salameh stepped down last month

      LebanonAugust 25, 2023
      Senior Lebanese politicians visit the Transocean Barents drilling rig off the coast of Beirut. EPA
      Lebanon starts search for offshore oil and gas

      Political leaders hope drilling will alleviate economic crisis

      LebanonAugust 24, 2023
      Lebanese rower Ara Khatchadourian. photo: Jamie Prentis
      Lebanese adventurer rows 4,000km from Marseille to Beirut in humanitarian drive

      Ara Khatchadourian discovered a love for gruelling sporting challenges when he was 40

      LebanonAugust 22, 2023
      Shoppers queue for bread in a Beirut suburb. Around a quarter of households in Lebanon are experiencing acute food insecurity. EPA
      Camera7
      More than three million people need food aid in Lebanon

      Financial collapse and political instability continue to impact food security, WFO warns

      LebanonAugust 22, 2023
      Wreckage at the site of a bombing near the Sayeda Zeinab shrine south of Damascus on July 27, 2023. Reuters
      Suspect in Damascus bombing reportedly dies in Beirut

      Senior member of group says the man threw himself from seventh floor of building

      LebanonAugust 19, 2023
      French envoy Jean Yves Le Drian's proposal for a cross-party dialogue has been received by Lebanon's MPs. Reuters
      Lebanon's presidential divisions widen as Le Drian's dialogue formally proposed

      French special envoy has suggested a cross-party meeting that could help fill presidential vacuum

      LebanonAugust 17, 2023
      TotalEnergies' drilling rig Transocean Barents is expected to begin drilling in Lebanese waters near the maritime border with Israel. AP
      Play22:48:53
      Drilling rig to start search for Lebanese energy reserves

      Exploration for oil and gas follows US-brokered agreement with Israel on maritime boundary

      LebanonAugust 16, 2023
      Hassan Nasrallah made his comments during an event marking the anniversary of the end of the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah. AFP
      Camera12
      Hezbollah warns Israel it will 'also go back to the Stone Age' if it attacks Lebanon

      Hassan Nasrallah makes threat after similar warning from Israel last week

      LebanonAugust 14, 2023
      Elias Hasrouni, 72, was a co-ordinator for the Lebanese Forces in the Bint Jbeil region. Bloomberg
      Camera8
      Murder claims after murky death of Lebanese Forces official

      Elias Hasrouni was first thought to have died in a car crash but it now appears he was kidnapped and killed

      LebanonAugust 11, 2023
      Tele Liban has stopped broadcasting its regular TV programmes. Photo: Ministry of Information
      Lebanon's public broadcaster Tele Liban taken off air

      Employees are striking over unpaid salaries

      LebanonAugust 11, 2023
      ISIS insurgents remain active in areas of eastern Syria and western Iraq that were previously under their control. AFP
      Camera7
      More than 20 Syrian soldiers killed in ISIS ambush

      War monitor says the attack was the deadliest this year

      SyriaAugust 11, 2023
      This aerial view shows demonstrators marching outside the port of Beirut on August 4, 2023, to mark the third anniversary of the deadly harbour explosion which devastated large swathes of the Lebanese capital in 2020. One of history's biggest non-nuclear explosions rocked Lebanon's capital on August 4, 2020, destroying swathes of the city, killing more than 220 people and injuring at least 6,500. Three years on, the probe into the traumatic disaster remains bogged down in legal and political wrangling, to the dismay of victims' families. (Photo by Kameel RAYES / AFP)
      Play17:41:20
      Lebanon's stalled Beirut blast inquiry highlights dysfunctional judiciary

      Domestic investigation has been blocked repeatedly by legal measures

      LebanonAugust 10, 2023
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