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Covering Lebanon and occasionally MENA's conflicts. And currently, the war in Palestine.
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-- Sources to MTV: PM Hassan Diab's speech will hold the Central Bank Governor responsible for the deteriorating economic situation in the country.
-- MTV correspondent from Baabda: Schools will not open before June 8, which will be the final stage of the general mobilization.
-- Lebanon is aiming to carry out 75,000 PCR tests. Currently at 25,000.
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-- Heavy shooting in Tripoli, in celebration of the release of the Terrorist Amer Arish.

Amer was captured few months ago.
-- PM Hassan Diab: The government has taken office for 73 days, but some hold it accountable as if it had been in power for 72 months; however, not only do we accept objective accountability, but we demand it.

PM Hassan Diab blasts Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh's performance, saying there is "suspicious ambiguity," in his decisions that have led the local currency to rapidly depreciate. He then adds that the government have agreed to get an international firm to investigate the central bank and that everyone who sent his money outside Lebanon after 17/10/2019 should return them or else they will be criminalized.
-- Lebanon PM Hassan Diab says it is time to slowly begin reopening the country. He notes Lebanon has flattened the COVID-19 curve but must not allow the virus to spread once again.

"We have all made sacrifices, let them not be in vain."
-- Diab: A suspicious ambiguity surrounds the Central Bank regarding the high exchange rate of the dollar, which reflects negatively on everything in this country.

-- Diab: There must be clarity and honesty with the Lebanese, we must change the way we deal with the people and not hide information from them; Salameh must address the Lebanese and clarify everything.
-- Diab: Liquidity in Lebanese banks is starting to dry up, which is why we must take swift actions and initiatives; figures reveal the transfer of $ 5.7 billion out of Lebanon in January and February of this year.
-- Cabinet decisions: Approval of the Ministry of Telecommunications’ request to extend the Cabinet’s decision regarding the Ministry’s offer to increase the speed and volume of consumption of Internet service provided by Ogero network until the end of June and to give an additional 100 GB monthly for free to all subscribers.

Note: All non Ogero subscribers did not get anything.
-- Ever wondered how the central bank in Lebanon provides financial status to the government?

Well now you do. That's the official financial statement written by the central bank governor and provided to the government when they requested answers.
-- A bomb exploded on the entrance of Fransa bank in Sidon city.
-- Drill ship in Block 4 is still working and no results have been released yet, pending the finding and analysis of Total Company.

This comes after some in the political spheres claimed that there was no gas discovered.
-- The government is going to meet on Tuesday to implement the following:

1) Open an investigation in all the bank accounts that transfered their money outside Lebanon.

2) Enforce the retrieving of all stolen money.

3)A law that allows the government to get back the money that was smuggled outside Lebanon.

4) Continue formulating the econimal plan of the government.
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-- Several molotovs were thrown at a bank in Tyre, South Lebanon.