⋯ This company is also responsibile for training the Lebanese army and routinely checking its readiness and capabilities.

Maritime border negotiations:

The Israeli soldier, supposedly the neutral American mediator between Lebanon and Israel, also met several Lebanese ministers including the minister of energy.

Syrian resistance forces attacked the American-occupied 55km-large zone "Al-Tanf" with 5 projectiles.

This comes as a retaliation for USA's support to Israeli airstrikes on Syria from Al-Tanf no-fly zone.

After Nasserite MP Ossam Saad became confident Hezbullah will not assist him with votes in the upcoming elections in his disrict Sidon, similar to 2018, Saad met again with the Future Movement (Hariri's party) to discuss some sort of understanding/agreement with the latter. twitter.com/LbElection/st…

"City Blue" trash collecting company employees are on strike, demanding fair pay and benefits, which resulted in waste gathering on roads near collection zones around Beirut's southern suburbs.

The Israeli enemy army to begin a maneuver that simulates the advance against and then the occupation of the Lebanese city of Bint Jbeil with armored vehicles to test the pre-established plans.

IDF failed to capture the small town in 2006, despite capturing all high ground.

Central bank governor Riad Salameh, after meeting with the Banking Committee, has decided to cancel the exchange platform as of next week, and accordingly the Banque du Liban will stop selling dollars to merchants and companies.

In response, the Ministry of Finance was reported to be surprised by the decision of the governor to halt the platform (sayrafa) at this particular time, which may cause a sharp rise in the dollar exchange rate.

Fadi Abu Shakra: Liberating the import price of gasoline means putting pressure on the dollar in the parallel market, which will greatly burden the people.

More demand for USD to buy fuel = higher exchange rate = more expensive fuel & goods.

In a recent interview, the Russian president offered his condolences over the port explosion again, and showed surprise over the need of sattelite images for investigations into the explosion.

He also offered Russian assistance in the investigation process.

⋯ He also stated that Russia is in contact with all Lebanese political parties, calling for dialogue between all parties and avoiding violence to settle political differences.

He also mentioned possible future Russian intermediary role.

Source: ia.ru/amp/20211021/rassle…

Geagea refused, on live tv, the court order to hear his testimony about the ambush claiming he won't go before Hezbullah's SG goes.

Note: Hezbullah's SG was never summoned or asked to testify in any old or new case unlike Gaegae who was in prison for terrorism and murder.

Activists are circulating false news about cutting off the broadcast of a local channel in Daheyh, during an interview with Samir Geagea.

MTV's broadcast was cut few hours after the Tayouneh ambush by local cable distributors, last week.