If the World Bank is to finance, under a loan, electricity from Jordan and gas from Egypt, with a value that may exceed $1 billion, then why not build new plants with this amount, reduce loss, and raise tariffs?

Temporary solutions for electoral reasons = high cost. twitter.com/JawadAdra/sta…

Report: Earlier, the Lebanese security forces uncovered that tens of tons of captagon where prepared and packaged in Northern Lebanon and Majdal Anjar, putting the north as a new hotpot for major narcotics' production aside from Beqaa in general (Brital, Deir Al-Ahmar, etc..)

🚨 Random arrests by Saudi security forces of Lebanese in the country!

By @‌‌‎afif_shoman_a, a spox of the Lebanese arrested in UAE.

Lebanon lost in the World Cup qualifiers by 1-0 against South Korea.

American Media: U.S. State Department guidance calls on Americans to "reconsider travel" to the United Arab Emirates "due to the threat of missile or drone attacks."

A diaspora wishful of being a PM, Omar Harfoush: I want to go to Dahyeh [Beirut's southern suburb] and see with my own eyes whether the people there are Lebanese or not, and I will film this with my phone's camera if they allow me to do so.

Note: Curses are tolerated in the comments.

On this day, January 27, 2008, 8 people were killed and more than 30 wounded by the Lebanese army, after young men from Dahyeh protested against the power cuts in their neighborhoods for more than two days.

The protests expanded at night to include the South and Bekaa.

⋯ Five years after the case, the military court convicted two lieutenant-colonel officers handing them a fine of 280,000 (181$) each, and a brigadier general for a fine of 140,000 LBP (92$).

This is one of many times the army shot and killed Hezbullah or Amal protestors.

⋯ One of those killed that day in 2008, was a Hezbullah field medic identified as Mustafa Amhaz (Dima).

Thread on beautiful sights around Lebanon after this storm

⋯ From Al-Khodr, Beqaa

⋯ From Ain Ata, West Beqaa

⋯ From Baabdat, Metn