by Charbel Lebbos | Oct 26, 2022 | Arab Economy, Arab News
Israel on Tuesday gave London-listed Energean permission to begin producing gas from Karish, an offshore field at the heart of a maritime border agreement about to be signed with Lebanon. A statement from the energy ministry said they “gave Energean the approval to...
by Charbel Lebbos | Oct 24, 2022 | Arab Economy, Arab News
Israel’s Supreme Court has rejected a number of petitions that could have delayed a historic US-mediated maritime border agreement with Lebanon, which Washington predicted could be finalised on Thursday. Four groups, including an Israeli opposition MP, had...
by Charbel Lebbos | Oct 7, 2022 | Arab Economy
Banks in Lebanon will again close their doors until further notice from Friday after repeated security incidents, a source told The National. Lebanese banks closed their doors last month after at least seven branches were raided by angry depositors in a week,...
by Charbel Lebbos | Oct 3, 2022 | Arab Economy, Arab News
Lebanon has said it received a letter from US envoy Amos Hochstein containing “proposals ” on a maritime border deal with Israel that could settle competing claims over offshore gasfields. President Michel Aoun met US ambassador Dorothy Shea “who...
by Charbel Lebbos | Oct 3, 2022 | Arab Economy, Arab News
Lebanon’s Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has described a draft of the US-brokered deal demarcating a disputed maritime border with Israel as positive. On Saturday, the Lebanese presidency said Beirut had received a letter from US mediator Amos Hochstein on...
by Charbel Lebbos | Sep 15, 2022 | Arab Economy
Two separate groups of angry depositors held up two different banks in Lebanon on Wednesday, demanding access to their savings in the latest act of civil disobedience over frozen accounts. A woman who led a group that took hostages and held up a bank in...
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