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Lebanon ignited their World Cup aspirations with a thrilling 3-2 victory over neighbors Syria Wednesday.

Lebanon’s state electricity company on Saturday renewed its warning that the country will imminently face total blackout if the Central Bank fails to buy fuel oil to run the power plants that are running out of fuel oil.

Lebanon registered 640 new coronavirus cases and four deaths in the past 24 hours, the Health Ministry reported Friday.

Three former ministers filed lawsuits Friday requesting the replacement of Judge Tarek Bitar as head of the investigation into last year's Beirut Port blast, days before he was scheduled to interrogate them on suspicion of negligence and maladministration.

The novelist was born on the Indian Ocean island of Zanzibar, off the coast of east Africa, in 1948, and began writing after moving to England as a refugee, where he is now based. He welcomed the Nobel Prize as sparking greater discussion of the issues he raises in his novels, such as the plight of refugees and colonialism

The Central Bank denied Friday a Swiss newspaper report that alleged the International Monetary Fund had removed information from a 2016 report on the country at the request of Gov. Riad Salameh.

Facebook and its Instagram platform have wrongfully removed and suppressed content by Palestinians, including about abuses during Israeli-Palestinian violence this year, Human Rights Watch said on Friday.

Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah described Iran as a "sincere ally and loyal friend" during talks with Iranian foreign minister in Beirut, the group said in a statement Friday.

The Lebanese pound fell again Friday, trading at LL18,750 to the dollar on the black market, exchange dealers said.