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Heavy shooting in Beddaoui

علمت "النشرة" ان اطلاق نار كثيف يسجل في شارع ابو الفوز في ​مخيم البداوي​ احتجاجا على توقيف اثنين منذ قليل من قبل ​شعبة المعلومات

Beirut residents protested against increased power cuts

Beirut residents crippled one of the city’s busiest roads at rush hour on evening, burning tires and bring traffic to complete halt at recent electricity cuts following strikes by power company employees.

“What did we do them?” one resident screamed, in a jab at politicians.

“Why are you doing this to us? We want to eat ... we have gone four days with no electricity,” she added.

Kurds protest Turkish Afrin offensive outside Russian Embassy in Beirut

Roughly a thousand Kurds held a demonstration near the Russian Embassy in Beirut’s Corniche al-Mazraa to protest the incursion of Turkish troops into Syria’s Kurdish-held Afrin region.

A security source told The Daily Star that the protest had “choked” traffic in the area, and that Internal Security Forces personnel had positioned themselves to prevent any attempt by protesters to enter the embassy.

People cut the eastern route of Tripoli highway

أفادت "​غرفة التحكم المروري​" التابعة لقوى الأمن الداخلي، بـ"قطع أوتوستراد ​طرابلس​ المسلك الشرقي محلة البداوي من قبل بعض الأهالي، وتحويل السير إلى المسلك الغربي". وكانت قد أفادت مراسلة "النشرة" في الشمال بأنّ "مخابرات الجيش أوقفت مسؤول حزب التحرير في المنكوبين بطرابلس الشيخ محمد ابراهيم

Ogero employees demand salary scale wages

Employees at the state-run internet company Ogero in Sidon are holding a strike to protest delays in implementing the new salary scale, local TV station LBCI reported.

The protest, held at the invitation of the Executive Council of the Labor Union, began when employees blocked the doors to the Ogero building in Sidon. They called on the Board of Directors at Ogero to pay their employees according to the salary scale law passed in 2017.

Ain al-Hilweh residents protest aid survey

Local residents of south Lebanon’s Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp criticized studies conducted to provide compensation for damage caused by heavy fighting in 2017. The survey committee – made up of representatives from U.N. Palestinian aid agency UNRWA, Developmental Action without Borders and the Norwegian Refugee Council – was formed to find and approve beneficiaries for compensation for damage resulting from recent rounds of intense fighting in the south Lebanon camp.

Protesters light up Beirut with burning tires over power cut

Beirut residents crippled one of the city’s busiest roads at rush hour on evening, burning tires and bring traffic to complete halt at recent electricity cuts following strikes by power company employees.

“What did we do them?” one resident screamed, in a jab at politicians.

“Why are you doing this to us? We want to eat ... we have gone four days with no electricity,” she added.

Disabled persons protest for accessibility, inclusion

A number of people with disabilities held a protest in Beirut to call for greater inclusion in Lebanese society, the state-run National News Agency reported.

The demonstrators staged a sit-in on Corniche al-Nahr to express their right to be fully integrated into society and to denounce the country’s lack of wheelchair-accessible public spaces.

The protesters called on President Michel Aoun, Speaker Nabih Berri and Prime Minister Saad Hariri, asking the country’s political leadership to consider the rights of those living with disabilities.

Marcel Ghanem Interrogated as Protesters Brave Rain to Show Solidarity

Prominent TV talk show host Marcel Ghanem appeared before Mount Lebanon First Examining Magistrate Nicola Mansour in connection with a controversial episode of his Kalam Ennas show, as protesters braved heavy rain to express solidarity with him outside the Baabda Justice Palace.

Ghanem’s lawyer, MP Butros Harb, meanwhile filed procedural defenses that were accepted by Mansour and the session was adjourned to February 2.

Protesters call for more NSSF embezzlement prosecutions

Protesters called for National Social Security Fund employees involved in embezzlement to be prosecuted, saying that the charges already brought against several NSSF members were not enough.

The demonstration, held outside the Justice Palace in Adlieh, coincided with the trial hearing of NSSF Technical Committee head Samir Aoun. Around a dozen protesters, including judges, gathered to denounce what they said was a lack of comprehensive action against the misappropriation of funds at the state body.

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