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Berri ties new electoral law to senate formation

BEIRUT: Lebanon’s rival political factions wrapped up the third consecutive day of talks aimed at breaking a nearly two-year-long political deadlock with no signs of a breakthrough. After failing to find common ground on the election of a president and the ratification of a new […]

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Lebanon faces political stalemate as dialogue stalls

BEIRUT: The first of three consecutive National Dialogue rounds kicked off Tuesday as Speaker Nabih Berri urged rival parties to make concessions to pave the way for a comprehensive political settlement. Talks, however, failed to make headway over the election of a president and the […]

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Azzi tackles labor affairs with guests

NNA – Minister of Labor Sejaan Azzi received on Wednesday Head of the Socio-economic Council, Roger Nasnas, and discussed with him the launching of the socio-economic book. Minister Azzi later held a meeting with representatives of the embassies of the Philippines and Madagascar in Lebanon […]

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Bassil à propos de la présidentielle

Le ministre des Affaires étrangères et chef du CPL, Gebran Bassil, a estimé que le problème fondamental dans le pays est « la notion d’application du vivre-ensemble ». M. Bassil, qui s’exprimait devant des partisans du CPL à Ghazir, a placé dans ce contexte le […]

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TERRORISME ET CULTURE : L’AVENIR DU PASSE…

« Quand j’entends le mot culture, je sors mon revolver » ! Cette citation apocryphe tantôt attribuée au maréchal Hermann Goebbels, ministre de la propagande, tantôt à Hermann Göring, ministre de l’air du Troisième Reich serait en fait le fruit du talent d’un obscur dramaturge […]