Month: November 2016

Lebanese Forces bloc MP Antoine Zahra snapped back Friday at Kataeb Party chief MP Sami Gemayel, after the latter accused LF leader Samir Geagea of seeking to exclude Kataeb from the new government. “It is not true that we want to exclude the Kataeb Party […]

Kataeb party chief Sami Gemayel lashed out at Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea and accused him of planning to exclude his party from a new cabinet lineup, An Nahar daily reported on Friday. “Geagea does not mind to be with Hizbullah in a single government, […]

PM-designate Saad Hariri and Speaker Nabih Berri have agreed to meet when a new government formula is complete and when Hariri has finished the final touches of lining up the new cabinet, media reports said on Friday. “Hariri and I have agreed to meet when […]

President Michel Aoun on Friday reiterated his call for “separating the foreign political choices” of the Lebanese parties from the domestic situation. “In the last (national) dialogue session that I participated in, and after a political debate erupted over the Middle East issues… I called […]

NNA – Maronite Patriarch Cardinal Bechara Boutros Rahi met on Friday morning at Bkirki with the Representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Mireille Girard, on a visit to discuss the Syrian refugees’ issue. There was agreement during the meeting on the […]

Will Lebanon follow Morocco’s renewable energy footsteps in light of new political momentum? EIB Vice President: A positive political environment is always good for EIB green investments in Lebanon Written by Rana Al-Hajj As Lebanon groans under the heavy weight of power outages and their […]

NNA – Chinese Ambassador to Lebanon, Wang Kejian, said on Friday that China was one of the most important trade partners for Lebanon during three consecutive years, adding that trade between the two countries reached 2 billion and 80 million dollars by 2015. The Ambassador’s […]

NNA – President of the Republic, General Michel Aoun, stressed that a nation’s uprising can solely be achieved through a popular workshop, calling for separating external political options from the Lebanese interior. “Everyone is invited to reconstruct Lebanon,” President Aoun said on Friday during his […]

The United States will end up fighting Russia if it attacks Syrian President Bashar Assad, US President-elect Donald Trump said. Smoke rises from government-controlled New Aleppo neighbourhood, western Aleppo city, Syria November 3, 2016. © REUTERS/ Ammar Abdullah Syrian Army Liberates From Terrorists District in […]