Month: November 2016

Mardi 22 novembre, alors que les festivités de la fête de l’Indépendance – qui avaient provoqué une affluence populaire sans précédent au point de prendre de court le département du protocole – venaient de se terminer au palais de Baabda, le téléphone a sonné. Le […]

Le Premier ministre israélien Benjamin Netanyahu a prévenu jeudi que les autorités traiteraient comme un « acte de terrorisme » tout incendie allumé volontairement, alors que le nord et le centre de l’entité sioniste est en proie depuis trois jours à une succession d’incendies. « […]

Ein Komitee, dem mehrheitlich SVP-Mitglieder angehören, will mit einer Initiative gegen religiösen Fundamentalismus vorgehen. Ins Visier nimmt es Sonderregelungen für Muslime.         «Wir dürfen nicht zum Libanon der Schweiz werden», sagte Kevin Grangier, SVP-Sekretär im Kanton Waadt und Präsident des Initiativkomitees gegen […]

Thanksgiving Day is a federal holiday. Thanksgiving is one of the most family-oriented holidays on the calendar, and it is easily the most “relaxed” of them since it is generally spent entirely at home with family and friends. Year Date Day Holiday State 2016 23 […]

Lebanese President, Michel Aoun, received on Thursday former Secretary-General of the Arab League, Amr Moussa, who congratulated him on his election. “I expressed my optimism to President Aoun regarding the future of Lebanon, and wished him all success in his national responsibility,” Moussa pointed out. […]

Visiting Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman al-Thani announced Wednesday that his country is “very confident” that a “strong government” will be formed in Lebanon, as Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri said the latest visits by Gulf officials reflect the Gulf countries’ “openness” to […]

Caretaker Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil on Wednesday discussed the issue of equipping the army and cooperation in the oil and gas sector with his visiting Qatari counterpart Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman al-Thani. “Our ties with Qatar have always been good and we don’t forget […]

As Qatar apparently prepares to purchase a vast quantity of fourth-generation fighter jets from the US, it remains unclear whether the Middle Eastern nation actually needs all this military hardware. US Predator unmanned drone armed with a missile setting off from its hangar at Bagram […]

Being friends means you will do something even if you don’t want to. So Qatar is going to buy 72 F-15QA fighter jets with weapons and related support from the US… The problem is it remains unclear whether the Middle Eastern nation actually need this […]