Month: March 2017

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil announced Sunday that he will launch a new initiative regarding the stalled electoral law while noting that the constitution can be amended if there is consensus. “There can be no political reform in Lebanon without an electoral law, and […]

A statue workers say depicts Pharaoh Ramses II who ruled Egypt over 3,000 years ago was unearthed on Thursday in the Matariya area in Cairo, Egypt, March 9, 2017. Share CAIRO — Archaeologists from Egypt and Germany have found a massive eight-meter statue submerged in ground […]

CAPITOL HILL — A Republican plan to eliminate and replace major portions of former President Barack Obama’s signature domestic achievement, the Affordable Care Act, has been savaged since its release earlier this week on Capitol Hill, presenting an early test of Republican governance. “Unconstitutional … dead […]

WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will host a 68-nation meeting in Washington this month to discuss the next moves by a coalition fighting Islamic State, the State Department said Thursday. The March 22-23 meeting of coalition foreign ministers aims “to accelerate international efforts […]

Free Patriotic Movement Head, Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Minister, Gebran Bassil, deemed, on Sunday, that “whoever conceives General Michel Aoun’s reaching presidency as an entryway towards financial interests is at fault.” Speaking at the FPM’s 2nd National Conference held at “Biel” in Central Beirut, Bassil […]

Lebanese Government Launched New Website To Help People Reclaim Lebanese Nationality The new Lebanese Nationality Program website was launched by the Lebanese government to help Lebanese people abroad (who don’t have their citizenship) reclaim their Lebanese nationality. This is an initiative launched by the Lebanese Ministry of […]

 United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon, Sigrid Kaag, said following her meeting with Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Minister, Gibran Bassil, that discussions focused on the perturbing situation in Ain al Helwe camp and another topic relevant to UN Security Council resolution 1701. Kaag called on […]

The President of the Lebanese Republic Bechara el-Khoury handing over the Lebanese flag to Major General Fouad Chehab on the 17th of June 1944 On the 17th of June 1944 and as part of the protocol signed between the Lebanese government and the French authority […]

MP Hani Qobeissi of AMAL Movement’s Development and Liberation bloc warned Sunday that Lebanon will be plunged into “vacuum” and “chaos” should the political parties fail to agree on a new electoral law. “Vacuum means chaos,” Qobeissi cautioned, urging all parties to “shoulder the responsibility […]