Month: April 2017

NNA – National Defense Minister, Yaacoub Sarraf, met on Wednesday Army Commander, General Joseph Aoun, in presence of Intelligence Director brigadier-general, Tony Mansour, over the security situation, notably in Ain el Helweh camp.

NNA – “Change and Reform” bloc MP Ibrahim Kanaan categorically rejected on Wednesday the extension option, saying that a new electoral protects us from vacuum rather than extension MP Kanaan, who accompanied a delegation, met with Hezbollah Deputy Secretary General, Sheikh Naim Kassem, in presence […]

El presidente del Parlamento dijo este miércoles en la reunión con los diputados: “Hemos estado siempre abiertos a debatir una nueva ley electoral y celebrar las elecciones a base a ella, sin embargo nos vemos obligados, debido a la falta de llegar a un acuerdo, […]

NNA – A grouping of university students in Lebanon arrived at Martyrs Square, to participate in the sit-in, to voice rejection of extension and supporting proportionality law and women quota, NNA field reporter said.

NNA – President of the Republic, General Michel Aoun, signed on Wednesday afternoon the decree #523 dated April 12, 2017, which stipulates the referral of the 2017 state budget draft and attached budgets, to the House of Parliament, after the approval of the Council of […]

MP Ibrahim Kanaan of the Free Patriotic Movement announced Wednesday that the FPM and the Lebanese Forces will confront the attempt to extend parliament’s term through all possible means “in defense of the constitution.” “Why is it permissible to vote on extension and not on […]

NNA – “Change and Reform” bloc MP Ibrahim Kenaan categorically stressed that “extension is rejected in all its clauses,” saying that the bloc shall face democratically the extension operation if it occurs tomorrow. “If there is political will, we can reach an election law within […]

Ist das der Weg zum Frieden?Syrien soll aufgeteilt werden – wie damals DeutschlandGuido Felder | 23:48 | 11.04.2017Damaskus – Amerikanische Forscher schlagen vor, in Syrien verschiedene Kontrollzonen einzurichten. Je ein Stück ginge an Russland, die USA, die Türkei und an Oppositionelle. Der Krieg in Syrien […]

Around 3,000 Syrian refugees have left their tents in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley after oral eviction orders issued last month by the army, Human Rights Watch told AFP on Tuesday. Lebanon is home to over one million Syrian refugees, many of whom live in informal tented […]