Articles by Hala Najjar

It’s France vs Croatia on Sunday, to decide the 2018 World Cup champion. The Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow will host the finale to the 2018 World Cup. Russia’s sporting Mecca has previously hosted the 1980 Olympics, 1999 Uefa Cup Final and 2008 Champions League Final. […]

Leader of the Free Patriotic Movement, Gebran Bassil, launched the party’s central committee for the return of refugees on Thursday who according to minister Bassil threatens Lebanon’s identity. Bassil assured that the conditions for return have been guaranteed and calm has been prevailing over the […]

A colossal error by Uruguay goalkeeper Fernando Muslera resulted in France taking an unassailable 2-0 lead in the World Cup quarter-final in Nizhny Novgorod. Muslera spilled Antoine Griezmann’s long-range effort into his own net to double France’s tally, after Raphael Varane had opened the scoring […]

Until today, Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri’s effort have failed to make a breakthrough in the government formation process. Moreover, the PM Hariri issued on Friday a circular, clarifying circular 21/2018 issued on June 7 and which calls on caretaker ministers to comply with article 64 […]

Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun and according to a statement from the Presidency Friday said that Lebanon is attempting to demarcate maritime and land borders with Israel in order to reclaim Lebanese territory, especially those involving oil and gas as well as the Shebaa farms and […]

Maronite Patriarch Cardinal Beshara Rahi criticized Sunday the naturalization decree, saying “it contradicts with the preamble of the Lebanese Constitution, which categorically and clearly stipulates that there will be no division or resettlement.” In his sermon during Mass service in Bkirki this morning, Rahi stressed […]

Prime Minister Saad Hariri said on Thursday, after being appointed to form a new Cabinet by a large majority in Parliament (111 out of 128 votes), that he would work to quickly form a “national entente government adding that rotation in cabinet portfolios is required […]

Designated Prime Minister Saad Hariri reiterated Friday his decision that the Future Movement would prevent its party’s MPs from also serving as Cabinet ministers, in a clear response to MP Nohad-al-Machnouk, but he denied reports speculating about a fallout with the MP Machnouk. Hariri had […]

Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil has written to his Syrian counterpart and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to express Lebanon’s concerns about the possible negative impact of Syrian law. According to state-run National News Agency, Bassil wrote to the Syrian foreign minister, Walid al-Moualem, saying “Lebanon is […]