Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri deserves credit for his politically-incorrect, yet progressive, statement Monday. While receiving the new student government of the American University of Beirut (AUB), he called for the legislation of a new electoral law based on proportional representation and a women’s quota. “Even […]
The State Department has opened up a transition office, but that ground-floor corner office in Washington’s Foggy Bottom neighborhood is quiet for now as diplomats await news of their new boss. Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of state could tell a lot about the direction […]
GENEVA — United Nations agencies have warned that food shortages across Syria are growing as production hit a record low. A joint study by the Food and Agriculture Organization and World Food Program found that five years of civil war was severely limiting the ability […]
Hezbollah flaunts American equipment in Syria parade US-made M113 APCs spotted in large military parade held Friday in Syria’s Qusayr, Hezbollah’s first on foreign soil Image of Hezbollah military parade held in Syria’s Qusayr on November 11, 2016. (Twitter) Image of Hezbollah military parade held […]
Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri met Monday with President Michel Aoun at the Baabda Palace to put him in the picture of the latest developments regarding the cabinet formation process. Hariri left the presidential palace without making a statement but media reports said the visit was […]
Arab and foreign ambassadors started presenting copies of their credentials to President Michel Aoun, the National News Agency reported on Monday. Aoun received the credentials of Ambassador of Jordan Nabil Masarweh, Ambassador of Greece Theodore Passas and Italian Ambassador Massimo Marotti, NNA added. Later, the […]
NNA – Free Patriotic Movement chief, Caretaker Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil, met on Monday with Head of the Liberal Democrat Party, Tracy Chamoun, who extended felicitations on the election of President Michel Aoun. Talks also touched on the necessity to assume partnership in the upcoming […]
After reports that the cabinet could be formed of 30 ministers instead of the original 24, reports said Monday that the 24-minister cabinet has surfaced again and that President Michel Aoun is “enthusiastic” about the latter for what he sees as better “productivity.” Parties closely […]
Maronite Patriarch Cardinal Beshara Boutros Rai called for forming a cabinet that respects the National Pact and the Constitution, with competent technocrat ministers representing all the factions of the Lebanese society. During the opening of the Council of Catholic Patriarchs and Bishops on Monday, Rai […]
NNA – Lebanese Forces chief, Samir Geagea, met, at his Maarab residence on Monday, with Ghattas Khoury and Nader Hariri, advisors of Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri, over the latest developments concerning the formation of the next government. Separately, Geagea met with a delegation of Akkar […]
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