Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly listens to a question while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington, Feb. 7, 2017, before the House Homeland Security Committee. Share See comments WASHINGTON — U.S. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly told lawmakers Tuesday that he should have delayed implementation of […]
Volunteer immigration attorneys organize to help as people gather to protest against President Donald Trump’s executive order travel ban at Los Angeles International Airport, Jan. 31, 2017. Share See comments Legal experts almost all agree that the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s executive order temporarily […]
“Italian Deputy Foreign Minister, Vincenzo Amendola, started on Monday series of official meetings with Lebanese officials, the Italian embassy said in a statement on Tuesday. Amendola met with Social Affairs Minister, Pierre Abou Assi. He reiterated his support for the international cooperation in the Italian […]
An Iraqi translator who worked extensively with the US military spent almost seven years trying to get his family to America. But with days to go before their departure, President Trump signed a travel ban that put the family’s future in question. Friday, 27 January […]
Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil criticized as “shameful” the political parties failure to agree on a new election law for the upcoming parliamentary polls, stressing that the sought vote system must reinforce unity among the Lebanese, the National News Agency reported on Tuesday. “It is such […]
MP Serge Ter Sarkisian voiced calls on Tuesday upon President Michel Aoun and Prime Minister Saad Hariri to “safeguard their joint visions” for Lebanon and to “preserve their consensual views” in light of the debate between political parties over an electoral law for the upcoming […]
Translator: Cynthia P. FEGHALI “One cannot wait for a house burglar,” says former Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament Hussein El-Husseini, raising the Constitution’s book in the face of a dominant political class going against this Constitution: “They have become like burglars of houses. Whatever people […]
Prospects are emerging that a proportional representation vote law for the upcoming parliamentary polls where Lebanon is divided into 13 districts could be put for discussion, al-Akhbar daily reported on Monday. The next stage will witness suggestions made by President Michel Aoun to hold the […]
Foreign Minister and Free Patriotic Movement leader Jebran Bassil clarified that an agreement on an electoral law for the upcoming parliamentary polls has not been reached as yet with Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Monday. “A hybrid electoral law […]
Kataeb Party leader Sami Gemayel voiced his utter rejection on Monday of endorsing the controversial 1960 electoral law for the upcoming parliamentary elections even with an amended version. “If a new electoral law was not approved this week, we might head towards either the 1960 […]
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