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Germany’s Foreign Minister said on Monday that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s comments that NATO was obsolete had aroused concern across the 28-member alliance. Frank-Walter Steinmeier, speaking after a meeting with alliance Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg in Brussels, said Trump’s remarks contradicted views expressed by designated Defense […]

U.S President-elect Donald Trump warned German car companies he would impose a border tax of 35 percent on vehicles imported to the U.S. market, a plan that drew sharp rebukes from Berlin and hit the automakers’ shares. In an interview with German newspaper Bild, published […]

Hizbullah and al-Mustaqbal Movement announced Monday that they have agreed to “intensify communication” over the issue of the electoral law. A terse statement issued after the two parties’ 39th dialogue session in Ain el-Tineh said “the conferees discussed the need to speed up the approval […]

The Free Patriotic Movement rejected on Monday the current stalling in endorsing a new election law, urging the concerned sides to resume the “positive path” that has kicked off with the election of President Michel Aoun and the formation of Saad Hariri’s national unity government. […]

Syrian rebels say they will attend peace talks in Kazakhstan next week aimed at ending the country’s nearly six-year-old war. Rebel officials said Monday the meetings in Astana, the Kazakh capital, on January 23rd will focus on the cease-fire, humanitarian issues and the violations by […]

President Michel Aoun is expected to visit Egypt before long for talks with President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, a trip that was purported to be part of his tour after Saudi Arabia and Qatar, but was postponed for pressing reasons, al-Joumhouria daily reported Saturday. Cairo was […]

Maronite Patriarch, Cardinal Bechara Boutros Rahi, said on Sunday that the change in mentalities would help in the elaboration of a new electoral law. In his homily in Bkerki, Cardinal Rahi stressed the need for changing attitudes in Lebanon, during the new presidential mandate, the […]

Deputy Ibrahim Kanaan said on Sunday that the understanding between the Lebanese Forces (LF) and the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) was strategic and consecrated partnership and Charter. “It has been proven that this understanding was not seasonal but strategic and allotted a new equation on […]

St. Basil Cathedral is in Moscow’s Red Square. File photo by Maxim Zmeyev/Reuters Not since the end of the Cold War has Russia dominated U.S. headlines to the degree we’ve seen during this election. According to U.S. intelligence services, Russian President Vladimir Putin is waging […]