MP Ammar Houri denied on Friday reports claiming that al-Mustaqbal Movement has shown “openness” to discussing an electoral law fully based on proportional representation that had been devised by Najib Miqati’s government. “Reports circulating that Mustaqbal has reached a format close to the so-called hybrid […]
Minister for the Displaced Talal Arslan stressed on Friday that the 1960 electoral law does not provide just representation for the Druze community while proportional representation does, the National News Agency reported. “The 1960 electoral law does not achieve justice for Druze lawmakers,” said Arslan […]
Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat said on Friday that Lebanon must develop a judicial system similar to the one in the United States after it refused to reinstate President Donald Trump’s ban on refugees. “I wish that the judicial system in Lebanon resembles […]
When filmmaker Barak Goodman sat down to start making the documentary “Oklahoma City” about the 1995 bombing that left 168 people dead, he said he remembered little of the story — except, as he told NewsHour correspondent Jeffrey Brown, the shocking image of a building […]
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump, fresh off patching up ties with China, reassured Japan’s leader Friday that the U.S. will defend its close ally. Together, the pronouncements illustrated a shift toward a more mainstream Trump stance on U.S. policy toward Asia. Welcoming Prime Minister Shinzo […]
They planned to visit the Statue of Liberty. Randy Olsen and Zaineb Al-Qazwini met in Singapore in 2011 and married. After a two-year application process, Al-Qazwini, an Iraqi citizen, was approved for a green card in December. Their first stop was to be New York, […]
LONDON — From a flimsy rubber dinghy drifting 16 kilometers off Tripoli, the Libyan coast guard rescued more than 100 migrants this week, including a baby just a few weeks old. Close to 9,500 migrants have crossed the Mediterranean already this year — putting 2017 on […]
During his campaign, Donald Trump criticized President Obama for his reluctance to use the words “radical Islamic extremism.” One of Obama’s key anti-terrorism programs was just called “Countering Violent Extremism,” with no reference to Islam. The Trump administration may now want to refocus that program […]
NASA has released details of plans for a mission to land a spacecraft on Europa, a moon of Jupiter. The mission, planned for 2024, would analyze Europa for signs of life, potential human colonization, and to better characterize the surface and subsurface of the watery […]
KIRKUK, IRAQ — Islamic State militants usually speak to the media through their propaganda machine against a backdrop of bombs, mortars and sniper fire. To better understand what is happening in IS-controlled territories, VOA visits a detention center in Kirkuk, Iraq, to meet a self-described former […]
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