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President of the Republic, General Michel Aoun, stressed that the international confidence in Lebanon is reinforced everyday, adding that the support received by Lebanon since the presidential election ushers in a better future in the political, security and economic fields. President Aoun informed his interlocutors […]

Media reports said that parties are mulling calls to hold a spiritual Christian-Islamic summit with the aim of backing President Michel Aoun and the new tenure, in order to provide atmospheres appropriate for the new government to function properly, the Kuwaiti As-Seyasah daily reported Monday. […]

A closed door meeting took place on Monday in Bkirki between Maronite Patriarch Cardinal Bechara Boutros Rahi and Interior and Municipalities Minister, Nuhad Mashnouq, to deliberate over the latest political developments, notably government formation efforts. In the wake of the closed door meeting, Patriarch Rahi […]

President Michel Aoun met Monday with the President of the World Bank in the Middle Wast Farid Belhaj, in the presence of MP Ibrahim Kanaan. During the meeting, Aoun was handed a letter of support and confidence from the World Bank.

Turkish police detained 118 pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) officials Monday over alleged links to Kurdish PKK militants, state media reported. Country-wide operations were launched after an offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) claimed responsibility for twin bombings that killed at least 38 people […]

The Lebanese Forces is “not concerned” with what Marada Movement chief MP Suleiman Franjieh announced in Ain el-Tineh about Speaker Nabih Berri offering him the public works ministerial portfolio, LF sources announced on Monday. LF leader Samir Geagea “has not received any phone call from […]

Head of the Lebanese Democratic Party, MP Talal Arslan, welcomed, at his Khalda residence on Monday, a delegation of the Free Patriotic Movement, with whom he discussed latest developments, particularly the election law. “We visited MP Arslan to dwell on the election law. We both […]

Maronite Patriarch Cardinal Bechara Boutros Rahi fervently deplored in a statement the terrorist bombing that rattled St. Peter church near St. Mark Cathedral and the pontifical seat of Orthodox Copts in Cairo Sunday morning which claimed the lives of 24 people and injured dozens. Patriarch […]

Egypt’s president says a suicide bomber carried out the bombing at Cairo’s Coptic Orthodox cathedral complex on Sunday that killed at least 25 people. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi said authorities arrested three men and a woman in connection with the blast. The president was […]