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NNA – Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri contacted, on Saturday, Saudi Monarch Salman bin Abdul Aziz, conveying deepest condolences for the passing away of his brother, Prince Turki bin Abdul Aziz. Hariri had earlier sent condolences cables to the Saudi King, as well as Crown Prince […]

NNA – President of the Republic, General Michel Aoun, sent a cable of condolences to Saudi King Salman bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, upon the death of his brother, Prince Turki bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, on Saturday. President Aoun expressed, on behalf of the […]

US President-elect Donald Trump said he had received a “beautiful” letter from Russian President Vladimir Putin. U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump hugs a U.S. flag as he takes the stage for a campaign town hall meeting in Derry, New Hampshire August 19, 2015 © […]

Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri contacted on Friday the newly-elected US President, Donald Trump, to extend congratulations on his win. During the phone call, the pair dwelt on the Lebanese-US relations and the perspectives of bilateral cooperation between Lebanon and the new US administration. Both agreed […]

Hizbullah fighters on Friday bombed militants from al-Nusra Front in the outskirts of the northeastern border town of Arsal, inflicting casualties, Hizbullah’s al-Manar TV reported. “Islamic Resistance jihadi fighters have targeted a gathering of Nusra Front terrorists in the Dahr al-Hawa area in the outskirts […]

Speaker Nabih Berri picked at the Lebanese banks and what he described as “cheap donations” allocated to buy weapons and assist the Lebanese army, al-Akhbar daily reported on Saturday. “This is unacceptable. A single investor can alone pay an amount of ten million dollars. This […]

UNITED NATIONS — The election of Donald Trump has left many U.N. diplomats nervous because of the candidate’s isolationist talk on the campaign trail and his loud disregard for the United Nations. After eight years with an extremely engaged multilateralist Obama administration, many diplomats fear […]

Lebanese Forces bloc MP Antoine Zahra snapped back Friday at Kataeb Party chief MP Sami Gemayel, after the latter accused LF leader Samir Geagea of seeking to exclude Kataeb from the new government. “It is not true that we want to exclude the Kataeb Party […]

Kataeb party chief Sami Gemayel lashed out at Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea and accused him of planning to exclude his party from a new cabinet lineup, An Nahar daily reported on Friday. “Geagea does not mind to be with Hizbullah in a single government, […]