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NNA – A grouping of university students in Lebanon arrived at Martyrs Square, to participate in the sit-in, to voice rejection of extension and supporting proportionality law and women quota, NNA field reporter said.

NNA – President of the Republic, General Michel Aoun, signed on Wednesday afternoon the decree #523 dated April 12, 2017, which stipulates the referral of the 2017 state budget draft and attached budgets, to the House of Parliament, after the approval of the Council of […]

MP Ibrahim Kanaan of the Free Patriotic Movement announced Wednesday that the FPM and the Lebanese Forces will confront the attempt to extend parliament’s term through all possible means “in defense of the constitution.” “Why is it permissible to vote on extension and not on […]

NNA – “Change and Reform” bloc MP Ibrahim Kenaan categorically stressed that “extension is rejected in all its clauses,” saying that the bloc shall face democratically the extension operation if it occurs tomorrow. “If there is political will, we can reach an election law within […]

Around 3,000 Syrian refugees have left their tents in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley after oral eviction orders issued last month by the army, Human Rights Watch told AFP on Tuesday. Lebanon is home to over one million Syrian refugees, many of whom live in informal tented […]

NNA – The Italian Embassy’s stand at the 24th edition of HORECA hosted a group of Lebanese companies importing leading Italian products. In 2016 Italy exported to Lebanon 60 million US dollars of food and beverages. Thanks to these companies a wide variety of Italian […]

NNA – Army Commander, General Joseph Aoun, received on Tuesday at his Yarzeh office MP Riad Rahhal and former minister Marwan Charbel, with talks reportedly touching on the general situation. General Aoun also met with a delegation of the Customs’ Directorate led by Customs’ Director […]

NNA – Lebanese Army Command’s guidance directorate on Tuesday issued a statement saying that the command appointed, upon the approval of national defense minister, Brigadier Antoine Sleiman Mansour as director for army intelligence. Brigadier Mansour was born in 1962. He is from Hosh village in […]

NNA – Vice Prime Minister, Health Minister, Ghassan Hasbani, and Information Minister, Melhem Riachy, visited Rabieh on Tuesday, delegated by Lebanese Forces Leader, Samir Geagea. The pair took part in the Change and Reform Parliamentary bloc’s weekly meeting, and met with bloc leader, Gebran Bassil, […]