BEIRUT: Lebanon’s Cabinet formed Monday a ministerial committee tasked with the formulation of a new parliamentary electoral system proposal in the hope of breaking a months-long political deadlock that threatens to plunge the country into a constitutional vacuum. The committee, which will be headed by […]
NNA – Lebanese Forces leader, Samir Geagea, met, at Maarab on Monday, with Future bloc MP Ahmad Fatfat, over latest political developments, especially the election law. Geagea has earlier met with a delegation of Sidon-Zahrani municipalities’ union, headed by Mohammad al-Saudi. “We discussed an array […]
Within the framework of the High Level Steering Committee, British Ambassador to Lebanon Hugo Shorter and U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Elizabeth Richard met Monday with the Commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces General Joseph Aoun for their first meeting on the Land Border Security Project. […]
Prime Minister Saad Hariri held talks Monday at the Grand Serail with the U.S. congressman of Lebanese origin Darrell Issa, the PM’s office said. Issa is a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and of its Foreign Affairs Committee. He was accompanied by a […]
Watch ( the video above). The head of the Free Patriotic Movement leader, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Gebran Bassil held a press conference on Monday following the FPM Political bureau meeting. This is a brief of Bassil’s statement: (for the press conference, watch the […]
The Cabinet met at 11:00 am. this Monday at Baabda Palace where a committee, led by PM Hariri to discuss the electoral law, was formed. The session was preceded by a meeting between President Michel Aoun and Prime Minister Hariri during which they discussed the […]
Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday called on politicians to “reconcile with people” through a new electoral law that gives them the right to hold their representatives accountable. “This reconciliation requires them to pull the people out of the state of poverty which has started […]
Syrian and Iraqi refugees in Lebanon celebrated Palm Sunday at Lebanon churches despite the struggles and dire conditions they face on a daily basis. The celebrations reflect both feelings of joy and safety as well as the heartbreak of displacement.
Lebanese runner Ali Kedami crossed a large number of Lebanese towns in a journey that lasted 72 hours nonstop and without sleep, in a bid to support SANAD Association. The 55-year-old athlete arrived to the finish line in Zaytouna Bay, from where he departed, […]
A Lebanese registered ship hijacked off the coast of war-torn Somalia has been freed, says a shipping expert. The pirates who boarded the ship Saturday abandoned it Sunday before naval forces rescued the ship, Mohamed Abdirahman, former director of Puntland’s marine forces, told The Associated […]
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