Lebanese ministers met for an ordinary Cabinet session Thursday despite a continuing boycott by Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil
Lebanese Cabinet meets, Bassil defiant in boycott
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Hariri Receives Geagea for Talks on Pressing Issues
Prime Minister Saad Hariri received on Sunday evening at the Center House, Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea where talks focused on several pivotal issues. The meeting which lasted two hours and included a working dinner, tackled the parliamentary electoral law, Lebanon’s 2017 budget plan, the […]
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Saudi Arabia ‘Too Arrogant to Accept Defeat’ in Yemen
Days after over 100,000 Yemenis rallied in Sanaa against Saudi Arabia for the latter’s continued shelling campaign, US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Riyadh to discuss the ongoing bloodbath. The founder of the UK-based Islamic Human Rights Commission, Massoud Shadjareh, spoke with Radio […]
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The Insistence of President Michel Aoun
The insistence of President Michel Aoun on a new electoral law, namely the proportional law, and his bet on people to fight corruption, coincides with the Head of the Lebanese Parliament Nabih Berri’s positions on the same law and the formation of a parliamentary committee […]