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President Michel Aoun held talks on Wednesday with Qatar’s emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani in Doha, in the presence of Lebanese and Qatari delegations, the National News Agency reported. Aoun and his accompanying delegation have concluded a two-day visit to Saudi Arabia and flew […]

President of the Republic, Michel Aoun, said on Wednesday that the Lebanese state was working on drafting comprehensive economic and developmental plans, and pledged adequate access to electricity, water, and transportation services. “The next time the Lebanese community members of Qatar visit Lebanon, they will […]

Prime Minister Saad Hariri Hariri chaired today at the Grand Serail the meeting of the Council of ministers, in the absence of Ministers Marwan Hamade, Ali Hassan Khalil, Nohad Machnouk, Gebran Bassil, Yaacoub Sarraf, Melhem Riachy, Raed Khoury and Pierre Raffoul. After the meeting, the […]

Agriculture Minister, Ghazi Zoayter, visited Egypt on top of a delegation of representatives of the agricultural sector and specialists from the ministry for talks over Lebanese agriculture affairs and agricultural cooperation prospects between Lebanon and Egypt. In this framework, Minister Zoayter met with his Egyptian […]

Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani and Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun review an honor guard upon Aoun’s arrival to Doha, Qatar, Jan. 11, 2017   RIYADH —  Lebanese President Michel Aoun said after a visit to Saudi Arabia that his country’s close ties to […]

At Tuesday’s funeral in Tehran of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a key figure in the 1979 Islamic Revolution who later pushed for reconciliation with the West, reformist mourners not only chanted for the release of hunger-striking rights activists held in Iranian jails but also called for […]

VIENNA — Iran decided not to escalate a stand-off over the extension of U.S. sanctions at a meeting of diplomats overseeing the nuclear deal it reached with world powers in 2015, senior Russian and Iranian diplomats said after the session Tuesday. Tehran threatened last month to […]

On Wednesday at the Trump Tower the soon-to-be President of the United States confirmed what many journalists, citizens, and fact-checkers have long suspected: CNN is fake news. “I’m not going to give you a question. You are fake news,” Trump said while pointing his index […]

President-elect Donald Trump escalated a fight with U.S. spy agencies on Wednesday, just nine days before he takes over their command as president, and accused them of practices reminiscent of Nazi Germany. The Republican said leaks from the intelligence community led to some U.S. media […]