REPORT: Election of Aoun as president leaves MP vacant post in Keserwan district

29 October 2016 English

Once head of Change and Reform bloc MP Michel Aoun is elected as president, his parliamentary seat in the district of keserwan will automatically become vacant, just as MP Robert Fadel’s parliamentary seat, which became vacant in Tripoli when he resigned from Parliament.

In this case, the Constitution stipulates the need to conduct by-elections.

For more details, watch the full report in the video above.

Culture

REPORT: Lebanese Parliament agrees to repeal rape law

8 December 2016 English

MP Robert Ghanem declared on Wednesday that the Parliament’s Administration and Justice Committee has unanimously agreed to repeal a controversial article of the Lebanese penal code that protects rapists. The Committee has unanimously decided that it does not “accept article 522, as marriage cannot disregard […]

French Health Minister visits Hotel Dieu Hospital: Symbol of common LebaneseFrench humanity cause

10 February 2017 English

French Minister of Health and Social Affairs, Marisol Touraine, visited on Thursday evening, along with her accompanying delegation and French Ambassador Emmanuel Bonn, Hotel Dieu Hospital in Ashrafieh where she had a closer look at the new services provided by the Hospital’s various departments, as […]

U.S.Ambassador from ArzEhmej : U.S.A. commits to preserve Lebanon’s enviroment, forests

22 April 2017 English

NNA – The USAID-funded Lebanon Reforestation Initiative (LRI) organized on Saturday an “Environmental Day” at ArzEhmej Park in Ehmej, Byblos to celebrate the “International Earth Day” under the patronage of Ehmej Municipality and in cooperation with the committees of the Social and Enviroment corridors in […]