Politics

Singer turned salafist Fadel Shaker, an affiliate of detained extremist cleric Ahmed al-Asir, has requested the security apparatuses to facilitate his travel to Qatar, As Safir daily reported on Monday. “Repentant singer and fugitive Fadel Shaker has asked the security agencies (in Lebanon) to facilitate […]

Loyalty to the Resistance bloc MP Ali Fayyad blamed al-Mustaqbal Movement for impeding an agreement on a new electoral law, the state-run National News Agency reported on Monday. The Hizbullah MP said: “Neither the AMAL movement nor the Free Patriotic Movement or Hizbullah are responsible […]

Agriculture Minister Akram Shehayyeb announced Monday that a “solution” has been reached for the country’s renewed waste management and collection crisis, following a meeting with two Free Patriotic Movement officials. “We have managed to reach a solution through negotiations,” said Shehayyeb at a joint press […]

Washington and Moscow failed Monday to agree on a deal to stem Syria’s violence during talks between U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian leader Vladimir Putin in China. While speaking of “productive” talks and “some alignment” on Syria, the two powers failed to produce an […]

Bombings claimed by the Islamic State group killed at least 48 people and wounded dozens in mainly government-controlled areas of Syria on Monday, a day after IS lost the last stretch of the Syria-Turkey border under its control. The deadliest in the wave of blasts […]

Tens of thousands took to Brazilian streets Sunday to support sacked leader Dilma Rousseff and protest the new government of Michel Temer, who has taken power and downplayed the protests. Demonstration organizers — who have rejected Temer’s ascendancy as a “coup” — said some 100,000 […]

Free Patriotic Movement leader Gebran Bassil said on Saturday that the FPM wants to “destroy” what he called the “corrupt structure” that ruled Lebanon between 1990 and 2005. Addressing Prime Minister Tammam Salam, Bassil noted that “the son of late PM Saeb Salam must pay […]

NNA – Lebanese Forces (LF) leader Samir Geagea categorically stressed that the primary practical step to exit out of the current crisis lies in the election of the president of the republic. “The foremost needed step to extricate out of the current crisis does neither […]

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has pulled into an effective tie with Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, erasing a substantial deficit as he consolidated support among his party’s likely voters in recent weeks, according to the latest Reuters/Ipsos national tracking poll released Friday. The poll showed […]