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A Conversation with the President of the Lebanese American Council for Democracy, Dr. Joseph Khalil  Dr. Khalil was born in Lebanon, in 1974. As a child and young adult, he was an active member of the Scouts du Liban and the Lebanese Red Cross; both […]

The Office of the Lebanese Presidency released the following statement on 02/21/2017: President Aoun to Senator Corker: Eager to maintain bilateral relations and the US support for the Lebanese Military, and to collaborate in all that benefits the stability of Lebanon   At the Presidential […]

Former US President George HW Bush and his wife Barbara Bush have been admitted to a hospital in Houston, Texas, according to a spokesman. The 41st president was admitted on Saturday due to “an acute respiratory problem stemming from pneumonia”. The 92-year-old has now been […]

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations will blast the world body over its treatment of Israel at her Senate confirmation hearing, according to prepared testimony seen by Reuters on Tuesday. “Nowhere has the UN’s failure been more consistent […]

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 […]

President-elect Donald Trump has accused US intelligence agencies of leaking allegations that Russia has compromising material on him. “That’s something that Nazi Germany would have done,” he said. He was replying to unsubstantiated allegations that his election team colluded with Russia and there were salacious […]

U.S.-President-elect Donald Trump acknowledged Wednesday that Russia had meddled in the November election, but he said that if Russian President Vladimir Putin liked him, he considered that “an asset, not a liability.” In his first news conference in nearly six months, Trump said in New […]

President Barack Obama has called on Americans to defend their democracy in his farewell speech in Chicago. “By almost every measure, America is a better, stronger place” than it was eight years ago when he took office, he told thousands of supporters. But he warned […]