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Judicial Police Commander General Anwar Yehya told Al-Manar television on Friday that evidence in the death of a mother, Grace Jalkh, and her three daughters in Bhersaf-Metn on Wednesday night points, until now, to a suicide. According to Yehya, the...

Newly appointed Finance Minister Raya Haffar said on Wednesday that achieving higher economic growth in Lebanon requires a political harmony and a will to carry out necessary reforms. “Lebanon can attain even higher economic growth if political synchronization and a strong...

In an interview with An-Nahar newspaper published on Saturday, Interior Minister Ziad Baroud said that Internal Security Forces’ Director General Ashraf Rifi had undermined the instructions Baroud had given to him, when following a dispute, Rifi accused Police Brigadier Antoine...

The MP also said he wants the Kataeb to get a fair share in the government and leadership of the Education Ministry, which he called an “essential part of the problem in Lebanon." He also said that "the Ministerial Statement...

Najjar refused to disclose the name of the dismissed judge, but Al-Liwaa identified the judge as Tanios Ghantous.  Sleiman added that reforms must be taken only by the administration of the judiciary, without outside interference. He said that he discussed...

In an interview with Al-Manar television on Friday, Lebanon First bloc MP Mohammad al-Hajjar said that Prime Minister Saad Hariri would visit Syria when the “time is right.” Hajjar touched on President Michel Sleiman’s Thursday visit to Damascus, saying that...

Syrian newspaper Al-Watan said on Friday that President Michel Slieman’s visit to Damascus on Thursday was a “prelude” to Prime Minister Saad Hariri’s “national duty” to visit Syria, which it added will be soon. The daily said that it is...

In an interview with As-Safir newspaper published on Thursday, Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblatt agreed with Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun during their Wednesday meeting at the Presidential Palace in Baabda “to develop a mechanism that...

Officials from the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) tasked with prosecuting suspects in the 2005 assassination of former Premier Rafik Hariri visited Lebanon last week, the court’s Defense Office said Wednesday. François Roux, head of the Defense Office, and his team...