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News Source: NOW Lebanon
| 4 months ago
Future Movement MP Nohad Mashnouq said that all the Members of Parliament representing the city of Beirut will continue working until they can declare the capital âa safe city.â In an interview with al-Markazia news agency on Wednesday,...
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News Source: NOW Lebanon
| 4 months ago
The March 14 alliance held its weekly meeting on Wednesday and issued a statement saying that they will not accept a cabinet that includes an obstructing third vote. The statement also condemned the Aisha Bakkar clashes, and warned that âwhat...
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News Source: NOW Lebanon
| 4 months ago
Change and Reform bloc MP Ghassan Moukheiber called for a quick formation of the new cabinet, âsince we will face a difficult period on the security, political and economic levels.â He added that âthis period aims to continue with the...
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News Source: The Daily Star
| 5 months ago
A delegation of Beirut lawmakers discussed with caretaker Defense Minister Elias Murr means by which security in the capital could be "permanently preserved." Murr received in his office at the Defense Ministry in Yarze MPs Ammar Houri, Mohammad...
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News Source: NOW Lebanon
| 5 months ago
Speaker Nabih Berri met with Lebanese Armed Forces commander Jean Kahwaji to discuss the clashes that erupted two days ago in Beirutâs Aisha Bakkar neighborhood. Berri told the army commander that âthe political cover is lifted off the...
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News Source: NOW Lebanon
| 5 months ago
Family of Aisha Bakkar clashes victim Zeina al-Miri refused to receive condolences for the death of their daughter, before tracking down and detaining the âAmal Movement armed menâ who shot her. In a statement issued on Tuesday, Miriâs...
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News Source: NOW Lebanon
| 5 months ago
The Lebanon First bloc MP Nohad al-Mashnouq said on Tuesday that, if possible, all Beirut MPs and spiritual leaders will be called on to discuss the possibility of declaring Beirut a âsafe city for all.â Mashnouq said there will be a...
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News Source: The Daily Star
| 5 months ago
A tense calm held in the Beirut neighborhood of Aisha Bakkar during the day Monday after armed clashes on Sunday left one person killed and several wounded. A large number of Lebanese Armed Forces soldiers tanks and armored personnel carriers lined...
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News Source: The Daily Star
| 5 months ago
Relatives of the woman killed in evening clashes in the Beirut neighborhood of Aisha-Bakkar burned tires and cut off roads in the area on Monday, but the army quickly intervened to control the situation. Caretaker Interior Minister Ziad Baroud said...
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News Source: The Daily Star
| 5 months ago
The brief eruption of violence in Beirut Sunday night underscores the unresolved political tensions and sectarian suspicions facing Lebanon's next government, political and security analysts told The Daily Star Monday. The street clashes, on the eve...