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Change and Reform bloc MP Michel Helou said on Thursday during the third parliamentary session on the Ministerial Statement that facing the danger represented by “the multifaceted Israeli attacks” necessitates safeguarding the “elements of strength” in...
Tags: Syria, Damascus, Politics, Lebanon, Michel Suleiman, Fertile Crescent, Lebanese Armed Forces, Western Asia, Lebanese military personnel, War Conflict, Levant, Military of Lebanon, Taif Agreement, Lebanese presidential election, LAF, Arab League member states
Interior Minister Ziad Baroud told the Voice of Lebanon radio station on Monday that “from now on any person who does not abide the law will be punished,” adding that the number of traffic police increased from 500 to 1757. French traffic safety experts...
Tags: Voice of Lebanon radio, Special Tribunal for Lebanon, Ziad Baroud, Ziyad Baroud, Beirut Marathon, Downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Beirut, Politics, Hariri, War Conflict, Politics of Lebanon, Environment, Fertile Crescent, Interior ministry, Western Asia, Charles Helou, Saad Hariri, Cedar Revolution, Fatah al-Islam, Levant, Mediterranean, Michel Suleiman, Rafic Hariri, United Nations International Independent Investigation Commission, Law Crime
Ad-Diyar newspaper reported on Saturday that a “warm welcome” awaits Prime Minister Saad Hariri in Syria. The daily said Hariri will most likely visit Syria after President Michel Sleiman returns from his mid-December visit to Washington, adding that...
Tags: Syrian, Saad Hariri, Hariri-Assad, minister saad, Damascus, Boutros Harb, Lebanon First, prime minister, Syria, Politics, Hariri, Rafic Hariri, Lebanon¬タモSyria relations, Lebanese government of July, Walid Jumblatt, Lebanese Forces, Social Issues, Lebanese military personnel, Cedar Revolution, Lebanon, Samir Geagea, Qornet Shehwan Gathering, Asad, Baathism, Ophthalmologists, Bashar al-Assad, Nepotism, Anti-Syrian, Lebanese Civil War, Michel Suleiman, March 14 Alliance
Friday that President Michel Sleiman plans in his upcoming visit to the United States to improve Lebanese-American relations, stress his country’s refusal to naturalize the Palestinian refugees and ensure that Lebanon is not used as a bargaining-chip...
Tags: Lebanon, Lebanese-American, Michel Sleiman, president michel, palestinian refugees, Beirut, Politics, War Conflict, Lebanese military personnel, Michel Suleiman, Michel Aoun, Fertile Crescent, Palestinian nationalism, Ramallah, Lebanese Armed Forces, Outline of Lebanon, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Hezbollah, Surnames, Mahmoud Abbas, Military of Lebanon, Abbas, Israel-Lebanon conflict, Nassif, Palestine refugee camps, Nahr al-Bared
Friday that the role of the Resistance should be clearly defined so as to set the political balance within the country and enable the state to impose authority throughout its territory. Sakr added that March 14 is on a “national mission” and “simply requests”...
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The White House said in a statement Wednesday that Obama and Michel Suleiman will discuss a broad range of issues of mutual concern, including efforts to improve relations between their two countries. Achieving peace in the region and implementing relevant...
Tags: Lebanon, Beirut, Politics, Michel Suleiman, Barack Obama, Political positions of Barack Obama, Luo people, Lebanese military personnel, Punahou School alumni, Baabda, An-Nahar, International reaction to the United States presidential election
President Michel Sleiman said that he does not oppose adopting the concept of one electoral district throughout Lebanon in an interview with Ad-Diyar newspaper, but, he added, on condition there is an equal distribution of power between Christians and...
Tags: Michel Sleiman, Lebanon, Hezbollah, Beirut, Politics, Lebanese military personnel, Boutros Harb, Lebanese presidential election, Michel Suleiman, Walid Jumblatt, Cabinet, Prime minister, Minister of State, As-Safir, Social Issues, Sectarianism, Progressive Socialist Party, Ad-Diyar, Israel-Lebanon conflict, Lebanese Civil War, Rafic Hariri, Government of Lebanon, Baabda, Druze, Jumblatt family, Nabih Berri
President Michel Sleiman commended the Special Tribunal for Lebanon’s work following his meeting with STL Prosecutor General Daniel Bellemare in Baabda on Wednesday, saying that he “trusts its verdicts that are based exclusively on evidence and are not...
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After arriving at Rafik Hariri International Airport on Tuesday following a visit to the Vatican, Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir responded to Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblatt’s suggestion to swap the presidency, premiership...
Tags: Walid Jumblatt, Progressive Socialist Party, Lebanon, Beirut, Politics, Lebanese Civil War, Druze, Jumblatt family, Lebanese military personnel, Michel Aoun, Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, Hassan Nasrallah, Fouad Jumblatt, Sectarianism, Chouf District, War Conflict, Michel Suleiman, Rafic Hariri
The United States Embassy in Lebanon denied on Monday media reports about a possible visit this week by US Foreign Assistant for Middle Eastern Affairs Jeffery Feltman to Lebanon as well as other reports about the appointment of a new US ambassador to...
Tags: Lebanon First, Lebanon, Beirut, Lebanese Forces, Politics, Lebanese Civil War, Michel Aoun, Lebanese military personnel, Cedar Revolution, Samir Geagea, Hezbollah, Marada Movement, Movement of the Future, Free Patriotic Movement, Israel-Lebanon conflict, Lebanese Front, Michel Suleiman