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Beirut and a registered Palestinian refugee, said the struggle of daily life for many refugees weakened their ability to present a strong and united front at the negotiation table with Israel. “An empowered refugee community can be stronger advocates...
Tags: Lebanon, Beirut, War Conflict, Politics, Social Issues, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestinians, Lebanese Palestinian Dialogue Committee, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, Lebanese government of July, Fertile Crescent, Saad Hariri, Forced migration, Palestinian people, Refugee, Lebanese Civil War, Arab-Israeli conflict, Michel Suleiman, Palestinian refugees, Palestine Liberation Organization
Lebanon First bloc MP Ahmad Fatfat told the Voice of Lebanon radio station on Thursday that he expects different parties to hold varying views in the cabinet, adding that it is difficult to work within a widely represented national-unity government. Fatfat...
Tags: Ahmad Fatfat, Lebanon, Beirut, Boutros Harb, Politics, Saad Hariri, Hariri
Lebanon First bloc MP Okab Sakr said on Thursday that the Kataeb Party and the Lebanese Forces have the right to express reservations on the Resistance clause in the Ministerial Statement, adding that communications between all parties are ongoing to...
Tags: Saad Hariri, Lebanon First, policy statement, Ministerial Statement Committee, Hezbollah, Selim Sayegh, Lebanon, Beirut, Politics, Israel-Lebanon conflict, Islamic terrorism, Islam and antisemitism, Anti-Zionism, War Conflict, Lebanon War, Boutros Harb, Shebaa farms, Fertile Crescent, Mediterranean, Geography of Lebanon, Ghajar, Cabinet of the United Kingdom, Golan Heights, Muhammad Fneish, Levant, Lebanese Civil War, Geography of Israel, Geography of Syria, Nabih Berri, Cabinet, Okab Sakr
In an interview with New TV on Wednesday, Lebanon First bloc MP Okab Sakr called on all parties to refrain from discussing the contestations of parliamentary election results with the media, highlighting the importance of secrecy in the Constitutional...
Tags: Lebanon First, Saad Hariri, Lebanon, Beirut, Politics, Fertile Crescent, Western Asia, Hariri, Hezbollah, Levant, Mediterranean, Michel Aoun, Okab Sakr, Social Issues, Islam and antisemitism, Amal Movement, Ziad Baroud, Israel-Lebanon conflict, Anti-Zionism, Rafic Hariri, March 14 Alliance, Islamic terrorism, Religion Belief
According to Mitri, the committee is working hard and there are no major obstacles. Mitri also said political sectarianism should be eliminated, but added that the time is not right in Lebanon to do so. -NOW Lebanon Bookmark this article:
Tags: Ministerial Statement Committee, Tarek Mitri, Saad Hariri, Lebanon, Beirut, Mediterranean, Metropolitan Elias Audi, Business Finance, Hariri
However, Hariri faces a number of immediate economic challenges: 1. After more than a hundred years of introducing electricity to Lebanon, the country is still struggling to secure a constant power supply, essential to keeping the economy buzzing and...
Tags: Voice of Lebanon radio, Saad Hariri, Lebanon, Beirut, Banque du Liban, Outline of Lebanon, Politics, Business Finance, Mediterranean, Economy of Lebanon, Rafic Hariri, Hariri
In an interview with Ad-Diyar ’s Sunday edition, State Minister Adnan Sayyed Hussein said that the issue of Hezbollah’s weapons is being discussed behind closed doors, highlighting its “special importance” given its intrinsic relation to national security....
Tags: Adnan Sayyed Hussein, Hezbollah, Syria, Damascus, Islamic terrorism, Israel-Lebanon conflict, Saad Hariri, Hariri, Anti-Zionism, Islam and antisemitism, Politics
President Michel Sleiman arrived on Sunday to Chafik al-Wazzan Boulevard to take part in the Independence Day military parade. Speaker Nabih Berri and Prime Minister Saad Hariri arrived just before him. Upon the president’s arrival, soldiers fired 21...
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In an interview with NOW on Sunday, Social Affairs Minister Selim Sayegh said that the Ministerial Statement will not come pre-packaged. “This statement should be a Lebanese product and has to express the internal concerns and balances of the Lebanese...
Tags: Hezbollah, Syria, Saad Hariri, Voice of Lebanon radio, ministerial statement, social affairs, Selim Sayegh, affairs minister, minister selim, Lebanon, Beirut, Islam and antisemitism, Islamic terrorism, Okab Sakr, International reactions to the 2006 Lebanon War, Lebanon War, Israel-Lebanon conflict, Anti-Zionism, Politics, Marada Movement, Kataeb Party, Progressive Socialist Party, Michel Suleiman, Lebanese Civil War, Irregular military, Hezbollah plot in Egypt, War Conflict, Fertile Crescent, Walid Jumblatt, Jumblatt family, Druze
It would seem that Syria suffered a major defeat last week with the formation of a Lebanese national unity government. Syria has for years fought long and hard to keep Lebanon under its thumb, but in 2004, with the assassination of former prime minister...
Tags: Hizbullah, Rafic Hariri, Syria, Saad Hariri, Lebanon, Lebanese, veto powers, national unity, prime minister, unity government, Damascus, Arab people, Fouad Siniora, Michel Aoun, Hezbollah, Israel-Lebanon conflict, Lebanon¬タモSyria relations, Lebanese Civil War, Politics