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Jaber responds to smear campaign against Berri
Beirut :: Lebanon | 4 days ago
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Development and Liberation bloc MP Yassine Jaber told the Voice of Lebanon radio station on Thursday that the smear campaign launched against Speaker Nabih Berri following his proposal to eliminate political sectarianism aims at discrediting Berri politically....
Tags: Speaker Nabih Berri, political sectarianism, Constitutional Council, Judge Issam Sleiman, eliminate political, Lebanon, Beirut, Nabih Berri, Politics, Michel Suleiman, Speaker, Lebanese military personnel, Taif Agreement, Lebanese presidential election, Fertile Crescent, Lebanese Forces, Antoine Zahra, Social Issues, Sectarianism, Al-Nejmeh SC, Ziad Baroud, War Conflict, Movement of the Future, Confessionalism, Lebanese Civil War, Baabda
Sakr calls for secrecy in Constitutional Council’s deliberations until issuing verdict
Beirut :: Lebanon | 4 days ago
Credibility 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
Murr objects to Rifi’s retreat in ISF dispute
Beirut :: Lebanon | 5 days ago
Credibility Tuesday his support for Internal Security Forces (ISF) Director General Ashraf Rifi’s decision to discharge Commander of the Gendarmerie Corps Colonel Antoine Chakkour, objecting to any form of settlement on Chakkour’s dismissal and emphasizing the necessity...
Tags: Ashraf Rifi, Elias al-Murr, Antoine Chakkour, Lebanon, Beirut, Elias Murr, Murr, Ziad Baroud, Rafic Hariri, Hariri, Lebanese people, Internal Security Forces
Election campaigners insist on timely municipal polls
Lade :: Nigeria | 5 days ago
Credibility Because the last municipal elections were held between 2 and 9 May 2004, the government is legally obliged to organize a vote before the deadline of May next year, said Samad. “There is an obligation for these elections; we are asking [the government]...
Tags: Nigeria, Lade, Politics, Fertile Crescent, Elections, Electronic voting, Electoral systems, Western Asia, Lebanon, Democracy, Ziad Baroud, Levant, Mediterranean, Electoral reform, Voting age, Voting systems
For Jumblatt, independence has a prerequisite
Beirut :: Lebanon | 8 days ago
Credibility Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblatt told An-Nahar newspaper on Sunday that the country’s independence will only really be achieved when political sectarianism is eliminated. He also said a strong economy that protects agriculture and...
Tags: Ziad Baroud, Walid Jumblatt, ISF, leader mp, Ashraf Rifi, general ashraf, mp walid, disobeying orders, Antoine Chakkour, directorate general, Lebanon, Beirut, Jumblatt family, Progressive Socialist Party, Druze, Lebanese Civil War, Politics, Environment, Talal Arslan, Lebanese Democratic Party, Fouad Jumblatt, Interior ministry, Gendarmerie, Ashraf, Internal Security Forces, Al-Balad, Balad, Lebanese people, Ahmad Fatfat
Did Baroud boycott Ministerial Statement meeting?
Beirut :: Lebanon | 8 days ago
Credibility The Ministerial Statement Committee held its sixth session on Friday without Interior Minister Ziad Baroud, who may be boycotting the meeting. Meanwhile, NOW’s correspondent at the Grand Serail reported the economic section of the statement will not be...
Tags: Ministerial Statement Committee, Lebanon, Beirut, Ziad Baroud, Muhammad Fneish, Saad Hariri, Hariri, Adha
Baroud says Rifi undermined his authority
Beirut :: Lebanon | 9 days ago
Credibility 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...
Tags: Ziad Baroud, Lebanon, Ziyad Baroud, Ashraf Rifi, Michel Sleiman, Barack Obama, Barack Obama, Achraf Rifi, Antoine Chakkour, minist ziyad, Beirut, Internal Security Forces, Michel Aoun, Interior ministry, Ashraf, Lebanese people, Politics, Social Issues, Lebanese Forces, Marada Movement, Michel Suleiman, Lebanese Civil War, Lebanese military personnel, Bashar al-Assad, May 17 Agreement, Israel-Lebanon conflict, Fertile Crescent, Western Asia, Baathism, Syria, Arab League member states, Levant
STL prosecutors visit Lebanon to meet lawyers, academics
Beirut :: Lebanon | 9 days ago
Credibility 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,...
Tags: Lebanon Bookmark, Saad Hariri, prime minister, ISF Judicial Police, minister saad, Rafic Hariri, Ziad Baroud, visit lebanon, ISF Command, Defense Office, Lebanon, Beirut, International criminal law, Special Tribunal for Lebanon, Law Crime, Hariri, Nabih Berri, Hezbollah, Lebanese government of July, Israel-Lebanon conflict, United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, Politics, War Conflict, Michel Aoun, Jumblatt family, Marada Movement, Antoine Zahra, Lebanese Civil War, Walid Jumblatt, Lebanese Forces, Arab Banks, Mediterranean, Economy of Lebanon, Banque du Liban, Business Finance
Baroud: better to postpone polls until reforms ratified
Beirut :: Lebanon | 11 days ago
Credibility The late formation of a new Cabinet, four months after the 2009 parliamentary election, is expected to delay the municipal elections scheduled for May 2010. The Parliament is expected to postpone holding the local polls – one of the many challenges facing...
Tags: Ziyad Baroud, municipal elections, interior minister, Lebanon, Beirut, Ziad Baroud, Electronic voting, Parliament of the United Kingdom, Politics
Baroud: Municipal elections to be held on time, unless parliament postpones them
Beirut :: Lebanon | 13 days ago
Credibility As-Safir newspaper reported on Tuesday that Interior Minister Ziad Baroud confirmed that his ministry would hold the municipal elections on time – between May 2 and May 30, 2010 – “unless parliament decides to postpone them.” He added that “the constitution...
Tags: Ziad Baroud, Interior, minister ziad, interior minister, Lebanon, Beirut, Interior ministry, Single Transferable Vote, Electronic voting, Voting age, Social Issues, Decentralization, Islam and antisemitism, Islamic terrorism, Amal Movement, Israel-Lebanon conflict, Anti-Zionism, Hezbollah
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