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Pizza Hut is closing in Lebanon as the fast food chain succumbs to the country’s deepening economic crisis. The family food favorite posted a notice on social media thanking its customers for their support and asking them to “hold on to these memories until we make new ones.” Rocketing inflation, …

Lebanon’s prime minister-designate Saad Hariri said on Saturday he will not form a cabinet that simply caters to President Michel Aoun’s wishes. “I will not form a government as the team of his Excellency the President wants it, nor any other political faction. I will only form the kind of …

France and its international partners will seek to increase pressure on Lebanon’s politicians in the coming months, a French diplomat said on Wednesday, although he did not envisage sanctions against individuals in the immediate term. Paris has spearheaded international efforts to rescue the former French protectorate from its deepest crisis …

Abu Dhabi ruler Mohamed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan affirmed the UAE’s support for the Lebanese people during a meeting with Lebanon’s Prime Minister-designate Saad Al-Hariri. The Abu Dhabi ruler said that the UAE supported the ambitions of the Lebanese people for “unity, stability and development,” state news agency WAM reported. During …

Seismological data suggests that six blasts preceded the Beirut port explosion, the last of them a combustion of fireworks that apparently set off a warehouse full of ammonium nitrate, an Israeli analyst said on Thursday. The six blasts were at 11-second intervals during the Aug. 4 incident, with the main …

Police in Abu Dhabi arrested a government employee on Monday for taking a monthly stipend allocated to another person, who was dead for the last seven years. The male suspect, a Gulf national, was also caught with items and trinkets believed to have been used in practicing witchcraft. Lt Col …

Japan’s opposition forces appeared set to consolidate around Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, whose new political group narrowed a gap in opinion polls with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s ruling party weeks ahead of a general election. Abe dissolved parliament on Thursday for an election expected on Oct. 22. The Democratic Party, …

THE LEVANT NEWS — Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani appointed new foreign and labour ministers Wednesday in a reshuffle of heavyweight cabinet positions, state media announced. Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, a member of the royal family, replaced Khalid al-Attiyah as foreign minister, according to the emir’s order …

On 11 June, President Tayyip Erdogan urged Turkey’s political parties to work quickly to form a new government, saying egos should be left aside and that history would judge anyone who stood in the way. In his first public appearance since Sunday’s parliamentary election deprived the ruling AK Party of …

THE LEVANT – Yemen’s newly appointed prime minister Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak has turned down his nomination following strong opposition by Shiite rebels who overran Sanaa on September 21, state media said Thursday. President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi has accepted Bin Mubarak’s “request to be relieved” of forming a new government …

THE LEVANT – Abdel-Malek Al Houthi, the leader of the Houthi – Zaidi faction turned mainstream politics on the wake of Yemen 2011 uprising – has called on all Yemenis to organize large demonstrations calling for the immediate departure from power of Prime Minister Mohammed Salem Basindwa. In a televised …