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President Aoun makes plea for national unity

President Michel Aoun on Wednesday marked 22 years since Israel’s withdrawal from the South by urging “unity” among the Lebanese. “On Liberation Day, we reaffirm the impact of our people’s will, which set the ground on fire under the feet of the occupier,” Aoun said in a tweet. “Only unity confronted the enemy’s oppression and […]

Saudi FM tells Lebanese Hezbollah's fate in your hands

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan on Tuesday noted that after Lebanon’s parliamentary elections, the issue of “change” and “the issue of Hizbullah” are “in the hands of the Lebanese.” “The Lebanese elections might be a good step, but it is too early to say that,” the Minister said in Davos. “The Lebanese must […]

Strategic choice facing Lebanon with election, says Marada leader

The May 15 parliamentary elections come amid a “delicate situation” and will decide Lebanon’s “strategic choice” in the coming period, Marada Movement chief Suleiman Franjieh has said. “Our choice is known and clear and we’ve been engaged in the battle of choices for the past 30 years. We have not changed and we will not […]

Lebanon's Grand Mufti tells Gulf state country won't surrender to enemies of Arabism

Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Latif Daryan on Thursday warned that boycotting elections would be “surrender,” while stressing that Lebanon should not be “surrendered” to the “enemies of Arabism.” “The upcoming parliamentary elections are an important juncture in Lebanon’s history and we have given our directions and instructions to our Lebanese sons and brothers to take […]

EU ambassador lambasts unjust Lebanese system

Ambassador of the European Union to Lebanon, Ralph Tarraf, has delivered a speech marking Europe Day, in which he also tackled the situation in Lebanon. Below is the full text of the speech as received by Naharnet: “It gives me great pleasure to welcome you tonight at the occasion of Europe Day - the day […]

Mikati set for Saudi visit, progress of IMF a major Gulf concern

Lebanon's Prime Minister Najib Mikati is due to visit Saudi Arabia in the next two weeks, a first trip by a Lebanese premier to the Arab powerhouse in almost four years following an unprecedented rupture in relations. The last visit was in 2018 by then-Prime Minister Saad Hariri, who in 2021 stepped down nearly nine months after […]

Mikati says resignation before elections out of question

Prime Minister Najib Miqati stressed Tuesday that the government will not resign before the parliamentary elections. "One of the government's tasks today is to hold parliamentary elections, and my resignation might be a reason for disrupting the polls," Miqati said. "For this reason I will not resign," he added. Miqati had asked Parliament Speaker Nabih […]

Human Rights Watch charges Lebanon with flawed assassination investigations

Flawed investigations and procedural violations in four politically sensitive murders highlight how donor funding and training for Lebanon's security forces and judiciary have failed to secure the rule of law, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said. In a report published on Thursday, HRW said its findings followed examinations of preliminary probes by the Internal Security Forces […]

Mikati denies cabinet reshuffle reports

Prime Minister Najib Miqati has dismissed the reports about a possible Cabinet reshuffle that would involve the replacement of the Justice Minister as “incorrect and baseless.” He added, in remarks to al-Joumhouria newspaper published Friday, that he is satisfied with the outcome of his Thursday talks with Pope Francis. The Prime Minister also confirmed that […]

Lebanese baby formula latest victim of corona crisis, government indecision

Lebanon has been running short of infant baby formula for months as the country has been dealing with a severe economic crisis. A video showing the disposal of 20 tons of the baby milk substitute has been circulating on social media and has only added to the public’s frustrations. The Discriminatory Public Prosecution has commissioned […]

BREAKING NEWS - Sick of political stalemate, Lebanese unions go on strike

Public prosecutors in Lebanon have been instructed to crack down on the monopoly on foodstuffs and oil derivatives as political, security and diplomatic concerns grow over explosive daily protests. The spontaneous protests are also demanding access to medicine, fuel, hospitalization and electricity. The Crisis Observatory at the American University of Beirut warned that “the risk […]

Maronite patriarch angry at conspiratorial Lebanese state

Lebanon’s Maronite Patriarch Mar Bechara Boutros Al-Rahi on Sunday accused the state of colluding against its people and said the political elite was unable to form a government even “to secure medicine, a loaf of bread, electricity and fuel.” Al-Rahi, whose mediation efforts to unlock the impasse between President Michel Aoun and Prime Minister-designate Saad […]

Lebanese ignore Lebanon woes mobilise for Nagorno-Karabakh war

When Lebanon’s financial crisis pushed Vartkes to leave for Armenia this summer, he never imagined he would volunteer to fight in Nagorno-Karabakh. The young Lebanese-Armenian didn’t think twice, however, when the conflict between Azerbaijani and ethnic Armenian forces erupted soon after his move. “I wanted to go that night,” Vartkes, who asked not to be […]

Michael Aoun promises he will pick Lebanese PM

Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun said on Wednesday he would fulfill his duty in designating a prime minister but put the onus on the new premier to launch moves to pull the country from financial crisis. Sunni leader Saad al-Hariri is poised to be named prime minister at formal consultations on Thursday after weeks of wrangling, […]

Churches in Lebanon want speedy formation of new cabinet

The leaders of Lebanon’s Maronite and Orthodox Christian churches urged Lebanese leaders on Sunday to stop delaying talks on forming a government in scathing sermons in which they blamed them for the country’s financial crisis and political deadlock. Patriarch Bechara Boutros Al-Rai, leader of the Maronite church, was speaking a day after demonstrators marched through […]

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