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BEIRUT: Lebanese President Michel Aoun on Thursday met Christian Patriarch Bechara Boutros Al-Rai, who is unhappy with the delay in forming a government due to the conditions put forward by the president. The meeting took place as Israeli warplanes violated Lebanese airspace following a similar breach of Lebanese waters on Wednesday night, when Israeli soldiers on a gunboat fired at Lebanese fishing boats, according to the Lebanese army command. The Aoun-Al-Rai talks continued for 45 minutes. ...

Iranian statements put southern Lebanon in the line of fire Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s Air Force Ali Haji Zadeh said in statements to Hezbollah’s Al-Manar channel, last Saturday, that “all the missile capabilities that Gaza and Lebanon possess were provided by Iran,” noting that both Gaza and Lebanon “are the two main frontlines for confrontation.” Wednesday 06/01/2021 Lebanon’s Hezbollah members raise a flag bearing portraits of (L-R) slain Iraqi commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhan...

The PSP chief’s remarks come as the stalled Cabinet formation process has been put on hold until the New Year after Hariri’s two meetings last week with Aoun failed to make any breakthrough in the impasse that has left Lebanon without a fully functioning government for more than four months. Hariri left Beirut over the weekend to spend the New Years holiday with his family abroad, a clear indication that nothing would happen in the government formation efforts before the start of the next y...

Damascus: There is no progress on the cabinet formation in Lebanon, although it has been nearly two months since Saad Hariri was tasked with forming a new government. Hariri has met twice with President Michel Aoun, whose son-in-law, Gibran Basil, leads the largest bloc in Parliament, hoping to dilute differences before Christmas. They agreed on nothing, however. Yet, Hariri still insists on his right to form a government, saying that constitutionally he is bond by no deadline to do that. Cabin...

Aoun, Hariri Discuss Measures to Break Cabinet Impasse in Lebanon Published December 22nd, 2020 - 07:57 GMT Lebanese launch lanterns in Beiruts Gemmayzeh neighbourhood on December 20, 2020, during the lighting of a Christmas tree in memory of the victims of the devastating port blast in that took place in the capitals port in August. ANWAR AMRO / AFP President Michel Aoun and Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri are set to meet Tuesday in the latest attempt to resolve differences over th...

Aoun-Hariri Dispute Means The Cabinet Formation is Not in Sight! Published December 21st, 2020 - 08:44 GMT Saad Hariri (Shutterstock) Highlights In a new escalatory stance, the FPM accused Hariri of seeking to overstep the president’s constitutional power in the Cabinet formation process.  The Cabinet formation process, already stalled by a disagreement between President Michel Aoun and Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri over the shape and makeup of the next government, suffered a...

BEIRUT: There is no reason for delaying the formation of a new Lebanese government, the country’s leading Christian cleric said on Sunday. Efforts to form a new government have been blocked by political factions, with Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros Al-Rai making a personal intervention to dissolve the stalemate.  Mustapha Adib quit as prime minister in September, less than a month after he was nominated to replace Hassan Diab, who took over from Saad Hariri at the end of January this yea...

SHARE The Lebanese government has less than two weeks to pass a law before the capital of the Bekaa valley and surrounding areas go dark. Zahle, Lebanon’s fourth-largest city, and 17 other villages have been enjoying uninterrupted electricity supply in a country where daily power cuts are the norm. Electricité de Zahlé (EDZ), a private company, has been supplying electricity around the clock to Zahle and surrounding areas since 2015 as part of a contract with state-owned Electricité du Lib...

Damascus: Lebanon’s caretaker premier Hassan Diab has been accused of “criminal negligence” in relation to his role in the August 4 explosion at Beirut port, which destroyed large parts of the Lebanese capital, killing over 200 people. Instead of ending Diab’s political career, the accusation seems to have had an opposite effect, breathing new life into it while prompting Lebanese Sunnis to rally around him, claiming that their positioning in the state is under attack. Suddenly and seem...

BEIRUT: Lebanese Army troops were deployed near the home of parliamentary Speaker Nabih Berri on Saturday as protesters targeted people they believe are a “privileged elite.” Groups of demonstrators have followed political and economic leaders into restaurants and cafes to protest and accuse them of theft. They include former minister Adnan Kassar, the wife of the governor of the Banque du Liban, Nada Riad Salameh, and the secretary-general of the Future Movement, Ahmad Hariri. There was fu...