Vladimir Putin Signs Law That Could See Him Ruling Russia Into His 80s cnsnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cnsnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Saturday, 3 April, 2021 - 08:45 Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri (Dalati & Nohra). Beirut - Mohammed Shukair
A prominent political source told Asharq Al-Awsat that the head of Lebanon s Free Patriotic Movement (FPM), former Minister Gebran Bassil, was still obstructing the formation of a new government and disregarding recent European warnings about imposing sanctions on Lebanese officials.
In an official communiqué last week, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian has warned Lebanese officials of EU pressure if they continue to obstruct government-making after months of deadlock.
Le Drian warned of “identifying European Union leverage for stepping up pressure on those responsible for the deadlock”, in an allusion to potential sanctions. The statement came after the French minister spoke by phone with Lebanese President Michel Aoun, Speaker Nabih Berri and Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri.
Russian East Med ambitions anger the Lebanese, confuse the Turks ahvalnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ahvalnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Russian East Med ambitions anger the Lebanese, confuse the Turks
Ankara’s obtaining advance intelligence about the Russian-Syrian agreement is likely to have been behind the Turkish offer of assistance to Lebanon.
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A file picture shows a Lebanese man running on the Mediterranean waterfront as a drilling ship is seen off the coast of Dbayeh, north of Beirut. (AP)
DAMASCUS - Russia has joined in the race for eastern Mediterranean gas, taking advantage of an earlier agreement with the Syrian regime.
This nine year-old deal allowed Russian companies to explore for oil and gas in Syria’s territorial waters in exchange for Moscow’s direct military intervention that saved the regime of President Bashar Assad from collapse.
Lebanon: Geagea calls for action to demarcate maritime border with Syria
Christian Lebanese Forces party leader Samir Geagea at his house in Maarab, northeast of Beirut, on 26 April 2012. [JOSEPH EID/AFP/GettyImages] April 1, 2021 at 1:55 pm
The head of the Lebanese Forces Party, Samir Geagea, called on his country to correspond with the United Nations to demarcate its maritime borders with Syria, or resort to the International Court of Justice if Bashar Al-Assad s regime is not satisfied with international arbitration.
During a press conference north of Beirut, Geagea accused the Syrian regime of trying to infringe on 750 square kilometres of Lebanese waters, after Damascus agreement with a Russian company for oil and gas exploration in the Mediterranean.