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Protest-hit Lebanon delays consultations to pick new PM

16 Dec 2019

Lebanon’s president on Monday postponed consultations to select a new prime minister after weeks of largely peaceful street protests descended into violence, leaving dozens wounded in clashes with security forces....

Consultations to name Lebanese PM delayed until Thursday

16 Dec 2019

The Lebanese presidency said it had delayed consultations to designate a new prime minister until Thursday in response to a request from caretaker leader Saad al-Hariri, who had been...

Heavy rain causes floods, paralyzes Lebanon's capital

10 Dec 2019

Rainstorm immobilizes parts of Beirut, Lebanon’s capital on Monday. It turned streets to small rivers, stranded motorists in their vehicles and damaged homes. The flooding came as protesters have...

'Laugh at what's hurting you': Lebanon cartoonists stir debate

09 Dec 2019

On the edges of a protest in Lebanon's capital, 24-year-old cartoonist Mohamad Nohad Alameddine bites through sticky tape and plasters one of his political sketches to a side wall....

All eyes on Lebanon meeting in Paris

08 Dec 2019

Speaking at last Friday’s symposium in Cyprus on the Syrian Crisis and its impacts on the region, former Lebanese President Amin Gemayel said the rising in his country is “the...

Lebanon's Samir Khatib says Sunnis want Saad Al-Hariri to be PM again

08 Dec 2019

Lebanese Sunnis want Saad Al-Hariri to be prime minister of the next government, businessman Samir Khatib said on Sunday after meeting Lebanon's top Sunni cleric, spelling the end of...

Hariri's Future party to nominate Khatib as new Lebanese PM

04 Dec 2019

Lebanese lawmakers with the Future Movement led by Saad al-Hariri will nominate Sunni businessman Samir Khatib to be Lebanon's new prime minister in formal consultations on Monday, a source...

Aoun says coming days will bring positive developments

03 Dec 2019

Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun said that the coming days will bring “positive developments,” Lebanese broadcaster Al Manara reported on Tuesday. Lebanon has been in political deadlock since Prime Minister Saad...

Lebanese block roads as petrol stations strike

29 Nov 2019

Angry Lebanese blocked main roads on Friday as petrol stations across the country went on strike for the second day in a row, an AFP photographer and local media said....

Police fire tear gas as groups clash in Lebanon capital

25 Nov 2019

Security forces fired tear gas amid confrontations in central Beirut that went into Monday morning between Hezbollah supporters and demonstrators protesting against Lebanon’s political elite. The confrontations began after...

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