BAABDA: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Thursday became the first head of state to visit President Michel Aoun in Baabda Palace since he took office in...
BEIRUT: In a bid to calm recent tensions between Palestinian factions in Lebanon, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will arrive Thursday afternoon for a...
BEIRUT: Throughout last week President Michel Aoun has been very vocal in his support of Lebanon’s right to resist Israeli aggressions, a ministerial source...
President Michel Aoun is leaving on an official trip to Egypt Monday which will be followed by a visit to Jordan Tuesday. The president will be heading a...
BEIRUT: Prime Minister Saad Hariri said Tuesday he and his Cabinet would not cover up for anyone accused of corruption, vowing to bring them to justice....
BEIRUT: Saudi Arabia will appoint a new ambassador to Lebanon and lift a travel restrictions, the country’s Minister of State for Arab Gulf Affairs...
Prime Minister Saad Hariri and some ministers were surprised by President Michel Aoun’s stance at this week’s Cabinet session in which he declared...
Lebanese politicians are running out of time to agree on a new electoral law ahead of upcoming parliamentary elections, given that all reject the idea of...
DOHA: The emir of Qatar Wednesday praised the election of President Michel Aoun as the “best choice” for Lebanon, saying the country has entered a...
RIYADH: Saudi King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Tuesday pledged to maintain “historic ties” between the kingdom and Lebanon, voicing confidence in President Michel...
RIYADH: President Michel Aoun said Monday his visit to Saudi Arabia was aimed at improving Lebanese-Saudi ties strained by the upheavals in some Arab...
It seems like Cabinet is well on its way to articulating a policy statement and in doing so will have overcome its first major obstacle.All that remains is to...
As had been the case in the formation of any government in Lebanon, there are winners and losers from the 30-member national accord Cabinet announced by Prime...
Contrary to wide expectations following a wave of optimism that a solution to the 6-week-old Cabinet standoff was at hand, white smoke did not rise from the...
Caretaker Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil’s proposal to separate the Cabinet formation process, which falls within the powers of the president and the...
The process of forming President Michel Aoun’s first Cabinet remains on schedule when measured against the time taken to form previous Cabinets, except those...
It is no longer a question of whether the new government will be formed before or after Independence Day on Nov. 22 as hoped for by the country’s top...
Lebanon’s various political groups are competing among themselves to be represented in the upcoming Cabinet with hopes that it will be formed before...
BEIRUT: The outcome of the first day of Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri’s consultations with parliamentary blocs Friday reflected common demands by...
The speech in which former Prime Minister Saad Hariri endorsed MP Michel Aoun for president seemed like an existential move. Political sources said that...
Now that MP Michel Aoun has presented himself as a Christian leader and a serious candidate for the presidency, the heads of various political blocs must...
Regardless of whether former Prime Minister Saad Hariri’s current flurry of wide consultations with various leaders would lead to resolving the...
The Cabinet is on a break until the end of the month, when Prime Minister Tammam Salam will return from the United Nations General Assembly in New York.There...
BEIRUT: The Cabinet meets Thursday despite a continuing boycott by the Free Patriotic Movement’s ministers, who have vowed to challenge all Cabinet...
BEIRUT: National dialogue, viewed as a last resort for rival leaders to try to find a solution to the protracted political crisis, fell victim to bickering...