BEIRUT: Rival political leaders remained split Wednesday on reactivating Parliament and on a new electoral law, casting gloom over attempts to get the...
BEIRUT: The unlicensed Internet file will not be closed until the “big heads” involved in the scandal are apprehended and brought to justice, the...
BEIRUT: The Cabinet once again failed Monday to settle a dispute within the State Security agency, and instead tasked Prime Minister Tammam Salam with finding...
BEIRUT: The Cabinet approved funds Tuesday to upgrade security at Beirut airport, which has recently been at the center of a controversy over possible...
BEIRUT: Despite a three-hour session, the Cabinet Thursday failed to even raise the issue of any of the pressing needs plaguing the nation, as bickering and...
BEIRUT: Speaker Nabih Berri warned Tuesday against allowing the unlicensed Internet scandal to be covered up, stressing that he would do his utmost to prevent...
BEIRUT: Finance Minister Ali Hasan Khalil said Wednesday that the state had lost out on some $200 million, equivalent to 18 percent of the Telecommunications...
A government attempt to nominate a Lebanese woman for the post of director-general of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization...
BEIRUT: Three days ahead of the announced closure of As-Safir newspaper, publisher and editor-in-chief Talal Salman said it would continue, but told The Daily...
BEIRUT: Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri Wednesday blasted MP Michel Aoun for considering Parliament “illegitimate,” saying the legislature is...
Lawmaker Michel Aoun’s speech last Monday did not carry anything new except increasing the estrangement between him and Speaker Nabih Berri after the...
BEIRUT: The U.N. Security Council Thursday reiterated calls on Lebanese political factions to end presidential vacuum, appealing for international support for...
BEIRUT: Rival leaders broached the trash crisis only briefly during their national dialogue session Wednesday, focusing instead on the presidential election...
BEIRUT: Prime Minister Tammam Salam Thursday urged political parties to help reach a solution to the 7-month-old trash crisis, saying that otherwise there...
BEIRUT: The Future Movement and its March 14 allies and independent MPs piled up pressure on the Hezbollah-led March 8 coalition Wednesday, staging a show of...
BEIRUT: Interior Minister Nouhad Machnouk Thursday called on the Future Movement to suspend its dialogue with Hezbollah after Future leader and ex-premier...
BEIRUT: The Cabinet Monday agreed on a statement aimed at reassuring Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states of Lebanon’s commitment to Arab unanimity,...
BEIRUT: The Cabinet Thursday all but abandoned a maligned plan to export its way out of a ruinous trash crisis, returning the country to square one: depending...
BEIRUT: MP Sleiman Frangieh said Wednesday he would remain a presidential candidate as long as he enjoyed the support of parliamentary blocs, vowing not to...
BEIRUT: Future Movement leader MP Saad Hariri distanced himself from Justice Minister Ashraf Rifi Thursday after the latter stormed out of a Cabinet session...
BEIRUT: The Cabinet Wednesday approved a decree that would pave the way for making Civil Defense volunteers full-time employees, defusing nearly five months...
BEIRUT: The failure of the 35th Parliament session in a row Monday to elect a president over a lack of quorum clearly indicates that a regional agreement,...
BEIRUT: The Cabinet Tuesday approved funding for municipal elections, paving the way for polls to be held on time in May and dispelling fears of an extension...
BEIRUT: A 10-member parliamentary committee tasked with drafting a new electoral law has reached the conclusion after nearly two months of deliberations that...
Despite voicing support for the local elections scheduled for May, political sources said rival factions in Lebanon will eventually come to state their...