BEIRUT: President Michel Aoun has signed a controversial decree granting citizenship to some 350 people, multiple sources confirmed to The Daily Star...
BEIRUT: Prime Minister Saad Hariri said Monday he would visit Saudi Arabia soon after he was officially invited during a meeting with a high-ranking Saudi...
KUWAIT CITY: President Michel Aoun held further talks Wednesday with senior Kuwaiti officials before concluding his visit to the country and returning to...
BEIRUT: French President Emmanuel Macron discussed the possibility of sending an envoy to brief President Michel Aoun on the details of a recent meeting with...
BEIRUT: Prime Minister Saad Hariri’s return to Lebanon is the key to resolving the current political stalemate brought on by his surprise resignation from the...
BEIRUT: The Cabinet is set to meet Friday amid signs that the Higher Judicial Council has agreed on a host of long-awaited key appointments in the judiciary,...
NEW YORK: The secretary-general of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Wednesday assured President Michel Aoun that the body would do its utmost to make...
NEW YORK: Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit warned Lebanese President Michel Aoun of a dark future for the region, as the latter took his first...
BEIRUT: Leaders agreed Thursday on the essential elements of a new electoral law, including the adoption of a proportional voting system, prompting President...
BEIRUT: The political tectonic plates seem to be shifting away from the Free Patriotic Movement’s reviled qualification electoral law proposal and have...
BEIRUT: Parliament convened Thursday for the first of a two-day session to quiz Cabinet over its performance, with the electoral law, means of combatting...
RIYADH: President Michel Aoun’s visit to Saudi Arabia has apparently set the stage for boosting relations and expanding cooperation between the two...
BEIRUT: Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri presented President Michel Aoun with a draft Cabinet lineup Wednesday night, a clear sign of major progress that...
BEIRUT: The government formation process has cleared major hurdles, political sources said Monday, but the tricky issue of Lebanese Forces representation is...
BEIRUT: Parliament elected Gen. Michel Aoun as president Monday in a session that displayed both the good and the farcical about Lebanese politics. MPs began...
BEIRUT: Lebanese lawmakers passed urgent financial bills and other legislation during a two-part session Wednesday, raising the number of approved draft laws...
BEIRUT: Next week’s visit by French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault is unlikely to result in a major political breakthrough, but would be a...
BEIRUT: MP Hasan Fadlallah revealed Wednesday that minutes of two lawmakers’ accounts in the illegal internet issue will be published, following a...
Appointments in the Internal Security Forces were brought to the fore Friday as Interior Minister Nouhad Machnouk met with Free Patriotic Movement leader...
BEIRUT: Lebanon's Cabinet Thursday approved the formation of a committee to fight child labor, acknowledged its debt owed to private hospitals, and...
BEIRUT: From now on, Lebanon will be setting making refugee policies while others, including the UNHCR, will work according to them and not the other way...
BEIRUT: Lebanon’s Cabinet declared Tripoli's Bab al-Tabbaneh neighborhood a “disaster-stricken area” following the weekend clashes and allocated $20 million...
BEIRUT: Telecoms Minister Boutros Harb said Tuesday that the controversy over missing revenues from the ministry that were supposed to be dedicated to...
BEIRUT: The Cabinet agreed on a policy to stop the flow of Syrian refugees into Lebanon, Information Minister Ramzi Joreige announced after a session...
BEIRUT: The Parliament is likely to extend its mandate before voting on the wage hike, Future bloc head Fouad Siniora said after discussing the issue with...