BEIRUT: Senior Future Movement officials and Future TV Sunday slammed Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil, accusing him of putting in peril the 2016 political...
BEIRUT: A renewed war of words erupted between the Free Patriotic Movement and the Future Movement Friday, rekindling an off-and-on row over the...
BEIRUT: President Michel Aoun said Wednesday a drive to revitalize the country’s ailing economy had been launched, as Parliament geared up to begin...
BEIRUT: The Cabinet Monday sent a strong message to the international community about its determination to forge ahead with essential economic reforms by...
BEIRUT: Not with standing reservations voiced by Lebanese Forces ministers, the Cabinet is set to meet Monday to endorse a draft austerity budget that cuts...
BEIRUT: The Cabinet Friday wrapped up marathon discussions on a draft austerity budget by approving all articles and figures in the 2019 fiscal plan that...
BEIRUT: On the eve of a crucial Cabinet session designed to wrap up the draft 2019 state budget, the document came under fire Thursday by the country’s...
BEIRUT: The Cabinet will meet again Wednesday for a final reading of a draft austerity budget, two ministers said following Tuesday’s marathon session,...
BEIRUT: Declaring that a draft austerity budget needed a decision by the Cabinet, Prime Minister Saad Hariri said Sunday he hoped the 2019 fiscal plan would...
BEIRUT: Prime Minister Saad Hariri Friday sounded the alarm about “political practices” that are blocking government work, delaying the...
BEIRUT: Prime Minister Saad Hariri warned Thursday that without serious reforms, the economic situation in Lebanon would not improve and there would be no...
BEIRUT: Hezbollah and other Iranian-backed Shiite forces will join the battle if Iran were to be attacked by the U.S. or Israel over its nuclear program,...
BEIRUT: The Cabinet, facing mounting street pressure from state employees and military veterans over proposed cuts to their wages and retirement benefits in a...
BEIRUT: Meeting against the backdrop of renewed street protests by military veterans against proposed cuts to their wages and retirement benefits, to discuss...
BEIRUT: The Cabinet decided Thursday to cut all ministries’ budgets by 20 percent as part of austerity measures to reduce the deficit to 8 percent of...
BEIRUT: The Cabinet is making slow progress in discussing a draft austerity budget but remains split over controversial issues such as taxes on interest from...
BEIRUT: The Cabinet discussion of a draft austerity budget appears to have opened Pandora’s box, sparking a wave of labor strikes and threatening to...
BEIRUT: In its fourth round of talks on the 2019 draft state budget Friday, the Cabinet made “limited but not substantial” changes to some...
BEIRUT: The Cabinet Thursday resumed its discussions on an austerity draft budget, approving 25 articles of the 2019 fiscal plan in “a very quiet...
BEIRUT: Facing mounting pressure from labor unions and retired military personnel protesting proposed cuts to their retirement benefits, the Cabinet decided...
BEIRUT: More than a month after U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights,...
BEIRUT: The Cabinet is set to meet Tuesday to begin discussing a draft austerity budget against the backdrop of planned street protests by retired military...
BEIRUT: The Cabinet will meet in a special session next week to begin discussing an austerity draft budget, a key demand of international donors, to be...
BEIRUT: The 2019 draft state budget will not be discussed at Thursday’s Cabinet session because it has not been distributed to ministers, signaling that...
BEIRUT: Prime Minister Saad Hariri sought Monday to defuse tensions with President Michel Aoun over the 2019 draft state budget, saying he cared only for the...