BEIRUT: At 11 a.m., just one hour before the first Parliament session to elect Lebanon’s president was due to begin, the pigeons and shop owners of...
Editor’s note: Ahead of the 2014 presidential election, this is the ninth in a series of articles examining the circumstances and conditions that shaped...
Editor’s note: Ahead of the 2014 presidential election, this is the eighth in a series of articles examining the circumstances and conditions that...
Editor’s note: Ahead of the 2014 presidential election, this is the seventh in a series of articles examining the circumstances and conditions that...
BEIRUT: A recent meeting between the son of Grand Mufti Sheikh Mohammad Rashid Qabbani and an aide of former Prime Minister Saad Hariri is unlikely to thaw...
BEIRUT: Public sector employees held a nationwide strike Wednesday and promised further protests over Parliament’s delay in endorsing a long-awaited...
BEIRUT: Three crew members of Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV station were killed Monday after they came under fire in the Syrian town of Maaloula, as...
Editor’s note: Ahead of the 2014 presidential election, this is the fourth in a series of articles examining the circumstances and conditions that...
BEIRUT: Maronite Patriarch Beshara Rai Friday denied media reports that he supported an independent presidential candidate over one picked by the March 8 or...
BEIRUT: Banks will go on strike Friday to protest proposed taxes to finance a salary raise for the public sector, as MPs struggle to wrap up a discussion on...
BEIRUT: Lawmakers will resume discussing a controversial salary raise for the public sector Thursday after making strides to sort out the means to finance the...
BEIRUT: Parliament approved Wednesday a draft law to grant Civil Defense volunteers full-time employment, as public sector workers across Lebanon went on...
BEIRUT: Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah said he believed the next president could be “made in Lebanon,” adding that there were...
BEIRUT/TRIPOLI, Lebanon: The March 8 and March 14 coalitions are gearing up for the Order of Engineers elections in Beirut and the north this Sunday, with...
BEIRUT: A memo will be sent to President Michel Sleiman Friday urging him to return to Parliament a law that would appoint Justice Ministry employees as...
BEIRUT: The Cabinet made 10 key appointments Wednesday, including the police chief and the state prosecutor, and formed a ministerial committee to study the...
BEIRUT: Parliament passed a long-awaited draft law to protect women against domestic violence Tuesday, but failed to introduce major amendments advocated by...
BEIRUT: Parliament Tuesday approved a long awaited draft law aimed at protecting women from domestic violence as it tackled several other controversial pieces...
BAABDA, Lebanon: President Michel Sleiman chaired a National Dialogue session Monday but the meeting lacked substantial discussion given the absence of major...
BEIRUT: MPs will debate Tuesday several controversial and crucial draft laws as a three-day legislative session kicks off, ending more than a year of...
BEIRUT: Prime Minister Tammam Salam said Friday that Lebanon’s stability was essential to hold the presidential election on time, as a committee from...
BEIRUT: A parliamentary committee from Speaker Nabih Berri’s bloc visited Christian leaders Thursday, kicking off the first round of meetings with Lebanese...
BEIRUT: Prime Minister Tammam Salam said Wednesday that a genuine commitment to dissociation from Syria’s crisis would improve security in Lebanon,...
BEIRUT: Tuesday marks the start of the two-month constitutional period for the 13th presidential election since Lebanon’s independence in 1943, a...
BEIRUT: Sitting in his spacious office, former Speaker Hussein Husseini reads a copy of Lebanon’s Constitution, extensively amended during the 1989 Taif...