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24 July 2014, 16:25 AFP quoting radio: The Missing Algerian plane had 51 French and 26 from Burkina Faso among 116 passengers.
24 July 2014, 16:22 AFP: Nine Palestinians were killed as an Israeli shell hit an UNRWA school in north Gaza.
24 July 2014, 16:04 The U.N. confirmed multiple casualties among the ranks of displaced people after an UNRWA-run school was shelled in Gaza.
24 July 2014, 15:56 Algerian aviation official: The missing Algerian plane crashed during its flight from Burkina Faso to Algeria.
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24 July 2014, 17:24 Khalil: I kept on my promise not to violate the law, not only regarding the public employees' salaries, but also in what concerns all the state's expenses.
24 July 2014, 17:22 Khalil: This stresses again the cabinet and all forces' need to prepare a draft law and vote on it at the parliament.
24 July 2014, 17:22 Khalil: The safest solution is still heading to the parliament and opening credits, but after negotiations with different blocs and interference, it has been decided to transfer all remaining amounts in the Budget's reserves to article 13 in the Budget, which tackles the employees' salaries.
24 July 2014, 17:20 Khalil: I said there should be no agreement without a law and expenses require legislation. Based on this, we took our decision after the cabinet referred the draft law to parliament.
24 July 2014, 17:19 Finance Minister Ali Hassan Khalil: During the cabinet's session we made calls to start paying the salaries of public employees and we launched the procedures in this regard to assure that everyone gets paid.
24 July 2014, 17:17 Jreij: The cabinet agreed on providing the necessary credits to pay salaries, which will be deducted from the Budget's reserves.
24 July 2014, 17:17 Jreij: We agreed on applying a rotation scheme in the appointment of future deans.
24 July 2014, 17:15 Jreij: We agreed on appointing deans to head 14 faculties at the Lebanese University.
24 July 2014, 17:14 Jreij: The cabinet stressed that it trusts the role of the military institution in preserving stability.
24 July 2014, 17:14 Jreij: The cabinet tasked the Foreign Minister with filing two complaints with the ICC to investigate and convict the Israeli assault and to ask for a probe that would lead to deploring the acts of Takfiri groups that are causing the forced migration of Christians in Mosul.
24 July 2014, 17:13 Jreij: The cabinet called on Arabs and the international community to step in immediately to end the violence against Gaza, and it deplored acts against Christians in Iraq, particularly in Mosul because they are contradictory to coexistence that our region is accustomed to. These acts are committed based on ideologies that have nothing to do with human values or religions.
24 July 2014, 17:12 Jreij: The council of ministers condemned the ongoing Israeli assault on Gaza and the barbaric acts committed by the Israeli killing machine, it also announced its solidarity with the Palestinians in their struggle to end the occupation.
24 July 2014, 17:11 Information Minister Ramzi Jreij: PM Tammam Salam urged avoiding obstruction in the cabinet's work regarding regular issues that are not related to crucial matters.
24 July 2014, 16:39 Judge Lettieri decided to dismiss charges against al-Jadeed TV, but accepts the preliminary motions.
24 July 2014, 16:39 STL Contempt Judge Nicola Lettieri: The tribunal does not have the jurisdiction to look into the charges issued against al-Jadeed TV.
24 July 2014, 16:32 LBCI: The cabinet approved paying public employees their salaries without referring to the parliament in this case.
24 July 2014, 16:32 Lebanese embassy in Algeria: The concerned Algerian authorities did not provide us with any confirmed information about the missing plane except that contact was lost with it.
24 July 2014, 16:16 AFP quoting Lebanese official: At least 20 Lebanese were onboard the ill-fated Algerian plane.
24 July 2014, 16:01 A Special Tribunal for Lebanon session kicked off to issue a decision regarding the tribunal's jurisdiction on journalist Karma Khayat and al-Jadeed TV's Contempt case.
24 July 2014, 15:15 The cabinet approved the pending Lebanese University file after agreeing on the issues of the deans and contract teachers.
24 July 2014, 14:45 OTV: Cabinet tasked FM Jebran Bassil with sending a letter to the ICC in The Hague on the developments in Gaza and Mosul.
24 July 2014, 14:34 LF chief Samir Geagea to al-Masira magazine: We cannot have any hope regarding Lebanon and its Christians as long as MP Michel Aoun remains a political player.
24 July 2014, 14:01 Judge Fadi Sawan issued an arrest warrant against an individual from Shames family on charges of the attempted murder of head of the intelligence bureau in the Bekaa.
24 July 2014, 13:59 Salafist cleric Sheikh Salem al-Rafehi: We warn of the ongoing religious oppression that the Sunni sect in Lebanon is suffering from.
24 July 2014, 13:59 Unknown assailants opened fire at head of al-Labweh municipality chief Ramez Amhaz in the town and fled away.
24 July 2014, 13:39 VDL (100.5): Three Lebanese were on board the lost Algerian plane that was heading to Algiers from Burkina Faso.
24 July 2014, 12:09 LBCI: A closed-door meeting is underway between Ministers Bou Saab and Qazzi, amid reports they reached an agreement over the LU file.
24 July 2014, 11:00 Beirut police detained seven individuals for committing various crimes and seized 17 violating motorcycles and a vehicle.
24 July 2014, 10:48 Cabinet session went underway at the Grand Serail.
24 July 2014, 10:13 Minister Elias Bou Saab from the Grand Serail: The Kataeb party has demands and doesn't want to impede the cabinet. I will offer solutions during today's session.
24 July 2014, 10:12 Minister Abou Faour ahead of cabinet session at the Grand Serail: The LU decree is similar to other decrees and should be postponed if rivals didn't reach an agreement.
24 July 2014, 09:39 ISF detained 56 people for committing various crimes throughout Lebanese territories.
24 July 2014, 08:58 MP Ziad al-Qadri to VDL (93.3): The agreement reached over the salaries of public employees is temporarily.
24 July 2014, 08:27 TMC: Two people were wounded in a traffic accident on the Sidon highway leading to al-Jiyyeh.
24 July 2014, 08:26 MP Michel Moussa to VDL (93.3): There are no indications that the parliamentary elections will be held any time soon.
24 July 2014, 07:50 VDL (93.3): A gunmen was wounded at night during an assault by armed men on an army checkpoint in Wadi Hmeid in Arsal.
23 July 2014, 22:40 Army Command: Four rockets landed in the outskirts of the towns of al-Bzaliyeh and Hrabta after being fired from the Eastern Mountain Belt, causing no casualties.
23 July 2014, 20:50 Former PM Hariri on Twitter: (I announce my) full solidarity with my Christian brothers in Mosul. What they are going through is unacceptable in human and religious standards.
23 July 2014, 20:34 Interior Minister Mashnouq during iftar at ministry: The government was formed as an attempt to protect Lebanon as much as possible on the basis of suspending conflict with those whom we have a dispute with, and confronting terrorism without any hesitation.
23 July 2014, 20:30 MTV: Four rockets fired from the Eastern Mountain Belt hit the town of al-Labweh, reportedly causing material damage.
23 July 2014, 19:57 MTV: The Kataeb Party will submit a proposal on keeping Yared as dean of the medicine faculty in return for taking the PSP's share at the tourism faculty by naming a Maronite dean.
23 July 2014, 19:43 Three people were hurt as a personal dispute between 2 Palestinians and a Syrian escalated into a fistfight involving sharp objects in Ain el-Hilweh.
23 July 2014, 19:43 Ex-PM Fouad Saniora's press office denied that he had given any statement after his meeting with the finance minister in parliament.
23 July 2014, 18:32 Al-Jadeed: Palestinian national Mohammed Jaber has been freed for ransom after he was abducted last week in the Baalbek district area of al-Khraibeh.
23 July 2014, 18:32 Al-Jadeed: An Israeli patrol found a suspicious object at the Kfarkila water drainage canal and it is inspecting the site under the eyes of UNIFIL and army troops.
23 July 2014, 18:26 MTV: Saniora stressed to Khalil during the financial meeting that the new wage scale cannot be approved in its current format.
23 July 2014, 18:22 MTV: A source who took part in the financial meeting has confirmed that salaries will be paid from the reserve, without approving a law in parliament.
23 July 2014, 17:42 LF leader Samir Geagea discussed the presidential polls with al-Mustaqbal bloc MP Samir al-Jisr, stressing the necessity to elect a president "as soon as possible" and tackling what the March 14 alliance can do to make a breakthrough in the impasse.
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