Speaker Nabih Berri has reportedly stressed that he rejects aggravating his relations with Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun but he cannot stand idle to attempts to paralyze state institutions.
Berri told Hizbullah and al-Mustaqbal movement officials that he “does not want to cut ties with him (Aoun) or aggravate them. But that we are in a dangerous stage and we can't stand idle to paralysis,” al-Akhbar daily reported Friday.
Full StoryFree Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun has warned that the rival parties should either resort to “consensus” or the country's political crisis would “explode.”
“I clearly say today either consensus or explosion. We are targeted,” Aoun told As Safir newspaper in an interview published on Friday.
Full StoryPrime Minister Tammam Salam has rejected claims that he is suppressing some parties in the government, warning them not to challenge him.
“I am practicing my constitutional authorities and neither challenging nor quelling anyone,” Salam told al-Liwaa daily published on Friday.
Full StoryA policeman was killed and two people were injured as a family dispute erupted into gunfire in the Akkar town of Bebnin, the National News Agency reported Thursday.
“An unidentified gunman opened fire during a dispute among members of the Khuwailed family in the town of Bebnin,” NNA said.
Full StoryFree Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun warned Thursday that the country will head towards an “explosion” if the government continues what he described as its “coup against the Constitution.”
“It's about time we frankly told people about what's really happening in Lebanon. The behavior of some ministers and MPs is subjecting the country to dangers,” said Aoun at a press conference he held after an extraordinary meeting for his Change and Reform bloc.
Full StoryFor the third year in a row Naharnet is hosting the official exam results for the four sections of Baccalaureate and the Brevet (BR).
Results for the sections of Humanities (LH), Sociology and Economics (SE) and Life Science (SV) were released Wednesday and Thursday.
Full StoryLebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Thursday visited the newly-elected chief of the Kataeb Party MP Sami Gemayel at the latter's headquarters in Saifi.
“Bringing together the political forces is necessary in any attempt to make a change and this is the aim of the current contacts,” Geagea announced after the talks.
Full StoryThe cabinet convened on Thursday following a three-week suspension but the session witnessed arguments among ministers on several controversial issues, infuriating Prime Minister Tammam Salam.
“We couldn't agree during the cabinet session today. In the absence of a president there is no clear mechanism on the authorities of each minister,” Education Minister Elias Bou Saab said following the session.
Full StoryThe number of Syrian children being forced to work is increasing with those as young as six reportedly working in some parts of Lebanon, the U.N. children's agency and Save the Children warned on Thursday.
One 13-year-old Syrian refugee, who harvests potatoes in Lebanon, reported having to carry a bag weighing more than 10 kilograms when full and getting beaten with a plastic hose if he left any potato behind, said UNICEF and Save the Children.
Full StoryThe families of the Lebanese hostages blocked two vital roads in and around Beirut on Thursday to draw attention to the almost one-year case of the captives and urge the authorities to prioritize it.
The relatives of the policemen and soldiers, who were taken hostage when jihadists from al-Nusra Front and Islamic State group overran the northeastern border town of Arsal in August last year, blocked the Saifi road in downtown Beirut and the coastal highway in Naameh early Thursday by forming a human chain.
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