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Caretaker Foreign Minister Charbel Wehbe denounced on Wednesday Israel’s constant violation of Lebanese airspace saying “it makes us fear that Israel is up to something,” Nidaa al-Watan newspaper reported.
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Progressive Socialist Party chief Walid Jumblat on Tuesday called PM-designate Saad Hariri and stressed his “categorical rejection” of what he called the “campaign” against the premiership post.
Jumblat also condemned “the personal insults that have targeted PM-designate Hariri” despite some “temporary political differences” between him and the premier, a PSP statement said.
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The Free Patriotic Movement-led Strong Lebanon bloc on Tuesday called on Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri to “resume his work as soon as possible.”
“The bloc is awaiting the PM-designate to communicate with the President to form a government that respects the unity of standards,” said Strong Lebanon in a statement issued after its weekly e-meeting.
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The Israeli army alleged Tuesday that a Lebanese shepherd nabbed by Israeli forces in the border area of Kfarshouba was collecting information for Hizbullah.
Israeli army spokesman Avichay Adraee tweeted that the shepherd was “arrested in an ambush” after he “deliberately” crossed the frontier into Israeli-controlled territory.
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Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri on Tuesday posted a poem containing verses about “lies” and “blame,” a day after he tweeted a bible verse on “cheating” amid a row with President Michel Aoun and the Free Patriotic Movement.
Hariri’s tweet on Monday came after Aoun was caught on camera saying the PM-designate had “lied” about being given a cabinet line-up “paper” by the president.
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Lebanon on Tuesday filed a U.N. complaint against Israel over its intensive aerial violations in recent days.
“President Michel Aoun today asked caretaker Foreign Minister Charbel Wehbe to address an urgent letter to the U.N. Security Council and U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres to condemn Israel’s aggression and aerial violations of Lebanon’s sovereignty and Resolution 1701, after the intensification of the Israeli violations of the Lebanese airspace,” the Presidency said.
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A total lockdown set to start this week will exacerbate the suffering of vulnerable Lebanese families struggling to make ends meet unless the government offers assistance, a charity has warned.
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The Interpol reportedly issued “red notice” for the owner of the Rhosus ship that brought ammonium nitrate to Lebanon leading to the port explosion, and for the Portuguese nitrate trader who examined the material in hangar number 12 in 2014, LBCI television reported on Tuesday.
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A leaked video of President Michel Aoun accusing PM-designate Saad Hariri of “lying” about a government format, might be “intentional” to push Hariri to step down from his task, al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Tuesday.
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Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri on Monday tweeted a bible verse about “cheating” after President Michel Aoun was caught on camera saying the PM-designate has “lied” about being given a cabinet line-up “paper” by the president.
“There is no formation. He says that we gave him a paper. He’s lying,” Aoun tells caretaker PM Hassan Diab in remarks caught by al-Jadeed TV’s camera. The president’s answer came in response to a question by Diab about the cabinet formation process.
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