French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian is in Beirut for dialogues with Lebanese leaders in an effort to end months of political immobilization that has delayed the formation of a new government
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Lebanon and Israel resumed US-mediated negotiations over their disputed maritime border on Tuesday after a months-long hiatus, in efforts to clear the way for offshore oil and gas exploration. The talks, between
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Lebanon’s caretaker interior minister Mohammed Fahmi expressed to a news agency that he could not refute or confirm the involvement of Hezbollah in the smuggling of the Captagon shipment to Saudi Arabia,
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Already contending with an economic crisis immobilizing the country, Lebanese farmers are terrified that a recent produce ban by Saudi Arabia will be a decisive blow to their livelihoods. On Friday, Saudi
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President Michel Aoun asked Lebanon’s security forces to step up operations against smuggling after Saudi Arabia banned the import of Lebanese commodities, what it called a rise in the illicit drug trade.
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On Thursday, Lebanese President Michel Aoun cautioned against vandalism of property after eliminating a judge from a financial corruption investigation last week, encouraging her and her supporters to storm a currency exchange
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Qatar’s state news agency reported that Lebanon’s Prime Minister Hassan Diab arrived in Qatar on late Sunday. This is his first visit abroad since he taking office. Hassan Diab was accompanied by
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On Thursday, Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun demanded Israel to stop its exploration in an offshore gas pitch on its southern border, amongst continuing disagreement over their common sea border. Both states took
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Lebanon’s caretaker public works and transport minister announced that he contracted a document escalating Lebanon’s assertions in its maritime border disagreement with Israel. The alteration proclaimed on Monday added around 1,400sq km
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Speaking on the second day of his visit to the crisis-wrenched country, Arab League Assistant Secretary-General Hossam Zaki has called for “patience, political will and more communication” to break Lebanon’s political deadlock.
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