BEIRUT (AFP) - Lebanon's president prepared on Thursday to tackle the delicate task of naming a new premier after Hezbollah forced the collapse of the unity government and plunged the country back into crisis.
President Michel Sleiman called on the government to stay on in a caretaker role and was to launch consultations on Monday with parliamentary blocs to appoint a new premier, who must be a [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel is carefully watching developments in Lebanon, where the government collapsed after Hezbollah ministers walked out, a senior government official told AFP on Thursday.
The crisis erupted on Wednesday after the powerful Shiite party and its allies resigned from cabinet in protest over a UN probe into the 2005 assassination of former premier Rafiq Hariri.
"This crisis is [...]
BEIRUT (AFP) - Lebanon's unity government collapsed on Wednesday after the powerful Hezbollah and its allies resigned from the cabinet over a UN probe into the assassination of former premier Rafiq Hariri.
Energy Minister Gebran Bassil told a press conference that 10 ministers had tendered their resignations because of a long-running dispute with Prime Minister Saad Hariri -- son of the slain l [...]
BEIRUT (AFP) - Lebanon's unity government collapsed on Wednesday after the powerful Hezbollah and its allies resigned from the cabinet over a UN probe into the assassination of former premier Rafiq Hariri.
Energy Minister Gebran Bassil told a press conference that 10 ministers from the 30-member cabinet had tendered their resignations because of a long-running dispute with Prime Minister Saad H [...]
BEIRUT (AFP) - Lebanon's government on Wednesday looked set to fall after Hezbollah and its allies warned they would quit unless their demands over a UN tribunal probing the murder of ex-premier Rafiq Hariri are met.
Health Minister Mohamad Jawad Khalifeh, whose Amal party is allied with the powerful Hezbollah, told AFP the government could collapse as early as Wednesday afternoon.
"If the cab [...]
WASHINGTON (AFP) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy will meet Saudi Arabia's recuperating King Abdullah and Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri in New York, a French official said Monday.
After meeting with President Barack Obama in the White House Monday, Sarkozy was to hold talks with the Saudi monarch on regional issues including Lebanon, Iran, the Middle East peace process and the fight aga [...]
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - UN chief Ban Ki-moon added his backing to the work of a UN tribunal investigating the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri, in a meeting with his son, the current premier.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed new support for the tribunal in a meeting with Prime Minister Saad Hariri in New York on Friday. Growing tensions in his country h [...]
BEIRUT (AFP) - Prime Minister Saad Hariri headed to New York on Friday to meet with Saudi King Abdullah and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the political crisis in Lebanon, a government official said.
The official close to Hariri, speaking on condition of anonymity, told AFP the talks would focus on the deadlock in Lebanon created by a UN probe into the 2005 murder of the prime m [...]
BEIRUT (AFP) - A draft law calling for a 15-year ban on property sales between Lebanese Christians and Muslims has sparked controversy, with many saying it is aimed at stemming the sale of Christian land to Hezbollah supporters.
"An unhealthy situation is developing and all I am doing is raising the alarm bells," said Labour Minister Boutros Harb, author of the proposal submitted last mon [...]
BEIRUT (AFP) - Lebanon's foreign minister on Tuesday asked the United Nations to curb Israel's offshore drilling plans, days after a US firm announced the discovery of a large field off the Jewish state's coastline.
"We request you do everything possible to ensure Israel does not exploit Lebanon's hydrocarbon resources, which fall within Lebanon's economic zone as delineated in the maps t [...]
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