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Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati has met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh following "a request from French President Emmanuel Macron," LBCI TV reported overnight.
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Several MPs and political parties on Sunday condemned the overnight incidents at Ashrafieh's Sassine Square that followed Morroco's World Cup win.
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A clash erupted overnight at Ashrafieh’s Sassine Square after dozens of individuals arrived in the area on motorbikes carrying “flags of Morocco, Palestine and Syria,” media reports said.
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Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati has held talks in Riyadh with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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Army Commander General Joseph Aoun on Saturday traveled to Qatar at an invitation from its deputy PM and foreign minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani, the army said.
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Former president Michel Aoun held talks Friday in Bkirki with Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi, hours after a visit to Bkirki by Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil.
Full StoryLebanese actress Stephanie Saliba was released after questioning Friday as a witness in a corruption probe involving Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh, a judicial source and her agent told AFP.
Saliba was detained after failing to appear for previous summons in the case and was subsequently "questioned as a witness" in the investigation into money laundering and illicit enrichment, the source said.
Full StoryLebanese actress Stephanie Saliba, who has links to Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh, was arrested on Friday, a judicial official and the state-run National News Agency said.
The development is the latest in the controversy surrounding Salameh, who is being investigated for corruption as an economic meltdown and financial collapse convulse the tiny nation.
Full StoryLebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Friday called for an emergency cabinet meeting over media reports claiming that Hezbollah is using Beirut’s airport to bring weapons from Iran.
“This is a delicate, dangerous and emergency matter that requires an urgent and necessary meeting by the caretaker cabinet in order to gather all the needed information and take all the necessary measures to preserve the security and stability of the Lebanese,” Geagea said in a tweet.
Full StoryLebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Friday snapped back at Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil over accusations related to the possibility of holding dialogue over the country’s next president.
“Dialogue requires advocates of dialogue,” Geagea tweeted, responding to Bassil’s remarks.
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