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Lebanese security forces have denied accusations by rights groups that they had coerced Syrians who had landed at Beirut airport into signing forms to return to their war-torn country.
Human Rights Watch and four other groups Friday accused Lebanon of "summarily deporting" at least 16 Syrians on April 26, after forcing them to sign "voluntary repatriation forms."
Full StoryProgressive Socialist Party leader ex-MP Walid Jumblat on Sunday blasted remarks by Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil on the Syrian and Palestinian refugees in Lebanon.
“We remind the orientalists at the Lebanese foreign ministry that Zionism displaced most of the Palestinian people under the slogan that Palestine is a land without people, and the ‘deal of the century’ might displace the rest,” Jumblat tweeted.
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The "positive atmosphere" among the political parties "allows approving the state budget tomorrow," a senior Free Patriotic Movement official said in remarks published Sunday.
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Prime Minister Saad Hariri has described the deficit reduction in the draft 2019 state budget as a "message in all directions."
Full StoryHizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has warned that a long-delayed U.S peace plan could see Palestinian refugees permanently settled in host countries across the region.
Speaking days after the U.S. announced a May conference in Bahrain to lay out economic aspects of its long-awaited Israeli-Palestinian peace plan, Nasrallah warned of an "ominous deal aimed at eliminating the Palestinian cause."
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Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri received in Ain el-Tineh on Saturday, US Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee Eliot Engel and the accompanying delegation, in the presence of the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee MP Yassin Jaber, the National New Agency reported on Saturday.
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After wrapping up weeks of Cabinet negotiations to slash a ballooning budget deficit, Finance Minister ali Hassan Khalil said on Saturday that the deficit could have been lowered further.
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Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea emphasized on Saturday that no one can impose a refugee resettlement in Lebanon as part of a US “peace” plan for the Middle East, the Anadolu news agency reported on Saturday.
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The AMAL Movement has reportedly criticized Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil saying “he acts as if he has the final word in all the files,” the Saudi Asharq al-Awsat newspaper reported on Saturday.
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Progressive Socialist Party leader ex-MP Walid Jumblat marked Resistance and Liberation Day on Saturday saying it will always be a “shining beacon in Lebanon’s history.”
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