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Bassil: Let no one threaten us with 'me or chaos' equation

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil on Sunday urged a Christian agreement on a new president.

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Did Hezbollah abandon Franjieh after Abdollahian's visit?

Observers have made a link between Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian’s visit to Lebanon and remarks about the presidential file by top Hezbollah MP Mohammed Raad.

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Israel bombs Syria 'Hezbollah depot' from Lebanon's airspace

Three civilians were wounded Saturday in Israeli air strikes near the Syrian city of Homs, Syrian state media reported, with a war monitor saying a Hezbollah munitions depot was hit.

During more than a decade of war in Syria, Israel has launched hundreds of air strikes on its territory, primarily targeting Iran-backed forces and Lebanese Hezbollah fighters as well as Syrian army positions.

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In Lebanon, Iran FM visits Israel border, extolls Hezbollah

Iran's top diplomat has visited Lebanon's border with Israel where he expressed support for Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah in its struggle against their common enemy: Israel.

Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian began his visit to Lebanon on Wednesday, meeting top officials and expressing Tehran's readiness to help build power stations in an effort to try to end the small country's prevailing electricity crisis.

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European investigators to grill BDL audit firms

European investigators probing Lebanese central bank chief Riad Salameh's wealth will question officials from two international firms previously tasked with auditing the central bank's accounts, a judicial official said.

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Bou Saab holds 'necessary and important' meeting with Raad

Deputy Speaker Elias Bou Saab on Friday held a meeting with MP Mohammed Raad -- the head of Hezbollah’s Loyalty to Resistance parliamentary bloc.

“The meeting was necessary and important and aimed to evaluate the stage that we are going through and to seek to find exits and common denominators among the parliamentary blocs,” Bou Saab said after the talks.

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Abdollahian 'dismayed' by embassy meeting boycott, says Iran has no candidate

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein-Amir Abdollahian was dismayed Thursday by the Lebanese opposition’s boycott of a meeting that he called for at the Iranian embassy in Beirut, media reports said.

The embassy had invited all parliamentary blocs to the meeting except for the Lebanese Forces, MP Michel Mouawad and nine members of the Change bloc.

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Franjieh's chances: Good signs from France, KSA, despite 'local tension'

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said he is not expecting the worst, and that his words were misinterpreted when he said he only sees negativity.

"I am neither pessimistic nor optimistic," Berri told al-Liwaa, in remarks published Friday. He added that the foreign indications are positive concerning the election of Marada leader Suleiman Franjieh.

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EU team questions Salameh's aide for second day

A European judicial team pressed on with its corruption probe of Lebanon's embattled Central Bank governor on Friday, questioning for a second day one of his aides, Marianne Hoayek, and summoning his brother for another hearing next week.

The delegation from France, Germany, and Luxembourg is on its third visit to Lebanon to interrogate suspects and witnesses in an ongoing investigation of Gov. Riad Salameh and associates over several financial crimes and the laundering of some $330 million.

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Iran FM visit not expected to lead to presidential breakthrough

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian’s visit to Lebanon is not expected to lead to “any positive development that might persuade Hezbollah to give up (Suleiman) Franjieh’s nomination” in the next two months, political sources informed on the visit said.

Following their recent reconciliation agreement, Iran and Saudi Arabia will seek to “end the Yemeni war, lay out the basic foundations for resolving the Iraqi file and restore the Arab-Syrian relations,” the sources told the al-Anbaa news portal of the Progressive Socialist Party.

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