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Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri filed on Wednesday a complaint to Public Prosecutor Ghassan Oueidat, following a tweet by Mount Lebanon Prosecutor Judge Ghada Aoun.
Aoun had earlier today published a list of names of Lebanese officials who have frozen accounts in Switzerland, citing WikiLeaks as a source.
Full StoryThe Internal Security Forces on Wednesday announced that its Intelligence Branch had dismantled in summer eight Islamic State-linked cells that had been plotting terrorist attacks in Lebanon.
In a statement, the ISF said the arrests were made between July and October in the Bekaa, Beirut, the North, the South and Mount Lebanon.
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The United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), is providing more than $72 million in emergency food assistance to more than 650,000 vulnerable people in Lebanon, including refugees from Syria and other countries, the U.S. Embassy said on Wednesday.
Full StoryLebanon wants direct talks to demarcate its maritime border with Syria so it can begin offshore gas exploration, weeks after reaching a similar agreement with Israel, Deputy Speaker Elias Bou Saab told AFP.
The U.S.-brokered sea border deal with Israel guarantees "stability" in a volatile region, where the two enemy states seek to exploit potentially gas-rich Mediterranean waters, Bou Saab said.
Full StoryA strike on a pro-Iran militia convoy in eastern Syria near the Iraqi border killed at least 14 people overnight, a war monitor said Wednesday, without specifying who carried it out.
An official of the Iraqi border guard said the trucks were transporting fuel from Iran to Lebanon overland through Iraq and Syria.
Full StoryCaretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Tuesday denied “any communication with any Israeli official,” after the website of Israeli newspaper Haaretz published a photo showing him and Israel's environmental protection minister along with several world leaders and officials at the U.N.’s COP27 climate summit in Egypt.
“A report is circulating in the media about the participation of an Israeli minister in a specialized workshop at the climate conference in Sharm el-Sheikh in the presence of (caretaker) PM Najib Mikati and the delegations of Iraq and Palestine,” Mikati’s office said in a statement.
Full StoryFormer President Michel Aoun suggested Tuesday that some parties want to “intimidate” the Free Patriotic Movement.
“They want to intimidate us, so be ready,” Aoun said during a surprise visit to OTV, referring to the clash that recently took place at MTV.
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Samantha Power, the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), arrived in Lebanon Tuesday for a three-day visit focused on “providing support to the Lebanese people, particularly those impacted by the country’s economic and humanitarian crisis,” the U.S. Embassy said.
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Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati held talks Tuesday in Sharm el-Sheikh with French President Emmanuel Macron, on the sidelines of the U.N.'s COP27 climate summit.
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Detained lawyer and activist was rushed Tuesday to the emergency room of al-Hayat Hospital after his health deteriorated due to a hunger strike, the Mottahidoun alliance of anti-corruption lawyers and activists said.
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