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Berri schedules new presidential election session

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri on Tuesday scheduled a new presidential election session for 11am Thursday.

This will be the eleventh electoral session since Michel Aoun’s presidential term ended last year.

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Injuries as families of port victims storm Justice Palace

Families of Beirut port blast victims on Tuesday stormed the Justice Palace in Beirut in protest at perceived political and judicial obstruction of the investigation, a few days after the judiciary ended a lengthy judicial strike.

The relatives managed to storm the outer gate of the Justice Palace and some of them were injured in clashes with security forces.

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French investigator into Salameh's case to arrive Monday in Lebanon

The Observatoire Européen pour l’Integrité du Liban said Tuesday that French judge Aude Buresi will arrive Monday in Lebanon, in her second visit to the country.

Buresi will continue her investigations in the ongoing case of Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh, the association said.

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Depositor fires gunshots at BLOM bank in Sidon

A depositor fired gunshots at the closed door of BLOM Bank in Sidon on Tuesday in an attempt to storm the bank.

Mohammad, a member of the Lebanese Army, clashed with the bank's security guards before firing from his pistol at the bank's door after the bank refused to sell him dollars at the Sayrafa rate, media reports said.

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Bou Saab says capital control law to be approved in next session

Deputy Speaker Elias Bou Saab announced Monday that the joint parliamentary committees are expected to approve the long-awaited capital control law in their next session.

“In principle, one session remains to approve the law and its amendments,” Bou Saab said after a session on Monday.

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Mikati calls for unity to rescue the country

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Monday reassured that “the country will remain coherent, glorious and resilient.”

“No one will be able to defeat it,” Mikati added, during a ceremony to inaugurate Middle East Airlines’ new general administration building.

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Jumblat calls on Arabs to support crisis-hit Egypt

Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat called Monday for the support of Egypt amid its economic crisis.

"Egypt is going through very dangerous circumstances as a result of the conditions of the International Monetary Fund, the scarcity of resources, the narrowness of agricultural lands, and the high prices of imported wheat after the Ukraine war," Jumblat said in a tweet.

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Berri 'disgusted' by futile presidential vote sessions

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has described Lebanon as “a boat lost at sea,” due to the parties’ failure to elect a new president despite having held ten electoral sessions.

In remarks to Annahar newspaper published Monday, Berri said he was feeling “disgusted” by the fact that the ten presidential election sessions that were held last year had failed to produce a new president.

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Geagea calls on Defiance Axis and Berri to learn from US vote

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Sunday called on the Hezbollah-led Axis of Defiance and Speaker Nabih Berri to “draw lessons” from the 15 rounds that were held to elect a US House speaker, rejecting what he called “unconstitutional” dialogue over the election of a new president.

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US embassy says Shea still serving as ambassador to Lebanon

The U.S. Embassy in Beirut on Friday announced that U.S. Ambassador Dorothy Shea is still serving as her country's ambassador to Lebanon, following media reports related to her nomination by the White House for the post of U.S. Deputy Representative to the U.N.

"Embassy Beirut is proud of (U.S.) President (Joe) Biden’s nomination of Ambassador Shea to serve as the U.S. Deputy Representative to the United Nations," U.S. Embassy Beirut Spokesperson Julia Groeblacher said in a statement.

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