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5/6/2021 12:29:44 PM
Tweeting ahead of his arrival, Jean-Yves Le Drian said French travel restrictions on Lebanese officials suspected of corruption or hindering the formation of a new Cabinet were `just the start.'
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4/26/2021 3:28:09 PM
The government also asked Lebanon's public prosecutor to pursue investigations on the issue and keep Saudi officials informed of results, a presidency statement said
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4/22/2021 4:05:30 PM
On Wednesday, judge Ghada Aoun and others had stormed the offices of a foreign exchange dealer in defiance of her removal from the investigation, with some of them breaking down doors
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4/22/2021 2:21:31 PM
Lebanon is still reeling from a huge chemical explosion at Beirut port last year that killed 200 people and caused billions of dollars worth of damage, further weakening an economy already facing meltdown
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4/21/2021 8:20:24 PM
With no end in sight to economic and financial paralysis, Mouawad feels a hopelessness that was not there during the war, which broke out when she was 12 and lasted 15 years
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4/15/2021 10:50:09 PM
Lebanon and Israel, which are still technically at war, last year took part in indirect US-brokered talks to discuss demarcation to clear the way for offshore oil and gas exploration
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4/13/2021 3:49:46 PM
The dispute with Israel over the maritime boundary has held up hydrocarbon exploration in a potentially gas-rich area of the eastern Mediterranean
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4/1/2021 11:23:14 PM
According to two diplomatic sources, Berlin will on April 7 outline a proposal that the European Investment Bank has agreed to help fund that would clear the area and reconstruct facilities.
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3/31/2021 5:59:00 PM
Nasrallah said there were serious, collective efforts in recent days to ease a political standoff that has obstructed cabinet talks for months
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3/31/2021 5:04:23 PM
Abu Shadi turns down the heat in his oven once he has baked enough manaeesh (plural form of manousheh) to save on gas
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3/30/2021 12:00:52 PM
Last week talks between Aoun and Hariri on the formation of a new Cabinet broke down
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3/26/2021 2:04:57 PM
'This is something that needs to be discussed now and needs to be dealt with promptly,' Diab said in the statement
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3/25/2021 3:05:16 PM
The outgoing cabinet has stayed on in a caretaker capacity since quitting in August on the back of the port explosion that killed 200 people and destroyed swathes of Beirut
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3/24/2021 7:49:00 PM
Its chief Hassan Nasrallah has said he would support a cabinet of specialists should Hariri and Aoun come to an agreement
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3/23/2021 12:02:12 PM
Lebanon's financial crisis intensified on Monday, after Prime Minister-designate Saad al-Hariri and President Michel Aoun again failed to agree a government
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3/22/2021 12:57:39 PM
Hariri is expected to hand over the latest draft lineup after a previous proposal failed to secure a consensus
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3/21/2021 5:53:00 PM
Nearly 3,000 tons of poorly stored ammonium nitrate, a highly explosive fertilizer component, exploded on Aug. 4 at Beirut's port, killing 211, wounding more than 6,000 and damaging entire neighborhoods in Beirut
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3/18/2021 10:05:30 PM
'If the prime minister-designate agrees with the president on Monday a government of specialists we will agree, Nasrallah said in a televised speech
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3/18/2021 5:57:20 PM
Lebanon's talks with the IMF stalled last year over a row among Lebanese government officials, bankers and political parties over vast financial losses
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3/18/2021 5:42:12 PM
Macron has spearheaded international efforts to resolve the crisis, but with little success to date
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