The Lebanese parliament held on Thursday the fifth session to elect a new President, reaching the same result of the first four sessions. After some quarrels between the lawmakers over the Constitutional stipulations pertaining the elections, the members of the parliament cast their ballots. As a result of the vote, ...
Hezbollah Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem blamed the United States for preventing Lebanon from importing the Jordanian electric power, Egyptian gas and Iranian fuel. Addressing a mourning service in Beirut, Sheikh Qassem added that the national unity enables Lebanon to frustrate the US siege scheme. “Maritime border demarcation affirms ...