House Speaker Nabih Berri stressed that the Finance portfolio is devoted, according to Taif Agreement, to the Shia sect, calling on the doubters to review the agreement. Hezbollah and Amal Movement will not participate in the new government if the finance portfolio will not be in their ministerial portion, Speaker ...
An American contractor working with the U.S. Army warned at least four years ago about a large cache of potentially explosive chemicals that was stored in Beirut’s port in unsafe conditions, according to a United States diplomatic cable. The presence of the chemicals was spotted and reported by an American ...