BEIRUT: A stormy Cabinet session ended Thursday with a compromise that allowed Prime Minister Tammam Salam to pass one agenda item relating to funds to public hospitals, while the Free Patriotic Movement’s ministers won a pledge to discuss the government’s decision-making system at the next meeting. The long-simmering tension between FPM leader MP Michel […]

  BEIRUT: A Lebanese national who had joined extremist group ISIS was killed in Iraq, according to media reports Friday. Hasan al-Masri, better known by his nom de guerre “Aba al-Qassem al-Lubnani” was killed fighting alongside ISIS in Iraq. Masri hails from the Tripoli neighborhood of Baddawi. Around 400 people from north Lebanon are believed […]

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s Prince Saud al-Faisal, who was the world’s longest-serving foreign minister with 40 years in the post until his retirement this year, has died, the ministry spokesman said Thursday. He was 75.

  BEIRUT: Prime Minister Tammam Salam Thursday appeared unmoved by street protests called for by Free Patriotic Movement leader Aoun to coincide with a Cabinet session Thursday. "The Cabinet meeting will take place today as scheduled to [discuss] the agenda as is,” Salam said in remarks published Thursday by local daily As-Saifr. Salam said the […]

  The Lebanese army arrested two Syrian nationals at dawn after confiscating some amounts of weapons and ammunition that they kept in hiding, the National News Agency stated on Thursday. The army raided a warehouse in Tripoli’s al-Qobbeh which belongs to Syrian nationals of the al-Raayan family. They found some quantities of arms and ammo […]

  Vehicles packed with supporters of the Free Patriotic Movement roamed the streets in several regions Wednesday evening, as the FPM continued to prepare for Thursday’s street action, which FPM chief Michel Aoun has described as a “fateful battle.” “FPM supporters from all regions have started heading to the Nahr el-Mot area, where they will […]

  BEIRUT: A dozen protesters held a brief and unannounced protest against electricity cuts in Beirut Tuesday, blocking a major highway linking the city to the southern suburbs. According to The Daily Star’s photographer, the protesters set fire to piles of garbage on the highway leading to the roundabout near the Kuwaiti Embassy. Lebanese Army […]

  Abducted child Ricardo Jaara was released Monday after a three-day kidnap ordeal, media reports said. “Jaara was freed this afternoon after he was kidnapped two days ago near his house in Amchit,” LBCI television reported. “His father headed to (the northern border district of) Wadi Khaled, where he handed $50,000 to a man riding […]

  Health Minister Wael Abou Faour referred to the General Prosecution four doctors for issuing fake medical reports used to help people obtain drivers licenses, reported the National News Agency on Tuesday. It said that the doctors were issuing the reports without performing a medical examination of the applicants. They were identified as Joseph H., […]

  For the third year in a row Naharnet is hosting the official exam results for the four sections of Baccalaureate and the Brevet (BR). Results for the sections of Humanities (LH), Sociology and Economics (SE) and Life Science (SV) were released Wednesday and Thursday. They can be accessed through the files below. Only the […]