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Lebanon appoints president's diplomatic advisor as new foreign minister
Aug 04, 2020 03:29Lebanon has appointed the diplomatic advisor of President Michel Aoun as the country’s new foreign minister, hours after Nassif Hitti surprisingly stepped down from the position in protest at the government's mishandling of a spiraling economic crisis.
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Hezbollah secretary general to deliver speech on domestic, intl. issues on Wednesday
Aug 03, 2020 09:54Secretary General of Lebanon's Hezbollah resistance movement, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, is scheduled to deliver a speech on Wednesday night.
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Lebanon's foreign minister resigns amid economic crisis
Aug 03, 2020 09:19Lebanon's Foreign Minister Nassif Hitti has submitted his resignation to Prime Minister Hassan Diab in protest at what he described as the government's mishandling of the financial crisis.
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Lebanon dismantles Israeli spying device
Aug 02, 2020 12:25Lebanon has dismantled an Israeli spying device in South Province near the border with the occupied territories.
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Israel’s recent assault on southern Lebanon violates UN resolution: President Aoun
Aug 02, 2020 02:08Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun says his country is ready to defend itself against Israel’s acts of aggression, which are in violation of a 2006 resolution by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), a few days after Israel bombed a Lebanese border town.
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US cannot disarm Lebanon’s Hezbollah through sanctions: Russian ambassador to Beirut
Aug 01, 2020 02:25The Russian ambassador to Lebanon says Washington will not manage to disarm the popular Hezbollah resistance movement through sanctions, stating that US officials are under an illusion they can accomplish such an objective by means of punitive measures.
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President Rouhani urges action against US aerial terrorism
Jul 29, 2020 05:16President Hassan Rouhani denounced the recent harassment of an Iranian passenger plane by American fighter jets over Syria as an act of “aerial terrorism”, calling for concerted action against such dangerous moves.
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Lebanon to file complaint with UN over Israeli aggression
Jul 29, 2020 02:13Lebanon has announced plans to lodge a protest with the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) over a recent Israeli military offensive in the south of the Arab country.
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Lebanese Hezbollah: Israel claim about border clashes aims to fabricate fictitious victories
Jul 28, 2020 01:15Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement says all Israeli claims about border clashes with the movement’s fighters earlier on Monday are fake and aimed to boost the morale of Israeli regime forces by fabricating fictitious victories.
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Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian mosque in fresh price tag attack
Jul 27, 2020 11:13A group of Israeli settlers have torched a mosque in the central sector of the occupied West Bank amid continued acts of vandalism and violence by settlers, known as price tag attacks, against Palestinians and Muslim holy sites.