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Lebanese presidency: May 25 is not the deadline for regional efforts
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Lebanese parliament speaker Nabih Berri casts his vote to elect the new Lebanese president in the parliament building in downtown Beirut on April 23, 2014. (Photo: AFP-Joseph Eid/Pool) Lebanese parliament speaker Nabih Berri casts his vote to elect the new Lebanese president in the parliament building in downtown Beirut on April 23, 2014. (Photo: AFP-Joseph Eid/Pool)

Though the Lebanese are anticipating May 25, the constitutional deadline for electing a new president, regional and international powers aren’t concerned with this date. They are only interested in maintaining security and stability in the country.

Hiyam Kossayfi

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#Opinion #Articles #FPM #Future_Movement #Hezbollah #Lebanese_Forces #Lebanese_presidential_elections #Lebanon #Michel_Aoun #Michel_Suleiman #Saad_Hariri #Samir_Geagea

#Lebanon: Presidential void inevitable
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Lebanese members of parliament count the votes after casting their ballots to elect the new Lebanese president in the parliament building in downtown Beirut on April 23, 2014. (Photo: AFP-Joseph Eid/POOL) Lebanese members of parliament count the votes after casting their ballots to elect the new Lebanese president in the parliament building in downtown Beirut on April 23, 2014. (Photo: AFP-Joseph Eid/POOL)

Judging from what happened on April 23 and April 30, the upcoming sessions of parliament to elect a new president are only a facade until political factions can decide on a consensus candidate. The number of MPs attending – those who want to reach quorum and those who want to evade it – will dwindle week after week. The (...)

#Opinion #Articles #Free_Patriotic_Movement #Future_Movement #Hezbollah #Lebanese_Forces #Lebanese_presidential_elections #Michel_Aoun #Michel_Suleiman #Saad_Hariri #Samir_Geagea #Tammam_Salam #Walid_Jumblatt

Jordanian king in Moscow to discuss bilateral ties
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Russia’s President #Vladimir_Putin (R) shakes hands with #Jordan's King Abdullah II during their meeting at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, on April 9, 2014. Putin hosted today Jordan’s King Abdullah II for talks on #syria, nuclear energy and defence. (Photo: AFP- Ria-Novosti / Pool/ Alexey) #Russia's President Vladimir Putin (R) shakes hands with Jordan’s King Abdullah II during their meeting at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, on April 9, 2014. Putin hosted today Jordan’s King Abdullah II for talks on Syria, nuclear energy and defence. (Photo: AFP- Ria-Novosti / Pool/ Alexey)

Russian President Vladimir Putin joked with his visitor King Abdullah II of Jordan in front of journalists (...)

#Mideast_&_North_Africa #Articles #Daraa #Iraq #King_Abdallah_II #Lebanon

What are you going to do, Comrade #obama?
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Russia’s President Vladimir Putin addresses a joint session of Russian parliament on #Crimea in the Kremlin in Moscow, on March 18, 2014. (Photo: AFP-Ria-Novosti/ Pool/ Alexei Nikolsky) #Russia's President Vladimir Putin addresses a joint session of Russian parliament on Crimea in the Kremlin in Moscow, on March 18, 2014. (Photo: AFP-Ria-Novosti/ Pool/ Alexei Nikolsky)

In light of the dramatic events sweeping Eastern Europe since the Ukrainian president was ousted in Kiev, it seems that Moscow is prepared to do everything it can to defend its interests. Meanwhile, it appears that the constraints on Washington and the West’s response confine it to remain quite far from Crimea, yet very close to the Black Sea. (...)

#Opinion #Articles #Ukraine

Al-Akhbar’s unchanging stances
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Lebanese counterpart Michel Sleimane (L) looks on as French President Francois Hollande (2nd) speaks with Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergei Lavrov (C), U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (R), and French Foreign Affairs Minister Laurent Fabius (2nd R), at the Elysee presidential palace during the joint Meeting of the International Support Group for #Lebanon at the Elysee presidential palace in Paris, on March 5, 2014. (Photo: AFP-Pool/Alain Jocard) Lebanese counterpart Michel Sleimane (L) looks on as French President Francois Hollande (2nd) speaks with Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergei Lavrov (C), U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (R), and French Foreign Affairs Minister Laurent Fabius (2nd R), at the Elysee presidential palace during (...)

#Opinion #Articles #Ashraf_Rifi #Court_of_Publications #Hezbollah #Michel_Suleiman #Roukoz_Rizk

The president’s exceptional decree: Millions of dollars for his hometown
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Lebanese President #Michel_Sleiman (L) speaks with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry following the joint Meeting of the International Support Group for #Lebanon at the Elysee presidential palace in Paris, on March 5, 2014. (Photo: AFP-Pool / Kevin Lamarque) Lebanese President Michel Sleiman (L) speaks with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry following the joint Meeting of the International Support Group for Lebanon at the Elysee presidential palace in Paris, on March 5, 2014. (Photo: AFP-Pool / Kevin Lamarque)

Exceptional decrees by the executive post are spending the public’s money without any oversight.

Mouhamad Wehbe

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#Economy #Amchit #Articles #Jbeil #Lasa #Najib_Mikati #Qartaba

The people of the #Golan return to the ‘Shouting Valley’
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A Syrian woman carries her child past a member of the Israeli army medical staff in a military hospital located in the Golan Heights near the border with #syria on February 18, 2014. (Photo: AFP-Pool/Menahem Kahana) A Syrian woman carries her child past a member of the Israeli army medical staff in a military hospital located in the Golan Heights near the border with Syria on February 18, 2014. (Photo: AFP-Pool/Menahem Kahana)

In Ain al-Tineh, opposite the occupied town of Majdal Shams, Syrians are back to commemorating the time when the residents of the occupied Golan Heights refused to take up Israeli citizenship, following the 1967 War. The conflict in Syria made it difficult for them to observe this tradition in the (...)

#Culture_&_Society #Al-Nusra_Front #Articles #Druze #Israel #Syrian_army