Libanon

Under Secretary of State says political deadlock is culmination of decades of mismanagement, corruption and failure of Lebanese leaders to put country’s interests first.

Lebanon’s influential parliamentary speaker Nabih Berri says the country will sink like the Titanic if it is not able to form a government as he opened a session to approve emergency funds to literally keep the lights on for two more months.

Lebanon’s financial crisis intensified on Monday after Prime Minister-designate Saad al-Hariri publicly repudiated President Michel Aoun, saying the latter wanted to dictate cabinet membership and grant veto powers on policy to his political allies.

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President Michel Aoun tells PM-designate Saad Hariri either to step down or form a government as soon as possible to tackle the country’s economic woes.

The current all-time low of the Lebanese currency — known as the pound or the lira — has riled people all over the country. They have been pouring into the streets for more than a week now, taking the country to the brink of a revolution.

Lebanon’s PM-designate, French President discuss Lebanese crisis, difficulties that hinder formation of government and possible ways to overcome them.

The COVID-19 pandemic is inflaming an already severe crisis of inequality across the globe, according to a report released by aid group Oxfam International. Lebanon, now ravaged by economic, political and health crises, must enact drastic reforms in order to survive, economists say.

The Lebanese prosecutor investigating August's port explosion in Beirut filed charges on Thursday against the caretaker prime minister and three former ministers, accusing them of negligence in relation to the deadly blast, Lebanon's state news agency reported.

The UN chief on Friday took note of five concurrent life sentences handed down to a Hezbollah militant, convicted in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in Beirut, fifteen years ago.  … However, to date, the convicted Salim Jamil  Ayyash remains at large.

France and the United Nations vowed Wednesday to keep providing humanitarian aid to Lebanon but urged the country's leaders to form a new government as a political deadlock in Beirut has blocked billions of dollars in assistance for the cash-strapped country hit by multiple crises.