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The Education Ministry called Monday for the strict implementation of sanitation and hygiene guidelines in Lebanon's public schools after recent cases of poisoning among students. Caretaker Education Minister Hassan Diab chaired a meeting Monday to...

United States Ambassador to Lebanon Maura Connelly paid a visit Monday to the headquarters of the Association of Banks in Lebanon where she was briefed by her hosts about the measures adopted by Lebanese banks to combat money laundering. The president...

Grand Mufti Sheikh Mohammad Rashid Qabbani escalated his dispute with the Future Movement Monday, appointing a replacement for the current mufti of Sidon, who is close to the party. Members of the Higher Islamic Council who are close to the Future...

BAALBEK, Lebanon -- Emerging from a disused school in Baalbek where she had just visited a converted classroom inhabited by three Syrian families, EU Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva told reporters that even millions of dollars in additional aid would be...

A crisis over the Cabinet formation has been temporarily averted, with Tammam Salam deciding to postpone announcing his new lineup after a meeting with Speaker Nabih Berri, sources close to the prime minister-designate said Monday. Salam's decision...

Speaker Nabih Berri decided Monday to put the Orthodox Gathering's proposal as the sole item on the agenda of Wednesday's Parliament session to discuss a new electoral law, but it remains unclear if the session will garner a quorum to be held. While...

Lebanon's new Cabinet, once appointed, needs to tackle the Syrian refugee question head on, with plans for formal camps among its priorities, an International Crisis Group report released Monday contends. Anticipating that the already high rate of...

Under the threat of a new round of strikes by public school teachers, caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati once again promised Monday that he would send the long-delayed salary scale bill to Parliament for approval. Mikati made the commitment to a...

Two construction workers were killed and several others wounded when an explosion rocked a construction site just north of Beirut Monday. Authorities at the scene said the explosion appeared to have been an accident involving a diesel fuel tank, but...

Parliament's Youth and Sports Committee discussed increasing the engagement of Lebanese youths in civil and political activities. The issue was discussed during a meeting between lawmakers and the representative in Parliament of the United Nations...

President Michel Sleiman called Monday for the punishment of those behind the weekend bombings in Turkey that led to the killing of dozens of people. "Those behind the attack -- whatever their affiliation -- must be punished," Sleiman said in a...

Prime Minister-designate Tammam Salam said after talks with Speaker Nabih Berri Monday that he was not rushing to form the next Cabinet but at the same time was against delays in the formation process. "I have said it right from the start that I am...