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Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has said that U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein has carried “ideas” to Lebanon, not a complete “proposal.”
“In turn, we proposed other ideas,” Berri added, in an interview with Asharq al-Awsat newspaper published Friday.
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Hezbollah condemned Friday American and British air strikes on rebel-held Yemen.
The attacks, in response to Houthi's attacks on Red Sea shipping, killed at least five people and wounded six.
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The Israeli army bombed Friday several border towns in south Lebanon, as U.S.-led airstrikes on Yemen's Houthi rebels raised fears of a regional conflagration.
The Israeli artillery shelled Mays al-Jabal, Houla, Dhaira and Tayr Harfa.
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New U.S. Ambassador Lisa A. Johnson has arrived in Lebanon, the U.S. embassy in Beirut said.
Johnson is a former U.S. Ambassador to Namibia and more recently held leadership positions in the State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement in Washington.
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U.S. presidential envoy Amos Hochstein on Thursday held talks in Beirut over the explosive situation on the Lebanese-Israeli border and the possibility of reaching a diplomatic solution.
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Two paramedics were injured Thursday in an Israeli strike on a Hezbollah-affiliated Health Organization in Hanine.
Israeli warplanes had struck the Islamic Health Society in the Lebanese southern border town of Hanine, killing the two Hezbollah paramedics and injuring several others.
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Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil said the understanding with Hezbollah did not include the liberation of Palestine, although he expressed his support for the Palestinian cause.
In a televised interview, Bassil said the Palestinians are the ones who should decide how to confront and are the ones responsible for the liberation of their land.
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Deputy Speaker Elias Bou Saab said he met with Speaker Nabih Berri on Wednesday was to put him in the picture of the meeting that he has held in Rome with U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein.
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The Lebanese judiciary has "seized all the assets of Gabriel, Jihad and Carole Murr," accusing them of "embezzlement," Lebanese network MTV, which was founded by the Murr family, reported on Wednesday.
“The ruling seizes all the properties, real estate, companies and shares of Gabriel, Jihad and Carole Murr, which proves their embezzlement of funds, after they had accused (MTV chairman) Michel Murr of this for years,” MTV said.
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Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati met Wednesday with German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock at the Grand Serail, as increasing cross-border attacks between Hezbollah and the Israeli resumed in the south.
Mikati told Baerbock that Lebanon respects all international resolutions in order to achieve permanent stability in the south, while Baerbock stressed the need to implement the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701.
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