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Lebanon to Lodge UN Security Council Complaint over Israeli Violations

Lebanon's foreign ministry issued a statement on Tuesday condemning Israeli violations of Lebanon's airspace, saying a complaint will be filed at the UN Security Council.

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Army Says Israeli Warplanes Breach Lebanese Airspace

The Army Command-Orientation Directorate said on Monday that four Israeli warplanes have breached Lebanon's airspace.

According to the army’s statement, the warplanes violated the Lebanese airspace at 3:25 a.m. flying over the sea to the west of Jounieh, adding that they had flown east over the city of Baalbek and then left the country’s airspace at 3:35 a.m.

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Israel Resumes Cement Wall Construction along Lebanon Border

Israel has resumed the construction of a controversial cement separation wall between Lebanon's southern border and occupied Palestine amid tight Lebanese and Israeli security measures, the National News Agency reported Monday.

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Report: CEDRE Auditor Says Lebanon Troubled with 'Corruption'

An official French auditor of the Paris I, II and III conferences on Lebanon, who also took part in the latest CEDRE conference, said Lebanon is plagued with “unprecedented corruption” describing its public debt as a “cancerous situation,” the Kuwaiti al-Anbaa daily reported on Monday.

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Trump Says 'Big Price to Pay' after 'Mindless Chemical Attack in Syria'

U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday said there will be a "big price to pay" after what he called a "mindless CHEMICAL attack" in Syria, allegedly involving chlorine gas.

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Khalil, Fenianos 'Boycott' LDE Conference in Paris

AMAL Finance Minister Ali Hassan Khalil and Public Works and Transport Minister Youssef Fenianos “boycotted” the Lebanese Diaspora Energy conference in Paris, inaugurated by Prime Minister Saad Hariri, the National News Agency said Saturday.

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Hariri Urges Voters to Refrain from Voting in Favor of Parties Limiting Reforms

Prime Minister Saad Hariri on Saturday urged the Lebanese to refrain from casting votes in favor of parties who abstain from introducing reforms they once vowed to do.

Addressing the Lebanese community at the opening of the Lebanese Diaspora Energy conference for Europe in Paris, Hariri said: “You are our secret weapon. You must as well threaten us into introducing reforms, otherwise you may refrain from voting for us.”

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Jumbalt Dreads 'Corruption' Would Impede CEDRE Reforms

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat on Saturday, hailed the outcome and reforms of an international donor conference in France on Lebanon, but at the same time said he was concerned that “corruption would impede application of reforms.”

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Hariri Congratulates Aoun, Berri on CEDRE 'Success'

Prime Minister Saad Hariri contacted President Michel Aoun and Speaker Nabih Berri from Paris, and “congratulated” them on the “success” of the CEDRE conference that concluded Friday raising billions of dollars aimed at averting an economic fallout in Lebanon, Hariri's media office said.

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Hariri at CEDRE Conference Calls for 'Re-launching' Economic Activity

Prime Minister Saad Hariri stressed from Paris on Friday that Lebanon needs the support of the international community to stave off an economic collapse and revamp economic development that dwindled enormously due to the influx of refugees.

“Lebanon is a tiny country facing enormous challenges. Lebanon's economy has recorded an average annual growth rate of 8 percent in the three years preceding the Syrian crisis. With the war in Syria, and massive displacement of Syrians to Lebanon, this growth has collapsed to an annual rate of 1 percent,” said Hariri at the opening of CEDRE conference from the French capital.

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