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Marada Movement chief MP Suleiman Franjieh met with Prime Minister Saad Hariri on Tuesday and hinted at a possible electoral alliance with the premier's al-Mustaqbal Movement.
“The meeting with PM Saad Hariri was friendly and we will not be away from each other in the elections. We discussed the previous period and the upcoming period and we agreed on most issues,” said Franjieh after meeting Hariri at the Center House.
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The General Directorate of General Security issued a warning on Tuesday asking citizens not to be tricked into getting involved with the Israeli Mossad.
“The Directorate warns Lebanese citizens and residents of falling into the trap of the Israeli Mossad which is active through fake pages on the internet and social media outlets with the aim of recruiting people for its interest,” said the statement.
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Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat said Tuesday that Lebanon should consider an offer made by the Kuwait Fund for Arab Development to finance the establishment of new power plants in the country instead of leasing Turkish generating vessels.
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The Internal Security Forces arrested a 45-year-old man in the Bekaa Valley for impersonating a police officer, a statement released by the security agency said Tuesday.
ISF detained the man after obtaining information that he has been contacting the ISF department in the Bekaa region pretending to be an officer and asking for particular services for his benefit, added the statement.
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Although the latest US decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel has cast a shadow internationally and at home, Lebanon's government started restoring its normal activities paving way for a Cabinet meeting on Thursday as the interior ministry launched a slogan for the country's May elections, An Nahar daily reported Tuesday.
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Prime Minister Saad Hariri on Monday hit out at “political parties” that allegedly tried to “stab him in the back” during the latest political crisis that followed his surprise resignation announcement from Riyadh.
“We are here today to tell everyone that this movement, Rafik Hariri's movement, the Blue movement, which many have tried to eliminate, remains and continues because it is the movement of truth and justice, because it puts the interest of the country above all other secondary interests. We have no personal interest and no family interest, our only interest is Lebanon,” said Hariri during a meeting at the Center House with a delegation from al-Mustaqbal Movement and Beiruti families.
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Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Monday called on Hizbullah, without naming it, to emulate influential Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr, the leader of a militia that fought against U.S. forces in Iraq and later against the Islamic State group.
“I wish those we have in Lebanon would emulate Sayyed Moqtada al-Sadr, who ordered the disbanding of (the) Saraya al-Salam (militia) once the war on IS ended,” Geagea tweeted, in an apparent reference to Hizbullah.
Prime Minister Saad Hariri said on Monday that elections of the Economic and Social Council of Lebanon, revived in October after 15 years of suspension, constitute a new achievement for the government.
“The government has placed the reactivation of its institutions at the top of priorities. Electing Charles Arbid as chairperson of the council is an additional government achievement,” said Hariri.
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A special envoy to South Korea's new president Moon Jae-in arrived in Beirut on Monday for talks with Lebanese officials, the National News Agency reported on Monday.
The envoy was greeted at the Beirut airport by South Korean Ambassador to Lebanon Young Man Lee and a number of embassy staff and Lebanese Foreign Ministry representative Ziad Riachi, added NNA.
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Iran planned to deliver a message to world powers through a controversial visit paid by an Iran-backed Iraqi militant to Lebanon's border purporting the Iranian Revolutionary Guards as “grasping control" in the region, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Monday.
An unnamed opposition source told the daily that Qais al-Khazali's visit to south Lebanon “is an Iranian message to decision-making circles around the world purporting that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard controls political, security and military decisions in the region.”
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