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BEIRUT (AP) - Lebanon's outgoing government on Friday approved a recovery plan for pulling the Mideast nation out of its economic meltdown, the country's information minister said. (ktar.com)
Beirut (AsiaNews/Agencies) - The Maronite Bishops' Conference, which held its monthly meeting yesterday in the patriarchal headquarters of Bkerké led by Card Beshara Al-Rahi, renewed its appeal to the country's political leaders to form a government of technocrats. (asianews.it)
Lebanon's PM Hassan Diab announces the resignation of his gov't amid anger over the Beirut blast. (marxist.com)
Lebanese protesters took to the streets in Beirut and other cities on June 13 in mostly peaceful protests against the government, calling for its resignation as the small country sinks deeper into economic distress. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
Scores of people have been wounded in Beirut after security forces used tear gas and water cannon to disperse crowds of anti-government protesters trying to reach Martyrs' Square, the hub of a months-long protest movement calling for changes to Lebanon's political and financial systems. (aljazeera.com)
Commenting on the developments, Rami Khouri, a journalism professor at the American University of Beirut said that "people are exasperated by what they see as total disdain by their government. (aljazeera.com)
Beirut, Jun 25 (Prensa Latina) The International Support Group for Lebanon (ISG) requested the rapid formation of a government after the re-election of Najib Miqati as Prime Minister. (plenglish.com)
Graffiti painted on a wall near the damaged port area in Beirut, Lebanon on August 16, 2020. (thenationalnews.com)
Fireworks thrown at riot police by anti-government protesters explode during clashes near the parliament building following last Tuesday's massive explosion in the seaport which devastated Beirut, Lebanon. (thenationalnews.com)
A pro-government 14th February rally, in Beirut, which commemorated the third anniversary of the killing of the former prime minister, Rafiq al Harri, in central Beirut, took place on the morning of the Moughniye mass funeral, which was held in the Shiite populated Southern Beirut suburb. (socialistworld.net)
Videos have been shown on news channels depicting the armed bullying and intimidating of people in some areas in Beirut and other areas of Lebanon. (socialistworld.net)
An eloquent voice who knows the political oligarchy in Lebanon well is Tracy Chamoun (yes that Chamoun family) who resigned as Lebanon's ambassador to Jordan to protest the government's failure to deal with the consequences of the August 4th Beirut Port explosions. (atfl.org)
A Lebanese anti-government protester draped in a national flag sits overlooking the Mohammed al-Amin mosque and the Martyrs square in Beirut on November 14th, 2019. (irishtimes.com)
Beirut seemed calm, quiet and normal a year ago today when President Michael D Higgins, on an official visit to Lebanon, lunched with his counterpart and took tea with the parliamentary speaker. (irishtimes.com)
Protesters carry an injured woman during a demonstration, in solidarity with the Palestinian people in Gaza, near the U.S. Embassy in Aukar, a northern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. (fox59.com)
A statue of a woman by Lebanese artist Hayat Nazer, made out of leftover glass, rubble, and a broken clock marking the time (6:08 PM) of the mega explosion at the port of Beirut is placed opposite to the site of the blast in the Lebanese capital's harbour, to mark the one year anniversary of the beginning of the anti-government protest movement across the country, on October 20, 2020. (foreignpolicy.com)
New information suggests that the thousands of tons of ammonium nitrate that exploded at the Port of Beirut on Aug. 4, killing more than 200 people and doing some $15 billion in property damage, may have been intended for the Syrian government. (foreignpolicy.com)
Thousands of "You Stink" protesters took to the streets in Lebanon issuing a 72-hour ultimatum to the Beirut administration over the government's inept handling of the garbage crisis. (ibtimes.co.uk)
The whole country has been under a blockade since Beirut airport was shut down and ships were told not to dock in Lebanon. (swissinfo.ch)
Analysts also blame government negligence for the 2020 Beirut port explosion , which killed more than two hundred people because successive governments failed to heed warnings about improperly stored combustible chemicals. (cfr.org)
External Affairs would arrange the evacuation of Embassy staff from Beirut, Lebanon to Nicosia. (canada.ca)

Lebanon's government approved an economic recovery plan during its last meeting Friday before becoming a caretaker Cabinet after a new parliament was elected over the weekend, the information minister said. (ktar.com)
Weak and divided as ever, Lebanon's government quickly declared that it would be resigning. (marxist.com)
PARIS: France's foreign ministry on Tuesday warned Lebanon's political forces that the country risked collapse if they did not form a government without delay. (arabnews.com)
Lebanon's top Christian cleric called on Sunday for a government to rescue the country, rather than the ruling "political class", after the explosion in Beirut's port threw the nation further into turmoil. (thenationalnews.com)
Lebanon's 200,000-strong Federation of Labour Unions (CGTL) called a sit-in, this week, at the Finance Ministry, in protest at a government 'reform' plans that will hike taxes and cause layoffs. (socialistworld.net)
Hezbollah secured the support from a majority of parliament Monday to nominate its candidate for prime minister, putting the Iranian-backed militant group in position to control Lebanon's new government. (yalibnan.com)
At the same time, the agreement on delimitation of the economic areas follows Lebanon's stance, though, in return for compromising on these economic borders, Israel will receive a certain percentage of Lebanon's income from natural gas extraction in its economic zone (an arrangement that will be implemented via the French company to which Lebanon has awarded license to produce natural gas from the relevant area). (timesofisrael.com)
SIDON, Lebanon (AP) - A cautious calm returned to Lebanon's Ein el-Hilweh Palestinian camp in south Lebanon Thursday after a night of renewed clashes. (keloland.com)
But Lebanon's government elites are also ramping up their own attacks on his reputation and his work. (foreignpolicy.com)
Even as Lebanon's once lush mountains were still smoldering, an out-of-touch government announced a fresh round of taxes, including on WhatsApp, the popular messaging service. (foreignpolicy.com)
Damages to the school complex in Lebanon's largest Palestinian refugee camp from clashes that erupted between factions in the camp over the past week could delay the start of the school year for some 6,000 children, the Lebanon head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees said Friday. (wtrf.com)
Do Lebanon's parliamentary elections signal a change for the much-criticized government? (cfr.org)
Updating a Cyprus-Lebanon agreement on the demarcation of their exclusive economic zones (EEZ) was discussed by President Nicos Anastasiades and Lebanon's Prime Minister Najib Mikati on the sidelines of the COP27 Summit. (financialmirror.com)
Lebanon's Prime Minister Mikati was assured that Cyprus "will take the initiative within the EU, for better financial support to Lebanon to deal with the increasing migration flows, a problem that Cyprus also faces, due to the instrumentalisation of the migration issue by Turkey," the statement said. (financialmirror.com)

Lebanon defaulted in March 2020 on paying back its massive debt, worth at the time some $90 billion or 170% of the country's GDP, making it one of the highest in the world. (ktar.com)
In late 2019, he became the main focus of public anger as the economy began to unravel, and in 2020 Lebanon defaulted on its debt for the first time. (zawya.com)

An aircraft departs from Tripoli heading to Rome on September 30, 2023, after the Italian government lifted its 10-year-old air ban on Libyan civil aviation. (aawsat.com)
Empty bullet cartridges are seen lying on the road during a third day of clashes that erupted between members of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah group and Islamist factions in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh near the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Monday, July 31, 2023. (keloland.com)

For the protesters on June 13, many of them members of organized political parties, Diab's government has failed to handle the crisis. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
The protesters allege the trucks were smuggling goods to Syria a common complaint in Lebanon as the neighboring country grapples with its own economic hardships. (hurriyetdailynews.com)

The development came during the Cabinet's last official meeting before it becomes a caretaker government following last weekend's parliamentary elections. (ktar.com)
We must start immediately with change and quickly hold early parliamentary elections without the distraction of discussing a new election law and to form a new government. (thenationalnews.com)
Lebanon: Presidential elections postponed again. (socialistworld.net)
These will be the first national general elections in Lebanon since 2009. (electionguide.org)
Lebanon is scheduled to hold its elections on June 7. (jpost.com)
US Vice President Joe Biden went to Lebanon on Friday to reinforce US support for the government ahead of the elections. (jpost.com)

Information Minister Ziad Makary said Prime Minister Najib Mikati's government approved the plan, though there were some objections from ministers close to the Iran-backed militant Hezbollah group and its ally Amal, a faction led by Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri. (ktar.com)
Diab's government is supported by the powerful militant group Hezbollah and its allies, but has already been weakened by the economic crisis. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
Hezbollah brought down the unity government with the Western-backed coalition earlier this month after Sunni Prime Minister Saad Hariri refused the group's demand to cease cooperation with a U.N.-backed tribunal investigating the 2005 assassination of his father, former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. (yalibnan.com)
The United States, which considers Hezbollah a terrorist organization, has tried to move Lebanon firmly into a Western sphere. (yalibnan.com)
A Hezbollah-led government would also raise tensions with Israel, which fought a 34-day war against Hezbollah in 2006 that left 1,200 Lebanese and 160 Israelis dead. (yalibnan.com)
Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah said Sunday if their candidate gets the post of prime minister, the group will try to form another national unity government with Hariri's Western-backed bloc. (yalibnan.com)
But Hariri said Monday he will not join a government headed by a Hezbollah-backed candidate. (yalibnan.com)
Even Hezbollah is calling for a new government, whatever that means to them… while they open supermarkets and issue cash cards to their constituents to have access to essential products brought in from Iran (wonder if they paid custom duties? (atfl.org)
Nowhere is this more clear than in Lebanon, where Trump's rhetoric and proposed budget cuts portend less U.S. support for the Lebanese institutions most directly confronting Hezbollah-Iran's local proxy and a source of Iran-backed forces fighting for Bashar al-Assad against the United States and its allies in Syria. (americanprogress.org)
The impulse to get tougher on Hezbollah is directly contradicted by Trump's budget, which ends foreign military financing for the Lebanese Armed Forces and other investments in Lebanon. (americanprogress.org)
Hezbollah and Israel have clashed along the Lebanon-Israel border, though the skirmishes remain mostly contained along a handful of border towns. (fox59.com)
The Israel-Lebanon border has seen escalating tit-for-tat exchanges, mainly between the Israeli army and Hamas ally Hezbollah, since the Palestinian militants launched a shock attack on Israel on October 7, stoking fears of a regional conflagration. (yahoo.com)
The deaths raised to 71 the number killed in Lebanon since the Israel-Hamas war began, according to an AFP tally -- most of them Hezbollah fighters and other combatants but also civilians, one a Reuters journalist. (yahoo.com)
Since the beginning of fighting between Israeli forces and the Hezbollah militia on July 13, Switzerland has given the ICRC SFr5.2 million for relief work in Lebanon. (swissinfo.ch)
A government-commissioned investigation of the incident has stalled amid resistance from members of Hezbollah and the Shiite party Amal Movement in particular. (cfr.org)
TPS) Hamas is tightening its terror coordination with Iran, Hezbollah and Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Lebanon, raising new challenges for Israel. (israeltoday.co.il)
In the decades prior to the upheavals, Hezbollah had experienced an extraordinary evolution from being a relatively marginal guerrilla force, conducting sporadic attacks against its arch-enemy Israel in reaction to the latter's military aggression on Lebanon in the late 1970s to early 1980s, into a mature organization, social movement and political party. (lu.se)

The unparalleled economic and financial crises are proving a major challenge to the government of Prime Minister Hassan Diab, who took office earlier this year after his predecessor resigned amid nationwide protests. (hurriyetdailynews.com)

Against all expectations, Sunni Prime Minister, Hassane Diab, succeeded in putting together a government in just over one month. (voltairenet.org)
Hassan Diab, we must not forget, was ushered in as Prime Minister with the promise of reforming Lebanon. (marxist.com)
We need only look to the track record of the Hassan Diab government, which was filled with technocrats deemed to be professional and separate from the existing political order, to show this. (marxist.com)
In a speech on June 13, Diab urged the public to be patient, saying there were a great many political hurdles, including from rivals he said sought to undermine his government. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
Diab offered no solutions to the crisis, nor did he name his opponents, but said his government is working to fight corruption and uphold the power of the state. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
At the end of October Hariri resigned, but he remained as caretaker until a "reformist" government of "experts" under Hassan Diab was installed in January. (irishtimes.com)
More than three months into the protests, Diab formed a new government whose members are largely perceived as affiliated with parties of the March 8 coalition. (refugeesinternational.org)

Six pro-Syrian ministers including Hizballah quit the Lebanese government Saturday, breaking up unity coalition talks and aiming to torpedo Foud Siniora's initiative for an international tribunal to try the men implicated in the Feb. 2005 murder of the Lebanese politician Rafiq Hariri last year, including relatives of Bashar Asad's. (debka.com)
In 2004, the Permanent Representative of Russia to the United Nations, Andrey Denisov, abstained from the vote on United Nations Security Council Resolution 1559 in order to allow the UN urge Syria, a close ally of Russia, to withdraw all Syrian troops from Lebanon. (wikipedia.org)
Nine years into the Syrian conflict, nearly 1.5 million Syrian refugees are currently living in Lebanon, of whom about 950,000 are registered with the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR). (refugeesinternational.org)
According to UNHCR, more than 60 percent of Syrian refugees are settled in north Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley in the east-two of the most deprived regions in the country. (refugeesinternational.org)
In 2018, Lebanon began organizing the return of Syrian refugees despite the many risks they face back home. (refugeesinternational.org)
Also, based on a decision to expel any Syrian who entered Lebanon informally after April 24, 2019, the country's General Security Organization (GSO) deported hundreds of Syrians without referring them to a judge. (refugeesinternational.org)
Regularize the informal Syrian workforce in sectors like hospitality and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and expand work permits to other sectors in which Lebanon suffers from a major labor shortage, such as nursing. (refugeesinternational.org)
Under ILAC´s Syria Programme 2017-2018, RWI also piloted a programme on higher legal education and skills training of Syrian refugees in Jordan and Lebanon. (lu.se)

Neither the Future Movement Party (Saad Hariri, Sunni), nor the Lebanese Forces (of war criminal Samir Geagea, Maronite), or the Progressive Socialist Party (of Druze leader Walid Jumblatt, guilty of crimes against humanity) are part of the government. (voltairenet.org)
I say to Prime Minister Saad Hariri, let us all work together for the sake of Lebanon," he told reporters. (yalibnan.com)
After the Russo-Georgian War in 2008 and the Russian recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Saad Hariri announced that Lebanon would establish relations with those two Georgian break-away republics and could possibly establish diplomatic relations with those republics. (wikipedia.org)
The Sunnis of northern Lebanon tore down portraits of Prime Minister Saad Hariri. (foreignpolicy.com)

This resignation finds the Lebanese people in a similar situation to last year, when the Hariri government resigned. (marxist.com)
BREAKING: 'I declare today the resignation of this government. (marxist.com)
The normal 24-member Western-backed government cabinet is now down to 17 ministers, due to the resignation of a block of six Shiite ministers and the assassination of the politician Gemayel in November. (socialistworld.net)
The campaigners are also angry over corruption allegations surrounding government officials and have called for the resignation of ministers. (ibtimes.co.uk)

The IMF and the international community have been demanding that Lebanon implement wide-ranging economic and financial reforms in order to release loans and investments worth billions of dollars. (ktar.com)
Prelates call for action to overcome obstacles, political or otherwise, and find a way to form a new government that can come up with structural reforms and investments. (asianews.it)
We call on leaders to overcome political and other obstacles to the formation of a government, and to quickly agree on a cabinet that can" put in place "structural reforms and investments," the prelates said in a statement. (asianews.it)
We call on them to reach an agreement without delay on the formation by (Prime Minister) Moustapha Adib of a government of mission, which will then have to implement the necessary reforms. (arabnews.com)
Senior French and US officials have said any foreign financial aid to Lebanon must come with reforms, including state control over the port and Lebanese borders. (thenationalnews.com)
Still, capitalist policies are still approved by Prime Minister Siniora's government in the name of 'boosting investment' through social and financial reforms. (socialistworld.net)
Rather, as has been stated time and again, Lebanon must begin the process of recovery by making the necessary reforms. (atfl.org)
It remains uncertain whether the government will be able to implement much-needed reforms or garner critical international support to address the ever-worsening crisis. (refugeesinternational.org)
No bloc has a majority, but if the divided opposition and Hezbollah's bloc can quickly agree on a speaker, that would indicate that the government might be able to come together on other matters, such as passing reforms required for Lebanon to receive badly needed support from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). (cfr.org)

In 2022, Lebanon made minimal advancement in efforts to eliminate the worst forms of child labor. (dol.gov)

In the immediate future, the new government must tackle the banking crisis in which several top officials of the parties backing it have played a role. (voltairenet.org)

France is pressing Lebanese politicians to form a new government in a "reasonable timeframe" to lift the nation out of a deep crisis but has not fixed a new deadline after the last one in mid-September was missed, two French diplomatic sources said. (arabnews.com)

A lock icon ( ) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. (oregon.gov)
In the United States (US), nationwide surveillance for MERS-CoV has been ongoing since 2012, and as of June 5, 2015, 45 states have submitted specimens to CDC or conducted their own testing for MERS-CoV based on CDC criteria available in their current form at https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/mers/case-def.html . (cdc.gov)
Healthcare providers should continue to routinely ask their patients about their travel history and healthcare facility exposure and to consider a diagnosis of MERS-CoV infection in persons who meet the criteria for patient under investigation (PUI), which has been revised to include considerations of recently being in a Korean healthcare facility and is available at https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/mers/case-def.html . (cdc.gov)

We report on several cases of intestinal anthrax from 1960 to 1974 in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon, where the consumption of raw or poorly cooked meat is customary. (cdc.gov)
In March 1960, an acute and particularly severe abdominal syndrome was recognized in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon. (cdc.gov)

The CGTL called on all workers, and all those who reject the economic reform plan, adopted by the government, to take part in the protests and to reject any rise in taxes, direct or indirect, particularly a hike in the value-added tax (VAT), as well as any privatisation that could lead to layoffs in the public sector. (socialistworld.net)
Previous to the protests, the pro-government Druze leader, Jumblatt, carried out a threatening sectarian speech, with the aim of mobilising for the Hariri commemoration rally. (socialistworld.net)
Horrific living conditions - alienation, poverty and unemployment - faced by this part of the population and worsened under the current Seniora-led government, triggered the protests. (socialistworld.net)
Analysts have said such a gathering is unprecedented since the protests were not fuelled by any political party unlike earlier mass movements in Lebanon. (ibtimes.co.uk)

In February 2018, representatives of Russia and Lebanon drafted a joint agreement which would potentially allow the Russian Navy and Air Force access to Lebanese military facilities. (wikipedia.org)
International and regional donors-that provided more than US$7 billion to the Lebanon Crisis Response Plan (LCRP) between 2012 and 2018-have helped Lebanon cope with the challenge. (refugeesinternational.org)
The most recent MENA programme (2018-2021) aimed at further increasing the application of international human rights standards in national judicial systems in Algeria, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine and Tunisia. (lu.se)

This week, Beirut's streets will, once again, be filled with protestors, many of whom have been on a five-week protest against the pro-Western, Siniora-led government. (socialistworld.net)
The Siniora government aims to sell its stake in Middle East Airlines and Intra Investment Company, and the water and sewage systems. (socialistworld.net)

Does Israel's caretaker government have the authority to agree to a deal of this kind? (timesofisrael.com)
Ironically, the fault is not the caretaker government which has several well-qualified ministers. (atfl.org)

Morocco, Jordan and Lebanon. (lu.se)
Over 100 key stakeholders from academic institutions, National Human Rights Institutions, government representatives and civil society organisations mainly from Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq, Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria and Syria gained increased capacities on the implementation of human rights in relation to their respective roles and functions at their institutions. (lu.se)

What Happens During a Government Shutdown? (americanprogress.org)

The heavily indebted government has been in talks for weeks with the International Monetary Fund after it asked for a financial rescue plan but there are no signs of an imminent deal. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
They insisted on the need to comply with the commitments reached with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on last April 7th, including budget laws, capital control, bank secrecy and government decisions to lay a solid foundation for a sustainable recovery of Lebanon. (plenglish.com)

This is no longer 1983, and the strategy used in Iraq will be adopted with Lebanon. (lbcgroup.tv)
This axis finds support in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen. (israeltoday.co.il)

The bishops, who renewed Patriarch Al-Rahi's appeal for a smaller cabinet of "independent experts", also criticised, without explicitly naming him, Speaker Nabih Berry who wants parliament to adopt the 2019 budget despite the absence of a government with full powers. (asianews.it)

Successive governments failed to take action to restructure the economy, and public debt piled up. (zawya.com)

In Lebanon, the election of the president is decided by members of parliament, and the election needs a two-thirds majority of MP's to vote during the election session. (socialistworld.net)

Although an uneasy calm has prevailed over the past two days, staff from the UN's agency for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon have been unable to access the camp to make a full damage assessment or to provide services. (wtrf.com)
With a population estimated at around 6 million, Lebanon is host to the largest number of refugees per capita in the world. (refugeesinternational.org)
The increasing drift toward repression threatens to further destabilize the country and undermine the situation of all people in Lebanon, including refugees. (refugeesinternational.org)
Ongoing fighting in Lebanon is hindering the distribution of emergency supplies warn Swiss experts, while providing shelter for refugees is proving complicated. (swissinfo.ch)

The threat of a slide towards renewed civil war appears in different ways, including through street riots, mass demonstrations and clashes between pro-government forces and anti-government sides. (socialistworld.net)
As the clashes continue, Saudi Arabia became the latest country to ask its citizens to leave the tiny Mediterranean country of Lebanon. (fox59.com)

Furthermore, government officials continued to indicate that governmental funding is insufficient to properly carry out their duties. (dol.gov)
US officials have said they would review assistance to Lebanon depending on the composition of the next government, a warning clearly aimed at Hizbullah and its allies. (jpost.com)

Saad El Hariri, the son of the late prime minister, donated over $50 million to the north of the country, to boost government support amongst the local population. (socialistworld.net)
In 2010, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced that Russia will be giving Lebanon a free, unconditional gift of arms and military supplies to strengthen the Lebanese Armed Forces. (wikipedia.org)
Pelekanos also said that President Anastasiades briefed the Prime Minister of Lebanon about the current state of affairs as regards the Cyprus issue, while the situation in Lebanon was also discussed. (financialmirror.com)

Lebanon made some progress toward ending its political dysfunction in 2016. (freedomhouse.org)
The Lebanese government has collapsed twice since then (in 2011 and in 2013) and the presidency was vacant from 2014-2016. (electionguide.org)
Under a 2016 law issued to legalize unlicensed churches and facilitate the construction of new churches, the government reported having issued 814 licenses to existing but previously unlicensed churches and related support buildings, bringing the cumulative total to 1412 of 5,415 applications for licensure. (state.gov)
This study was based on performing secondary quantitative data analysis of the amount of supplied toothpastes and toothbrushes between 2000 and 2016 in Lebanon. (who.int)

The government passed anti-corruption legislation , including an audit into the central bank, which would help clear out the corruption and place Lebanon on the road to economic recovery and give confidence in foreign investors to invest in the Lebanese economy. (marxist.com)
For the people of Lebanon, struggling under the weight of an ever-growing economic crisis, endemic corruption, and rising social inequality, it has been a year full of fire. (foreignpolicy.com)

For the leader of the Maronite Church, the best solution would be a government of technocrats, experts and specialists in specific domain, so as to overcome the political, economic and institutional stalemate in which the country finds itself. (asianews.it)

In March 1995, a Russian delegation led by the Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev visited Lebanon. (wikipedia.org)
In 2009, a Russian military delegation visited Lebanon in order to inspect the Lebanese military airports on their capability to host Russian MiG-29 fighter aircraft. (wikipedia.org)

He heads a Revolutionary Guards surveillance and control unit responsible for carrying out all military plans in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria. (israeltoday.co.il)

The protest organisers have pledged to step up their agitation if the government does not resign by Tuesday, 1 September. (ibtimes.co.uk)

Instead, the conditions of working people in Lebanon dramatically worsened. (marxist.com)

Following Nasrallah's speech, Israel declared a state of emergency for its citizens, across the world, and boosted its forces along its border with Lebanon. (socialistworld.net)
Israel and Lebanon have been negotiating with one another for more than a decade, with the help of international mediation, seeking agreement on several issues relating to their joint maritime border and the division of rights and obligations between them in the areas of the Mediterranean Sea adjacent to their coasts. (timesofisrael.com)
Experts stated that the Lebanese government might seek a Russian troop presence on its soil due to overlapping claims with Israel about natural gas reserves in the Mediterranean Sea. (wikipedia.org)
French Defence Minister Sebastien Lecornu said Lebanon 'doesn't need a war' with Israel, during a visit on Thursday to his country's contingent in the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). (yahoo.com)
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant accused Iran on Monday of setting up an airport in southern Lebanon to enable attacks against Israel. (yahoo.com)

The institution brings together the United Nations and the governments of China, France, Germany, Italy, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States, along with the European Union and the Arab League. (plenglish.com)
They were not part of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon. (wikipedia.org)

Hezbollah's opponents say a government led by the militant group would be disastrous for Lebanon and lead to international isolation. (yalibnan.com)

As Jihad Azour, director of the IMF's Middle East and Central Asia Department told Reuters last week , "The change of direction [in Lebanon] cannot be done on a piecemeal basis. (atfl.org)

In 2007, the Lebanese army battled Islamist extremists in another Palestinian camp, Nahr al-Bared in north Lebanon, razing most of the camp in the process. (keloland.com)
Now the Quds Force is tasked with building up Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad capabilities in Lebanon. (israeltoday.co.il)
Another is Saeed Yazidi , an Iranian based in Lebanon who manages the "Palestinian branch" of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. (israeltoday.co.il)

The plan is a first step on a difficult and complicated road with the ultimate goal of wresting Lebanon out of the worst economic crisis in its modern history. (ktar.com)
Lebanon has been paralysed by an economic crisis that has deepened as supplies of imported fuel have dried up . (abc.net.au)
The protest movement rocking Lebanon since October 17 was revived this week, over delays in forming a new cabinet to address the country's acute economic crisis. (aljazeera.com)

Distribution of first-aid kits and medication is underway, but is proceeding slowly because of security concerns and heavy fighting in southern Lebanon near the Israeli border. (swissinfo.ch)

This will give Lebanon back its international credibility, and allow the country to re-enter into negotiations with the IMF and The World Bank, and to secure lasting solutions. (atfl.org)
In recent months, the situation of Syrians in Lebanon has become even more precarious because the country faces one of the direst economic and financial crises in its recent history. (refugeesinternational.org)

Lebanon has an embassy in Moscow. (wikipedia.org)

After an emergency Cabinet meeting on June 12 to address the crisis, the government announced that the central bank would inject fresh dollars into the market to prop up the Lebanese pound a measure that many say is likely to offer only temporary relief. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
Forming a new cabinet is often convoluted in Lebanon, where a complex system seeks to maintain a balance between the country's many political parties and religious confessions. (aljazeera.com)

The U.S. government estimates that Buddhists comprise 18.2 percent of the country's total population, Christians 5.1 percent, Muslims 1.8 percent, followers of folk religions 21.9 percent, and atheists or unaffiliated persons 52.2 percent, with Hindus, Jews, and Taoists comprising less than 1 percent. (state.gov)

UN agencies and donors routed funds to local organisations, bypassing the government. (irishtimes.com)

At the same time the Canadian government now saw the possible need to evacuate Canadian citizens from the Middle East. (canada.ca)

Active military and reserve IDF forces from all commands, arms and wings are taking part in the exercise, which is expected to simulate attacks on Lebanon and Iran. (jewishpress.com)

The sharp increase in custodial deaths must be a wake-up call to the Lebanese government that their prisons need urgent and drastic reform. (aawsat.com)

In political talks in the year 2010,, Russian and Lebanese representatives discussed the possibility of building a number of gas-powered electricity plants in Lebanon, with Russian funding. (wikipedia.org)

None of the ministers belonged to the outgoing government. (voltairenet.org)

A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States. (oregon.gov)

The continuing crisis over the presidency succession in Lebanon and deep political and confessional polarisation in society, reflect a very volatile situation in Lebanese politics. (socialistworld.net)
The CWI in Lebanon looks in detail at the background to this ongoing crisis and charts a way forward for the working class, so long divided along confessional lines. (socialistworld.net)

Lebanon-Russia relations (Russian: Российско-ливанские отношения) are the bilateral relations between the Lebanese Republic and the Russian Federation. (wikipedia.org)
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Lebanon was one of the first states to recognize the Russian Federation as an independent nation in December 1991. (wikipedia.org)

On 21 January, they staged demonstrations against the government even before its composition was unveiled. (voltairenet.org)

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