The Parliamentary Committee for Human Rights held a session on Thursday afternoon headed by MP Michel Moussa and attended by the committees rapporteur, MP Nazih Matta, and MPs Melhem Khalaf, Michel Douaihy, Adnan Traboulsi, Qassem Hashem, Halima.
BEIRUT: More MPs have joined independent lawmakers staging a sit-in inside Lebanon’s 128-seat parliament to protest at the ongoing vacuum of power. Protesters held their own sit-in outside parliament in solidarity with MPs angry at the failure to elect a new president. Reformist MPs Najat Saliba and Melhem Khalaf launched their protest in the plenary hall of parliament last
BEIRUT: Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati has promised to move ahead with urgently needed reforms after Saudi Arabia, France and the US agreed on a rescue roadmap for the crisis-hit country. Representatives of the three countries issued a joint statement early on Thursday following a meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. The statement
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