The announcement of Lebanon’s Sunni Prime Minister Najib Mikati that he would not run for the election due on May 15 has come as a further jolt after former prime minister Saad Hariri had said in January that he would not be contesting in the
Beirut's determined and daring Judge Tarek Bitar has once again scheduled key figures to testify in the investigation of the August 2020 explosion at Beirut port, which killed 219, wounded 6,500 and rendered 300,000 homeless when it devastated nearby neighbourhoods. Former prime minister Hassan Diab has been summoned for today's session, ex-ministers Nouhad Mashnouk and Ghazi
Beirut's determined and daring Judge Tarek Bitar has once again scheduled key figures to testify in the investigation of the August 2020 explosion at Beirut port, which killed 219, wounded 6,500 and rendered 300,000 homeless when it devastated nearby neighbourhoods. Former prime minister Hassan Diab has been summoned for today's session, ex-ministers Nouhad Mashnouk and Ghazi