Lebanon Prime Minister

• Lebanon begins consultations to form new crisis government

  The international community have said they will not provide financial assistance to Lebanon unless it implements radical changes aimed at fighting widespread corruption.

  World

  Sep 2, 2020
  
• Lebanon leaders name favourite for prime minister ahead of visit from France’s Macron

  Lebanon's ambassador to Germany appeared slated to become the crisis-stricken country's next prime minister after getting the support of senior Sunni politicians on Sunday.

  Politics

  Aug 30, 2020
  
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• New Lebanon PM says top priority is the nation’s ‘strangling’ economic crisis

  Hassan Diab, a university professor and former education minister, will have to steer Lebanon out of its worst economic and financial crisis in decades.

  World

  Dec 21, 2019
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• Lebanon protests ramp up again with blocked highways, closed schools

  Schools and universities were closed and banks remained shuttered -- a reflection of the deepening political and financial crisis the tiny country faces.

  World

  Nov 13, 2019
• Lebanon’s prime minister resigns, cites ‘dead end’ in resolving growing protests

  The resignation plunges Lebanon deeper into turmoil and uncertainty as it grapples with a severe economic and financial crisis that has led to a scarcity of hard currency and the local currency losing value for the first time in more than two decades.

  World

  Oct 29, 2019
• Lebanese Prime Minister al-Hariri ‘kidnapped’ by Saudis, country’s president says

  A senior Lebanese official said President Michel Aoun told foreign ambassadors that Hariri, who resigned suddenly while in Saudi Arabia a week ago, had been "kidnapped."

  Politics

  Nov 11, 2017