This is Beirut, 09:20 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
President Emmanuel Macron will accept the resignation of Prime Minister Francois Bayrou on Tuesday after his government was ejected in a confidence vote, with the French leader rushing to find a successor and stave off a new political crisis. On Monday, Bayrou suffered a crushing loss in a confidence vote he had himself called, plunging France ...
This is Beirut, 08/09 23:18 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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President Emmanuel Macron will accept the resignation of Prime Minister Francois Bayrou on Tuesday after his government was ejected in a confidence vote, with the French leader rushing to find a successor and stave off a new political crisis. On Monday, Bayrou suffered a crushing loss in a confidence vote he had himself called, plunging France ...
This is Beirut, 08/09 16:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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France coach Didier Deschamps calmed suggestions of a rift between the national team and Paris Saint-Germain after the European champions were left fuming after Ousmane Dembele and Desire Doue picked up injuries on international duty. Dembele, PSG's leading scorer last season and one of the favourites to win the Ballon d'Or, has been ruled out ...
This is Beirut, 08/09 09:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Emmanuel Macron France Francois Bayrou Government Confidence
France's parliament is expected to oust Prime Minister François Bayrou on Monday after just nine months in office, plunging the key EU member into new political uncertainty and creating a painful dilemma for President Emmanuel Macron. Bayrou blind sided even his allies by calling a confidence vote to end a months-long standoff over his austerity ...
This is Beirut, 07/09 14:40 - Reading : less than a minute
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Foreign Minister Youssef Raggi held a phone conversation with his French counterpart, Jean-Noël Barrot, on Sunday, expressing gratitude for France’s pivotal role in renewing the UNIFIL mandate under optimal terms. Barrot welcomed Lebanon’s adoption of the army’s plan to reassert state control over all weapons nationwide and reaffirmed ...
This is Beirut, 06/09 15:55 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs welcomed on Saturday the Lebanese government’s plan proposed by the army to restore the state’s monopoly on arms across all of its territory. French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot held talks a day earlier with his Lebanese counterpart, Youssef Raggi, to reaffirm France’s support for the disarmament ...
Makram Haddad, 06/09 09:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The conference hall of the Hôpital Français du Levant buzzed on Friday with unusual excitement. Impeccable white coats, understated suits, attentive gazes: doctors, researchers, diplomats and institutional representatives gathered for a rare moment in the recent history of Lebanese medicine. Beneath the large bay windows flooding the room with ...
Johnny Kortbawi, 05/09 15:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Lebanon’s modern history has been shaped by successive forms of foreign tutelage, beginning with the proclamation of Greater Lebanon 105 years ago. Over the course of half a century, the country experienced various mandates and occupations: 23 years under the French Mandate, 30 years under Syrian domination, alongside repeated Israeli invasions ...
This is Beirut, 02/09 23:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday said Israel cannot stop a push towards the recognition of a Palestinian state through its expanded offensive in Gaza or by annexing more Palestinian territory. France is one of several countries planning to recognize the State of Palestine at the upcoming UN General Assembly in New York, with Belgium ...
This is Beirut, 02/09 21:35 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
French police on Tuesday killed a man suspected of stabbing at least five people in the southern port city of Marseille, one of whom is in "critical condition," a public prosecutor said. The attacker was a Tunisian national with legal status in France who stabbed the manager of a hotel that had just evicted him for non-payment, prosecutor Nicolas ...
This is Beirut, 02/09 17:30 - Reading : less than a minute
Film Depardieu Trial France Culture
The youngest son of the legendary French actor Alain Delon is seeking to annul his final will, in a renewal of a bitter family dispute just over a year after the screen icon's death, the executor said. Alain-Fabien Delon is going to court in a bid to cancel the will, with a first hearing in March 2026, deeming it too favorable to Alain Delon's ...
This is Beirut, 02/09 17:04 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
French judicial authorities have issued arrest warrants for ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and six other top former officials over the bombardment of a rebel-held city in 2012 that killed two journalists, lawyers said Tuesday. Marie Colvin, 56, an American working for The Sunday Times of Britain, and French photographer Remi Ochlik, 28, ...