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Netanyahu Dodges Snap Election Threat as Dissolution Bill Fails in Knesset

This is Beirut, 12/06 09:05 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's hard-right government survived an opposition bid to dissolve parliament on Thursday, as lawmakers rejected a bill that could have paved the way for snap elections. Out of the Knesset's 120 members, 61 voted against the proposal, with 53 in favor. The opposition had introduced the bill hoping to force ...

Israeli Opposition Submits Bill to Dissolve Knesset

This is Beirut, 11/06 13:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

Israel Opposition Knesset Haredim

Israeli lawmakers will vote Wednesday on a bill submitted by the opposition to dissolve parliament, which, if successful, could start paving the way to a snap election. While the opposition is composed mainly of centrist and leftist groups, ultra-Orthodox parties that are propping up Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government are also ...

Turkey Arrests Five Mayors From Main Opposition Party

This is Beirut, 04/06 13:55 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

Turkey Politics Opposition Arrest Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Turkish police arrested five opposition mayors early Wednesday alongside 17 others as part of a probe into corruption allegations at CHP-held municipalities, a party spokesman told AFP. The latest arrests targeted a former lawmaker and three CHP mayors in Istanbul, and two more in the southern province of Adana, the spokesman said. The latest ...

Lawyers Denounce ‘Fabricated’ Tunisia Trial of Opposition

This is Beirut, 22/04 09:45 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Tunisia Opposition

Lawyers and relatives on Monday denounced the hefty sentences handed down to Tunisian opposition figures in last week's mass trial as "fabricated" and "unfounded", and said they will appeal. A court in Tunis in the early hours of Saturday handed down jail terms of up to 66 years to around 40 defendants, including vocal critics of President Kais ...

South Korea Court Ousts Impeached President Yoon

This is Beirut, 04/04 09:30 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

South Korea Yoon Suk Yeol opposition Constitutional Court

South Korea's Constitutional Court on Friday unanimously upheld President Yoon Suk Yeol's impeachment over his disastrous martial law declaration, stripping him of office and triggering fresh elections after months of political turmoil. Yoon, 64, was suspended by lawmakers over his December 3 attempt to subvert civilian rule, which saw armed ...

Imminent Execution Threat for Two Iranian Opposition Members

This is Beirut, 27/01 18:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Iran opposition Amnesty International

Two Iranian men convicted of membership of the People's Mujahedin opposition group, outlawed by the Islamic republic, are at imminent risk of execution after being transferred to a different prison, the organisation and activists said on Monday. The men, Behrouz Ehsani, 69, and Mehdi Hassani, 48, a father of three, were moved without prior notice ...

Opposition MPs to Nominate Fouad Makhzoumi to Form Next Government

This is Beirut, 11/01 22:50 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

Joseph Aoun Fouad Makhzoumi Opposition nomination Government

Opposition MPs announced Saturday evening their decision to nominate MP Fouad Makhzoumi to form the next government at the binding parliamentary consultations with President Joseph Aoun scheduled on Monday. “In line with the new phase in Lebanon, launched by the President of the Republic, General Joseph Aoun, in his swearing-in speech, and in ...

Chamoun: Joseph Aoun Is the Most Prominent Candidate

This is Beirut, 03/01 14:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

Joseph Aoun Lebanese Army opposition

MP Camille Chamoun announced on Friday that Lebanese Army Commander General Joseph Aoun is the opposition’s leading presidential candidate. He made this statement during a meeting with MP Samy Gemayel, the head of the Kataeb Party, at Gemayel’s residence in Bikfaya. Chamoun emphasized that the phase leading to the upcoming electoral session ...

Israeli Opposition Condemns Press Freedom Threats at Emergency Meeting

This is Beirut, 2024-12-04 20:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Israel Benjamin Netanyahu opposition

Israeli opposition leaders and prominent media figures warned at an emergency meeting on Wednesday that government reform proposals were threatening press freedom in the country. "In the years since this government was formed, Israel has fallen 15 places in the freedom of speech index," opposition leader and former prime minister Yair Lapid said ...

Western Inquiries About the Role of the Opposition

Bassam Abou Zeid, 2024-11-10 15:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Opposition Kornet Chehwan

A Western diplomatic source expressed frustration regarding the current state of the opposition in Lebanon. According to this source, the opposition's role is perceived as being limited to superficial appearances and media statements, lacking the ability to exert any influence over Hezbollah. Conversely, Hezbollah faces challenges in a conflict ...

The Sleeping Beauty...

Marc Saikali, 2024-11-07 18:10 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Lebanese Army Opposition

The Lebanese opposition lies in a coma—motionless, a flat electroencephalogram. It waits for the prince charming who will deliver the kiss of revival. But this is no fairy tale, and the awakening is sure to be brutal. From feeble statements to positions laced with empty cliches, not a single day goes by without the transparent opposition ...

Hezbollah's Strength Stems From the Weakness of Its Opponents

Johnny Kortbawi, 2024-10-15 09:18 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Lebanon Opposition Lebanese Forces

Hezbollah’s opposition forces have once again revealed their division and inability to achieve real unity, unlike the solid cohesion among the party’s supporters, despite occasional disagreements surfacing for various reasons. For instance, if a meeting was required for Hezbollah’s supporters, the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) and the ...

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