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Palestinian Pundit (Free subscription) | 08/14/2009
Al-Manar "Hezbollah marked three years of Divine Victory over Israel on Friday in Beirut’s southern suburb. Political figures including representatives of President Michel Sleiman, Speaker Nabih Berri, Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri, MP Michel Aoun and MP Walid Jumblatt, along with party chiefs, ministers, MPs and Ambassadors. Tens of thousands of people attended the ceremony and welcomed...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 07/23/2009
Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri Wednesday said that relations between the citizens in south Lebanon and the UN Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) are strong and unbreakable, local NBN TV reported. Berri's statement came days after the fist fighting Saturday between Lebanese Shiite protesters and UNIFIL soldiers in south Lebanon, resulting in 14 peacekeepers slightly injured. The incident in...
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YaLibnan (Free subscription) | 07/04/2009
Beirut - The media in Lebanon continues to focus on the Saudi-Syrian negotiations and there is a lot of speculation about the content of these talks , especially with regards to Lebanon. Syrian president Bashar al Assad has reportedly interrupted his vacation in northern Syria and returned Friday to Damascus to meet the Saudi envoys ( Son of king Addullah and Information Minister Abdel Aziz Khoja)...
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YaLibnan (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
Beirut - Despite the fact that Speaker Nabih Berri's parliamentary bloc was the only group in the opposition that supported the nomination of Saad Hariri as the next prime minister, supporters of his Amal movement and Hariri's al Mustaqbal movement clashed last night in the predominantly Sunni neighborhood of Aisha Bakkar in west Beirut. The armed clash resulted in the killing of one woman and the...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/26/2009
Son of murdered former Lebanese PM holds talks with Hezbollah to discuss new national unity government Sa'ad al-Hariri, the Sunni Muslim leader of Lebanon's parliamentary majority and head of the western-backed Future movement, is poised to become prime minister tomorrowafter seeking to mend fences with the Shia movement Hezbollah. Hariri, 39, a billionaire businessman and son of the murdered former...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 06/25/2009
Beirut - At least five people were wounded by gunfire Thursday in Beirut as supporters celebrated the re-election of Nabih Berri as parliament speaker to a fifth term. Shortly after parliament announced the Berri's victory, dozens of the speaker's fo...
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France24 (Free subscription) | 06/25/2009
Shiite leader Nabih Berri has been re-elected as parliament speaker for a seventeenth straight year, less than a month after a close general election saw Berri and his allies in a Hezbollah-led coalition defeated for the second time in four years.
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Reuters (Free subscription) | 06/25/2009
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's parliament Thursday elected Nabih Berri as speaker for the coming four years, extending his 17-year leadership of the chamber in a vote that underlined improved ties between rival politicians.
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 06/25/2009
Beirut - The new Lebanese parliament re-elected Thursday Shiite Nabih Berri for a fifth term as speaker of the house. Berri, who is a close ally of the Shiite movement Hezbollah and has been dubbed by some the speaker for life since he has held the...
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YaLibnan (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Beirut - Samir Geagea leader of the Lebanese Forces (LF) said he extends his hand to the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM), the Tashnag, Marada and all other Christian political rivals in seeking a common understanding with them over what currently divides them. "We differ over the defense strategy. However, I don't believe we differ over building our [Lebanese] state, development projects or over...
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Palestinian Pundit (Free subscription) | 04/29/2009
Al-Manar "29/04/2009 Lebanese Speaker Nabih Berri said on Wednesday that the massive Israeli maneuvers scheduled between May 31 and June 4, were extremely dangerous, aimed against Lebanon, Syria and Iran and would take place along the Lebanese-Palestinian border.... On Tuesday, Loyalty to the Resistance bloc leader MP Mohammed Raad said that Lebanon must go on high alert in anticipation of Israel's...
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