Following are summaries of some of the main stories in a selection of Lebanese newspapers Monday. The Daily Star cannot vouch for the accuracy of these reports. Aoun hints at demonstrating before presidential palace .... Will meet Mikati Tuesday This wee

BEIRUT: Barring last-minute hitches, the government crisis is expected to be resolved this week, clearing the way for the resumption of Cabinet sessions stalled since Feb. 1, three ministers said Sunday. “The [Cabinet] crisis is headed toward a solution.

I met Anthony Shadid several years ago, as Lebanon was trying to make its way through car bombings and posters of assassinated politicians. The ghosts of the war had reappeared in a surreal and complicated scene.Lebanon was making headlines around the wo

BEIRUT: Hezbollah MP Nawaf Musawi said Sunday his party rejects the imposition of conditions on the stalled National Dialogue, and insisted that disarming Hezbollah will not happen because it is an Israeli demand. “There is only one way to deal with the

BEIRUT: Interior Minister Marwan Charbel said Sunday the labor minister will eventually sign the decree governing the transportation allowance, and expressed confidence that the Cabinet crisis would end soon. “Eventually, he [Labor Minister Charbel Nahha

Three deaths show that ethnic tensions are on the rise, reports Lucy Fielder from Tripoli Clashes between the Sunnis and Alawites in two poor neighbourhoods in Tripoli this week killed three people and heightened fears of the dreaded "spill-over" of the

Mediation takes off after the extension of the STL court's term Geagea to Nasrallah: What you’re accusing us of is a mere drop in your vast ocean Amid a severe weather storm that hit Lebanon yesterday, a political storm has intensified, as March 14 conti

Details about the results of the meeting were not immediately known. Sources close to Berri kept mum on the outcome of the talks. “General Aoun briefed Speaker Berri on all aspects of the [Cabinet] crisis and his vision for a solution,” MP Aoun told The

BEIRUT: Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblatt and Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu agreed during talks that a political solution is the only way to resolve the increasingly violent crisis in Syria.

BEIRUT: Prime Minister Najib Mikati said Wednesday his government is continuing to operate, although the Cabinet crisis, which broke out earlier this month over administrative appointments, has yet to be resolved. Sources close to Mikati told The Daily S

BEIRUT: A former Free Patriotic Movement senior official blasted the party’s leader Michel Aoun Wednesday, accusing him of attacking the prerogatives of President Michel Sleiman through the distortion of constitutional texts. Former deputy Prime Minister

FILE - FPM leader Michel Aoun speaks during the weekly meeting of his bloc in Rabieh, Lebanon. Charbel Nakhoul/The Daily Star, HO) BEIRUT: Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun was quick to respond to speeches delivered during a rally Tuesday to

BEIRUT: In an escalation of his position on the two-week-old government crisis, Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun said Tuesday that the Cabinet would not meet before a bylaw is drafted to define who exercises executive authority. Aoun again accu

Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour speaks during a press conference in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Sept. 10, 2011. (Mohammad Azakir/The Daily Star) BEIRUT: Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour Tuesday lambasted last week’s Arab League decisions on Syria, describing t

BEIRUT: Tourism Minister Fadi Abboud ruled out Tuesday the possibility of his colleague Labor Minister Charbel Nahhas being reassigned to a different post in government. “The suggestion of replacing Labor Minister Charbel Nahhas’ portfolio is out of the

BEIRUT: A war of words flared Monday between Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun and former Prime Minister Fouad Siniora on the sidelines of the Cabinet crisis, further heightening political tension in the country. Meanwhile, Parliament Speaker Na

In an interview with LBCI TV aired Monday, Mikati would neither confirm nor deny media reports claiming that the Free Syrian Army, made up of thousands of army defectors spearheading a military campaign to oust Assad, had established a base in northern L

BEIRUT: Labor Minister Charbel Nahhas is daring Prime Minister Najib Mikati to fire him from his 30-member Cabinet. “If they are able to secure two-thirds of the votes in Cabinet, let them fire me,” Nahhas said in remarks published Monday by As-Safir new

FILE - FPM leader Michel Aoun speaks during the weekly meeting of his bloc in Rabieh, Lebanon. Charbel Nakhoul/The Daily Star, HO) BEIRUT: Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun warned Sunday that any attempt to replace or dismiss Labor Minister Char