Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri speaks during a press conference in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, May 7, 2018. Hariri acknowledged that his parliamentary bloc lost seats in this week's elections, blaming it on a new electoral law and a performance "that wasn't up to the standard." (AP Photo/Bilal ...
Lebanese voters queue to cast their vote at a ballot station during the Lebanon's parliamentary elections in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, May 6, 2018. Lebanon's polling stations have opened for the first parliamentary elections in nine years. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)/ BEIRUT (AP) ...
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon's first national elections in nine years were marked by a tepid turnout Sunday, reflecting voter frustration over endemic corruption and a stagnant economy. Politicians had urged citizens to vote, and security forces struggled to maintain order as fights broke out in and ...
BEIRUT (AP) — The Iran-backed Hezbollah group and its political allies made significant gains in Sunday's parliamentary elections in Lebanon while the main Western-backed faction lost a third of its seats, according to preliminary results released Monday. The initial results, which were carried ...
Hanin Terjman was among the first outside her Beirut polling station Sunday: like many young Lebanese, she is voting for the first time and wants to see new faces in parliament. Clicking away on her smart phone, the chic 21-year-old student waited nervously for the school-turned-polling station ...
Hezbollah and its political allies won just over half the seats in Lebanon's parliamentary election, unofficial results showed, boosting an Iranian-backed movement fiercely opposed to Israel and underlining Tehran's growing regional clout. Branded a terrorist group by the United States, the ...
Lebanese voted in their first general election for nine years on Sunday, with the Tehran-backed Hezbollah group and its allies expecting to emerge stronger, a result that would affirm Iran's regional ascendancy from its own borders to the Mediterranean. Sunni Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri is ...
backed Hezbollah movement and its political allies appear to be on course, according to preliminary results and pollsters’ calculations, to win half the seats in Lebanon’s parliament from Sunday’s election — the country’s first parliamentary poll in almost a decade. The still-to-be confirmed ...
Iran said on Monday it respected the votes cast by people in Lebanon’s parliamentary election, where unofficial results showed Iran-backed Hezbollah and its political allies won just over half the seats, state TV reported. “Lebanon is an independent country ... Iran respects (the) vote of ...
Hezbollah and its political allies won just over half the seats in Lebanon’s parliamentary elections, unofficial results showed, boosting an Iranian-backed movement fiercely opposed to Israel and underlining Tehran’s growing regional clout./ Branded a terrorist group by the United States, the ...
Iran said on Monday it respected the votes cast by people in Lebanon’s parliamentary election, where unofficial results showed Iran-backed Hezbollah and its political allies won just over half the seats, state TV reported./ A woman holds her baby as she waits her turn to vote at a polling ...
Lebanese will have a first opportunity in nine years to vote in a general election on May 6 under new rules, expected to bring some changes to parliament but preserve a unity government combining its main political blocs. A smooth election and the swift formation of a new government are not only ...
CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — The owner of a suburban Detroit business that , killing a man, was arrested at a New York airport as he was preparing to depart for Hong Kong on a one-way ticket, authorities said Friday. U.S. Customs and New York Port Authority personnel arrested Noor Noel Kestou, ...
The first grand opera to be produced in Saudi Arabia has had its opening performance in Riyadh - part of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's massively ambitious plans to shift the kingdom into a new era, economically and socially./ Zarqa Al Yamama is the story of a blue-eyed tribal matriarch with ...
A baby rescued from her dying mother's womb after an Israeli air strike in southern Gaza has died, the BBC has learned./ Baby Sabreen al-Sakani was delivered by Caesarean section in a Rafah hospital shortly after midnight on Sunday./ Amid chaotic scenes doctors resuscitated the baby, using a ...
) — A video of a fight between a student and a substitute teacher at a Las Vegas valley high school was shared on social media Thursday, sources said. A substitute teacher and a student engaged in a fight, which was caught on camera at Valley High School in east Las Vegas. Sources indicated that ...
A brawl involving three people on a busy Los Angeles freeway was captured on video earlier this week and shared with KTLA. The incident occurred around 2 p.m. Tuesday on the 10 Freeway near Normandie Avenue in the Adams-Normandie neighborhood, according to “I was stuck in traffic and came upon a ...
Former film producer Harvey Weinstein appears in court in Los Angeles, Oct. 4 2022. (Etienne Laurent/Pool Photo via AP, File)/ NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s highest court on Thursday overturned ’s 2020 rape conviction, finding the judge at the landmark trial prejudiced the ex-movie mogul with ...
The CCTV footage shown at the domestic abuse trial was disturbing: The defendant is seen dragging his wife by her hair, and then punching and kicking her. Hours after it was recorded, she died of brain trauma. The trial of businessman Kuandyk Bishimbayev, Kazakhstan's former economy minister, in ...
In interviews with investigators last year, former aides and national security officials who were close to Trump in the White House described a president who could erupt in anger when presented with intelligence he didn't want to hear, who routinely reviewed and stored classified information in ...
Bettersten Wade speaks to the attendees of her son Dexter Wade's funeral service in Jackson, Miss. Monday, Nov. 20, 2023. Looking on are the Rev. Al Sharpton, right, who delivered the eulogy, civil rights attorney Ben Crump, background, and one of her son's daughters, Jaselyn Thomas. Bettersten ...
A mother will search anywhere for her missing child. And while she has the strength, she will never stop./ For four days Kareema Elras has moved through the noise, dust and overpowering stench of the mass graves at Nasser hospital./ She is the mother of 21-year-old Ahmed, who was killed on 25 ...