Lebanese presidential elections must be free of violence and foreign interference, the U.N. Security Council said Thursday, joining an international chorus pressuring the Arab country's rival political forces to advance a process whose delay could split Lebanon apart.
(RTTNews) - Thursday, the United Nations Security Council called for a free and fair presidential election without foreign interference in Lebanon, the council's French presidency said.
Jim Muir reflects on Lebanon's political crises - past and present - as the deadline for electing a new president approaches.
The United Nations Security Council has called on Lebanon to hold presidential elections as scheduled on October 23, amid fears of a deadlock between the government and opposition.
UNITED NATIONS (AP)--Lebanese presidential elections must be free and fair and held in a climate free of foreign interference, the U.N. Security Council said Thursday, joining an international chorus pressuring the Arab country's rival political forces to advance a process whose delay could split Lebanon apart.
The United Nations Security Council has called on Lebanon's parliament to hold presidential elections as scheduled next month in "an atmosphere free of violence, fear, and intimidation."
Sept. 27 (Bloomberg) -- United Nations troops monitoring the year-old cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah used to patrol southern Lebanon's stony hills on foot, going without helmets as they mingled with local residents in markets and tea shops.
LEBANON — Bragging rights are tough to come by at the Bonny house. Just ask Bekah Bonny, a striker for the Lebanon High School girls soccer team. • Her father Chip and uncle Jeff Schulte played football at Yale.
Lebanon has launched a surprise bid to extradite crime tsar Tony Mokbel.
LEBANON — Bragging rights are tough to come by at the Bonny house.