Lebanon’s top Christian cleric slams failed attempt to elect a president
Beirut, LebanonReuters Lebanon’s top Christian cleric said on Sunday the constitution and democratic system had been violated in “cold blood” during a failed attempt to elect a new president last week, and warned that divisions in the nation had widened. Patriarch Bechara Boutros al-Rai spoke in his first sermon since the Iran-backed Shi’ite group Hezbollah […]
Aoun’s presidency ends leaving power vacuum in crisis-hit Lebanon
Baabda, LebanonReuters Michel Aoun, the 89-year-old Christian President who presided over Lebanon’s cataclysmic financial meltdown and the deadly Beirut port blast, left the presidential palace on Sunday with his term ending, leaving a void at the top of a failing state. Parliament has so far been unable to agree on a successor in the role, […]