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...Judicial sources have confirmed that Oueidat, along with Lebanon’s former prime minister Hassan Diab and its domestic intelligence chief Abbas Ibrahim, was among those summoned by Bitar for questioning....
...Hizbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has accused Judge Tarek Bitar of being politicised and demanded his dismissal....
...The explosion felled the government led by Prime Minister Hassan Diab....
...Slim’s killing “bodes very ill”, said Sami Nader, director of the Levant Institute for Strategic Affairs, who saw Slim last week, describing it as “a message for the opponents in the Shia community”....
...“I discovered that the system of corruption is bigger than the state,” Hassan Diab, prime minister, said in an address, blaming resistance by entrenched political elites for his lack of reforms....
...Lebanon’s participation in the process signalled an attempted “opening up” towards the US by Hizbollah and Amal, the two powerful Shia Lebanese parties, both seen as Iranian clients, said Sami Nader, director...
...The explosion — which prime minister Hassan Diab on Tuesday night linked to a “dangerous warehouse” storing highly explosive ammonium nitrate for at least six years — has destroyed the port and Beirut’s...
...“All the political establishment are going to be behind the curtain trying to move things around, like we saw with [Hassan] Diab the previous prime minister,” said Mr Atallah....
...Prime minister Hassan Diab’s team has been in power since January, after mass protests toppled the previous government....
...The administration, led by Hassan Diab, remains as caretakers....
...Those measures have disproportionately affected ordinary Lebanese, according to Sami Atallah, director of the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies....
...The cabinet, led by newly appointed Prime Minister Hassan Diab, will meet on Saturday to decide whether or not to pay a $1.2bn Eurobond repayment on March 9....
...Prime minister Hassan Diab has said that Lebanon will not be able to pay a $1.2bn Eurobond that matures on Monday as the country’s economic crisis deepens....
...Hizbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, has insinuated that the protests have in part been stirred by foreign interference. He called on the government to remain in power....
...Hizbollah has shown signs of financial distress, with its leader Hassan Nasrallah making a rare appeal to supporters for donations....
...Sami Nader, a professor of political science at Lebanon’s St. Joseph University, said the concept of boundaries is no longer holding. “The concept of state is outdated....
...As if to press Mr Assad's point, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the Hizbollah chief who had stayed on the sidelines in the dispute between the opposition and the government, on Sunday met other pro-Syrian groups...
...“In 1996, the PA told us they were going to turn the country into Singapore,” said Sami Shaath, a university teacher and Barghouti supporter. “Instead of Singapore, we got Somalia.”...
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