Left-wing ex-Education Minister Benoit Hamon and ex-PM Manuel Valls will contest a run-off to become the Socialist candidate in France’s presidential election in April. It was clear the pair would advance from a field of seven after half the votes were counted in Sunday’s primary. The run-off will be held ...
Two days earlier, the Lebanese security agencies managed to foil a suicide attack in Beirut’s Hamra. Army and security forces arrested a man wearing an explosive belt as he was planning to blow himself up in Costa café in the main street in Hamra. Lebanese daily al-Akhbar narrates what happened ...
