
Lebanese Premier Saad Hariri will arrive in France on Saturday and meet President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace, the French presidency said Thursday. Hariri, who announced his resignation as Lebanon’s prime minister during a visit to Saudi Arabia, is travelling to France at the invitation of the French government ...

Scrutinizing the resignations submitted by Lebanon’s prime ministers Najib Miqati in 2013 and Saad Hariri in 2017 leads the observers to follow the relation between such moves and the Lebanese oil excavation project. Directly after Hariri’s resignation, Lebanon’s foreign minister wondered, via Twitter, whether it is a coincidence that the ...