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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Laila Bassam |Maya Gebeily
Laila Bassam and Maya GebeilyTue, April 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM UTC3 min readBy Laila Bassam and Maya GebeilyBEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanese officials hope to meet international bondholders to talk about restructuring debt in the next 12 months but are not planning any meetings at the World Bank/IMF Spring meetings next week, finance minister Yassin Jaber said on Tuesday.
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2 weeks ago | 
independent.ie | Laila Bassam
Lebanese leader Joseph Aoun plans talks over group’s arsenal, sources saysAs calls for Lebanon’s Hezbollah to disarm gain momentum, a senior official said the group is ready to hold talks with the Lebanese president about its weapons if Israel withdraws from south Lebanon and stops its strikes.
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2 weeks ago | 
businesslive.co.za | Laila Bassam |Tom Perry |Maya Gebeily
Support our award-winning journalism. The Premium package (digital only) is R30 for the first month and thereafter you pay R129 p/m now ad-free for all subscribers. A woman uses a phone as she walks past debris at the site of an Israeli airstrike in Beirut.
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2 weeks ago | 
marketscreener.com | Laila Bassam |Tom Perry |Maya Gebeily
BEIRUT (Reuters) -As calls for Lebanon's Hezbollah to disarm gain momentum, a senior Hezbollah official told Reuters the group is ready to hold talks with the Lebanese president about its weapons if Israel withdraws from south Lebanon and stops its strikes.
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2 weeks ago | 
japantimes.co.jp | Laila Bassam |Maya Gebeily
As calls for Lebanon's Hezbollah to disarm gain momentum, a senior Hezbollah official said the group is ready to hold talks with the Lebanese president about its weapons if Israel withdraws from south Lebanon and stops its strikes. U.S.-backed President Joseph Aoun, who vowed when he took office in January to establish a state monopoly on the control of arms, intends to open talks with Hezbollah over its arsenal soon, three Lebanese political sources said.
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2 weeks ago | 
kfgo.com | Laila Bassam |Tom Perry |Maya Gebeily
By Laila Bassam, Tom Perry and Maya GebeilyBEIRUT (Reuters) – As calls for Lebanon’s Hezbollah to disarm gain momentum, a senior Hezbollah official told Reuters the group is ready to hold talks with the Lebanese president about its weapons if Israel withdraws from south Lebanon and stops its strikes.
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2 weeks ago | 
ground.news | Laila Bassam |Tom Perry |Maya Gebeily
Hezbollah signals readiness to disarm—if Israel withdraws, Hezbollah official saysA senior Hezbollah official made a dramatic statement outlining the conditions under which the Shiite terror group would agree to discuss disarmament and the transfer of its weapons to the Lebanese army; President Aoun is expected to begin talks, after consulting the parliament speaker, a close Hezbollah ally, and ruling out using force
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2 weeks ago | 
usnews.com | Laila Bassam |Maya Gebeily
By Laila Bassam and Maya GebeilyBEIRUT (Reuters) - A Lebanese judge published a new court decision in the charges against former central bank chief Riad Salameh for embezzlement of public funds, according to a copy of the decision seen by Reuters on Tuesday, paving the way for an indictment.
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3 weeks ago | 
independent.ie | Maya Gebeily |Laila Bassam |James Mackenzie
Israeli airstrike on Beirut increases pressure on shaky ceasefireA woman walks past damaged vehicles in the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon, yesterday. Photo: ReutersMaya Gebeily, Laila Bassam and James MackenzieToday at 03:30An Israeli airstrike killed four people including a Hezbollah official in Beirut’s southern suburbs yesterday, a Lebanese security source said, further testing a shaky ceasefire between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah.
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3 weeks ago | 
uk.marketscreener.com | Maya Gebeily |Laila Bassam |James Mackenzie
BEIRUT/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -An Israeli airstrike killed four people including a Hezbollah official in Beirut's southern suburbs on Tuesday, a Lebanese security source said, further testing a shaky ceasefire between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah. The Israeli military said the official - Hassan Bdeir - was a member of a Hezbollah unit and Iran's Quds Force, and he had assisted the Palestinian group Hamas in planning a "significant and imminent terror attack against Israeli civilians".
