The Lebanese parliament approved the country’s 2020 budget on Monday, in an unprecedented session that revealed the true extent of the state of confusion in Beirut. The governments of former Prime Minister Saad Hariri, which drafted the budget, and current Prime Minister Hassan Diab, did not attend the budget debate, with Diab stating his government had “not yet won the confidence of Parliament, and has no right to retrieve the ...
![Lebanese supporters of the Mostaqbal Movement bloc light candles during a vigil as others holds pictures of former Lebanese premier Rafiq Harir and his son former prime minister Saad Hariri in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/000_Nic6285942.jpg?itok=b9RWpygN "Lebanese supporters of the Mostaqbal Movement bloc light candles during a vigil as others holds pictures of former Lebanese premier Rafiq Harir and his son former prime minister Saad Hariri in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon. [AFP]")
![Although the Special Tribunal for Lebanon has been heralded as a watershed moment for international justice, many in the country say they have very little faith in the U.N.-backed court. [ijhl]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/STL.jpg?itok=-SJb_Byb "Although the Special Tribunal for Lebanon has been heralded as a watershed moment for international justice, many in the country say they have very little faith in the U.N.-backed court. [ijhl]")
