BEIRUT: Lebanon’s parliament approved on Thursday the government’s 2018 budget, which projects a previously stated deficit of $4.8 billion, slightly reduced from 2017.
Fifty lawmakers voted in favor, two against, and 11 abstained, according to a count in the parliament session.
Lebanon’s government, one of the most indebted in the world, has been under pressure to show it is willing to institute fiscal reforms before an international donor meeting in April. Last year, it passed Lebanon’s first budget since 2005, after years of wrangling between rival parties had all but halted political activity.
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Lebanon’s parliament approves 2018 state budget after lawmakers vote
Lebanon’s parliament approves 2018 state budget after lawmakers vote
Netanyahu says Israeli strikes have killed top nuclear scientists
- Netanyahu denounced Iran’s new supreme leader as a “puppet of the Revolutionary Guards”
DUBAI: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israeli attacks have killed top Iranian nuclear scientists.
Speaking Thursday night at a news conference, Netanyahu denounced Iran’s new supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, as a “puppet of the Revolutionary Guards” who cannot appear in public. And he addressed the Iranian people, saying the moment for a “new path of freedom” was approaching and that Israel stands with them.
“But at the end of the day, it depends on you. It is in your hands,” he said.
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