and the parliamentary speaker a Shia Muslim. Salam’s nomination to form a new government comes after a two-year political vacuum, during which Lebanon struggled with political divisions and ...

and the parliamentary speaker a Shi’ite Muslim. Salam’s Sunni background satisfies this criterion, but his lack of support from Shi’ite lawmakers is a hurdle he will need to overcome to form ...

Salam is widely viewed as a reformist. He is a Sunni Muslim – the only sect allowed the position of prime minister – and was a candidate for the premiership twice before in recent years.

The parliament speaker, meanwhile, must be a Shi'ite Muslim. Salam presided over the court hearings in the ICJ called by South Africa against Israel last year, which alleged that Israel was ...

the prime minister should be a Sunni Muslim and the house speaker should be a Shiite Muslim. Salam, a jurist who served as Lebanon's permanent representative to the U.N. from 2007 to 2017 ...

Yet, by giving AI a religious framework like Islam, developers are not merely programming a set of guidelines. They are imposing a belief system, one that may have profound, even uncontrollable ...

Salam, who is 71 years old, is a member of a prominent Sunni Muslim family from Beirut. His uncle, Saeb Salam, was one of the country’s leaders who fought for independence from France ...

Islamabad, Pakistan (Reuters) — Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai urged Muslim leaders on Sunday to back efforts to make gender apartheid a crime under international law, and called on ...

Prominent Lebanese diplomat and judge Nawaf Salam was named PM-designate on Monday after he won sweeping support from legislators, as Hezbollah accused some parties of "staging an ambush aimed at ...