The following are a selection of stories from Lebanese newspapers that may be of interest to Daily Star readers. The Daily Star cannot vouch for the accuracy of these reports.
Al-Joumhouria
Obama dispatches Kerry to region to form anti-ISIS alliance
Diplomatic efforts intensified Thursday to stop the advance by ISIS militants who have killed dozens of Syrian soldiers in captivity trying to withdraw from the perimeter of Tabqa airfield in the Raqqa province.
U.S. President Barack Obama has dispatched Secretary of State John Kerry to the Middle East to build a regional alliance to confront terrorist like ISIS.
Meanwhile, Interior Minister Nouhad Machnouk told Al-Joumhouria that he would visit Gen. Michel Aoun to discuss the “serious situation” in Arsal.
Al-Mustaqbal
Berri stands united ‘in Cabinet’ with electricity contract workers
Prime Minister Tammam Salam touched upon the electricity issue during a Cabinet meeting Thursday, highlighting the negative impact of the protests of electricity contract workers on the electric utility.
Ministerial sources said Transportation Minister Ghazi Zeaiter, member of Speaker Nabih Berri’s parliamentary bloc, expressed his solidarity with the contract workers during the Cabinet meeting.
“We have to apply the law, which provides for making these contract workers full-time employees and close this case," Zeaiter was quoted as telling the Cabinet.
Change and Reform bloc member, Energy Minister Artur Nazarian, reiterated his coalition’s rejection of the contract workers’ demands.
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