Lebanon’s Aoun defends envoy as complaint over alleged Israeli contact is dismissed: Lebanese media

LONDON: Lebanese President Joseph Aoun on Thursday defended the country’s ambassador to Washington after a lawyer filed a complaint against her over an unconfirmed report that she had contacted her Israeli counterpart, according to the Lebanese newspaper Annahar. Judge Claude Ghanem, the state commissioner to the military court, decided to dismiss the complaint against Ambassador Nada Hamadeh Moawad, Lebanese broadcaster MTV reported on Thursday. Aoun questioned the media’s handling of the alleg