When widow Salam Hassoun and her three children left their home in Beirut's southern suburbs on the third day of the summer 2006 war with Israel, she did not know it would be for the last time. Israeli bombs displaced

The Mabarrat Foundation honored 300 university graduates in a special ceremony held on Tuesday at the Imamayn Hassanayn Mosque in Haret Hreik under the auspices of senior Shiite cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah. Mabarrat, a charitable association that provides for

The release of Nassim Nisr, a man of Lebanese origin who has also held Israeli citizenship for a number of years, will be put on hold for another week or so, according to reports published Tuesday by the Israeli daily

The Provincial Council of Barcelona and the United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), in cooperation with the Technical Office of Lebanese Cities and the Tyre municipality, held a conference in the southern city of Tyre on Tuesday with the aim

Israeli officials are extremely concerned about Hizbullah's growing strength in South Lebanon, Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz told US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Monday. Hizbullah controls southern Lebanon and enjoys a "complete hold" over the area, Mofaz said.

The establishment of the UN tribunal to try suspects in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has moved one step closer, as the UN announced on Tuesday that the tribunal's registrar was formally taking office this week. As

Parliamentary majority leader MP Saad Hariri said on Tuesday that he was certain a new Lebanese president would be elected on May 13. bSpeaking after a meeting with Prime Minister Fouad Siniora, Hariri also said he had no objections to

Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Butros Sfeir shed light on Tuesday on the emigration problem plaguing Lebanon, saying that the phenomenon was almost the same as what has occurred in Palestine. "Things have become clear between Lebanon and Palestine and the problem

Prime Minister Fouad Siniora presided over an unofficial cabinet meeting on Tuesday to discuss the possibility of raising the minimum wage, and two participants said some ministers proposed a LL100,000 increase alongside a LL50,000 transportation allowance. A cabinet spokesman said.

Members of the Bint Jbeil municipality and Italian representatives celebrated the launching of the newly constructed meeting center of the municipality on Tuesday. The center was funded by Italian Embassy, through the Italian Cooperation Office, and the Humanitarian Organization for

Seven Syrians and one Lebanese were sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for smuggling drugs through Lebanon after being busted at a port in Beirut, according to a judicial report issued on Tuesday. Primary investigative magistrate in Beirut, Abdel-Karim

The UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) on Tuesday denied charges of bias circulating in the Lebanese and Israeli press since a UN patrol was intercepted by unidentified gunmen on March 30. In response to the Israeli daily Haaretz's coverage

The US Embassy on Tuesday invited Lebanese secondary school teachers to train in the US with the aim of developing their skills. An embassy statement said interested teachers were invited to "apply for a scholarship to develop expertise in their