Beirut - All the prisoners and the remains of the Lebanese and Arab fighters arrived from Israel within the last 2 days . The focus today will be on the burial of all the remains of the Hezbollah and Arab
Beirut / Paris - MP Nabil Nicola on Friday protested against a request by French authorities to take off his shoes at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris
Ein El Helweh - Two men were killed and four wounded on Saturday evening during clashes between Fatah and Jund el Sham in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein El Helweh in south Lebanon
Beirut / New York - The independent United Nations team tasked with assessing the monitoring of the Lebanese border with Syria has begun its second mission to Lebanon, it was announced today.
Beirut / Jerusalem - A high-ranking Israeli security source has advised Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah not to go out from hiding, a day after a similar threat was made against released prisoner Samir Qantar.
Beirut - The focus today and until Thursday will be the ministerial statement that the cabinet will present to the parliament to secure the vote of confidence . According to reports circulating in Beirut the statement will be drafted by
Rib-eye steaks, eel wraps and lentil salads are not often found on the same menu. The combination, though, oddly befits a place with an American-French-Belgian chef who lives in Lebanon. Market, a recently revamped restaurant near Monot Street in Beirut,
Just in the time for the summer holiday season, the Municipality of Beirut and ASSABIL - the Friends of Public Libraries Association - inaugurated a third municipal public library in the Monnot neighborhood of the capital on Friday. The new
They are all over Beirut these days: signs and posters that say "addict but not criminal" in a graffiti motif. The posters are part of a campaign, funded by USAID and Amideast, that began on June 26 - World Drug
The Defense Ministry said Friday a group of 359 South Korean troops will head to Lebanon in two batches during July to replace all of Seoul's forces stationed there as part of UN peacekeeping operations. The move will mark the
The members of Kaslik's Holy Spirit University choir returned to Lebanon from Jordan Thursday. Among them were the four members who were wounded Wednesday when an individual opened fire on their bus in Amman after a concert Wednesday evening. A
Head of the Internal Security Forces Brigadier General Ashraf Rifi ordered on Friday the temporary withdrawal of all state-provided bodyguards and members of security protection mandated with guarding political, religious and social figures.
Newly appointed Energy and Water Minister Alan Tabourian plans to propose raising electricity charges for above-average consumers. The minister, who officially took over his new responsibilities on Thursday, said the government is losing a lot of money because of its
Lebanese political leaders on Friday turned their attention toward the drafting of a ministerial statement for a newly formed national-unity government, with ministers across the board expressing hope that a platform can be put together quickly after a 40-day state
Senior Shiite cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah said on Friday that the new Cabinet should be committed to national unity where all "personal and sectarian ambitions give way to the ambition of building a new country." In his weekly Friday
MP Nabil Nicholas on Friday protested against a request by French authorities to take off his shoes at Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport. A statement by Nicholas's office said that during a short stopover in Paris, the MP who is
Lebanese judges held a strike on Friday to protest against what the Higher Judicial Council has repeatedly described as "unjustified attacks" against judiciary authorities in the country. The strike forced the suspension of all judicial activity in Lebanon on Friday
Thousands of people attended a memorial service in Beirut on Friday for eight Hizbullah fighters killed in the summer 2006 war and whose bodies were returned to Lebanon two days earlier. Some 5,000 people gathered in a convention hall in
Freed fighter Samir Kontar voiced a hint of admiration for Israel during an interview with Hizbullah's Al-Manar television on Thursday, saying that "we envy" the Jewish state's "care for their hostages. "To tell you the truth, we envy our enemies,
