American presidential elections - even if nothing more than a Dukakis or Dole drubbing - are perpetually billed as the most important in recent years, if not ever. This November's will be no different, except for the fact that it
Reports of a rising incidence of cancer now worry many families across Lebanon. Over the past 40 years, reported cases of cancer have risen from 3,000 to about 8,000 a year, although population growth has played a role in the
Jezzine's hotels will fully booked with visitors until the end of the year as the southern region will receive some 150,000 tourists, Saeed Abu Akl, president of Jezzine's Municipalities Union said on Tuesday.
The US Embassy held a question-and-answer roundtable with reporters from various Lebanese newspapers on Tuesday to discuss "facts and myths" about the US visa application process. Kirk Smith, the consul, ran the session with public affairs officer Cherie Lenzen.According to
The Higher Relief Council (HRC) has finished the paperwork to rebuild 619 residential units in South Lebanon that were damaged or destroyed during the summer 2006 war, according to a statement released on Tuesday. "Since 2006, the council has finished
July 20 (Bloomberg) -- Barack Obama , the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, said today that U.S. combat troops should be shifted to Afghanistan from Iraq.
Barack Obama has paid his first visit to Iraq, just as the Iraqi government explicitly matched the Democratic presidential candidate's 16-month timetable for the removal of American combat troops.
The woman standing on a busy street in Beirut's Dikwaneh district gives Najib Shoufani an earful: she is none too happy that a delivery truck has put a nasty scrape on her 2008 Dodge Caliber. Shoufani is sympathetic, but brief:
Political analysts and security sources in Lebanon are viewing recent violence in Lebanon's biggest and most lawless Palestinian refugee camp, Ain al-Hilweh, as tied to the developments of the region. Clashes broke out late Saturday between Islamist group Jund al-Sham
Hizbullah has identified 157 fighters whose bodies Israel returned in a prisoner swap with the Lebanese resistance group. Hizbullah says DNA tests identified the nationalities of the fighters. Among the 157 were Lebanese, Palestinian, Syrian, Jordanian and Libyan, a Kuwaiti
It's not easy practicing Judaism in Beirut where the synagogue is crumbling, the rabbis have left, the community is dwindling and where Jews are commonly branded "Israelis." The last vestiges of the Jewish community in Lebanon, the Magen Abraham synagogue
Residents of a neighborhood called "the Popular Quarter" in the Southern port city of Tyre will no longer suffer from dreadful odors emanating from a nearby polluted river, into which sewage from several surrounding villages is dumped. "A project has
