French President Nicolas Sarkozy speaks during a joint press conference with his Egyptian counterpart Hosni Mubarak in Cairo, December 30. Syria is unwilling to put pressure on its Lebanon allies in the crisis that has left it without a president for over a month, Information Minister Mohsen Bilal said in comments published on Monday.

  

An accident caused the Lebanon Post Office to close in mid-December. Now it's uncertain if it will permanently re-open.

  

Syria is unwilling to put pressure on its Lebanon allies in the crisis that has left it without a president for over a month, Information Minister Mohsen Bilal said in comments published on Monday.

  

France is breaking off diplomatic contacts with Syria amid tensions over Lebanon's presidential election. French President Nicolas Sarkozy Monday said the links would be restored only if Syria could prove it was not trying to manipulate the vote. Sarkozy ...

  

A top aide to the French president telephoned Syria's foreign minister on Monday, a day after Nicholas Sarkozy announced suspension of diplomatic contacts with Syria over its role in Lebanon.

  

Information minister says the Elysee has twice contacted Syrian FM despite Sarkozy's threat.

  

How do you evaluate Lebanese-Yemeni relations, and what is being done to strengthen them' We can say that since the dawn of history, relations between the North and the South of the Arab region have been very cordial, regardless of any political barriers.

  

Iran - Lebanon - Al Hoss Lebanese former Prime Minister Salim al-Hoss said Monday that Iran never poses a threat to the Arab states of the Persian Gulf.

  

BEIRUT (AFP)--Syria is unwilling to put pressure on its Lebanon allies in the crisis that has left it without a president for over a month, Information Minister Mohsen Bilal said in comments published Monday.

  

Through hunger strikes and protests, militant inmates in Morocco have won perks - including use of the conjugal rooms - that make them the envy of the other inmates.

  

Lebanese singer Najwa Karam reached an agreement with production company 'Rotana' to film a video clip for the second song from her latest album, 'Haida Haki' (Is This the Talk). The new clip will be directed by Fadi Haddad from Lebanon, a deviation from Najwas' last three successful clips filmed under Lebanese director Al Marooq.

  

Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, has told staff to suspend diplomatic contacts with Syria until Paris has proof that Damascus is working for a consensus president in Lebanon.

  

Through hunger strikes and protests, militant inmates in Morocco have won perks including use of the conjugal rooms that make them the envy of the other inmates.

  

What may seem elementary in the West is still catching on in much of the Arab world. But blogging is definitely becoming the medium of choice.

  

France will have no more contact with Syria until Damascus shows willingness to let Lebanon end its long-running political crisis...

  

The year 2007 will not soon, if ever, be remembered as a good one for Lebanon and the Lebanese. The country and its people have spent the past 12 months in the shadow of assassinations, street clashes, and unsettling political rhetoric. Even with the relative thaw that began in late November.

  

Over the six trading days during the past two holiday weeks, the Beirut Stock Exchange (BSE) mirrored fluctuations on the political scene, as the BLOM stock index increased to 1543.72 on the December 18 only to retreat to 1501.767 on Friday, registering a decline of 0.35 percent from its December 14 close.

  

President Nicolas Sarkozy of France said Sunday that Paris would suspend diplomatic contacts with Syria until Damascus showed its willingness to let Lebanon elect a new president.

  

French President Nicolas Sarkozy says he is suspending diplomatic contacts with Syria because of the political crisis in Lebanon.

  

Larkana, Dec 30 (ANI): The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) on Sunday demanded a UN probe into the assassination of its former Chairman Benazir Bhutto, similar on the lines of an UN inquiry into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. "We would ask assistance from the British Government in this regard to set up a UN probe into it," the newly elected co-chairman ...

  

French President Nicolas Sarkozy sought to reassure Arab states concerned about his strong ties with Israel by asking Israel to make peace gestures, while taking a tough stance with Syria.

  

France will have no more contact with Syria until Damascus shows its willingness to let Lebanon end its current political deadlock and elect a new president, President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Sunday.

  

Mass murderer Osama Bin Laden threatened Saturday to expand his holy war to Israel - vowing "blood for blood, destruction for destruction." The chilling threat came in a 56-minute audiotape posted on the Internet.

  

Syria has agreed to continue providing Lebanon with electricity via its national grid, reported the Syria Arab News Agency. Syria has been supplying Lebanon with power for more than ten years via its Tartous and Al Dimas power plants.

  

Lebanon: The Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (IFI) at the American University of Beirut (AUB) announced that Pulitizer prize winner Washington Post correspondent Anthony Shadid has been appointed as its first resident fellow for the 2007-08 academic year. [AMEInfo.com]

  

TYRE, Lebanon (AFP) A Hamas member was fighting for his life after he was stabbed in the head on Saturday at the Rashidieh refugee camp in Lebanon in an attack which the Palestinian Islamist group blamed on rivals Fatah.

  

According to the London daily Elaph, rising Lebanese star Josef Attyeh, who appeared on the show 'Star Academy,' completed filming his new television drama series produced by Lebanese channel 'LBC.?

  

The television show 'Waqif Ya Zaman' (Stop the Time), aired on the Lebanese 'Future Channel,' is being filmed with a number of celebrities. Iraqi singer Majid Al-Muhandis will appear as this week's guest.

  

The body of the Sri Lankan housemaid Devika Muthulingam (38), which was found near a roadside in Beirut, Lebanon last week will be brought to Sri Lanka after obtaining the relevant contact details of her family members here, Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE), Foreign Relations Manager L. K. Ruhunage said.

  

BEIRUT, Dec 28, 2007 (AFP) - Lebanon's Parliament speaker Nabih Berri has postponed a parliament session to vote for a new president to January 12, his office announced Friday.

  

BEIRUT: Lebanese Forces (LF) boss Samir Geagea said Thursday the opposition was "intentionally" trying to obstruct the elections in order to restore Syrian influence over Lebanon. "Hizbullah wants to revive Syrian influence in Lebanon because it has a plan that needs a cover ...

  

BEIRUT: Lebanon's presidential election was postponed to January 12 from today, the parliament speaker said yesterday, prolonging a power vacuum that threatens to further destabilise the country.

  

Dave Roberts LEBANON - The sixth-seeded Richland High School girls' basketball team opened play in the 12-team Lebanon Tournament by beating 11th-seeded Bakersfield 75-51 Wednesday.

  

The speaker of the Lebanese parliament has postponed for the 11th time the election of a new president.

  

Lebanon's parliament once again announced here Friday a postponement of its session to elect a new president scheduled on Saturday till Jan. 12, 2008. Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri made the announcement in a statement, which is the ...

  

BEIRUT - LEBANON'S Parliament speaker Nabih Berri has postponed a parliament session to vote for a new president from Saturday to Jan 12, his office announced on Friday.

  

As 2008 draws closer and Lebanese begin to tackle preparations for New Year's Eve, The Daily Star hit the streets of Beirut for a glimpse into people's plans for the last big celebration of 2007.Pamela Samaha came to Beirut from Dubai especially for the festivities in Lebanon, however, she cannot go out for New Year's Eve because.

  

Lebanon's parliament speaker Nabih Berri has postponed a parliament session to vote for a new president to January 12, his office announced Friday.

  

BEIRUT - Lebanon's presidential election was postponed to January 12 from Saturday, the parliament speaker said on Friday, prolonging a power vacuum that threatens to further destabilise the country.

  

Beirut - A Lebanese parliament session which was due to pave the way for the army chief to become president was yet again postponed Friday. House Speaker Nabih Berri postponed the session - scheduled for Saturday - until January 12, after the country...

  

Lebanon's presidential election was postponed to January 12 from Saturday, the parliament speaker said on Friday, prolonging a power vacuum that threatens to further destabilize the country.

  

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's presidential election was postponed to January 12 from Saturday, the parliament speaker said on Friday, prolonging a power vacuum that threatens to further destabilize the country.

  

BEIRUT - Lebanon's presidential election was postponed to January 12 from Saturday, the parliament speaker said on Friday, in the 11th delay to the vote.

  

Lebanon's presidential election was postponed to January 12 from Saturday, the parliament speaker said on Friday, in the 11th delay to the vote.

  

Thursday's assassination of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto left the impression that Pakistan was becoming like Lebanon, where politicians opposed to the system were simply blown up and killed.

  

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's presidential election has been postponed from Saturday until the end of next week, a senior political source said on Friday, prolonging a power vacuum that threatens to further destabilise the country.

  

BEIRUT - Lebanon's presidential election has been postponed from Saturday until the end of next week, a senior political source said on Friday, prolonging a power vacuum that threatens to further destabilise the country.

  

The presidential election in Lebanon has been delayed for the eleventh time, and will only take place in Beirut in early January.

  

JERUSALEM, 28 December 2007 (IRIN) - Israel's military advocate-general, Brig-Gen Avihai Mendelblit, has said the military's use of cluster munitions during the conflict in Lebanon in 2006 was in accordance with international humanitarian law.

  

Lebanon's presidential election has been postponed until the end of next week, a senior political source said on Friday, announcing the 11th delay to a vote first due to have been held more than three months ago.

  

BEIRUT (AFP)--Lawmakers from both sides of the political divide in Lebanon said on Friday that this weekend's parliament session to vote for a new president will be postponed in the 11th failed bid to elect a head of state.

  

BEIRUT, Dec 28, 2007 (AFP) - MPs from both sides of the political divide in Lebanon said on Friday that this weekend's parliament session to vote for a new president will be postponed in the 11th failed bid to elect a head of state.

  

BEIRUT (AFP) - MPs from both sides of the political divide in Lebanon said on Friday that this weekend's parliament session to vote for a new president will be postponed in the 11th failed bid to elect a head of state.

  

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's presidential election will be delayed until "the end of next week", a senior political source said on Friday, in what would be the eleventh delay to a vote first scheduled to take place more than three months ago.

  

BEIRUT - Lebanon's presidential election will be delayed until "the end of next week", a senior political source said on Friday.

  

Outnumbered and out-sized, Rossview's girls' basketball team should have had no chance against Lebanon.

  

A Lebanon resident Thursday declared his candidacy for the 2nd Congressional District on the Green Party ticket, saying he is an alternative to established political parties.

  

BEIRUT: The March 14 coalition delivered to Parliament Thursday a petition signed by 13 MPs calling for an emergency session to discuss and ratify an amendment to Article 49 of the Lebanese Constitution.

  

HOLYOKE - In the last 40 years, Rick Golas' journey has taken him from Springfield College to Beirut, Lebanon, Maryland, and finally Holyoke Community College.

  

A Lebanon resident declared his candidacy for the 2nd Congressional District today on the Green Party ticket.

  

Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Butros Sfeir said on Thursday that all Lebanese must work to sow peace and tranquility, while calling on citizens to overcome all of the difficulties they are facing. Sfeir's comments were made during a meeting with a delegation from the diocese of Tyre, who offered Christmas greetings to the patriarch.

  

For the contemporary art scene in Beirut, 2006 was a tough year, as it was for nearly every other sector in the country, creative industries and otherwise. Twelve months ago, few might have guessed that 2007 would be worse. But it was. The opposition protests in Downtown Beirut turned epic. Riots broke out on Black Tuesday.

  

Almost a year and a half has passed since Israeli warplanes bombed the Jiyyeh power plant on the Mediterranean coast south of Beirut, and yet the ongoing clean-up of the ensuing oil spill still provokes almost endless recrimination. Accusations continued to fly this year over last winter's first phase of the clean-up.

  

Lebanese MPs from the ruling majority are to submit a petition seeking a constitutional amendment that would enable the election of army chief Michel Sleiman (seen here in October 2007) as president to end a month-long political vacuum, an MP said.

  

Damascus heads into a new year as the cultural capital of the Arab world for 2008, hosting a year-long series of theatrical and musical events, along with talks by renowned intellectuals.

  

BEIRUT - Lebanese MPs from the ruling majority are to submit a petition on Thursday seeking a constitutional amendment that would enable the election of army chief Michel Sleiman as president to end a month-long political vacuum, an MP said.

  

Beirut - Lebanon's anti-Syrian MPs were set Thursday to submit a petition to seek a constitutional amendment that would allow the election of army chief Michel Suleiman as president. According to the Lebanese constitution the petition should be signe...

  

BEIRUT (AFP)--Lebanese lawmakers from the ruling majority are to submit a petition on Thursday seeking a constitutional amendment that would enable the election of army chief Michel Suleiman as president to end a month-long political vacuum, a lawmaker said.

  

Lebanese MPs from the ruling majority are to submit a petition on Thursday seeking a constitutional amendment that would enable the election of army chief Michel Sleiman as president to end a month-long political vacuum, an MP said.

  

Ace in the hole: A hidden advantage or secret source of power. An American phrase used as the title of a Cole Porter song in the show "Let's...

  

WOODLAND - Lebanon Lakes Volunteer Fire Company plans to purchase 25 new fire suits and additional equipment for its firefighters with the help of a federal grant.

  

Tushar Bhaduri New Delhi, Dec 27 (PTI) With an eye on the 2008 Beijing Olympics, India's top athletes impressed at various continental events in the year which also saw many new faces coming

  

This is the first in a four-part series detailing the risks to American national security if Barack Obama (or Hillary Clinton) should ever choose to let Richard Clarke back into government.

  

With an eye on the 2008 Beijing Olympics, India's top athletes impressed at various continental events in the year which also saw many new faces coming into limelight.

  

BEIRUT: A Gulf oil boom will help Lebanon's economy grow by at least 2.5% next year but the country's full potential remains far from tapped because of political instability, the finance minister has said.

  

A one-day public lecture, aimed at highlighting breakthroughs in the management of Parkinson's Syndrome will hold tomorrow in Port Harcourt.

  

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, seen here on 23 December 2007, does not intend to step down after the full report by a commission of inquiry into the 2006 Lebanon war is published, an MP said on Wednesday the premier told her.

  

The eleventh parliamentary session to elect a new president in Lebanon looks likely to be postponed until January next year, with the opposition rejecting the Cabinet's recent passage of a draft bill to amend the Constitution and calling the move a provocation. MP Ali Bazzi from Speaker Nabih Berri's Development and Liberation bloc, said.

  

Political, religious and social figures flocked to Bkirki Wednesday to offer their Christmas greetings to Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Butros Sfeir. Sfeir also received phone calls from Nazek Hariri, wife of late former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, and Democratic Gathering MP Henri Helou.

  

More than three months after the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) wiped out Fatah al-Islam at the Nahr al-bared Palestinian refugee camp near Tripoli, the whereabouts and true allegiances of the militants group's founder and leader Shaker al-Abssi remain a mystery. LAF sources have said Abssi escaped from Nahr al-Bared.

  

Qatar Telecommunications Co. (Qtel) announced on Wednesday that it would bid for a stake in one of two Lebanese mobile phone firms as part of the former monopoly operator's plans to expand in the Middle East and Asia. But despite the apparent interest in Lebanon's telecom sector, many local NGOs and consumer groups voiced reservations.

  

The layers of treachery are thick in Margaret Lowrie Robertson's gripping debut novel "Season of Betrayal" (Harcourt, $14). Lara McCauley reluctantly follows her boorish correspondent husband, Mac, to Lebanon in 1983, where he is to cover the civil war. Bored and unhappy, she forms a friendship with Thomas, a mysterious Polish journalist rumored to be a spy.

  

The Lebanon High School women's basketball team outdid class 4A Sweet Home 61-23 in a non-league contest Dec. 18. 'I think they're a team in transition,' said head coach Mardy Benedict of Sweet Home. 'They played hard. They challenged us early in the game.?

  

A 24-year-old Lebanon man required emergency surgery for a stab wound, and a 28-year-old Lebanon woman was injured in a fight shortly after midnight Tuesday on the 500 block of Walnut Street, according to Lebanon city police.

  

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Lebanon Airport is set to end the year more than $600,000 in the red, but its interim manager has some new ideas he thinks will bring the state's least-known commercial airport back to prosperity.

  

BEIRUT, Dec 26 - Below is a table of the latest Lebanese economic statistics.

  

This year has been quite grim for Lebanese retailers. As Lebanon's stability was shaken by the July war with Israel in 2006, further problems, including the opposition's permanent protest movement, recent security problems and fighting in Nahr al-Bared, all took a heavy toll on Lebanese companies.

  

The Lebanese opposition on Tuesday rejected as unconstitutional draft legislation drawn up by the government aimed at ending deep divisions over the choice of the country's next president.

  

BEIRUT, Dec 25, 2007 (AFP) - The Lebanese opposition on Tuesday rejected as unconstitutional draft legislation drawn up by the government aimed at ending deep divisions over the choice of the country's next president.

  

Iran - FM - Comments Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini on Tuesday commented on latest developments in Lebanon and the reported visit to Iran of French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

  

Lebanon remained in limbo on Saturday after the 10th postponement of a vote to fill the vacant presidency, as the rift widens between the pro-Western ruling parliamentary majority and Syrian-backed opposition.

  

BEIRUT - Lebanon limps into 2008 after a year of damaging political turmoil and assassinations that have dampened the economy and left the presidency vacant for weeks.

  

Israel's use of cluster bombs during the Second Lebanon War was in accordance with international law, Israeli army's Advocate General Avichai Mendelblit said in a ruling published on Monday. Accordingly, army officers who ordered th ...

  

The Lebanese government on Monday wrote down a bill amending the constitution that paves the way for electing Army Commander Gen. Michel Suleiman for the president of the country. The government also approved a motion for an extraor ...

  

Dan Halutz, the Israeli army chief who resigned over perceived failures of last year's Lebanon war, seen here in 2006, was decorated on Monday for his role in the conflict, the army said.

  

JERUSALEM (AP) -- The Israeli army on Monday said it will not press charges against officers who ordered the use of cluster bombs during last year's war in Lebanon, brushing off international criticism that the weapons unnecessarily put Lebanese civilians at risk.

  

JERUSALEM - Israeli military prosecutors have decided not to take any legal action over Israel's use of cluster bombs during last year's war in Lebanon, the army said Monday, closing an investigation into a practice that has drawn heavy criticism from the United Nations and international human rights groups. Lebanon quickly rejected the decision.

  

An army commando walks past a poster of Lebanese army chief and presidential candidate General Michel Sleiman in Beirut, December 17. Lebanon's government has drafted a draft law for a constitutional amendment to elect Sleiman as president in a country which has been without a head of state for a month.

  

Dan Halutz, the Israeli army chief who resigned over perceived failures of last year's Lebanon war, was decorated on Monday for his role in the conflict, the army said.

  

Source: Reuters JERUSALEM, Dec 24 (Reuters) - Israel did not break international law with its use of cluster bombs in last year's war in Lebanon, an Israeli army investigation released on Monday said in a finding ...

  

JERUSALEM - Israeli military prosecutors have concluded that the country's use of cluster bombs during last year's war in Lebanon was legal under international law, military officials said Monday.

  

Lebanon's government drafted on Monday a draft law for a constitutional amendment to elect army chief Michel Sleiman as president in a country which has been without a head of state for a month.

  

The game of political poker which has been going on for six months has begun to unveil its occult aspects.

  

JERUSALEM (AFP)--Dan Halutz, the Israeli army chief who resigned over perceived failures of last year's Lebanon war, was decorated on Monday for his role in the conflict, the army said.

  

Lebanon city officials who were told in April that a police officer fired shots while on duty, apparently wounding a woman during a car chase and missing her infant child by inches, decided not to publicly disclose the shooting, the Lebanon Daily Record has reported. City Administrator Joe Knapp and Police Chief Sam Mustard last week acknowledged to a Lebanon reporter that the city's official ...

  

How would you describe relations between Lebanon and Indonesia, and between Indonesia and the wider Arab world' Relations between Indonesia and Lebanon are excellent and are indeed at their best. This is because our relations are based on mutual respect and solidarity.

  

The second anniversary of the martyrdom of journalist Gibran Tueni was marked on December 9, 2007 at the BIEL Center in Beirut at a ceremony attended by hundreds of guests from the political, diplomatic and journalistic fields, among them Ghassan Tueni, father of Gibran, and his family.

  

Beirut - Lebanon's Western-backed government on Monday approved a bill to amend the constitution to allow army commander General Michel Suleiman to be elected president, despite heavy opposition from the Syrian-backed camp. According to Information M...

  

BEIRUT - Lebanon's government drafted a law on Monday to amend the constitution to allow the army chief to become president, but the opposition condemned the move and said it would intensify the country's political deadlock.

  

Lebanon's government drafted a law on Monday to amend the constitution to allow the army chief to become president, but the opposition condemned the move and said it would intensify the country's political deadlock.

  

DUBAI, Dec 24 - Emirates Telecommunications Corp said on Monday it was considering a bid to take over one of two Lebanese mobile phone firms that the government has said it wants to sell for as much as $7 billion.

  

Information minister accuses US of hampering Syrian-French efforts to end Lebanon's political crisis.

  

BEIRUT: Local politicians dismissed on Sunday a French offer to host a meeting between Speaker Nabih Berri, parliamentary majority leader MP Saad Hariri and Change and Reform bloc leader MP Michel Aoun. France had made the offer over the weekend to host the inter-Lebanese dialogue in a last-ditch effort to resolve the political crisis and elect a president.

  

Recently, Lebanese singer/actress Madeline Matar agreed to star in the new film 'Kithbah O Qalibat Jad' (A Lie Became True). The film is directed by Akram Farid and it will be starring Hasan Husni and Majdi Kamel. The film will be produced by Al Sabki production.

  

Lebanese women journalists have proved resilient, and a new crop of reporters and bloggers are following in their predecessors' footsteps in a profession that is being re-defined by the day.

  

Lebanese, both Christian and Muslim, are preparing to celebrate their end of year holidays under the shadow of the country's worst crisis since the 1975-1990 Civil War. As Muslims began celebrating Eid al-Adha, or the Feast of the Sacrifice, and Christians prepared for Christmas, Beirut streets were choked with traffic.

  

Iranian foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Saturday that since the outbreak of the political deadlock in Lebanon, Iran has voiced its support for national consensus as the only way to put an end to the crisis. He said the atmosphere of understanding forged in the recent weeks among various Lebanese groups to choose.

  

On a wrinkled white sheet lies a battered book with its pages ripped out -- a war-ravaged fragment of Iraq's glorious cultural past that symbolises modern-day Baghdad to Iraqi artist Kassem Sabti.

  

Beirut - 23 December 2007: Splendor Telecom, has recently launched Ahwar Messenger, the first all-in-one Internet solution designed to provide the Arab community with a perfect online experience.

  

Iran - Lebanon - FM Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Saturday that since the outbreak of the current crisis in Lebanon, Iran has voiced its support for national consensus as the only way to come out of the political crisis.

  

The American University of Beirut (AUB) has established the Michael Atiyah Chair in Mathematical Sciences in the faculty of arts and sciences. The new position has been funded by a donation of $2m by the Simons Foundation and it is hoped it will attract leading professors and researchers.

  

WEST CHESTER' Lebanon won its second straight game since the return of senior Derek Hellemann, holding off Lakota West 71-66 on Saturday night. Hellemann scored a game-high 27 points and grabbed 11 rebounds to lead the Warriors, who improved to 2-4 on the season.

  

BAHRAIN national soccer team's friendly matches against Lebanon and China have been cancelled, according to Bahrain Football Association general secretary Ahmed Jassim.

  

President Bush meets with former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in June 2001 at the White House.

  

Lebanon's two main rival political blocs have been unable to overcome their difference to elect a new president. The political gridlock has gone on for the last year, and the situation has gotten worse in recent months.

  

A Lebanese commando guards a street in Beirut, 17 December 2007. Lebanon remained in limbo after the 10th postponement of a vote to fill the vacant presidency as the rift widens between the pro-Western ruling parliamentary majority and the Syrian-backed opposition.

  

BEIRUT (AFP)--Lebanon remained in limbo on Saturday after the 10th postponement of a vote to fill the vacant presidency, as the rift widens between the pro-Western ruling parliamentary majority and Syrian-backed opposition.

  

BEIRUT (AFP) - Lebanon remained in limbo on Saturday after the 10th postponement of a vote to fill the vacant presidency as the rift widens between the pro-Western ruling parliamentary majority and the Syrian-backed opposition.

  

Speaker of Lebanon's parliament postpones presidential election session until December 29.

  

BEIRUT: Hezbollah said yesterday a proposal by US President George W Bush for Lebanon's Western-backed governing coalition to elect a new president unilaterally was a threat to the country's stability.

  

Lebanon: Lebanon's Finance Minister Jihad Azour has said an ongoing oil boom in the Gulf will help its own economy grow by about 2.5% next year, reported Reuters. Azour warned, however, that high oil and commodity prices will contribute to keeping inflation at around the 4% mark. He added that the country's political instability had meant growth of up to 8% had been clipped to around 3% this year. [AMEInfo.com]

  

Lebanese parliament speaker Nabih Berri's office announced on Friday night that the presidential election slated for Saturday was postponed again to Dec. 29, the tenth time in three months. The Parliamentary session for electing a n ...

  

The Presidential election in Lebanon has been postponed for the tenth time.

  

BEIRUT (Reuters) - A Lebanese presidential election scheduled for Saturday has been postponed until Dec. 29, the parliament speaker said on Friday, the tenth delay to the vote.

  

A Lebanese commando walks past a poster of Lebanese army chief and presidential candidate General Michel Sleiman in Beirut, 17 December 2007. The speaker of Lebanon's parliament has again postponed, this time until December 29, a session that had been set for Saturday to elect a new president, his office said on Friday night.

  

BEIRUT - THE speaker of Lebanon's parliament has again postponed, this time until Dec 29, a session that had been set for Saturday to elect a new president, his office said on Friday night.

  

BEIRUT: Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora met Qatar's Deputy Premier and Minister of Energy and Industry HE Abdullah bin Hamad al-Attiyah here yesterday.

  

BEIRUT (Reuters) - A Lebanese presidential election scheduled for Saturday has been postponed until December 29, the parliament speaker said on Friday, the tenth delay to the vote.

  

The speaker of Lebanon's parliament has again postponed the presidential election that had been scheduled for Saturday.

  

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri postponed, until December 29, a session of Parliament to elect Lebanon's next president, his press office announced on Friday evening. The speaker "has decided to postpone until December 29 the session that was scheduled for Saturday," a statement said.

  

Beirut - Lebanese parliamentary speaker Nabih Berri, also a member of the country's Hezbollah-led opposition, said Friday that a parliamentary session scheduled for Saturday with the aim of electing a new president had been officially postponed until...

  

The speaker of Lebanon's parliament has again postponed, this time until December 29, a session that had been set for Saturday to elect a new president, his office said on Friday night.

  

BEIRUT (Reuters) - A Lebanese presidential election scheduled for Saturday has been postponed until December 29, the parliament speaker said on Friday, the tenth delay to the vote.

  

BEIRUT (AFP)--The speaker of Lebanon's parliament has again postponed, this time until Dec. 29, a session that had been set for Saturday to elect a new president, his office said Friday night.

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon The militant Hezbollah group denounced President Bush on Friday for urging Lebanon's anti-Syrian lawmakers to push through their own choice for president if necessary to resolve a long political deadlock.

  

BEIRUT (Reuters) - A Lebanese presidential election scheduled for Saturday was postponed until December 29, the parliament speaker said on Friday, the tenth delay to the vote.

  

BEIRUT (Reuters) - A Lebanese presidential election scheduled for Saturday was postponed until December 29, the parliament speaker said on Friday, the tenth delay to the vote.

  

Christmas in the Arab World: Hope in Iraq but little stability in Lebanon (AKI) - As Christmas approaches, Lebanese church leaders believe Christians are facing great challenges. They say religious divisions between Christian, Shia and Sunnis are becoming more entrenched and many Christians have begun leaving Beirut. Father Antoine Khadra, president of the Association of Christian ...

  

BEIRUT - Hezbollah said on Friday a proposal by U.S. President George W. Bush for Lebanon's Western-backed governing coalition to elect a new president unilaterally was a threat to the country's stability.

  

BEIRUT - Hezbollah said on Friday a proposal by U.S. President George W. Bush for Lebanon's Western-backed governing coalition to elect a new president unilaterally was a threat to the country's stability.

  

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hezbollah said on Friday a proposal by U.S. President George W. Bush for Lebanon's Western-backed governing coalition to elect a new president unilaterally was a threat to the country's stability.

  

Lebanon's parliament is set to meet for a tenth attempt to vote for a president on Saturday, but hopes of a breakthrough seem bleak despite US pressure on Syria to stay out of Lebanese internal affairs.

  

BEIRUT - Lebanon's parliament is set to meet for a tenth attempt to vote for a president on Saturday, but hopes of a breakthrough seem bleak despite US pressure on Syria to stay out of Lebanese internal affairs.

  

Hezbollah said on Friday a proposal by President George W. Bush for Lebanon's Western-backed governing coalition to elect a new president unilaterally was a threat to the country's stability.

  

The expected delay of Saturday's Lebanese presidential election will be a setback for recent American and French attempts to renew diplomatic ties with Syria, as Presidents Bush and Sarkozy say they have lost patience with the Assad regime and its interference in its neighbor's affairs. On the eve of a Middle East trip that will include his first visit to Israel as president, Mr. Bush yesterday ...

  

DAMASCUS: Syria is working to help resolve Lebanon's presidential crisis, the foreign minister said yesterday, responding to reports that France's patience was wearing thin with Damascus over a stalled presidential election.

  

Thirty-nine students were the target of a so called 'death note' police say two teens created at a middle school in Lebanon. | | Police have arrested two students for the threat written in a notebook. | | Officers picked up the students at the school early Thursday morning. | | Many parents didn't learn about the death notes until a meeting with school...

  

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has urged Lebanon's parliament to elect a new head of state Saturday to fill the vacant post of president.

  

August 15, 2006. It was the day after a ceasefire coming into force in the bombed Beirut in Lebanon. For five weeks, Israel had been targeting this part of the city and towns across southern Lebanon in a campaign against Hezbollah militants. The ceasefire prompted thousands of Lebanese to return home. As young Lebanese drove down a street in Haret Hreik, Spencer Platt pressed the trigger, ...

  

If you?ve recently shopped for fine chocolates in Paris, London, San Marino, Hong Kong, Melbourne, Istanbul, or Beirut, you might already know of Patchi, a company lauded for its delicious, all-natural delights.

  

Behind a 31-point effort by Taylor Webster, St. Helens defeated the Lebanon High School men's basketball team 69-51 on Dec. 11. 'We just didn't play with great defensive intensity,' said head coach Kraig Hoene.

  

Syria's Foreign Minister Walid Muallem on Thursday accused Washington of "blocking a Syrian-French attempt" to settle the ongoing political crisis in Lebanon and slammed Paris for not rejecting the American approach.

  

Syria is working to help resolve Lebanon's presidential crisis, the foreign minister said on Thursday, responding to reports that France's patience was wearing thin with Damascus over a stalled presidential election.

  

A Lebanon man was airlifted to a Springfield hospital Wednesday after a two-vehicle crash that also resulted in moderate injuries to a Lebanon woman, according to the Missouri HIghway Patrol. Daniel L. Grimes, 49, was flown to St. John's Hospital for treatment of serious injuries after the 4:53 p.m. crash on Missouri 5 eight miles north of Lebanon, while Stephanie L. Cover, 22, was taken to St. ...

  

TYRE, Lebanon (AFP)--A Lebanese father of three was killed by a cluster bomb dropped by Israeli forces during last year's war in Lebanon, police said Thursday.

  

BEIRUT: The US and France yesterday pressed Lebanon's divided parliament to elect a president to end a three-week vacuum, after nine previous attempts failed plunging the country into disarray.

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon Millions of Muslims across the Middle East on Wednesday marked the first day of Eid al-Adha, the most important holiday in the Islamic calendar, with prayers, family reunions and traditional sweets for the occasion.

  

"What most Lebanese people want for Christmas is a president," jokes a comedian dressed up as Santa Claus on the stage of an upmarket nightclub in a Christian suburb of Beirut.

  

JACKSONVILLE, N.C. - For more than two decades, survivors and families of those who served in Lebanon have asked the U.S. Postal Service to issue a stamp commemorating the Beirut peacekeeping mission.

  

The Lebanon Post Office in north central South Dakota has been declared a total loss after a pickup slammed into the building

  

BEIRUT (Reuters) - France's president has told Syria to use its influence to allow the Lebanese presidential election to go ahead on Saturday and suggested his patience with Damascus was wearing thin, a pan-Arab newspaper reported on Wednesday.

  

IONA - The South Lebanon Township supervisors last week reviewed plans for improvements to East Walnut Street. The East Walnut Street streetscape project will add sidewalks, curbing and new streetlights to Walnut Street between Fifth and Seventh avenues.

  

A US envoy holds further talks with political leaders in Lebanon trying to bring an end to the presidential crisis.

  

The Gambia is slowly, but surely heading to a full blown political crisis. With little or no natural resources, the nation's main economic nerves are today entrusted to Lebanese Nationals, whose pre-occupation is to milk Gambia's ailing economy before the country would run into a total turmoil.

  

BERLIN, Dec. 18 -- Two college students who had been studying abroad were convicted in their native Lebanon on Tuesday of attempting to blow up German commuter trains with suitcase bombs last year in a plot that authorities said could have killed dozens of people.

  

BEIRUT (AFP) - The United States and France on Wednesday pressed Lebanon's divided parliament to elect a president to end a three-week vacuum, after nine previous attempts failed plunging the country into disarray.

  

BEIRUT: A Lebanese man was jailed for 12 years for an aborted plot to bomb German trains that he said was revenge for the Prophet Muhammad cartoons in European newspapers, a judicial source told AFP.

  

Top US envoy David Welch was meeting more Lebanese officials on Wednesday on his second visit in four days to press feuding legislators to elect a new president and end a three-week power vacuum.

  

A court convicted a Lebanese man on Tuesday and sentenced him to 12 years in jail for a failed attempt to bomb German trains. Three other defendants were acquitted.

  

(RTTNews) - A day after Lebanon's deeply divided parliament failed for the ninth time to elect a president, a senior US diplomat made an announced visit to Beirut on Tuesday.

  

Four families were displaced Tuesday in a Lebanon apartment fire.

  

Firefighters battled a blaze in an apartment building at 488 Cambridge Drive in Lebanon early Tuesday evening.

  

LEBANON, N.H. (AP) -- In Lebanon, five people were treated for smoke inhalation after they were forced into below-zero temperatures by a fire in their apartment building early Tuesday.

  

Jihad Hamad was convicted and sentenced to 12 years in jail with hard labor in Beirut on Tuesday. Three other defendants were acquitted.

  

Passing through the many narrow avenues that make up Achrafieh, few would realize that major archeological excavations are under way all around them. The Beirut neighborhood has been experiencing a development boom in the past few years, and construction projects are ongoing, yet in the midst of all this local archaeologists.

  

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she discussed the presidential crisis in Lebanon with French President Nicolas Sarkozy on the sidelines of a donor conference for Palestine in Paris. "We've had a discussion of the Middle East, in particular the situation in Lebanon and the desire that the Lebanese people will be allowed to have their.

  

A Beirut court handed two Lebanese men long prison sentences for their roles in a failed bombing plot that targeted two German commuter trains in 2006.

  

A court convicted a Lebanese man Tuesday and sentenced him to 12 years in jail in a failed attempt to bomb German trains, judicial officials and the defense lawyer said.

  

The Lebanon School District is showing a new face to the Web-wandering world.

  

BEIRUT, Dec 18 (Reuters) The leader of Lebanon's governing coalition has accused Syria of seeking to drag out the political limbo surrounding the election of a new president.

  

BEIRUT (AFP) - Top US envoy David Welch held talks Tuesday in Lebanon with parliamentary majority leader Saad Hariri in the second meeting in four days to discuss a presidential vacuum in the country, Hariri's office said.

  

BEIRUT - The leader of Lebanon's governing coalition has accused Syria of seeking to drag out the political limbo surrounding the election of a new president.

  

A Beirut court sentenced a Lebanese man to life in prison and another to 12 years on Tuesday for their roles in a failed attempt to detonate bombs on German trains in 2006.

  

BEIRUT (Reuters) - The leader of Lebanon's governing coalition has accused Syria of seeking to drag out the political limbo surrounding the election of a new president.

  

Source: Reuters BEIRUT, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Lebanese judicial authorities charged 31 al Qaeda-linked individuals on Tuesday for plotting to attack a church and other religious sites in the Christian town of Zahleh in ...

  

BEIRUT - Lebanese judicial authorities charged 31 al Qaeda-linked individuals on Tuesday for plotting to attack a church and other religious sites in the Christian town of Zahleh in the eastern Bekaa Valley.

  

A criminal court on Tuesday sentenced a Lebanese man to 12 years in prison over a botched plot to bomb commuter trains in Germany, as another Lebanese faced trial in Duesseldorf in the same case.

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- A Lebanese man was sentenced to 12 years in jail on Tuesday for last year's failed attempt to bomb German trains but three other defendants were acquitted, judicial officials and the defense lawyer said.

  

WEST LEBANON, N.H. -- Fire crews responded to an apartment building at 10 Elm St. just after 12:30 a.m. Tuesday. "When we arrived there was heavy smoke coming from the building, " said West Lebanon Fire Department Chief Chris Christopoulos Jr.

  

Associated Press - December 18, 2007 6:55 AM ET LEBANON, N.H. (AP) - In Lebanon (New Hampshire), five people were treated for smoke inhalation after they were forced into below-zero...

  

Beirut - A court in Beirut on Tuesday sentenced Lebanese national Jihad Hamad to 12 years' imprisonment for his involvement in an attempt to blow up two trains in Germany in July 2006. Three other suspects on trial in the case were found not guilty a...

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon?A court sentenced a Lebanese man to 12 years in jail Tuesday for last year's failed attempt to bomb German trains and acquitted three other defendants, judicial officials and the defense lawyer said.

  

AIN AL-HILWEH, 18 December 2007 (IRIN) - Palestinian and Israeli leaders may have agreed at the US-sponsored peace conference in Annapolis on 27 November to work towards a full peace deal by the end of next year, but in the tinderbox refugee camp of Ain Al-Hilweh in Lebanon the lives of 75,000 Palestinians are defined by an intractable issue at the heart of the conflict: the right of Palestinian ...

  

A BEIRUT court sentenced one Lebanese man to life in prison and another for 12 years today for their roles in a failed attempt to detonate bombs on two trains in Germany in 2006, judicial sources said.

  

A Beirut court sentenced one Lebanese man to life in prison and another for 12 years on Tuesday for their roles in a failed attempt to detonate bombs on two trains in Germany in 2006, judicial sources said.

  

BEIRUT, Dec 18 - Below is a table of the latest Lebanese economic statistics.

  

Dusseldorf - Queues formed Tuesday outside a high-security court in the German city of Dusseldorf as a Lebanese student went on trial for attempting to detonate bombs on passenger trains that would have caused devastation comparable with similar atta...

  

A court in Lebanon sentenced one man to life in prison and another to 12 years for their roles in attempting to blow up two German commuter trains in July 2006. A third suspect's trial got underway in Dsseldorf.

  

BEIRUT: Lebanon's presidential election was postponed for a ninth time yesterday, to December 22, despite intense international efforts to convince rival parties to reach a deal and end a dangerous political vacuum.

  

Parliamentarians in Lebanon have postponed the presidential election yet again because rival factions are still arguing about how to share power.

  

A Mt. Juliet commissioner who some claim compared Lebanon Road in Mt. Juliet to Dickerson Pike in Nashville explained himself to News 2 Monday. | | Mt Juliet Commissioner Ray Justice represents District I, which includes business along Lebanon Road. | | 'What I actually said is that there is some trash on Lebanon Road that needs to be cleaned up,' he told News 2. 'What...

  

The Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (IFI) at the American University of Beirut (AUB) announced on Monday that Pulitizer prize winner Washington Post correspondent Anthony Shadid has been appointed as its first resident fellow for the 2007-2008 academic year.

  

Saudi-owned newspapers lashed out at Syrian Vice President Farouk al-Sharaa on Monday over recent remarks he made on the Lebanese presidential election, particularly his claim that Syria's influence in Lebanon "is still strong." The London-based daily Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat said Sharaa "deserves to be called Farouk al-Sharakh," Arabic for "split.

  

The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) organized a three-session workshop on cultural citizenship at Le Bristol Hotel in Beirut on Monday in the context of preparations for the launching of the National Human Development Report: "Toward a Citizen's State."

  

BEIRUT - Lebanon's parliament on Monday postponed a presidential election until December 22, the ninth such delay, because rival factions are still arguing over how to share power after the army commander becomes head of state.

  

The Syrian-backed opposition have boycotted a vote to elect a new Lebanese president, delaying parliament's decision for the ninth time. The decision prolongs a bitter yearlong struggle with the Western-backed government.

  

The Syrian-backed opposition boycotted a vote to elect a new Lebanese president Monday, delaying parliament's decision for the ninth time and prolonging a bitter yearlong struggle with the Western-backed government.

  

Lebanon: Presidential vote postponed for ninth time (AKI) - The session of Lebanon's parliament scheduled to elect the country's new president was on Monday put back until Saturday, parliament speaker Nabi Berri's (photo) spokesman Mohamed Ballout told reporters.It is the ninth postponement of the vote since September.Frantic last-ditch efforts by the US and other countries failed to ...

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon -The deeply divided Lebanese parliament failed again to elect a president Monday, and voting was postponed until Saturday.

  

BEIRUT, Dec 17 - Below is a table of the latest Lebanese economic statistics.

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon -The deeply divided Lebanese parliament failed again to elect a president Monday, and voting was postponed until Saturday.

  

The deeply divided Lebanese parliament failed again to elect a president Monday and voting was postponed until Saturday amid a political impasse that continues to hold up the army chief's election for the post

  

Beirut - The Lebanese parliament postponed a session for the ninth time on Monday to give more time for leaders to agree on certain undiscussed issues around the long-delayed election of a new president. The session has been postponed until Decemb...

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon The deeply divided Lebanese parliament failed again to elect a president Monday and voting was postponed until Saturday amid a political impasse that continues to hold up the army chief's election for the post.

  

BEIRUT (AFP)--Lebanon's presidential vote was postponed for a ninth time Monday, to Dec. 22, despite last-ditch international efforts to convince rival parties to strike a deal, the parliament speaker's official announced.

  

BEIRUT (Reuters) - A Lebanese presidential election scheduled for Monday was postponed until December 22, the parliament speaker said, in the ninth postponement of the vote.

  

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