There was a day when we worried about the "Arab masses" - the millions of "ordinary" Arabs on the streets of Cairo, Kuwait, Amman, Beirut - and their reaction to the constant bloodbaths in the Middle East. Could Anwar Sadat restrain the anger of his people' And now - after three decades of Hosni Mubarak - can Mubarak (or "La Vache Qui Rit", as he is still called in Cairo) restrain the anger ...

  

LEBANON (NEWS CENTER) - A therapeutic riding program for disabled and abused children in Lebanon is shutting down, for now.

  

The situation in Gaza cast a shadow on the Lebanese political scene Wednesday, with President Michel Sleiman renewing calls for an emergency Arab summit to discuss the situation and take action against the ongoing carnage. "We have informed Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani ... of Lebanon's unconditional support.

  

Beirut - Lebanon observed a national day of mourning Wednesday to protest Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, as a high- state of alert at the Lebanese-Israeli border was registered. Most government institutions were closed, but private businesses rem...

  

Lebanon leaders put the brakes on a resolution to support efforts to pursue dedicated funding for public transportation for the Nashville region.

  

After some ups and downs this season, the Lebanon boys basketball team found itself at 7-4 coming off a third-place finish Dec. 20 at the MidSouth Classic in Cookeville, Tenn.

  

According to the London daily Elaph, for 'Eid Al Adha' celebrations both Lebanese artist Rola Saed and Iraqi singer Kathem Al Saher held live concerts at the Royal Plaza Hotel in Northern Beirut.

  

Lebanese superstar Nicole Saba is getting ready to meet her dream man at one of the studios in Cairo. The meeting will be through a new song that Nicole will be recording and it is called 'Faris Ahlami' (MY Dream Man). The new song is written by Amir Taymah and was composed by Muhammad Yehya.

  

According to the London daily Elaph, for 'Eid Al Adha' celebrations both Lebanese artist Rola Saed and Iraqi singer Kathem Al Saher held live concerts at the Royal Plaza Hotel in Northern Beirut.

  

BEIRUT : From Mideast countries to European capitals, protesters took to the streets Monday to condemn Israel's assault on Gaza that has so far left more than 364 people dead, wounded hundreds more and reduced dozens of buildings to rubble.

  

Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt on Tuesday criticized verbal attacks targeting Egypt, while Christian Lebanese Forces (LF) chief Samir Geagea warned against attempts to topple Arab regimes. Hassan Nasrallah, chief of Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah, urged Egyptians on Sunday to take to the streets "in millions" to force the government to open Rafah crossing with the Gaza Strip which is now ...

  

One doesn't think of Beirut as a city of strollers. Barring the Corniche and Solidere, most Lebanese prefer to get from point A to point B with the aid of a car, while others make do with grubby services and even grubbier minibuses. That said, for those stuck with the Fred Flintstone mode of transport, Beirut is a magical place to explore on foot.

  

Despite the significant political and diplomatic strides taken by the Lebanese Republic over the past year, 2008 offered few signs of hope in the ongoing standoff between Lebanon, particularly the Shiite Hizbullah movement, and the state of Israel. Indeed, the year began on an ominous note with the assassination of fabled Hizbullah tactician.

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - A boat carrying international peace activists and medical supplies to the embattled Gaza Strip was turned back and damaged by the Israeli navy on Tuesday, Israel and organizers of the trip said.

  

BEIRUT, LEBANON - Lebanon's powerful Hezbollah guerrilla movement - widely seen as the Arab world's most effective force against Israel - is a staunch Hamas supporter but has so far held its fire as its Palestinian ally faces down Israel's assault in Gaza.

  

Beirut - Anti-Syrian Lebanese Druze MP Walid Jumblatt on Tuesday criticized Hezbollah's verbal attacks on Egypt and other Arab states over the present situation in the Gaza Strip. Jumblatt called for a focus on uniting Palestinian factions to confron...

  

The "Free Gaza" ship, "Dignity", rammed by an Israeli patrol vessel on waters near Gaza early Tuesday, arrived at Tyre port in south Lebanon in the afternoon, al-Jazeera TV reported. The ship reaching the Lebanese water was escorted with a Lebanese navy boat and boats of the United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL). UNIFIL maritime forces are on surveillance mission in Lebanese ...

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon - Lebanon's powerful Hezbollah guerrilla - widely seen as the Arab world's most effective force against Israel - has vowed to support Palestinian...

  

Source: Reuters By Alistair Lyon, Special Correspondent BEIRUT, Dec 30 (Reuters) - Reluctant to react militarily to Israel's Gaza onslaught, the leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah is fomenting popular anger against ...

  

A small boat carrying international activists with aid for Gaza docked in the southern Lebanese port city of Tyre on Tuesday after a clash with an Israeli naval ship forced it to divert to Lebanon.

  

Beirut - A damaged international aid ship operated by the Free Gaza Movement arrived at the southern Lebanese port of Tyre following a collision with an Israeli naval vessel in the early hours of Tuesday while bound for the Gaza Strip. A Lebanese Nav...

  

Dec. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Israel's assault on Hamas in the Gaza Strip may be less of a threat to its economy than the war against Lebanon's Hezbollah two years ago -- and might even give it a boost.

  

ASHKELON, Israel -- After Israel's 2006 war with Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Shiite militants emerged claiming victory and exalted across the Arab world.

  

Source: Reuters (Recasts with arrival of boat to Tyre, pvs JERUSALEM) TYRE, Lebanon, Dec 30 (Reuters) - A small boat carrying international activists with aid for Gaza docked in the southern Lebanese port city of ...

  

BEIRUT, Dec 30 (Reuters) - Below is a table of the latest Lebanese economic statistics.

  

Massive rallies protest Israel's airstrikes. BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Tens of thousands of Lebanese Hezbollah supporters stood under pouring rain Monday to protest Israel's air assault on the Gaza Strip, which entered its third day.

  

TENS of thousands of Lebanese Shi?ite protesters, chanting 'Death to America, Death to Israel,' massed in Beirut yesterday, calling for an end to Israeli strikes on Gaza.

  

Dec. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Israel's assault on Hamas in the Gaza Strip may be less of a threat to its economy than the war against Lebanon's Hezbollah two years ago -- and might even give it a boost.

  

Nasrallah - World Muslims - Palestine Secretary General of Lebanese Hezbollah Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah here Monday in a video-conference message aimed from a southern Beirut suburb asked world Muslims to rush to assist Palestinians.

  

A Lebanon man pleads guilty to burglary and robbery charges.

  

In zahlreichen arabischen Lndern und im Iran haben erneut Zehntausende gegen die israelischen Angriffe auf den Gazastreifen protestiert. In der?

  

Secretary General of Lebanese Hezbollah Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah here Monday in a video-conference message aimed from a southern Beirut suburb asked world Muslims to rush to assist Palestinians.

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Tens of thousands of Lebanese Hezbollah supporters stood under pouring rain Monday to protest Israel's air assault on the Gaza Strip, which entered its third day.

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Tens of thousands of Lebanese Hezbollah supporters have been holding a massive rally to protest Israel's air assault on the Gaza Strip.

  

Associated Press - December 29, 2008 12:23 PM ET BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Tens of thousands of Lebanese Hezbollah supporters have been holding a massive rally to protest Israel's air assault on...

  

BEIRUT - Tens of thousands of Hezbollah supporters stood under pouring rain Monday to protest Israel's air assault on the Gaza Strip, which entered its third day.

  

is one of brilliant, serene calm. Bathed in streetlamp-yellow glow, three rail-thin soldiers emerge from a black ocean, stark naked, and begin walking onto the shores of West Beirut.

  

As they prepared for lightning airstrikes on the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, Israel's leaders drew sobering lessons from their stalemate against another Islamic paramilitary force, Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas.

  

Tens of thousands of Lebanese Shi'ite protesters, chanting "Death to America, Death to Israel," massed in Beirut Monday, calling for an end to Israeli strikes on Gaza that have killed 320 Palestinians.

  

Source: Reuters By Alistair Lyon, Special Correspondent BEIRUT, Dec 29 (Reuters) - Israel's assault on Gaza has prompted Syria to rule out an early resumption of indirect peace talks, without killing off Syrian ...

  

Source: Reuters (Recasts with Hamas denial, previous DAKAR) BEIRUT, Dec 29 (Reuters) - The Palestinian group Hamas denied a Senegalese government statement on Monday that the Islamist group was ready to ...

  

PALESTINIAN fighters based in southern Lebanon may be preparing to retaliate for the assault on Gaza by striking across the border and opening a second front against Israel.

  

BEIRUT, Dec 29 (Reuters) - Below is a table of the latest Lebanese economic statistics.

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Thousands of people swept into the streets of cities around the Middle East on Sunday to denounce Israel's air assault on Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip.

  

The lessons of the 2006 war weigh heavily on Israel's military planners as well as on politicians obsessed with winning elections

  

BEIRUT: President Michel Suleiman called on "all parties" over the weekend to respect Lebanon's sovereignty and not turn the country into an arena for conflicts and settling scores.

  

Lebanon: In order to develop international business linkages and increase access to global markets, IESC implemented a unique ICT trade mission to the US. [AMEInfo.com]

  

The Islamic spiritual leaders in Lebanon Sunday called on Palestinian leaders of Hamas, Fatah and other factions in the Gaza Strip to overcome differences and unite ranks to face the Israeli aggression, NBN TV reported. Sunni Mufti Sheikh Mohamed Rashid Kabani, Shiite head of the higher council Sheikh Abdul Amir Kabalan, and Druze higher spiritual leader Naim Hassan met Sunday afternoon in ...

  

Thousands of people demonstrated Sunday in Beirut, southern Lebanon's Nabatieh and al-Jalil Palestinian refugee camp in the Bekaa valley, protesting the Israeli attacks on Gaza, NBN TV reported. Angry demonstrators called on Egypt to open Rafah crossing, and voiced anger towards Arab silence over the "massacres in Gaza," the report said. Most of the demonstrators are Palestinians who get out of ...

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon - Crowds of thousands swept into the streets of cities around the Middle East on Sunday to denounce Israel's air assault on Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip.

  

2008 was a year of mixed success for security services tasked with tackling Al-Qaeda inspired militant groups in Lebanon. At times it seemed such groups were able to operate with impunity, particularly in the North, where two deadly blasts targeting Lebanese troops in Tripoli over the summer sparked fears a concerted campaign against state security forces was under way.

  

The leader of Lebanese militant Hezbollah said Sunday that he has asked his men to be on alert in southern Lebanon in case Israel attacks and promised not to abandon Hamas.

  

Dec. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Arab protesters in Damascus and Beirut burned Israeli flags, and governments across the Middle East condemned Israeli air strikes against the Hamas-led Gaza Strip that left at least 285 people dead.

  

Beirut - The chief of the Lebanese Shiite Movement on Sunday compared the ongoing Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip to the July 2006 war which Israel launched against his movement. This is a repeated scenario of the July war on Hezbollah ... but, wi...

  

Source: Reuters BEIRUT, Dec 28 (Reuters) - Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Sunday he had asked his fighters in south Lebanon to be on alert for the possibility of an Israeli attack on Lebanon. & ...

  

Beirut - Lebanon's Muslim religious leaders on Sunday criticized Arab reactions towards the Israeli attack on Gaza, saying they amounted to denunciation and rhetoric that cannot deter the aggression. Grand Mufti Mohammed Rashid Qabbani, Chairman of ...

  

BEIRUT - Thousands of protesters swept into the streets of cities across the Middle East on Sunday to shout down Israel's air assault on the Gaza Strip.

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Crowds of thousands swept into the streets of cities around the Middle East on Sunday to denounce Israel's air assault on Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip.

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon - The Lebanese army says that four Israeli warplanes violated the country's airspace and flew for more than an hour over Lebanon.

  

Associated Press - December 28, 2008 9:13 AM ET BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Around the Middle East, opponents of Israel's assaults in Gaza are gathering by the thousands to voice their anger.

  

Hundreds of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon on Saturday marched to the Egyptian embassy here to protest against the Israeli raids on Gaza.

  

TYRE, Dec 28, 2008 (AFP) - At least five Israeli warplanes on Sunday flew low over south Lebanon, already the target of an overnight reconnaissance flight, a Lebanese security official said.

  

Beirut - Lebanese President Michel Suleiman has called for Lebanon and its sovereignty to be respected and not turned in into a platform for launching rockets into neighbouring Israel, radio reports said on Sunday. Suleiman made his remarks in a surp...

  

Lebanese President Michel Suleiman said Saturday that UN resolution 1701 was not completely implemented due to Israeli violations, and the inability of the Lebanese Army to liberate Shiba farms and Kafarshuba Hills. The president made his comments during a tour to south Lebanon army barracks Saturday morning, accompanied by Lebanon's Defense Minister Elias Murr and Army Commander Gen. Jean ...

  

Lebanese Foreign Minister Fawzi Salloukh said on Saturday that Lebanon has reached final preparations to set up the embassy in Damascus, local naharnet website reported. The report said that a Lebanese diplomatic team will arrive in Damascus next Monday to set up arrangement for the opening of the Lebanese embassy in Damascus. Meanwhile, the Syrian Flag flew Friday for the first time over a ...

  

Chief of the Christian Lebanese Forces (LF) party Samir Geagea said Friday night that ending the tragedy in Gaza should not bring another tragedy for Lebanon, LBC TV reported. "The tragedy in Gaza can not be solved by having another tragedy," Geagea told reporters. The Lebanese army dismantled eight Katyuch rockets Thursday, which were set by timers to be launched against Israel. He said "Those ...

  

DOHA: The Doha Center for Media Freedom (DCMF) has expressed concern about the deteriorating working condition of journalists in Lebanon while hailing the role of Ghana's media in the successful conduct of democratic presidential elections in that country.

  

Lebanese President: UN resolution 1701 was not completely implemented BEIRUT, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- Lebanese President Michel Suleiman said Saturday that UN resolution 1701 was not completely implemented due to Israeli violations, and the inability of the Lebanese Army to liberate Shiba farms and Kafarshuba Hills.

  

Hundreds of protesters against Israel's deadly raids on the Gaza Strip demonstrated near the Egyptian embassy in Lebanon on Saturday amid a greatly reinforced security presence, an AFP journalist said.

  

BEIRUT - Lebanese officials reported Saturday they are set to open up an embassy in Syria, a day after the Syrian flag was hoisted over that country's new embassy in Beirut.

  

Beirut - Lebanese officials reported Saturday they are set to open up an embassy in Syria, a day after the Syrian flag was hoisted over that country's new embassy in Beirut. The new embassies represent the first official diplomatic ties between the t...

  

Lebanon: The Lebanese National Council for Scientific Research (LNCSR) has announced today the official launch of its online registration at: www.Med-IST.eu. [AMEInfo.com]

  

BEIRUT: A benchmark survey of the Middle East hotel sector by Ernst & Young indicated that the occupancy rate at hotels in Beirut was 53 percent in the first 10 months of 2008, up 16 percent from 37 percent in the same period last year, as reported by Lebanon This Week, the economic publication of the Byblos Bank Group.

  

The Greater Lebanon Refuse Authority routinely screens all trash for radioactive items, and recently found a unique source of radiation -- an antique brass military compass.

  

A Chinese man and two Lebanese nationals were shot dead in a crime wave in southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo that also left 10 Congolese dead this week, witnesses and officials said Friday.

  

A strategic partnership between Lebanese technology companies EDM and eSharing is breaking the "go-it-alone" status quo of the Middle East IT sector. eSharing will develop enterprise resource software that interfaces directly with EDM's new Global Positioning System (GPS) and mobile cellular communications.

  

The Syrian flag flew over Damascus' first-ever embassy in Beirut on Friday, as final preparations were made for its official opening after warming ties ended years of tensions between the two neighbors. The work took a comic turn on Friday when an impostor showed up at the building in the Hamra business district, briefly causing a stir by claiming.

  

Only 26 years old, Syrian human rights activist Mohammad al-Abdullah has already been imprisoned twice, beaten, and forced into hiding in neighboring Lebanon. Jail has unfortunately become a defining feature of the Abdullah family, which has been all but splintered by the repeated arrests of its male members.

  

A Lebanese policeman stands guard outside the Syrian embassy in Beirut. The Syrian flag flew over Damascus' first-ever embassy in Beirut, as final preparations are being made for its official opening after warming ties ended years of tensions between the two neighbours.

  

Commander of the United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) Claudio Graziano praised Friday the Lebanese army in defusing eight Katyusha rockets to be launched against Israel. Graziano told Al-Moustaqbal daily that the Lebanese army carried out a major achievement in dismantling the rockets with timers. Graziano, however, refused to reveal who was behind the deployment of the rockets, ...

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Eight armed Katyusha rockets aimed at Israel were discovered and defused by Lebanese army officials, local media reports indicated Friday.

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon - Two attacks against tourists in Cairo on Saturday prompted fears of a renewed wave of violence by Islamic militants similar to a bloody campaign in the 1990s, which nearly halted tourism in Egypt and provoked a severe government crackdown.

  

UN peacekeepers and Lebanese troops have stepped up patrols along the border with Israel after rockets were discovered aimed at the Jewish state and ready to fire, a UN spokeswoman said on Friday.

  

Roumiyeh, Lebanon - Cigarette smoke wafts through a hall in Lebanon's biggest jail where an all-male jury is arguing over whether an accused murderer should be hanged.

  

Businessman George Jabra isn't certain the stability Lebanon has enjoyed for more than six months is going to last. Still, he took a chance and opened up a new restaurant on a Beirut hilltop, betting on the revival of good times sweeping the country once known as the Paris of the Middle East. The Lebanese capital is hopping this holiday season, riding a wave of prosperity and relief over an ...

  

(By KATARINA KRATOVAC, Associated Press Writer) Businessman George Jabra isn't certain the stability Lebanon has enjoyed for more than six months is going to last. Still, he took a chance and opened up a new restaurant on a Beirut hilltop, betting on the revival of good times sweeping the country once known as the Paris of the Middle East. The Lebanese capital is hopping this holiday season, ...

  

Businessman George Jabra isn't certain the stability Lebanon has enjoyed for more than six months is going to last.

  

BEIRUT - UN peacekeepers and Lebanese troops have stepped up patrols along the border with Israel after rockets were discovered aimed at the Jewish state and ready to fire, a UN spokeswoman said on Friday.

  

MANILA, Philippines - The Department of Labor and Employment might lift the deployment ban on Lebanon depending on the assessment report of the Middle East Preparedness Team (MEPT) - a possibility that recruiters very much welcome.

  

TYRE, Lebanon - Lebanese troops on Thursday found and dismantled eight rockets set up for launch at northern Israel, Lebanese security sources said.

  

As the rest of the world braces for a global economic dive, thousands of visitors flood into Beirut. The streets are crowded, shops are bustling and political chatter takes an unusual backseat to celebration.

  

The rockets were found near the southern town of Naqura, in the border region where a United Nations peacekeeping force has been monitoring an uneasy truce.

  

BEIRUT: Lebanon's Western-backed Prime Minister Fuad Siniora has said that his country has no interest in holding peace talks with neighbouring Israel at the moment.

  

Beirut - The United Nations Interim Forces in southern Lebanon (UNIFIL) on Thursday stepped up its patrols along the Lebanon-Israel border after Lebanese troops dismantled eight rockets that were apparently ready to be launched at northern Israel. O...

  

BEIRUT (AFP) - Lebanese security forces found seven missiles directed at Israel in southern Lebanon on Thursday, an army official said.

  

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Thursday issued a "last-minute" appeal to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip to reject their Hamas rulers and stop rocket fire at Israel, warning them he would not hesitate to use force.

  

Lebanese army officers say troops have discovered seven rockets set up with timers that were on the verge of firing near the border with Israel.

  

Thu, Dec 25, 2008 (10:15 a.m.) Lebanese army officers say troops have discovered seven rockets set up with timers that were on the verge of firing near the border with Israel.

  

Associated Press - December 25, 2008 1:03 PM ET BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Lebanese army officers say troops have discovered seven rockets set up with timers that were on the verge of firing near...

  

(By BASSEM MROUE, Associated Press Writer) Lebanese army officers say troops have discovered seven rockets set up with timers that were on the verge of firing near the border with Israel. Two senior officers say troops are dismantling the Katyusha rockets, discovered Thursday near the border town of Naqoura. They say the rockets' timers were activated, and one of the officers says the rockets ...

  

Source: Reuters TYRE, Lebanon, Dec 25 (Reuters) - Lebanese troops on Thursday found and dismantled eight rockets set up for launch at northern Israel, Lebanese security sources said. They said the Grad and Katyusha ...

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon?Lebanese army officers say troops have discovered seven rockets set up with timers that were on the verge of firing near the border with Israel.

  

Lebanon's Prime Minister Fuad Siniora, seen here in August 2008, has said his country has no interest in holding peace talks with neighbouring Israel at the moment.

  

Lebanese PM: No one has challenged our claim of authority and ownership of the land that Israel occupies.

  

BEIRUT (AFP)--Lebanon's Western-backed Prime Minister Fuad Siniora said his country has no interest in holding peace talks with neighbouring Israel at the moment.

  

MANILA, Philippines--The Philippine government is conducting a study on the political and security situation in Lebanon to determine whether to lift a ban on the deployment of workers to that country imposed in 2006.

  

Various radio stations started airing young Lebanese artist Sabeen Atallah's latest song 'Ka?ini Inta' (I Am Like You). The song is written by the poet Ahmad Al Madi, composed by Yehya Al Hasan and distributed by Wisam Ghzawi.

  

Al-Qaida and other Sunni Salafist forces are gathering in Lebanon at the instigation of Saudi Arabia, making the country a potential flashpoint for a future Middle East conflict and a candidate for certain destruction, according to a report from Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.

  

The Lebanon Express office at 90 E. Grant St. will close at 3 p.m. on Dec. 31.

  

Head of the Future Bloc in the Lebanese Parliament MP Saad Hariri called for transparent and democratic legislative elections to be held on time in Lebanon, and said while he supports a just peace between Syria, Lebanon, and Israel, Beirut will not engage in any direct negotiations with Israel to uphold national interests, and the entire Lebanese government will have to take any decision ...

  

Over the past 18 months, the town of Lebanon Planning Board has worked on revising the Subdivision and Local Land Management Laws (LLML). After careful review and three public

  

LEBANON - Lebanon officials say a dead city employee was issued a Christmas bonus this year, and a former committee member who is deceased was set to receive one.

  

LEBANON - The streets of downtown Lebanon will be filled with constructions crews in 2009. Lebanon City Council unanimously approved a $2.1 million refurbishment of downtown sidewalks Monday, Dec. 23.

  

A European-flagged ship carrying Lebanese activists, journalists and supplies is to sail from southern Lebanon to the besieged Gaza Strip early next year, Naharnet website reported Wednesday. The ship carrying power generators and food will sail from southern Lebanon on Jan. 3 to Cyprus before heading to Gaza to defy the Israeli blockade, the organizers were quoted as saying. It is the first ...

  

The Harb family of Windermere celebrates Christmas on Dec. 24, as is customary among Maronite Catholics in their native Leb- anon.

  

BEIRUT, Dec 24 (Reuters) - Below is a table of the latest Lebanese economic statistics.

  

BEIRUT, Dec 24 (Reuters) - Below is a table of the latest Lebanese economic statistics.

  

Ten toddlers at a nursery school in this southern Lebanon village had a surprise visit from an unlikely version of Santa Claus this week when French United Nations soldiers dressed up to hand out Christmas gifts.

  

ONE OF 10 'GIFTS' -- Mikoyan MiG-29 fighter performs a demonstration flight during a parade commemorating the 95th anniversary of the Russian Air Force at Monino air garrison in 2007. Russia is gifting 10 MiG-29's to Lebanon.

  

After facing problems with Lebanese authorities over her passport, the Algerian artist Fulla became hysterical and was taken to a hospital in Beirut. According to the London daily Elaph, Fulla's doctor orders her to get plenty of rest and to relax at home for 5 days.

  

ROUMIYEH, Lebanon (Reuters) - Cigarette smoke wafts through a hall in Lebanon's biggest jail where an all-male jury is arguing over whether an accused murderer should be hanged.

  

Cigarette smoke wafts through a hall in Lebanon's biggest jail where an all-male jury is arguing over whether an accused murderer should be hanged.

  

Lebanon city officials discovered that two dead city employees received Christmas bonuses this year.

  

Beirut - A cargo ship carrying Lebanese activists and supplies will set sail on January 3 for the besieged Gaza Strip in an attempt to break an Israeli blockade, organizers said Tuesday. The European-flagged ship will carry power generators and food ...

  

Politicians from Lebanon's rival groups agreed Tuesday on rejecting calls for holding direct talks with Israel. Future Movement leader MP Saad Hariri said after meeting Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Butros Sfeir in Bkirki that direct negotiations between Lebanon and Israel were against national interests.

  

Lebanese living in the West African country of Guinea are not believed to be at risk after an attempted coup which followed the death of the country's president on Tuesday, Foreign Minister Fawzi Salloukh said. President Lansana Conte's death was announced at around 2 a.m. on Tuesday morning.

  

In addition to monitoring the volatile border region between Israel and Lebanon, the peacekeepers build roads and teach foreign languages to locals.

  

In a Beirut mall a jovial Santa Claus, flanked on both sides by a pair of grinning elves, chimes his bell to the beat of carolers trailing behind. The festive season is alive, as eager consumers, young and old, scamper in a pre-Christmas shopping blitz. This time last year, holiday festivities took a back seat to issues of national instability.

  

The 'Free Gaza' movement is raising the stakes with a new vessel from Lebanon that will try and run the Gaza blockade in January and the arrest of an inter-married Israeli activist who founded a pro-Arab activist organization.

  

Beirut - The head of the anti-Syrian ruling majority in Lebanon, Saad Hariri, said Tuesday he would not call for negotiations between Lebanon and Israel. We will never initiate and request any negotiations with Israel, and the cabinet has the sole a...

  

WORCESTER, Mass., Dec. 23, 2008 -- Generex Biotechnology Corporation , the leader in drug delivery for metabolic diseases through the inner lining of the mouth, today announced that Lebanon's Ministry of Public Health has approved Generex Oral-lyn, the Company's proprietary oral insulin spray product, for importation, marketing, distribution, and commercial sale in the Republic of Lebanon for ...

  

BEIRUT, Dec 23(Reuters) - Below is a table of the latest Lebanese economic statistics.

  

BEIRUT, Dec 23(Reuters) - Below is a table of the latest Lebanese economic statistics.

  

Last week the star of the talent show 'X-Factor,' Raja Qasabani, severed her contract with 'Rotana.' According to the London daily Elaph, Raja was forced to leave Lebanon after her contract with 'Rotana' was canceled, so she headed to Dubai immediately.

  

The third round of national dialogue session grouping 14 Lebanese rival leaders ended here Monday, by a decision to form a military specialized committee that would look into all defense strategy suggestions, LBC TV reported. The session, which was headed by President Michel Suleiman, at the presidential palace, was adjourned until January 22. A statement issued after the session called to abide ...

  

A view of the building where the Syrian embassy is located in the Hamra business district of Beirut. Three diplomats have begun work at Syria's first ever embassy in Lebanon which is set to open before the end of the year, a government official said on Monday.

  

NICOSIA [MENL] -- The United States, in wake of Beirut's procurement of Russia's MiG-29 fighter-jet, has pledged to supply main battle tanks to Lebanon.

  

As hordes of bachelors return home to Lebanon for the holiday season, young eligible women who far outnumber their male counterparts in this tradition-bound country are angling for the perfect catch. "This is the time when many young men come back for the holidays and the women want to find that catch," said Samir Khalaf.

  

The government's failure to enforce competition is the main reason for continuing price increases, the head of the country's largest consumer-protection group says. "Ending exclusive dealerships is at the base of the competition law, imposed by the European Free Trade Agreement signed with Lebanon in 2004.

  

A third person has been charged over the stabbing death of a young man at western Sydney's Beirut By Night restaurant.

  

BEIRUT (AFP) - Three diplomats have begun work at Syria's first ever embassy in Lebanon which is set to open before the end of the year, a government official said on Monday.

  

Starring: Ron Ben-Yishai, Ronny Dayag, Ari Folman, Dror Harazi, Yehezkel La... Review: A potent and profound document of war and its aftermath done as a cartoon - what's that all about' Watch and learn, cynics, even if you think animation is strictly for kung-fu pandas and you know squat about assassinated Lebanese president Bashir Gemayel. For what's on view in Ari Folman's Waltz With Bashir, ...

  

Source: UNHCR The mine clearers who won this year's Nansen Refugee Award use the prize money to launch a cattle distribution programme for villagers in south Lebanon.

  

MANILA, Philippines -- Labor Secretary Marianito Roque admitted on Monday that most Filipinos currently working in Lebanon are undocumented, having defied a deployment ban to the Mediterranean country imposed by the Philippine government in 2006.

  

Lebanese Christian opposition leader Michel Aoun said he did not oppose direct talks between Lebanon and Israel if Syria were involved, local Daily Star reported Monday. "We don't mind direct negotiations with Israel if Syria is sitting at the same table," said Aoun, who heads Lebanon's Free Patriotic Movement in the opposition bloc. Aoun said there will be improvement in relations between him ...

  

BEIRUT (AFP)--Lebanon's rival political leaders met for a third round of talks Monday to formulate a national defense strategy that will tackle the divisive issue of the fate of Hezbollah's arsenal.

  

Holiday season is perfect time for women who far outnumber their male counterparts to catch a man.

  

Under the High Patronage of His Excellency, The President of the Republic of Lebanon General Michel SLEIMAN, more than 200 young leaders from the Arab world will convene in Beirut from 16 to 18 January, 2009, for the Annual Forum of Young Arab Leaders (YAL), the region's foremost platform for developing business, public sector and civil society leaders.

  

Lebanese Shiite armed group Hezbollah condemned the kidnapping of two Lebanese civilians by Israeli troops in south Lebanon, the party's Al-Manar TV reported Sunday. In a statement broadcasted by the group, Hezbollah described the act as "clear violation of UN resolution 1701," wondering how will the UN Security Council respond. Al-Manar TV said that the two Lebanese civilians suffered wounds ...

  

A MAN has been arrested over the stabbing death of another man at western Sydney's Beirut By Night restaurant earlier this month.

  

A MAN has been arrested over the stabbing death of another man at western Sydney's Beirut By Night restaurant earlier this month.

  

A MAN has been arrested and is going to be charged with the stabbing murder of a dad-to-be at Sydney¿s Beirut by Night restaurant earlier this month.

  

"We are going to live," a man tells the camera while pointing out the destruction left by Israel's 2006 war on Lebanon. "This is our paradise ... be sure ..." The man's misery tour is part of the documentary "After the War..." by Egyptian-Danish director Samir Abdallah, which screened at the Dubai International Film Festival last week.

  

Sunny times are back for Lebanon's tourism industry, enjoying its best year since 2004, though clouds may lie ahead if the risk of violence around the spring elections puts people off booking for 2009. "The number of foreign visitors will reach 1.3 million people for the whole of 2008, the same total as in 2004," said Nada Sardouk.

  

Lebanon's national dialogue resumes Monday on uncertain terrain after Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun was quoted as saying Sunday that he was not against direct talks between Lebanon and Israel if Syria were involved. "We don't mind direct negotiations with Israel if Syria is at the same table," he said.

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon - The head of the U.N. nuclear monitoring agency is warning Syria of negative consequences if it does not cooperate with the agency's investigation of its nuclear activities.

  

Opposition lawmakers yesterday lambasted the Arroyo government for failing to stop the alleged trafficking of Filipinos to Lebanon despite a policy banning deployment there.

  

Wataniya Airways, Kuwait's new premium service luxury airline, today announces additional flight routes to Beirut and Bahrain starting from March 2009. Flights to the new destinations will commence with the arrival of the second leased A320 aircraft expected by the end of February.

  

Wataniya Airways, Kuwait's new premium service luxury airline, today announces additional flight routes to Beirut and Bahrain starting from March 2009.

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon - Lebanon chose its first ambassador to Syria Saturday, the latest step toward normalizing relations since the neighboring countries agreed earlier this year to establish diplomatic ties.

  

Lebanese singer Carole Samaha recently released her new music video for her song 'Ali,' which is mixed in a different style than Carole's previous songs.

  

Staff picks, stance on Israel criticized as the status quo His middle name might be Hussein, and he is clearly viewed more favorably than Bush. But President-elect Barack Obama faces a skeptical Arab world that is doubting whether he really will represent change. The Tribune's Liz Sly reports from Beirut.

  

The North Lebanon supervisors last week approved a revised subdivision plan for a parcel of land adjacent to Seyfert Orchards to update an incorrect addition plan.

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon - Lebanon has chosen its first ambassador to Syria, the latest step toward normalizing relations since the neighbouring countries agreed earlier this year to establish diplomatic ties.

  

BEIRUT: Lebanon appointed an ambassador to Syria yesterday, the first time the Arab neighbours will have full diplomatic relations since gaining independence from France in the 1940s.

  

Lebanon chose its first ambassador to Syria Saturday, the latest step toward normalizing relations since the neighboring countries agreed earlier this year to establish diplomatic ties. Information Minister Tarek Mitri made the announcement after the Cabinet approved the nominee. He told reporters the government would not disclose the ambassador's name until Syria approved the choice. Lebanese ...

  

(By HUSSEIN DAKROUB, Associated Press Writer) Lebanon chose its first ambassador to Syria Saturday, the latest step toward normalizing relations since the neighboring countries agreed earlier this year to establish diplomatic ties. Information Minister Tarek Mitri made the announcement after the Cabinet approved the nominee. He told reporters the government would not disclose the ambassador's ...

  

Israeli soldiers patrol the border with Lebanon in April 2008. Lebanese President Michel Sleiman says he plans to protest to the United Nations after Israeli soldiers seized two civilians near the border.

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon' Lebanon named an ambassador to Syria today in another step toward normalizing relations after the neighboring countries agreed earlier this year to establish diplomatic ties for the first time since they gained independence from France in the 1940s.

  

Lebanon appointed an ambassador to Syria on Saturday, the first time the Arab neighbours will have full diplomatic ties since gaining independence from France in the 1940s. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had issued a decree in October to establish diplomatic relations with Lebanon.

  

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon appointed an ambassador to Syria on Saturday, the first time the Arab neighbors will have full diplomatic relations since gaining independence from France in the 1940s.

  

Lebanon appointed an ambassador to Syria on Saturday, the first time the Arab neighbours will have full diplomatic relations since gaining independence from France in the 1940s.

  

The Lebanon Warriors overcame their lowest scoring output of the season by hitting 14-of-18 free-throw attempts on their way to a 53-46 victory over visiting Troy on Friday, Dec. 19.

  

Two Lebanese civilians seized by Israeli soldiers overnight near the Israeli-Lebanese border were released early on Saturday, a Lebanese security services official said.

  

Beirut - Israel released two kidnapped Lebanese civilians and turned them over to the United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) on Saturday, the Hezbollah-run Al-Manar TV station reported. The release took place after overnight contacts wer...

  

Visiting U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs David Hale said here on Friday that Washington would supply tanks to the Lebanese army. Speaking to reporters after meeting Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Seniora, Hale said the United States would deliver M-60 tanks along with some other weaponry to the Lebanese army in the spring of 2009. Hale, however, did not disclose how ...

  

RIVAL powers are pouring vast sums of money into Lebanon in the hope of influencing the outcome of the general election to be held sometime this spring. There are no exact figures concerning these efforts to buy the election. But observers of...

  

BEIRUT: The Lebanese government released the country's 2006 and 2007 Economic Accounts, part of a series of national accounts publications launched since 2002. The overall result for 2006 was a partial stagnation with a growth rate of mere 0.6 percent.

  

Tourism ministry director general Nada Sardouk has said Lebanon's tourism industry are back and enjoying its best year since 2004, as number of foreign visitors are expected to reach 1.3 million people for the whole of this year, Gulf Daily News has reported.

  

The Lebanon Warriors overcame their lowest scoring output of the season by hitting 14-of-18 free-throw attempts on their way to a 53-46 victory over visiting Troy on Friday, Dec. 19.

  

LEBANON - The Santiam Spokes Bicycle Club donated $3,000 to the Lebanon Community Hospital Foundation this month, continuing 15 years of giving to hospital programs, and marking 11 years in a row that the club has donated more than $2,000 to the foundation.

  

Lebanese army soldiers parading in Beirut in November 2008. The United States plans to deliver M-50 tanks to Lebanon in spring next year as part of a commitment to help the country's army, a senior US state department official said in Beirut on Friday.

  

(RTTNews) - Egyptian-born Australian policeman Nick Kaldas has been named as the chief investigator for a UN special tribunal set up to try suspects in the killing of former Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri, said officials on Friday.

  

Israeli soldiers captured two Lebanese civilians on a raid across the border into southern Lebanon on Friday, a Lebanese security official said.

  

Energy and Water Minister Alan Tabourian on Friday called for the cancelation of the value-added tax (VAT) on fuel oil in an attempt to help low-income families.Speaking to reporters along with the director of Electricite du Liban (EDL) Kamal Hayek, Tabourian said removing the VAT from fuel oil would be one of the best ways to help people.

  

BEIRUT (AFP) - Sunny times are back for Lebanon's tourism industry, enjoying its best year since 2004, though clouds may lie ahead if the risk of violence around the spring elections puts people off booking for 2009.

  

Tens of thousands of protesters pour into streets of Beirut waving Palestinian, Hezbollah flags.

  

Fri, Dec 19, 2008 (6:51 a.m.) Thousands of Hezbollah supporters in Lebanon are protesting the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip. The militant group held the rally Friday in Beirut's southern suburbs.

  

The United States plans to deliver M-50 tanks to Lebanon in spring next year as part of a commitment to help the country's army, a senior US state department official said in Beirut on Friday.

  

Associated Press - December 19, 2008 9:23 AM ET BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Thousands of Hezbollah supporters in Lebanon are protesting the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip.

  

(The Associated Press) Thousands of Hezbollah supporters in Lebanon are protesting the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip. The militant group held the rally Friday in Beirut's southern suburbs. Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah has called on people across the Muslim and Arab world to hold demonstrations demanding the blockade be lifted. Similar protests and sit-ins in support of the ...

  

Thousands of Hezbollah supporters in Lebanon are protesting the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip.

  

Thousands of Hezbollah supporters in Lebanon are protesting the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip.

  

BEIRUT (AFP) - Sunny times are back for Lebanon's tourism industry, enjoying its best year since 2004, though clouds may lie ahead if the risk of violence around the spring elections puts people off booking for 2009.

  

BEIRUT, Dec 19, 2008 (AFP) - Thousands of people gathered in Beirut's southern suburbs on Friday for a mass protest organised by Lebanon's Shiite Hezbollah movement against Israel's crippling blockade of the Gaza Strip.

  

Western World Not Thrilled With 'Gift' It's the season for giving... but a gift from Russia to Lebanon isn't making anyone feel too merry.

  

SYDNEY, Dec 19, 2008 (AFP) - An Egyptian-born Australian policeman will head investigations for a United Nations tribunal prosecuting those accused of assassinating Lebanon's ex-prime minister Rafiq Hariri, police said Friday.

  

SYDNEY (AFP)--An Egyptian-born Australian policeman will head investigations for a U.N. tribunal prosecuting those accused of assassinating Lebanon's ex- Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, police said Friday.

  

Ten MiG29 Fulcrum fighters will be provided free to Lebanon under an agreement on military-technical assistance, the head of Russia's defence cooperation service said.

  

The Security Council today extended for a further two months the mandate of the independent probe into the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri and several other political killings in Lebanon.

  

NSW Deputy Police Commissioner Nick Kaldas says he's honoured to have been chosen to head the probe into the assassination of ex-Lebanese PM Rafiq Hariri.

  

LEBANON--The 12th annual New Year's Eve bologna drop will be held at Ninth and Cumberland streets, with festivities starting at 10:30 p.m. The 12-foot long bologna weighing nearly 150 pounds was made at Kutztown/Daniel Weaver Bologna Company.

  

December 18, 2008 - White House shocked by Lebanon fighter jet deal with Russia

  

Graham Richardson had a second Swiss bank account through which he channelled $4.6m.

  

Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said Thursday that he supported calls to "implement the Taif Accord before amending it." In a speech delivered before Parliament in response to Lebanese lawmakers' questioning sessions held over the past four days, Siniora said: "The Taif Accord, which some said was imposed on us.

  

Interior Minister Ziyad Baroud and Internal Security Forces chief Major General Ashraf Rifi visited on Thursday policeman Mohammad Taan at Saint George Hospital in Beirut following a security incident late on Wednesday. Taan was wounded as he was pursuing a car thief in the Northern Bekaa town of Brital, the National News Agency said.

  

It was the summer of 1982 when Zahira Najjar, 66, last saw her son Abdallah, then 17 years old. The family was in Bhamdoun, a mountain resort east of Beirut, at the height of Lebanon's 15-year Civil War.Only Syrian forces were on the ground when Abdullah went to find transport to the capital to get his wounded leg seen to, Najjar said.

  

Hamas officials in Gaza and Beirut said Thursday the Islamic militant group will not extend a six-month truce with Israel, as the two sides attacked each other.

  

NSW Deputy Police Commissioner Nick Kaldas has been appointed to investigate the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri.

  

By DAN SERNOFFSKY Daily News Sportswriter 'Jab! Jab! Jab! Now hook!' Lebanon Daily News Terry Wanner is in the ring, circling, barking instructions at the two youngsters sparring. They?re members of Wanner Boxing Club, and they?re working out in the full-size ring Wanner has set up at his club.

  

AFTER investigating Australia's first political assassination, NSW policeman Nick Kaldas is taking on the political quagmire that is the Middle East.

  

Lebanon's government has again decided to delay the oft-delayed privatisation of the country's two state owned mobile phone networks.

  

When President Bush held a news conference in Baghdad over the weekend, an Iraqi journalist threw his shoes at the President. That story got a lot of attention around the world. For a look at how it is playing in the Middle East, Steve Inskeep talks with Ramez Maluf, professor of journalism at the Lebanese American University in Beirut.

  

In a move that could raise concerns in the U.S. and Israel, Russia will donate 10 MiG-29 fighter jets to Lebanon and commit to supplying the teetering Arab democracy with more war machines, an official told reporters Wednesday.

  

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

  

BEIRUT (AFP) - Lebanon, one of the world's key migratory bird corridors, has turned into a death trap for the avian population due to illegal hunting of increasingly rare species.

  

Lebanon: Gefinor Rotana has been successfully awarded the Hazard Analysis Critical Control Certificate (HACCP) making it the first hotel in Lebanon to become HACCP certified. [AMEInfo.com]

  

BEIRUT, Dec 18 (AFP) Dec 18, 2008 Lebanon, one of the world's key migratory bird corridors, has turned into a death trap for the avian population due to illegal hunting of increasingly rare species.

  

Beirut, dec 18 : US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs David Hale warned Wednesday against the continuous rearming of the Lebanese Shia movement Hezbollah by Syria and Iran.

  

UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- The U.N. Security Council Wednesday extended the mandate of the independent probe into the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri.

  

MOSCOW, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Russia will supply Lebanon with 10 used MiG-29 Fulcrum fighter planes free of charge, a Russian official said Wednesday.

  

The 10 MIG-29 fighter jets would significantly upgrade their antiquated air force and serve as a slap to the United States, Lebanon's main military partner.

  

BEIRUT (Reuters) - An Ethiopian housemaid lies bandaged in a government hospital after falling from a 12th floor balcony. She says her Lebanese employer pushed her off.

  

Russia is to supply Lebanon with 10 used MiG-29 fighter jets as a gift and is in talks with Beirut to sell it armoured vehicles for its ground forces, a top Russian armaments supply official has said.

  

Lebanon cannot overcome the negative impact of the world financial crisis if it does not reform its economic model to become more productive, former Finance Minister Georges Corm said Wednesday. "Lebanon has to shift from an economy dependant on the flows and remittances coming from outside to an economy.