LEBANON … Owners of Lebanon Raceway are considering purchasing state-owned land to build a race track/casino facility near Interstate 75, just outside of Monroe.Representatives of the harness racing track have spent more than a year looking at various sites along the I-75 corridor between Monroe and Dayton. Keith Nixon, one of the co-owners of the Lebanon Raceway, confirmed to the JournalNews ...

  

Naming Frank Dixon the Lebanon Daily News Citizen of the Year for 2011 almost seems misleading. After reviewing all that Dixon has done over the past decade, the title Citizen of the Decade might be more in order.

  

Following are summaries of some of the main stories in a selection of Lebanese newspapers Saturday. The Daily Star cannot vouch for the accuracy of these reports.

  

Some Lebanese lawmakers are promising that addressing people's socio-economic needs...

  

Interior Minister Marwan Charbel denied again Friday that Al-Qaeda members were operating in Lebanon...

  

Beirut Stock Exchange closed its second worst year in a decade, as a triple whammy of domestic political turbulence...

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Saudi Arabia in 2011 dismissed efforts at reform and instead turned to silence opposition voices in the country, Human Rights Watch said.

  

Around 250 demonstrators staged a sit-in Friday on the approach to the U.S. Embassy in Beirut to celebrate the recent U.S. withdrawal from Iraq amid strict security measures.

  

Following are summaries of some of the main stories in a selection of Lebanese newspapers Friday.

  

Lebanon pledged Thursday to tighten security and prevent arms smuggling across its border with Syria following reports that Al-Qaeda militants were infiltrating the country.

  

The Philippines says it is ready to lift a deployment ban to Lebanon adopted in 2006 when Manila signs a bilateral agreement with Beirut in January but has warned its citizens against travelling to Syria.

  

The Obama administration said Thursday that it was hitting two Lebanese-Colombian men and dozens of companies they run with sanctions for allegedly laundering money on behalf of Mexican and Colombian drug cartels.

  

In the northern part of Lebanon Township, the Spruce Run begins its winding, southwesterly journey to the reservoir of the same name. Spruce Run Reservoir is the third largest in New Jersey, and part of a water supply system that...

  

Lebanese Army head Gen. Jean Kahwagi met with a delegation from the Bekaa border town of Arsal Thursday following several security incidents involving Syrian army incursions and killings of Lebanese residents.

  

Two Lebanese men were arrested near the coastal city of Jounieh Thursday for possession of cocaine and narcotic pills, a security source said.

  

BEIRUT, Dec 29 Prime Minister Najib Mikati said there was no evidence that al Qaeda militants were operating in Lebanon, countering the defence minister's statement that the global network had sent operatives into the Lebanon-Syria border area. Grappling with a nine-month anti-government revolt, Syria has blamed al Qaeda for a double car bomb ...

  

Higher Defense Council, meeting to discuss allegations over Al-Qaeda presence in Lebanon, stressed the need to prevent arms smuggling across the border with Syria.

  

(MENAFN - Qatar News Agency) Three people were killed last night at the Buqaya border crossing in the Lebanese northern town of Akkar, when fire was opened from the Syrian side. The three men ...

  

29 December 2011- The Philippine Embassy in Beirut reported to the Department of Foreign Affairs that the Embassy, together with the Philippine Overseas Labor Office (POLO) in Beirut, arranged the repatriation of 23 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs)-in-distress from Lebanon, almost all of whom have defied the deployment ban last December 24. The OFWs departed Beirut in early morning of December ...

  

Finance Minister Raya Hassan said the government is working hard on supporting and activating the work of organizations such as First Protocol, a global communications agency.

  

The Lebanon High School girls basketball team had nearly a week off before playing host to McNary on Dec. 22, but the Warriors didn't go stale during its winter break.

  

The lawyer of a Lebanese family running a used car dealership in Georgia, U.S., says the family is a victim in the U.S lawsuit against Lebanese suspected of funneling money to Hezbollah.

  

Ministers are taking part in their last session of Cabinet for 2011. Hot issues like oil exploration and wage hikes are not on the Cabinet's agenda.

  

Lebanon: Rasamny-Younis Motor Company S.A.L. (RYMCO), exclusive dealer of Nissan Motors in Lebanon, has today announced the sell-out of the all-new 2012 Nissan Micra in Lebanon following record-breaking sales and heavy demand for the fourth generation of the iconic city car. [AMEInfo.com]

  

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TYRE, Lebanon … An explosion tore through a restaurant in the southern Lebanese town of Tyre at dawn Wednesday, just a few metres from a hotel that was bombed last month, a security source told AFP.

  

The specter of the economic slowdown which loomed over Lebanon this year amid the tense political atmosphere in the country and the regional turmoil will probably persist in 2012.

  

BEIRUT … Lebanese security officials say Syrian troops opened fire at a car that crossed illegally into northern Lebanon, killing three Lebanese men. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations. The shooting came late Tuesday as Arab League observers started a mission in Syria aimed at stopping nine months of bloody clashes during an uprising against the regime. Read ...

  

Three Lebanese men were shot dead Tuesday evening by gunfire from the Syrian side of the border with north Lebanon.

  

A Lebanon man was charged with being a fugitive from justice on Christmas Eve.

  

Lebanon City police said they are looking for a man accused of hitting and biting a woman during a domestic violence incident around 3:30 a.m. Saturday in the 1100 block of Cumberland Street.

  

Lebanon will not send observers to Syria as part of an Arab League mission in order to avoid "negative repercussions".

  

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Government tanks pounded neighborhoods of Homs on Monday, killing more than 30 people, city residents said, as Arab officials arrived in Syria to monitor compliance with a peace plan aimed at ending the crackdown on an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad. Fifty monitors and 10 other officials from the Arab League arrived from Egypt on a private plane, the first ...

  

BEIRUT (Reuters) - At least 23 people were killed as Syrian tank forces battled opponents of President Bashar al-Assad in Homs on Monday, residents said, ahead of a planned visit by Arab League monitors to verify whether he is ending a violent crackdown on unrest.

  

Two Lebanese were wounded from Syrian army gunshots Monday morning in the northern town of Arsal, as two Syrian army tanks crossed into a border town in Hermel, Bekaa Monday afternoon.

  

Lebanese authorities at Rafik Hariri International Airport foiled Monday an attempt to smuggle drugs to Cairo, Egypt.

  

A 20-year-old man was struck by a car and killed Monday while crossing a highway in Dora, Beirut, police said.

  

Few matches in international football have brought collective joy to an entire nation, filling its people with short-term optimism and a feeling that they are on top of the world. The 2007 Asian Cup final was one such occasion, when war-torn Iraq fielded a team combined of Muslim and Christian players, defied all odds and overcame all obstacles, ending with Younis Mahmoud lifting the Asian Cup ...

  

Lebanon has agreed to take advantage of law-enforcement expertise from the Gulf emirate of Dubai.

  

Lebanon - The 32-acre Skaats Farm at 420 Clubhouse Road has been preserved by the Connecticut Farmland Trust in conjunction with the Natural Resource Conservation Service's Farm and

  

The Lebanese Army urged citizens over the weekend not fire celebratory gunfire on the occasion of the end of the year holidays.

  

Speaker Nabih Berri and Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblatt expressed their condolences Friday to Iraqi leaders over a wave of deadly bombings that hit Iraq the day before.

  

A Fatah member was handed over to the Lebanese Army Friday over the recent killing of the bodyguard of a senior Fatah commander in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh.

  

LEBANON … Police are concerned for the safety of two young girls taken by their father Thursday morning.According to Lebanon police, Bryan Hampton, 38, left his house on Maple Drive around 10:30 a.m. Thursday after telling his wife, Teresa, he was going to the store for milk. The man remains missing as of Friday morning, police said.

  

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon warned Damascus two days ago that al Qaeda had infiltrated into Syria from its territory, Syria's Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Friday, after two explosions rocked Syria's capital killing at least 40 people. "The Lebanese authorities warned us two days ago that al Qaeda group infiltrated to Syria from (north Lebanon's town of) Ersal," spokesman Jihad Makdesi told ...

  

Three men are charged with holding a Lebanon woman in her home at a public housing complex while they tried to hide from police.

  

Lebanon Police are searching for a man and his two daughters who haven't been seen since Thursday morning. The children are considered endangered missing.

  

Culture Minister Gaby Layoun has signed a decree (Decree 133/2011) stating that the city's landmark Masrah Beirut is part of the countrys artistic heritage and henceforward a protected structure.

  

Hiam Abu Ragheb has big dreams for her 19-month-old triplets despite being a bedouin without papers in Lebanon. Her sons will be doctors Bahaa a gynaecologist and Saad a surgeon and her daughter Nazek will be a lawyer or journalist.

  

Lebanon publicly presented its climate change stance Wednesday ahead of the United Nation's climate conference in Mexico next week. The country is vowing to play an integral part in the negotiations to establish an international climate treaty and push for the adoption of a "fair and comprehensive deal" where a just "burden would have to be met by developed countries".

  

Lebanese group Hezbollah on Thursday denied charges by the United States that the Shiite militant movement was involved in drug trafficking and money laundering schemes to fund its activities.

  

Chocolatiers in Lebanon have created a life-sized nativity scene using 120,000 red, green, silver and gold foil-wrapped bonbons to embellish Baby Jesus, Joseph and the Virgin Mary.

  

LEBANON, Mo.…Wal-Mart has pulled a batch of powdered infant formula from more than 3,000 of its stores nationwide after a newborn Missouri boy who was fed the formula died from what preliminary tests indicate was a rare bacterial infection, the retailer said.

  

Following are summaries of some of the main stories in a selection of Lebanese newspapers Thursday.

  

A delegation of March 14 Beirut MPs visited President Michel Sleiman Wednesday, kicking off efforts to achieve the coalition's long-standing demand for an arms-free capital.

  

The number of containers handled by Port of Beirut surpassed the 1 million mark in 2011.

  

American man found dead in Lebanon had accidental fall while climbing in mountainous area

  

The North Lebanon Township supervisors approved the 2012 budget at their Monday night meeting with only one small revision from the budget proposed at their November board meeting.

  

A tour of Beirut's sectarian divisons

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- The U.S. State Department Tuesday confirmed the death of U.S. journalist John Redwine, whose disfigured body was found on Lebanon's Mount Sannine.

  

Lebanese troops have found the body of an American man who had been missing for three days in a remote mountainous area of the country, security officials said Tuesday.

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- Lebanese Defense Minister Fayez Ghosn said Israel was behind rockets fired into the Jewish state, calling it an effort to undermine security in south Lebanon.

  

Most of the Syrian refugees recovering in a Lebanese hospital are from small towns near the border. Their stories illustrate the perils facing many Syrians as Assad's regime cracks down.

  

The Lebanese Army has arrested a ring of forgers who copied and sold identity cards, university degrees and other legal documents, a military communique said Tuesday.

  

A US investigation has revealed that proceeds from drug smuggling and other criminal enterprises have been laundered through a prominent Lebanese bank and used as funding for militant group Hezbollah.

  

Lebanon's Hezbollah is denying US allegations of involvement in a $300 million laundering scheme and drugs trafficking, with its deputy leader claiming in comments published Tuesday the charges were false ...

  

BEIRUT Hezbollahs deputy leader has rejected as unjust U.S. accusations of the militant group' involvement in a money laundering scheme and drugs trafficking. Sheik Naim Kassem says the Iran-backed Shiite Muslim group does not follow a religiously prohibited path to develop its resources. U.S. federal authorities last week said Lebanese financial institutions wired more than $300 million ...

  

Lebanese political figures were divided Monday over the potential consequences of Syria's approval of the Arab Leagues plan, under which Arab observers will visit the country.

  

Port of Beirut has performed much better than other economic sectors in the country as activity and transshipment reached all time high this year, the head of the port said Monday.

  

The Lebanese army on Monday said it had uncovered four Grad rockets in an olive grove near the volatile border with Israel.

  

The MPs say the situation can no longer be met with words of condemnation and requires a bold decision by political and security forces.

  

The Nation Brand Perception Index (NBPI) ranked Lebanon in 194th place among 200 countries and territories around the world and in 18th place among 20 countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region in the third quarter of 2010, as reported by Lebanon This Week, the economic publication of the Byblos Bank Group.

  

BEIRUT - Security officials say Lebanese troops have discovered four rockets near the country's border with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.

  

Lebanese Army commander General Jean Kahwagi said Thursday that the army would not allow political disparity among the Lebanese to turn into armed conflict regardless of the sacrifices the army will have to make to preserve civil peace.

  

Lebanon: The third edition of Menasart-Fair (Beirut Art Fair) will take place from July 5-8, 2012 at the Beirut International Exhibition Leisure Center (BIEL), the organizers of one of the leading contemporary arts fair in the region announced. The fair has been now named as Beirut Art Fair. [AMEInfo.com]

  

Administrative office of Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts, ALBA, in Beirut, broken into overnight.

  

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In response to the interview made by Jim Quilty with Danielle Arbid and Sabine Sidawi, which was published in your respectable newspaper, page 16, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011 about the film Beirut Hotel".

  

AIN EL-HILWEH, Lebanon (Reuters) - Sporadic clashes broke out between armed factions in Lebanon's largest Palestinian refugee camp Sunday after the bodyguard of an official there was killed, a witness and security officials said.

  

Security officials say tensions are running high in Lebanon's largest refugee camp after a shooting that killed a bodyguard of a prominent Palestinian.

  

Lebanon: Jammal Trust Bank SAL (JTB), the first Lebanese private commercial banking institution to offer services in the UK and Egypt, selected ICS Banks, the award winning of "Banking Software of the Year 2010"in Nigeria, from ICS Financial Systems Limited (ICSFS), the global software and services provider for banks and financial institutions. [AMEInfo.com]

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- France may pull some of its troops out of the U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon, Beirut, al-Liwaa reported.

  

Lebanon: The Order of Nurses in Lebanon has launched a pensions' fund and financial aids, during an extraordinary session of the General Meeting at the campus of Medical Sciences at the St Joseph University in Beirut. The meeting was attended by a large number of nursing professionals, from various regions in Lebanon. [AMEInfo.com]

  

LEBANON TWP. … Gwen H. Thornton, from New Jersey School Boards Association, who is helping the district search for a new superintendent is looking for comments from the community. Current superintendent Judith Burd will be retiring in June when her...

  

LEBANON TWP. … The township tax collector has filed another lawsuit against her employer, after being told her position was being eliminated. In early November, Lebanon and Tewksbury Townships each adopted resolutions agreeing to share a tax collector. Under the...

  

Syrians fleeing violence find safety in northern Lebanon

  

Lebanon's Shura Council approves Cabinets decision to increase wages, but criticizes the way decision was reached.

  

Following are summaries of some of the main stories in a selection of Lebanese newspapers Friday.

  

Several Lebanese financial institutions with alleged ties to Hezbollah were part of a massive scheme that funneled hundreds of millions of dollars in criminal proceeds through the United States, prosecutors here charged on Thursday.

  

All Lebanese political factions are responsible for maintaining civil peace and avoiding violent rhetoric, the Lebanese Forces (LF) said Friday in reference to an attack on one of its party offices. Two unidentified people shot into the air facing the LF's office in the northern town of Kousba Thursday evening, a security source reported.

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- Teachers and school officials across Lebanon held a strike Thursday to protest a government pay hike decision.

  

A UN "strategy" review of its peacekeeping force in Lebanon, which has been hit by several attacks in recent months, is to be completed in coming weeks, a UN spokesman said Thursday.

  

Staff ReportA Lebanon company will celebrate a $10 million, 26,000-square-foot expansion Thursday.

  

CAPITALS- Lebanese President, Michel Suleiman said that democracy is a top priority in Syria and the main goal of the Syrian people and leadership, affirming that the spread of democracy in the region will reflect positively on Lebanon.

  

A young mother with 6-month-old triplets, a laborer still fearful of reprisals, a preacher whose wife was shot dead at an illegal border crossing, wounded in hospitals, a man living in a converted classroom -- these are among the 5,000 or more Syrian refugees living in Lebanon.

  

Prosecutors filed a civil suit to punish American and Lebanese businesses the government says were behind a Hezbollah-controlled network that laundered cocaine proceeds.

  

Beirut started out as a bedroom recording project for Santa Fe, N.M., songwriter Zach Condon, but five years after its recorded debut it has grown into a marching band. At least it more resembles a marching band than a rock band, with a whole section of brass and nary an electric guitar in sight. The band has taken a more upbeat, accessible turn on this year's The Rip Tide album its third ...

  

28,000 runners will descend on Beirut Sunday for one of the biggest events in the Lebanese sporting calendar.Lebanese hopes rest on the broad shoulders of Hussein Awada who is attempting to break the Lebanese course record of 2:23:58 and his personal record of 2:20:24, a record he set at the Berlin Marathon.

  

Beirut started out as a bedroom recording project for Sante Fe songwriter Zach Condon, but five years after its recorded debut it's grown into a marching band. At least it more resembles a marching band than a rock band, with a whole section of brass and nary an electric guitar in sight. The band has taken a more upbeat, accessible turn on this years The Rip Tide album their third full ...

  

Hear Beirut in a live concert webcast from The 9:30 Club on Dec. 14 at 9:00 p.m. ET.

  

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BEIRUT, Lebanon, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- The owner of a Beirut hotel has been indicted for alleged involvement in shipping cocaine and laundering drug money, U.S. prosecutors said Tuesday.

  

McLEAN, Va. -- A Lebanese national who U.S. authorities say is the ringleader of a vast international drug smuggling ring with links to the militant group Hezbollah has been indicted on drug and money-laundering charges after allegedly reaping more than $850 million in illicit profits.

  

U.S. authorities are building a politically explosive case that Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant group, finances itself through a vast drug-smuggling network that links a Lebanese bank, a violent Mexican cartel, and U.S. cocaine users.Related: Gunmen Set Mexican Casino on Fire, Kill at Least 53

  

Lebanon was congratulated Tuesday for its ratification of an international treaty banning the use of cluster bombs, as the world's first meeting of countries affected by the weapons got under way in Laos.

  

BEIRUT - The lawyer for a New Brunswick farmer jailed in Lebanon says a request from the Canadian government could get his client released.

  

ALEXANDRIA, Va. Federal prosecutors have indicted a Lebanese national who they say is the leader of a massive international drug smuggling ring with links to the militant group Hezbollah and has allegedly raked in more than $850 million from drugs and money laundering. An indictment charging Ayman Joumaa (JEW-mah), also known as Junior, was unsealed late Monday in federal court in Alexandria ...

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- Hezbollah, in a statement on its news agency, al-Manar, said the CIA should be worried about more sensitive information than its officers' names.

  

Police try to help Lebanese woman who said she was lost in the woods after she managed to escape from her kidnappers in Jbeil, north of Beirut.

  

Lebanon: LG Electronics, the global specialist and technology innovator in consumer electronics, mobile communications and home appliances, held a 'Scan it to Win it' competition between 5 and 11 December at City Mall to introduce its revolutionary Mouse Scanner to the Lebanese market. [AMEInfo.com]

  

Lebanon: Lebanon's central bank governor, Riad Salameh has said the country's banking industry is "unaffected" by Moody's Investors Service's decision to lower the credit outlook on lenders to 'Negative' from 'Stable,' Bloomberg has reported. "The Lebanese banking sector is not exposed, according to our stress tests, in a way that could jeopardise their performance," Salameh said. "We were surprised that they did not talk to us to have the full picture before they did this." [AMEInfo.com]

  

An agency spokeswoman declined to confirm or deny the information in the militant group's broadcast, but the C.I.A. has said it suffered setbacks in Lebanon.

  

Hezbollah MP Nawwaf Moussawi claimed that U.S. CIA officers were meeting Lebanese agents in public in the Metn area and called on the government to act to deal with U.S. intelligence in the same way they deal with collaboration with Israel.

  

Marilyn Monroe is one of the 20th century's great icons, but what would happen to the screen siren if you took her out of Hollywood and placed her in Beirut?

  

The militant group Hezbollah has revealed the identities of CIA officers working undercover in Lebanon, a blow to agency operations in the region and the latest salvo in an escalating spy war.

  

BEIRUT (Reuters) - France says it believes Syria was behind an attack on U.N. peacekeepers in south Lebanon. While Paris has no proof, Damascus has plenty of armed supporters who might try to destabilize Lebanon to divert attention from its own turmoil. Foreign Minister Alain Juppe blamed Syria on Sunday, singling out its powerful Lebanese ally Hezbollah which holds sway in southern Lebanon ...

  

A rocket fired from Lebanon toward Israel fell short, wounding a Lebanese woman, officials said Monday.

  

Syria on Monday denied involvement in a bombing that wounded five French UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon, a day after France said Damascus was probably behind the attack.

  

The 2011 Beirut Chants Festival, hosted by Solidere, welcomed the London Community Gospel Choir Friday night at St. George's Cathedral downtown, adding some soul to this years holiday music event.

  

Lebanese Army denies reports that soldiers clashed with Israeli troops along the border.

  

BEIRUT … A rocket fired from Lebanon toward Israel fell short, wounding a Lebanese woman, a senior Lebanese military official said Monday. The attack comes nearly two weeks after rockets fired from Lebanese territory hit the Jewish state for the first time in two years. It follows rising concerns that conflict in neighboring Syria may spill across the border.

  

Lebanon: Parfois opened last December 5th 2011 its first store in Lebanon, in ABC Achrafieh Shopping Center, the leading Mall in Lebanon located at the heart of the capital. The aim is to bring every week novelties to all Lebanese women and to become their favorite fashion accessories brand. [AMEInfo.com]

  

A woman was injured after a rocket fired in southern Lebanon landed in a Lebanese village near the border with Israel, a senior security official told AFP.

  

PARIS (Reuters) - France's Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said on Sunday Paris believed Syria was behind attacks on its troops in Lebanon earlier this week. A roadside bomb wounded five French peacekeepers in southern Lebanon on Friday, in the third attack this year on United Nations forces deployed near the frontier with Israel. "We have strong reason to believe these attacks came from there ...

  

(MENAFN - Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) Lebanese delegation is due to take part in a workshop scheduled to be held in Kuwait later on Sunday to promote investment opportunities in the local property ...

  

2011 began with yet another governmental crisis for Lebanon, as the ministers affiliated to the March 8 coalition walked out of Premier Saad Hariri's cabinet, forcing its collapse. With impeccable (and, no doubt, carefully calculated) timing, the representatives of Hizballah, its Shiite frenemy AMAL, and the Free Patriotic Movement, led ...

  

Serzh Sargsyan: Michel Sleiman's visit to Armenia proved the interest of both friendly states in further development of ties.

  

Lebanon: Byblos Bank gathered around 1700 employees from its Headquarters and 78 branches all over Lebanon in its annual gathering held at the Emirates Hall at the Habtoor Grand Hotel. [AMEInfo.com]

  

Five French peacekeepers have been wounded by a roadside bomb, the third such attack this year against the UN force in Lebanon.

  

The United States on Friday condemned a roadside bomb attack in Lebanon that wounded five French peacekeepers, and urged Beirut to tackle its security problems in the south of the country.

  

BEIRUT … Five French peacekeepers and two Lebanese civilians were wounded on Friday in a roadside bombing that targeted a United Nations convoy in south Lebanon, U.N. and Lebanese officials said.

  

Michel Sleiman, in turn, congratulated speaker Samvel Nikoyan on his election to the post, parliamentary press service reported.

  

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Turkey warned Syria on Friday it would act to protect itself if a Syrian government crackdown on protesters threatened regional security and unleashed a tide of refugees on its borders. At least 14 Syrians were shot dead as protesters took the streets following Friday prayers and ahead of a general strike called for Sunday, according to a network of anti-government activists ...

  

BEIRUT … A roadside bomb struck a vehicle carrying United Nations peacekeepers in southern Lebanon on Friday, wounding five French soldiers and a Lebanese bystander, officials said.

  

BEIRUT A roadside bomb struck a vehicle carrying United Nations peacekeepers in southern Lebanon on Friday, wounding five French soldiers and a Lebanese bystander, officials said. This was the third bombing this year targeting the international force known as UNIFIL, which is deployed to keep the peace along Lebanon's southern border with Israel. No group has claimed responsibility for the ...

  

A roadside bomb struck a vehicle carrying United Nations peacekeepers in southern Lebanon on Friday, wounding five French soldiers and a Lebanese bystander, officials said.

  

A bomb struck a UN peacekeeping patrol in the Lebanese coastal town of Tyre on Friday, wounding five French soldiers, one of them severely, and two civilians, a security official and the army said.

  

A bomb exploded near a United Nations convoy in southern Lebanon on Friday, wounding five peacekeepers in the third attack on the contingent this year, officials said.

  

BEIRUT A roadside bombing in southern Lebanon on Friday wounded at least five U.N. peacekeepers, Lebanese military and security officials said. A Lebanese security official said the bomb went off in the Bourj al-Shamali area near the port city of Tyre, damaging a vehicle that was carrying French troops serving with the U.N. peacekeeping force deployed near Lebanon's border with Israel. Read ...

  

TYRE, Lebanon (Reuters) - A bomb exploded near a UNIFIL peacekeeping patrol on Friday, wounding five French soldiers in southern Lebanon, a witness and security sources said. The blast, which hit a jeep carrying the French peacekeepers on the outskirts of the city of Tyre, was the third attack on the UNIFIL forces deployed to keep the peace along Lebanon's southern frontier with Israel. "I can ...

  

TYRE, Lebanon (Reuters) - Several United Nations peacekeepers were wounded when an explosion struck their patrol in southern Lebanon on Friday, a witness and security sources said. They said the blast hit a vehicle carrying French members of the UNIFIL peacekeeping contingent in the city of Tyre. A Reuters reporter saw at least six wounded people. Security sources said seven people were wounded ...

  

On December 8, 2011, USA Shooting released their list of the 2011 Athletes of the Year. Among the discipline awards winners was Lebanon, Pennsylvania, native Jamie Gray. Gray is better known to most by her maiden name, Beyerle.

  

Lebanon President praised Beirut-Yerevan ties, expressing a wish for his visit to Yerevan to promote their further development.

  

BEIRUT (Reuters) - A Syrian pipeline carrying crude from oilfields in the east of the country was blown up near the restive city of Homs Thursday, according to anti-government activists and the official news agency SANA. Clouds of thick black smoke billowed over a high-rise suburb of the city, the epicenter of popular unrest against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad that began in March. Refinery ...

  

Mykola Azarov meets with Lebanon's top officials in a bid to strengthen economic and trade relations between the two countries.

  

No statements made after U.S. assistant secretary of state for near Eastern affairs, meets with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri and Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblatt on second day of talks.

  

Since its official start in 2006, the mixed bag of music that is Beirut has been tagged a one-man band. Surely that comes down to the fact that the genre-hopping, oompah-cabaret compositions of Beirut come from a singular font: Zach Condon.

  

Beirut MP Mohammad Qabbani, the chair of Parliament's Public Works, Transport, Energy and Water Committee...

  

Beirut, performing Saturday and Sunday at the Altar Bar, has somehow reached a level of considerable success with a sound that's constantly on the move.

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- Washington is willing to help the Lebanese military secure its borders, a U.S. diplomat said during a visit with Lebanon's prime minister.

  

Beirut (dpa)- A senior US envoy held talks Wednesday with Lebanese Premier Najib Mikati on the security situation in Lebanon and neighboring Syria, a government source told dpa.US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, Jeffrey Feltman, arrived in Beirut on a two-day visit, and was scheduled to meet with Lebanese president Michel Suleiman as well as other officials from the pro ...

  

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has denied ordering his troops to kill peaceful demonstrators, telling the U.S. television channel ABC that only a "crazy" leader kills his own people.

  

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Lebanon police are still looking for the person who robbed the First Federal Bank on Friday afternoon.

  

WEST LEBANON - In what was the final municipal act for commissioners Edward Winters and George Gross, the township approved a budget for 2012 on Monday night that calls for a 4-mill property tax increase.

  

Hassan Nasrallah made a rare public appearance on Tuesday in Beirut, reiterating his support for Syria's government and claiming that his group was better trained and armed than ever.

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- In a rare public appearance Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said Israel "is the tool of the U.S. against Arabs and Muslims," and called on Muslims to unite.

  

Hassan Nasrallah attends Beirut rally, telling supporters group is "increasing in numbers and in weapons".

  

Lebanon's Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah has made his first public appearance since 2008, appearing before a frenzied crowd in his stronghold.

  

The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah's group made a rare public appearance at a Beirut rally on Tuesday to mark the Muslim holy day of Ashoura.

  

Hezbollah's leader has made his first public appearance in years at a Beirut rally to mark the Muslim holy day of Ashoura.

  

Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah made a rare appearance at a Ashura procession in the southern suburbs of Beirut Tuesday.

  

Michel Sleiman is set to hold talks with Armenia's President Serzh Sargsyan and Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan.

  

The Army arrested 500 people of different nationalities on various charges during the month of November, according to a statement it issued Monday.

  

James Bond star Daniel Craig says he once considered a career as a journalist in Beirut, but decided it was too dangerous.

  

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria said on Monday it "would like" to agree soon to an Arab League peace plan to end its eight-month crackdown on popular unrest, but rejected foreign interference and demanded the annulment of sanctions plus reinstatement in the regional bloc. The conditions were set in a letter to the League by Foreign Minister Walid al-Mualem, described by his spokesman as a "positive ...

  

James Bond star Daniel Craig says he once considered a career as a journalist in Beirut, but decided it was too dangerous.

  

Lebanon filed Monday a complaint against Israel at the United Nations for firing missiles into south Lebanon on Nov. 29.

  

As Syria staggers under unprecedented Arab and global sanctions, Lebanon and Iraq are poised to provide economic corridors for their crisis-hit neighbour without explicitly breaching the restrictions, experts say.

  

The former Miss USA, Lebanese immigrant Rima Fakih, was arrested for drunk driving over the weekend, according to local media in Dearborn, Michigan.

  

Pilots at Lebanese national carrier Middle East Airlines (MEA) have ended a five-day strike in protest at the dismissal of a cancer-stricken colleague which grounded dozens of flights at Beirut airport.

  

Lebanon: Lebanese tourism minister Fadi Abboud has said restaurants in major cities are now obliged to designate sufficient parking space for their customers in a bid to lessen traffic jams in popular areas, The Daily Star has reported. Enterprises should also send the ministry a copy of a contract within one month detailing that they have reserved an area for parking. The minister also asked restaurants "to organize traffic in front of their entrances and not allow their valet attendants to park vehicles on public roads obstructing the movement of traffic." [AMEInfo.com]

  

LEBANON … Of Alton Marquette's five starters, Sam Scheiter has the lowest scoring average of 7.8.

  

Lebanon: Lebanon's Middle East Airlines (MEA) has announced it would resume operations of all flights following a strike by pilots, Kuna has reported. Most of MEA flights stopped last Tuesday after pilots staged a strike in protest of the company's termination of pilot's contract after he took a sick leave. MEA will resume flights as of noon today, the airline said. [AMEInfo.com]

  

Assistant secretary of state for near Eastern affairs to visit Beirut next week to discuss the Syrian uprising, funding for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon and Israel's security, reported the Lebanese media.

  

Lebanon: Under the patronage of the President of the Council of Ministers His Excellency Najib Mikati, Cisco, the European Investment Bank (EIB), and Riyada Enterprise Development (a member of the Abraaj group) jointly announced the launch of the $50m Lebanon Growth Capital Fund which will provide long-term capital and institutional support to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Lebanon. [AMEInfo.com]

  

Following are summaries of some of the main stories in a selection of Lebanese newspapers Saturday. The Daily Star cannot vouch for the accuracy of these reports.

  

It takes a second or so to realize there is something strange about the gleaming black Mercedes not least the fact that it is parked at a rakish angle in the middle of the Beirut Art Center's ground floor exhibition space.

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- At least two people were injured Friday in an explosion in southern Lebanon, residents of the area said.

  

BEIRUT - The United Nations' human rights chief called on the international community to protect Syrian civilians Friday as violence surged across the country, with hours of intense shooting that sent stray bullets whizzing across the border.

  

Clashes nationwide kill 4, including 11-year-old girl who was struck by stray bullets that crossed border into Lebanon

  

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Some fear walking down main streets. Some go into hiding. For many Syrian activists who have fled across the border, Lebanon is an uneasy refuge. "You always worry that you're still in reach of the hands of the Syrian regime," said one activist, whispering in the corner of a busy coffee shop in Beirut. "Being on the other side of the border doesn't mean much." Syria denies it ...

  

Two men and two women injured in heavy shooting from the Syrian side of the border with Lebanon.

  

Looking for that perfect kibbeh recipe like your mom used to make? Find it with ease at the Lebanese web startup shahiya.com … an online tool for recipe sharing in the Middle East.

  

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Thursday his party was not happy with the prime minister's helping to fund a U.N.-backed court investigating the killing of statesman Rafik al-Hariri, but that it would not work against it.

  

The leader of Hezbollah sought to reassure Lebanon on Thursday that he has no interest in stirring up trouble over an international investigation that has targeted members of his Shiite militant group.

  

The UN-backed court probing the murder of Lebanese ex-premier Rafiq Hariri thanked Beirut on Thursday for making its annual payment and hailed its commitment to the rule of law.

  

BEIRUT (Reuters) - The United States, European Union and Arab League blacklisted Syrian VIPs and companies on Thursday to force an end to the military crackdown on protesters challenging the rule of President Bashar al-Assad.

  

The exhibition also includes a wide range of figurative sculptures in bronze by Mkrtich Mazmanian … father of the gallery owner.

  

BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Arab League put Syrian VIPs on a travel ban list Thursday and European Union foreign ministers readied a raft of economic sanctions against President Bashar al-Assad to press him into stopping a military crackdown on popular protests. Syria's crisis erupted in March with street unrest inspired by anti-authoritarian revolts elsewhere in the Arab world. But driven by Assad's ...

  

For Beirut, Athens is more than just another tour stop, according to bassist Paul Collins, which says a lot. Beirut has a following all over the world and regularly tours in Europe.