Lebanon: The Department of Dermatology at the American University of Beirut Medical Center will be holding its "9th Dermatology Update" on January 31 and February 1 at 9:00 am in Issam Fares Hall. [AMEInfo.com]

(WARSAW ) - Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Saturday Poland may withdraw its troops from Chad and Lebanon as part of a 3.9 billion euro cost-cutting plan to help ward off the financial crisis.

Waltz With Bashir , Israeli film-maker Ari Folman's Oscar-nominated film about the horrors of the 1982 Lebanon war, has been shown in Beirut for the first time. A small private screening was held at a production centre in the south of the capital, despite a nationwide ban on Israeli products. German-born Monika Borgmann, who runs the centre with her Lebanese husband, Lokman Slim, said she ...

LEBANON ? Oregon turns 150 next month, and the Lebanon Public Library is inviting everyone to the party.

The Syrian football team who participated in the Asian Cup in Lebanon complained about the "unsuitable welcome" in Lebanon, As-Safir daily reported Friday. Six Syrian football players and officials were poisoned, and became sick during their stay in a Beirut hotel, prompting youth and sport minister Talal Arslan to announce that he is investigating the case. Head of the Syrian delegation Baha ...

Lebanese artist Dominique Horani said that entering motherhood is like a dream come true for her and with motherhood she had accomplished what she wished for in life.

BEIRUT: Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah vowed on Thursday to avenge the killing of top commander Imad Mughniyeh who died in a Damascus car bombing last year which the Shia militant group blamed on Israel.

BEIRUT: Bank Audi yesterday posted a 19 per cent rise in net profit for last year. It said it aimed to increase net earnings and assets this year despite a difficult regional economic outlook.

Beirut - An Iranian aid ship carrying medical supplies for Gaza has arrived in Beirut after its organizers said Friday it was denied entry by Egypt. Ghazanfar Rokn-Abadi, spokesman for the Gaza Reconstruction Committee of Iran, said: The ship was fo...

Beirut - The head of the Christian-dominated Lebanese Forces, Samir Geagea, hit back Friday at Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah for accusations against his party regarding the fate of four Iranians who went missing in Lebanon in 1982. Who can...

BEIRUT, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Lebanon's Bank Audi aims to increase net profit in 2009 despite a difficult outlook, the bank's chief financial officer said on Friday.

(AP:NASHVILLE, Tenn.) Dell Inc. will close part of its Lebanon plant and move more than 250 employees about 25 miles west to Nashville next week. Dell spokesman Ken Bissell says employees who built desktop computers would now either box, ship or handle materials in the company's distribution center.

BEIRUT, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Lebanon's Bank Audi aims to increase net profit in 2009 despite a difficult outlook, the bank's chief financial officer said on Friday.

BEIRUT: These lo-fi indie darlings led by a singer barely old enough to drink play Wednesday at 8 p.m. Music Hall of Williamsburg, 66 N. Sixth St., Brooklyn; 718-486-5400. THE PRETENDERS: Back on the chain gang and back on the road, Chrissie...

BEIRUT, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Bank Audi, one of Lebanon's top two banks, said on Friday its 2008 net profit rose 19 percent to $238.5 million. The bank said in a statement its customer deposits rose nearly 21 percent to $17.3 billion and total assets also went up 18 percent to $20.4 billion. The bank's shares last traded at $46.9 on Jan. 23 and its GDR closed at $49.9 on Thursday, just off a year ...

Dell Inc. said it plans to close the part of its Lebanon, Tenn., facility that manufactures desktop computers on Friday, due to weaker sales for the products.

BEIRUT, Jan 29 (KUNA) -- Representative of the Kuwait Fund for Arab and Economic Development Dr. Mohammed Sadeqi continued meetings with senior Lebanese officials Thursday regarding coordination over a number of projects the fund is carrying out in Lebanon.

French President Nicola Sarkozy's envoy Philippe Marini told reporters in Beirut that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad prevented Hezbollah from taking retaliation action during the Israeli war on Gaza, local As-Safir daily reported Thursday. "President Assad told me he used his influence to make sure that Hezbollah shows restrain and adopts a responsible attitude during the Israeli war on Gaza," ...

Belgium will take command of the naval maritime forces, a part of UN Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL), after France's command expires at the end of February, local Naharnet website reported Thursday. UNIFIL spokeswoman Yasmina Bouziane said that the French 6-month command ends on Feb. 28, and will be turned over to Belgium. "As a result of the leadership transfer, several changes will be made ...

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah blamed former President George W. Bush for pushing Israel to "wipe out" the Hamas leadership in Gaza during his final days in office.

Dell Inc. said it will close part of its Lebanon, Tenn. facility that manufactures desktop PCs on Friday, due to declining demand and sales industry wide for desktop computers.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad plans to honour notorious Lebanese militant Samir Kantar who was released by Israel in a prisoner swap last year, officials said on Thursday.

BEIRUT (AFP) - Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah vowed on Thursday to avenge the killing of top commander Imad Mughniyeh who died in a Damascus car bombing last year which the Shiite militant group blamed on Israel.

BEIRUT - New US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Thursday that Washington is committed to Lebanon?s security, according to Prime Minister Fuad Siniora?s office.

BEIRUT, Lebanon - Lebanon's Hezbollah leader said Thursday there is no difference between Barack Obama and George W. Bush when it comes to Israel, and that the new US administration has so far shown full support the Jewish state - Hezbollah's archenemy.

TYRE, Lebanon (AFP)--A device exploded near the home of a Fatah official in the Palestinian refugee camp of Rashidiyeh in south Lebanon early Thursday, causing only minor damage, police said.

LEBANON TWP. ? It takes a lot to impress Paul and Michael Mergen.

Syrian Defense Minister Hassan Turkmani and Chief of Staff Ali Habib met with visiting Lebanese Defense Minister Elias Murr on Wednesday, according to the official SANA news agency. They exchanged views on "different aspects of cooperation and the mutual coordination between the two armies," it said. Turkmani underlined Syria's commitment to support the Lebanese army as it is the guaranteeing ...

?Enjoy this wine back home in Australia,? said a friend, pressing a well-regarded Lebanese red into my hands before I left Beirut. I put the bottle in my hand luggage and forgot about it.

BEIRUT, Lebanon ? Iran's president said today that the Islamic Republic was open to a new relationship with the United States ? provided Washington stops its support of Israel and apologizes for alleged misdeeds against his nation.

BEIRUT: Lebanese Minister of Labour Mohamed Fneish met here yesterday Qatar?s Ambassador to Lebanon Saad bin Ali al-Muhannadi. During the meeting, they reviewed the situation in Lebanon and means of boosting bilateral relations.

A football match highlights how far relations between Syria and Lebanon have come - and how far they have to go, writes the BBC's Natalia Antelava.

The Lebanese contingent of designers showing their couture collections this week are quietly optimistic that they can weather the current global recession.

BEIRUT, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Below is a table of the latest Lebanese economic statistics.

Pim Verbeek's rookie Australian side opened its 2011 Asian Cup qualifying campaign with a gritty 0-0 draw against Indonesia, while Singapore earned three precious points by beating Jordan 2-1.

Hot-shooting youngsters from Lebanon and around the Willamette Valley have been busy lately, sinking baskets in Elks Club Hoops Shoot contests.

Source: Reuters PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria, Jan 28 (Reuters) - The Nigerian military said on Wednesday it had freed a Lebanese construction worker hours after he was kidnapped by gunmen in the southern city of Warri. & ...

BEIRUT, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Below is a table of the latest Lebanese economic statistics.

WASHINGTON (AFP)--Venezuela's Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro has denied that his government maintains relations with the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.

GROUNDBREAKERS ? Leading Arab TV channels are sending more women journalists into conflict zones, which was an area formerly restricted to men. The photo shows an Al-Arabiya reporter in Beirut.

Looking for the feel-good girls' basketball program of the seasonSimple.Northern Lebanon.Yeah, Donegal got off to that rip-roaring 10-0 start. Lampeter-Strasburg is blasting everyone in sight. Lancaster Mennonite is working on a nice winning streak and will be going for back-to-back district ch...

Lebanon will welcome the return of FC Koln midfielder Roda Antar to the side that lost 3-1 to Vietnam. read more

A New Hampshire judge ruled in favor of the Lebanon School District, allowing plans to build a new middle school to move forward.

BEIRUT: Syria is ready for dialogue without conditions with the Obama administration, President Bashar al-Assad has said.

LEBANON--Even though her two-year-old son wandered out of Covenant Christian Child Care Center in December, Amy Dunkleberger said she doesn't want to see it close.

NORFOLK, Va. ? U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. James Hoch, a 1982 graduate of Lebanon High School, was recently presented the Bronze Star Medal for nearly a year of service as an Individual Augmentee at Forward Operating Base Shield, located in Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq. He is currently the executive officer of the Naval Submarine Support Center in Norfolk.

BEIRUT (Zawya Dow Jones)--A parliamentary panel in Kuwait has discussed a rescue plan to the economic crisis within a ceiling of 24 billion Kuwaiti dinars ($82.76 billion), Kuwait-based Al Watan daily reports Monday.

Monika Borgmann's telephone has been ringing off the hook since she ignored a Lebanese ban on showing an Oscar-nominated film made in Israel

(AP:BEIRUT, Lebanon) Monika Borgmann's telephone has been ringing off the hook since she ignored a Lebanese ban on showing an Oscar-nominated film made in Israel about the Jewish state's 1982 invasion of Lebanon.

LEBANON ? A former borough clerk has sued the borough, alleging that she was harassed by some Republican Borough Council members and that she was wrongfully fired because she would not support the local Republican Party and for pointing out illegal behavior.

BEIRUT, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Below is a table of the latest Lebanese economic statistics.

BEIRUT (AFP)--Syria has approved the nomination of Michel el-Khoury as Lebanon's first ever ambassador to Damascus, Lebanon's foreign minister said Tuesday.

The Arab League proposed the Arab Peace Initiative at the height of the second intifada in 2002. The Saudi-brokered plan, which was endorsed by the Arab League's 22 members during the March 27-28 Beirut summit, outlined comprehensive steps to ending the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

PRINCETON (AP) -- David Stuart Dodge, who as acting president of the American University of Beirut was taken hostage during Lebanon's civil war and held for a year, has died. He was 86.

David Stuart Dodge, the former head of American University of Beirut who was kidnapped by extremists during Lebanon's civil war, has died. He was 86. APDavid Stuart Dodge His wife, Margaret Dodge, said he died of cancer Jan. 20 in...

The death of the great Lebanese artist Mansour AL Rahabani was the talk of the hour on the entertainment show ?E-Scoop,? aired on Elaph internet radio. The Arab art community mourned Al Rahabani?s death. He was 84-years old.

Lebanese Sunni majority leader Saad Hariri said Saturday unity among Arab ranks would prevent Iran from interfering in Arab affairs, local Elnashra website reported. Addressing a dinner in Beirut hosting representatives of partisans living overseas, Hariri said "Iran was behind the Arab splits and divisions." "There are several confrontations (in the region) and Lebanon is the first line of ...

Negation is at the heart of "Knot," the current exhibition by Lebanese artist Annabel Daou at the David Winton Bell Gallery in the List Art Center. Even the "K" in the title is deliberately faded, leaving visitors with a bold impression of the word "not." Daou's objective is "to get to something so bare that it is almost nothing," according to the exhibition brochure.

Monika Borgmann's telephone has been ringing off the hook since she ignored a Lebanese ban on showing an Oscar-nominated film made in Israel about the Jewish state's 1982 invasion of Lebanon. The German-born Borgmann recently held a private screening of "Waltz with Bashir" for about 90 people at the southern Beirut production center she co-founded with her Lebanese husband, Lokman Slim. The ...

David Stuart Dodge PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) - David Stuart Dodge, the former head of American University of Beirut who was kidnapped by extremists during Lebanon's civil war, has died. He was 86. His wife, Margaret Dodge, said he died of cancer Jan. 20 in Princeton, N.J. In 1979, Dodge joined the faculty of the university, which had been founded by his great-grandfather Daniel Bliss in 1863. While ...

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) ? Monika Borgmann's telephone has been ringing off the hook since she ignored a Lebanese ban on showing an Oscar-nominated film made in Israel about the Jewish state's 1982 invasion of Lebanon.

BEIRUT, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Below is a table of the latest Lebanese economic statistics.

David Stuart Dodge, the former head of American University of Beirut who was kidnapped by extremists during Lebanon's civil war, has died. He was 86. His wife, Margaret Dodge, said he died of cancer Jan. 20 in Princeton, N.J. In 1979, Dodge joined the faculty of the university, which had been founded by his great-grandfather Daniel Bliss in 1863. While serving as its acting president, he was ...

(By SAMANTHA HENRY, Associated Press Writer) David Stuart Dodge, the former head of American University of Beirut who was kidnapped by extremists during Lebanon's civil war, has died. He was 86. His wife, Margaret Dodge, said he died of cancer Jan. 20 in Princeton, N.J. In 1979, Dodge joined the faculty of the university, which had been founded by his great-grandfather Daniel Bliss in 1863. ...

Inmates at the Qubbah jail in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli ended their mutiny on Monday and freed two prison wardens after night-long negotiations, a security official said.

Rival political leaders in Lebanon on Monday adjourned for more than a month negotiations on a national defence strategy at the heart of which lies the thorny issue of Hezbollah's weapons.

Lebanon: Al Jazeera Network has secured the distribution of its free-to-air channels (Al Jazeera Arabic, Al Jazeera English, Al Jazeera Documentary Channel and Al Jazeera Sport 1 & 2) with the leading cable operators in Lebanon on ECOnet and Cablevision. [AMEInfo.com]

Lebanon: A report published today by Deloitte, the business advisory firm, highlights continued, albeit cautious, optimism for private equity ('PE') activity in the MENA region for 2009. [AMEInfo.com]

A reporter who spent nearly seven years as a hostage in Lebanon now teaches a course in international journalism at University of Kentucky. Terry Anderson originally went to Beirut to help cover the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982. During that time he became chief Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press, where he helped supervise coverage throughout the Middle East until ...

Lebanon Mason and Monroe Railroad CEO Brian Collins said Tuesday, Jan. 20, he is "95 percent sure" LM&M will leave Lebanon for Mason.

I was watching the superb animated documentary Waltz with Bashir about the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982. It culminates in the massacre of some 1,700 Palestinians in the Sabra and Chatila refugee camps in south Beirut by Christian militiamen introduced there by the Israeli army which observed the butchery from close range.

DOHA: Al Jazeera Network has secured the distribution of its free-to-air channels with the leading cable operators in Lebanon, ECOnet and Cablevision.

The Lebanon School Board has voted to give former high school athletic director Bo Yates $15,000 to settle his year-old tort claim against the district.

Lebanon said on Wednesday it was looking into whether a natural gas find which Noble Energy said it discovered off Israel's Mediterranean coast also fell under Lebanese waters, a charge Israel denied.

As the new year gets underway, Build Lebanon Trails (BLT) is excited to build upon the success of 2008 and make more progress in 2009.

Welcome to the Lebanon-Express.com. Today is Wednesday, January 21, 2009 Browse articles that have been published online at Lebanon-express.com. You can browse the last 14 weeks or click below to perform an advanced archive search going further back.

LEBANON, Ore. (AP) -- The Lebanon School Board has voted to give former high school athletic director Bo Yates $15,000 to settle his year-old tort claim against the district.

Lebanon's political leaders have delayed from Thursday to Monday a fourth round of talks to formulate a national defence strategy that will tackle the thorny issue of Hezbollah's weapons, a government official told AFP.

The Cedars fell. But they didn?t go down quietly. Last night, the Lebanon boys? basketball team lost its fifth straight game, 95-84 at home to McCaskey. After trailing by as many as 34 points, the Cedars pulled to within eight of the Red Tornado in the fourth quarter.

BEIRUT, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Lebanon said on Wednesday it was looking into whether a natural gas find which Noble Energy said it discovered off Israel's Mediterranean coast also fell under Lebanese waters, a charge Israel denied.

BEIRUT, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Lebanon said on Wednesday it was looking into whether a natural gas find which Noble Energy said it discovered off Israel's Mediterranean coast also fell under Lebanese waters, a charge Israel denied.

Thailand's King's Cup match against Lebanon descended into chaos on Wednesday when the Middle East side twice walked off the pitch in protest at foul play that prompted two on-field brawls.

BEIRUT, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Below is a table of the latest Lebanese economic statistics.

BEIRUT, Jan 21, 2009 (AFP) - Lebanon's political leaders have delayed from Thursday to Monday a fourth round of talks to formulate a national defence strategy that will tackle the thorny issue of Hezbollah's weapons, a government official told AFP.

The Belgian contingent under the command of UN Interim Forces in Lebanon, announced closing down its field hospital in Tibnin town in south Lebanon by the end of February, local As-Safier daily reported Wednesday. "The Belgian hospital has been in the service of the Lebanese people since 2006, and until our government took a political decision to close it down by the end of February, a statement ...

Lebanese Hezbollah chief Hasan Nasrallah has congratulated Palestinian Islamic Hamas movement for achieving "victory" over the recent Israeli offensive on Gaza, local al-Nahar daily reported here Wednesday. Nasrallah made the remarks in a telephone call to Hamas' Damascus-based exile political bureau chief Khaled Meshaal, according to the report. A statement from Hamas on Tuesday was quoted as ...

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) ? With Israel in a fragile cease-fire with Hamas in Gaza to the south, the army of this tiny country bordering Israel's north is for the first time getting some serious military muscle, including its first fighter jets in decades.

Sixteen games into the season, Lebanon boys basketball coach Chad Cruthis likes what he's seen from his team.

With Israel in a fragile cease-fire with Hamas in Gaza to the south, the army of this tiny country bordering Israel's north is for the first time getting some serious military muscle, including its first fighter jets in decades. The influx of hardware begins with Russia, which is trying to increase its influence again in the Mideast. Moscow's decision last month to provide Lebanon with 10 MiG-29 ...

Chalk up another thrilling chapter in the Lebanon-Kings boys basketball rivalry. The host Warriors squandered a 14-point lead, rallied from five points down to force overtime, then survived with half of their eight-man rotation on the bench to secure a 46-40 win.

Half of Mt. Lebanon's Washington Road business district was left dry Tuesday when a water main broke.

According to the London daily Elaph, with a white dress the famous Lebanese artist Haifa Whabe appeared on stage in front of her fans during the New Year?s concert she held at the Conrad Cairo in Egypt.

Chalk up another thrilling chapter in the Lebanon-Kings boys basketball rivalry. The host Warriors squandered a 14-point lead, rallied from five points down to force overtime, then survived with half of their eight-man rotation on the bench to secure a 46-40 win.

According to the London daily Elaph, with a white dress the famous Lebanese artist Haifa Whabe appeared on stage in front of her fans during the New Year?s concert she held at the Conrad Cairo in Egypt.

The Lebanon school board approved a budget that could mean closing two schools. It's an effort to cut costs-- but parents seem torn.

Union Twp. officials said they oppose an annexation of 165 acres to South Lebanon that could take land from Union, Deerfield and Hamilton townships.

After a disappointing loss to Beavercreek, Lebanon High School's junior varsity boys basketball team bounced back with a pair of wins to even their record at 4-4.

Crews from the Pennsylvania American Water Co. are working today on a leak to the 12-inch line in the heart of Mt. Lebanon's business district

A water main has left businesses in uptown Mt. Lebanon without water until late tonight, officials said.

Palestine has become a unifying force across the globe. That was the main sentiment of a conference against imperialism that took place in Lebanon last weekend.

The U.N. chief toured Gaza on Tuesday to inspect the devastation wrought by Israel's onslaught including the smoldering U.N. headquarters as the territory's militant Hamas rulers, triumphant at having survived, held victory rallies amid the ruins.

Incoming President Barack Obama plans this week to name former Northern Ireland peacemaker George Mitchell as his Middle East envoy to deal immediately with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a newspaper reported Tuesday.

In the Middle East, it is widely believed that the war against Gaza is an extension of the 2006 war against Lebanon. Without question, the war in the Gaza Strip is a part of the same conflict. Moreover, since the Israeli defeat in 2006, Tel Aviv and Washington have not abandoned their design to turn Lebanon into a client state. -Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, Global Research

BEIRUT, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Lebanon's annual inflation rate fell to 6.4 percent in December from a downwardly revised 8.4 percent in November, according to central bank statistics released to Reuters on Tuesday.

BEIRUT, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Below is a table of the latest Lebanese economic statistics.

Arab countries have been unable to agree on a unified statement about the Gaza Strip following Israel's devastating three-week offensive, Iraq's foreign minister said Tuesday at the end of an economic summit dominated by Gaza.

As Israel unleashed its military fury against Lebanon for several weeks in July-August 2006, it had one major objective: to permanently ?extract? Hezbollah from the South as a fighting force, and to undermine it as a rising political movement, capable of disrupting, if not overshadowing the ?friendly? and ?moderate? political regime in Beirut.

New Delhi, Jan 19: A unit of the Army contingent left on UN peace keeping mission to Lebanon from here on Monday.

The front page of the Beirut daily As-Safir said it all yesterday. Across the top was a terrible photograph of the bloated body of a Palestinian man newly discovered in the ruins of his home while two male members of his family shrieked and roared their grief. Below, at half the size, was a photograph from Israel of Western leaders joking with Ehud Olmert, the Israeli Prime Minister. Olmert ...

Quentin Thacker, 14,was found dead by two boys who were playing hide-and-seek in a field in Lebanon Sunday morning. This isn't the first time tragedy has struckthe family.The boy's mom was killed by her boyfriend in a murder-suicide in Springfield two years ago.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, speaking in Beirut on Saturday, again urged an immediate ceasefire to end the 22-day Israeli offensive in Gaza, calling on both sides to stop the fighting first and work out the details later in a bid to halt what he called an "unprecedented" level of violence.

LEBANON ? An autopsy was scheduled late this morning in Portland on a 14-year-old boy found dead Sunday afternoon in a large vacant lot at the intersection of Ninth and C streets in Lebanon.

But the president?s decision gave rise to claims by ministers of the March 8 camp that the president?s presence in Qatar amounted to a symbolic victory for the Iranian alignment, while ministers of the majority urged that Lebanon should not be drawn into a ?war of axes?.

Beirut - The head of the Lebanese majority, Member of Parliament Saad Hariri, on Monday described as historic a speech by Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdel Aziz calling on Israel to accept a peace plan. The Saudi king had restored the role of Arabs an...

BEIRUT, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Below is a table of the latest Lebanese economic statistics.

Hezbollah's head of international relations Nawaf Moussawi said that Lebanon is in need of the Shiite community because Israel is still aggressive, Kuwait's al-Qabas daily reported Monday. The resistance is needed to end the Israeli occupation, Moussawi said in an interview to the daily, adding that Israel is "still in a continuous state of aggression even after withdrawing from Lebanese ...

By CLAUDE SALHANI UPI Contributing Editor WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- The question that was being asked around Beirut this past week was if the bombing of Gaza by Israel -- now in its third week -- would come to a halt before Lebanon got dragged into the Middle East's latest conflict.

LEBANON ? A 14-year-old Lebanon boy was found dead Sunday afternoon.

UI sophomore Melissa Schwartz spent Jan. 5 in the Galil Winery in northern Israel. The next day, two rockets sailed across the Israeli-Lebanese border, landing in the town that she'd left the day before.

Young Lebanese artist Miriam Faris just finished filming her new song ?Ayam Al Shiti? (Winter Days) which is written by Ahmad Fodeh, composed by Muhammad Rahim and distributed by Tim.

Children find a 14-year-old boy's body face down in a vacant lot

A LEADING actor in a movie about violent Lebanese gangs - set for release in cinemas next month - has been arrested and jailed in real life.

BEIRUT, Lebanon - After nearly three decades of self-imposed exile, Iraq's well-known playwright and director Jawad al-Assadi returned to Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein, believing that the new Iraq was going to be better.

A LEADING actor in a movie depicting violent Lebanese gangs that is meant to show the "real Australia" in cinemas has been arrested and jailed in real life.

(RTTNews) - Outrageous protests against Israel's attacks on the Gaza Strip, held near the U.S. embassy in Lebanese capital Beirut, were dealt with tear gas and water cannons on Sunday.

BEIRUT (AFP) - Lebanese security forces fired tear gas and water cannon at dozens of angry demonstrators who protested near the US embassy Sunday against Israel's attacks on the Gaza Strip.

Lebanese artist Elaine Khalaf just finished recording a new song called ?Liyounak Inta? (For Your Eyes) which was written by Amir Taymah, composed by the late composer Riyad Al Hamshari and distributed by Michael Fadel.

According to the London daily Elaph, the songs ?Bahibak Ya Libnan? (I Love You Lebanon), ?Baghdad?, ?Ya Beirut? (Oh Beirut), ?Bahlif Besamaha? (I Swear On Its Skies), ?Raje? Yetamar Lebnan? (Lebanon Will Be Rebuilt) are among and the many songs that show the love of one?s country and being attached to the land and the people of one?s country.

A Lebanon man was taken to St. John's Hospital in Springfield after crashing his ATV.

Moderates fear Hamas and Iran. Then there?s the personal stuff.

For the people of Southern Lebanon, the threat of violence is never far away

Lebanese protesters vented their anger Saturday over the Gaza offensive against the visiting United Nations chief, saying he did not do enough early in the campaign to prevent hundreds of Palestinians from dying. "Ban Ki-moon, Ban Ki-moon, pack your things and leave!" hundreds shouted as the secretary-general spoke to Lebanon's parliament nearby. A Hezbollah legislator, Ali Ammar, displayed a ...

Lebanese protesters vented their anger Saturday over the Gaza offensive against the visiting United Nations chief, saying he did not do enough early in the campaign to prevent hundreds of Palestinians from dying.

Lebanon city police arrested two men Friday for stealing thousands of dollars worth of toys meant for needy children before Christmas.

BEIRUT (AFP) - United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Saturday condemned as "outrageous" the deadly bombing by the Israeli military of a UN-run school in the Gaza Strip, the third since it launched its war on Hamas three weeks ago.

Lebanese protesters vented their anger Saturday over the Gaza offensive against the visiting United Nations chief, saying he did not do enough early in the campaign to prevent hundreds of Palestinians from dying. As U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon spoke to Lebanon's parliament, hundreds of people at a noisy protest nearby chanted: "Ban Ki-moon, Ban Ki-moon, pack your things and leave!" Israel ...

Source: Reuters BEIRUT-HAMAS SAYS TO CONTINUE FIGHTING IN GAZA AS LONG AS ISRAELI TROOPS STILL IN STRIP-HAMAS OFFICIAL TELLS AL JAZEERA ...

While refugees support the Hamas resistance, they despair of returning to homeland The scale of the Israeli onslaught has deepened cynicism about the merits of peace even among Palestinians who say they recognize war will not bring a solution. The Tribune's Liz Sly reports from Sabra Refugee Camp in Lebanon.

Source: Reuters BEIRUT, Jan 17 (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned on Saturday an attack on a U.N. school in Gaza. "I condemn in the strongest terms this outrageous attack," Ban told ...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Saturday if Israel declared a unilateral ceasefire in Gaza, it should also be joined with a timetable for the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Hamas-ruled Strip.

BEIRUT, Lebanon?Lebanese protesters vented their anger Saturday over the Gaza offensive against the visiting United Nations chief, saying he did not do enough early in the campaign to prevent hundreds of Palestinians from dying.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called on Saturday for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza saying that the level of violence in the Palestinian territory was unprecedented in recent history.

): Hamas will fight on in Gaza against an Israeli offensive unless its demands are met, the Islamist group said on Saturday, indicating it would ignore a unilateral ceasefire if declared by the Jewish state.

BEIRUT, Jan 17 ? The UN chief called today for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza without waiting for the details of the truce to be worked out. Ban Ki-moon?s comments came amid reports that Israel was considering declaring a unilateral ceasefire to its three-week-old Gaza offensive. As he spoke to Lebanon?s parliament, hundreds of people held noisy protests at a nearby Beirut square. ?Ban ...

BEIRUT (AFP) - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called on Saturday for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza saying that the level of violence in the Palestinian territory was unprecedented in recent history.

Source: Reuters BEIRUT, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Hamas will fight on in Gaza against an Israeli offensive unless its demands are met, the Islamist group said on Saturday, indicating it would ignore a unilateral ceasefire ...

BEIRUT, (AFP) - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon met Lebanese leaders on Saturday to discuss the crisis in Gaza as well as the political situation in Lebanon.

A one-vehicle crash Thursday night resulted in a Lebanon woman being flown to a Springfield hospital for treatment of serious injuries, the Missouri Highway Patrol reported.

Lebanese President Michel Suleiman headed Thursday night for Doha to attend the emergency meeting on Gaza amid internal division concerning Lebanon's participation in a summit which does not enjoy Arab consensus, Al-Akhbar daily reported Friday. The presidential palace announced last night that Suleiman left for Qatar, and would participate in the emergency meeting if the quorum of Arab states ...

The Xenia Buccaneers hung tough in their match against the Lebanon Warriors on Friday, Jan. 16, but Lebanon held on down the stretch for a 56-47 victory at home.

For the New Year?s the Lebanese artist Dominique was a guest to a party held by the Lebanese artist Joe AL Ashqar which was hosted for children in need from all over Lebanon.

Sunday, Oct. 23, 1983. Beirut, Lebanon. It's a little after 6 in the morning and U.S. Marine 1st Lt. Claude H. Davis III is catching up on some paperwork while the rest of his colleagues are still asleep. The small camp just outside Beirut International Airport is mostly quiet except for the occasional muffled boom in the distance. Like sirens in New York, these rumbles are part of the war-torn ...

LEBANON ? The Xenia Buccaneers hung tough in their match against the Lebanon Warriors on Friday, Jan. 16, but Lebanon held on down the stretch for a 56-47 victory at home.

Beirut - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Beirut late Friday as part of his Middle East tour to discuss the situation in the Gaza Strip. Ban landed amid heavy security at Beirut International Airport. He was scheduled to meet L...

Iraqi worshippers dropped money in boxes and gave up their jewelry Friday as clerics called for donations to help Palestinians suffering under an Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip. Elsewhere in the Mideast, refugees at a Palestinian camp near Damascus called for Israel to pull out of Gaza and widows in Beirut staged a sit-in outside a U.N. building. Palestinian police in the West Bank beat up ...

(By SAMEER N. YACOUB, Associated Press Writer) Iraqi worshippers dropped money in boxes and gave up their jewelry Friday as clerics called for donations to help Palestinians suffering under an Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip. Elsewhere in the Mideast, refugees at a Palestinian camp near Damascus called for Israel to pull out of Gaza and widows in Beirut staged a sit-in outside a U.N. ...

A medical school planned for Lebanon has earned approval from a national osteopathic association, clearing the final academic requirement before beginning construction.

LEBANON--An Iona farmers market is closed after the owner failed to get zoning approval for the business. Judge Samuel Kline issued an injunction Monday ordering closure of the market operated by Galen Boyd in the 300 block of Iona Road close until all local approvals are obtained.

Lebanon City Council has asked the city manager back to go back to the negotiating table with LM&M Railroad executives to discuss salvaging the train's running in Lebanon.

BEIRUT (AFP) - Thousands of people demonstrated across Lebanon on Friday denouncing Israel's offensive in Gaza, leaving coffins outside Arab embassies in the capital and slamming Arab states for failing to unite and act decisively to stop the war.

Thousands of people demonstrated across Lebanon on Friday denouncing Israel's offensive in Gaza, leaving coffins outside Arab embassies in the capital and slamming Arab states for failing to unite and act decisively to stop the war.

LEBANON TWP. ? Expanding the township?s trail network and keeping municipal taxes stable are some of the goals for Patricia Schriver, who was selected to serve as mayor this year by her peers on the all-Republican Township Committee.

A Lebanese antiquities dealer has been arrested in Bulgaria and charged with smuggling stolen ancient Egyptian artefacts.

Siegel coach Ben Dotson sees a lot of similarities in Lebanon and his boys basketball team.

The French president affirmed that Paris was ready to support the Lebanese Army on the basis of agreements signed by France?s Prime Minister Franois Fillon during his recent visit to Lebanon.

I live in lower Manhattan and if I thought I'd escaped the craziness of Beirut, this neighborhood has proven to be equally prone to life's darkest surprises. September 11th, 2001 created the crater that I walk past everyday. Wall Street is a few blocks away, where for the past year shades of the Depression are back. And this evening, a plane rests in the river near the beautiful, peaceful parks ...

After the second time in a week that rockets were fired from Lebanese territory towards Israel yesterday, the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) and Lebanese armed forces found a launching site and disarmed other rockets that were about to fire, a UN spokesperson said.

Even though it is not quite as old as the merchandise that will be displayed, the Lebanon Antiques Show is becoming a bit of a classic itself.

Lebanon received through international sides, a threat that Israel would use its air force to retaliate, if rockets were launched again from south Lebanon, An-Nahar daily reported Thursday. "Intensive contacts were carried out following the rocket attack against northern Israel Wednesday to prevent any escalation," the report said. The Lebanese side informed the international sides that Lebanons ...

BEIRUT, Jan. 15 (PNA/Xinhua) -- Lebanon received through international sides, a threat that Israel would use its air force to retaliate, if rockets were launched again from south Lebanon, An-Nahar daily reported Thursday.

Mideast: Italian minister concerned about Lebanese rocket attacks (AKI) - Italian foreign affairs minister, Franco Frattini, has expressed concern about the fresh rocket attacks launched at Israel from Lebanon on Wednesday. At least three rockets were fired at northern Israel from Lebanon provoking fears of a second front in Israel's offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Israeli ...

The commander of a U.N. peacekeeping force urged Lebanon and Israel to exercise restraint after at least three rockets were fired into northern Israel from Lebanon on Wednesday.

Lebanese troops found and dismantled several rockets positioned to hit Israel after militants in the south fired three earlier Wednesday ? a sign Lebanon's government is determined to avoid being drawn into war with the Israelis.

Next month Zach Condon's Beirut has two EPs coming out . March of the Zapotec and Holland will be packaged together, but each draws on distinct musical influences. March of the Zapotec was recorded in Oaxaca, Mexico, and features contributions from the 19-piece Jimenez Band, while Holland has a synth-pop bent and appears under Condon's Realpeople alias. The video for "La Llorona" ...

The Lebanese army reiterated on Wednesday its commitment to implementing UN Security Council resolution 1701, and accused Israel of violating terms of the resolution, New TV reported. The Lebanese army renewed its commitment in a statement issued following rocket attacks this morning from south Lebanon into northern Israel prompting an Israeli retaliation. "The Lebanese army is committed to ...

Guerrillas in Lebanon rocketed northern Israel on Wednesday for the second time in a week, drawing Israeli artillery fire and threatening to drag the Jewish state into a second front as it battled Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

The Lebanese government on Wednesday denounced the firing of three rockets from Lebanon into Israel, saying the incident undermined national unity and gave Israel an excuse to attack the country.

The rockets flying across its northern border have fueled Israel's fears that militants in Lebanon could try to open a second front in solidarity with Hamas.

Zain wins the Lebanese mobile management agreement tender

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Police say three rockets fired from Lebanon have landed in northern Israel.

Lebanese security officials say the Israeli army has fired eight shells at southern Lebanon after rockets were fired into northern Israel.

Israeli aircraft pounded Hamas weapons positions and Gaza smuggling tunnels, witnesses and the military said Wednesday, while militants in Lebanon raised the specter of a new front by sending three rockets crashing into northern Israel.

Militants in Lebanon sent rockets crashing into northern Israel on Wednesday, while Israeli aircraft pounded a Gaza cemetery, Hamas weapons positions and tunnels used for smuggling, witnesses and the military said Wednesday.

Lebanon reiterated its readiness on Tuesday to take part in any Arab summit to support Gaza in the face of Israeli agression and expressed hope that the meeting would be held in an atmosphere of consensus. Speaking following a Cabinet session headed by President Michel Sleiman at the Baabda Palace, Information Minister Tarek Mitri said.

(By BASSEM MROUE, Associated Press Writer) About one hundred demonstrators angry with Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip shut down a Starbucks store Tuesday, shouting anti-Israel slogans and causing customers inside to flee. The protest in Beirut is the latest of a series of demonstrations across the Arab world since Israel launched its offensive, designed to stop Hamas rocket fire into ...

About one hundred demonstrators angry with Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip shut down a Starbucks store Tuesday, shouting anti-Israel slogans and causing customers inside to flee. The protest in Beirut is the latest of a series of demonstrations across the Arab world since Israel launched its offensive, designed to stop Hamas rocket fire into Israel, on Dec. 27; more than 900 Palestinians ...

DUBAI: Egypt?s Orascom Telecom and Kuwait?s Mobile Telecommunication Co (Zain), said yesterday they have won contracts to manage Lebanon?s two mobile operations ? MTC Touch and Alpha ? for 2009.

Lebanese composer MANSOUR RAHBANI has lost his battle with pneumonia, aged 83. Rahbani died on Tuesday (13Jan09), and was well-known among Arab audiences for songs ...

About a hundred demonstrators have converged on west Beirut's branch of the Starbucks coffee shop and closed it down in protest over the Israeli attack on Gaza.

(AP:BEIRUT, Lebanon) About a hundred demonstrators have converged on west Beirut's branch of the Starbucks coffee shop and closed it down in protest over the Israeli attack on Gaza.

The photographic treasures of the Middle East span the archaeological expeditions of the 1800s, whose images of great pyramids and sphinxes opened the world's eyes to the region, to the wedding parties, refugee camps, and other scenes of daily life that show both the beauty and tumult of today.

NEFFSVILLE ? As fellow Lancaster-Lebanon League girls? basketball coaches and good friends, Carlos Sanchez and Lance Wagner have more than a few things in common.

Lebanese defense minister ruled out Monday night that the plastic material found in a garbage truck Sunday allegedly smuggled to UN Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL)headquarter were explosives, As-Safier daily reported Tuesday. The Italian unit working under UNIFIL arrested Sunday two Lebanese cleaners and turned them over to the Lebanese army, after they were accused of smuggling plastic ...

Jan. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Orascom Telecom Holding SAE , the largest mobile-phone company in the Middle East, declined as much as 8.5 percent in Cairo trading on concern that violence in the region may hamper its expansion in Lebanon.

Lebanese composer and musician Mansour Rahbani, 83, a well-known figure in the Arab world, died on Tuesday following a long illness, Lebanon's national news agency announced.

BEIRUT, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Below is a table of the latest Lebanese economic statistics.

Zain Group, a Kuwait-based telecom company in 22 countries across the Middle East and Africa, announced today that it has made a successful tender to continue managing one of Lebanon's two mobile operations, MIC2 branded as mtc touch, for an additional year commencing February 1, 2009, extendable for one year as per the new management agreement terms set by the Lebanese Ministry of ...

A suspect substance thought to be explosives found at the weekend at a UN base in southern Lebanon was nothing more than a cleaning agent used to unblock drains, an army spokesman told AFP on Tuesday.

Lebanon: Zain Group, the mobile telecom company in 22 countries across the Middle East and Africa, announced today that it has made a successful tender to continue managing one of Lebanon's two mobile operations, MIC2 branded as mtc touch, for an additional year commencing February 1, 2009, extendable for one year as per the new management agreement terms set by the Lebanese Ministry of Telecommunications. [AMEInfo.com]

BEIRUT, Jan 13, 2009 (AFP) - A suspect substance thought to be explosives found at the weekend at a UN base in southern Lebanon was nothing more than a cleaning agent used to unblock drains, an army spokesman told AFP on Tuesday.

BEIRUT (AFP)--A suspect substance thought to be explosives found at the weekend at a U.N. base in southern Lebanon was nothing more than a cleaning agent used to unblock drains, a Lebanese army spokesman told AFP Tuesday.

MANILA, Philippines?The relatives of a Filipino domestic helper said to have died of suffocation in Beirut, Lebanon, suspect foul play and have sought the help of the Philippine Embassy to have the death investigated.

Mt. Lebanon School Director James Fraasch last night formally presented a proposal that calls for delaying the significant renovation or new construction of the high school

BEIRUT, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Below is a table of the latest Lebanese economic statistics.

Lebanon's Head coach Emile Rustom. Photo. vff "Vietnam are very strong but we will try to win", said Lebanon's coach Emile Rustom right after having arrived with his 18 players in Hanoi to prepare for the qualifying match at the Asian Cup 2011 against hosts Vietnam on January 14.

Lebanon -- Nineteen employees were laid off from St. John's Hospital-Lebanon on Friday, the institution's most drastic move so far to contain costs amid the recent economic downturn.

BEIRUT, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Egypt's Orascom Telecom and Kuwait's Mobile Telecommunications Co (Zain) won contracts to operate Lebanon's two fledgling mobile firms, a cabinet statement said on Monday night.

Beirut, Lebanon (UPI) Jan 12, 2009 - Neither Israel nor Hamas seems to be in much of a hurry to implement a U.N. Security Council resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire between the two parties and help bring an end to the two weeks of insane carnage that has been decimating much of the Gaza Strip. For the moment, the only thing making sense in this war are the numbers.

BEIRUT: In its latest report on the Lebanese economy, the Economist Intelligence Unit maintained its estimate for real GDP growth at 4.2 percent in 2008 but revised downward for the second time in the past few months its forecast for 2009 from 3.1 percent to 2.7 percent, as reported by Lebanon This Week, the economic publication of the Byblos Bank Group.

First, the score:Manheim Township 42, Lebanon 22 in an L-L League Section 1-2 crossover girls' basketball game Monday night in Neffsville.Soph standout Kiersten Green scored 17 points for the Blue Streaks (8-1 league, 10-2 overall), who moved -game ahead of Cedar Crest (7-1, 10-3) in the Sectio...

Lebanese Information Minister Tareq Mitri criticized on Monday that one of the reasons for Arab weakness in resistance against Israel is that they are divided, local TL television reported. "This division is increasing in the balance of power between Israel and the Palestinian resistance," Mitri was quoted in an interview with the TV channel. He, however, ruled out the possibility of ...

Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri called on Monday for a parliament session next Saturday to hear the speech delivered by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Elnashra website reported. Ban is arriving in Beirut this weekend, and will give a speech on the current situation in the area and inspect troops of the UN Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL). The UNIFIL has over 13,000 troops south of ...

On January the 8th, rockets were launched from Southern Lebanon aimed at Nahariya in Israel. Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad al-Siniora has condemned these attacks.

Hamas is set to reject Egypt's proposals to end Israel's 17-day-old offensive in the Gaza Strip, Lebanese political sources close to the group said on Monday.

On Beirut's waterfront road, young men dressed in green jackets with the Etelaf Al-Khair logo on their backs are handing out fliers with images of bloodied Palestinian children and holding donation boxes.

LEBANON-Real estate taxes in Cornwall -Lebanon School District won't rise by more than five percent in next year's budget, the school board decided Monday night.

LEBANON - LCNB Corp said it has received $13.4 million of new equity capital from the U.S. Department of the Treasury's capital purchase program as part of the $700 billion bailout of the financial sector.

The famous Lebanese superstar Ragheb Alameh has started recording songs for his new album which includes more than six songs. Alameh worked with a number of great poets and composers. The new album includes Khaliji ?Gulf countries? dialect songs.

BIREH, Lebanon: A northern Lebanese town has named a street after Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez for expelling Israel?s ambassador because of its onslaught on the Gaza Strip, the mayor of Bireh said yesterday.

In its latest report on the Lebanese economy, the Economist Intelligence Unit maintained its estimate for real GDP growth at 4.2 percent in 2008 but revised downward for the second time in the past few months its forecast for 2009 from 3.1 percent to 2.7 percent, as reported by Lebanon This Week, the economic publication of the Byblos Bank Group.

LEBANON, Ore. -- Discovery of an indoor marijuana growing operation in Lebanon also led to the recovery of property from a recent burglary and protective custody for a 6-year-old girl.

Lebanon ? Nineteen employees were laid off from St. John's Hospital-Lebanon on Friday, the city's latest victims of the economic downturn.

WATERLOO ? Nancey West knew she wanted to write an inspirational story and she found lots of those at the Lebanon Soup Kitchen.

In response to legal action taken by the owners of the original and authentic Buddha Bar in Paris, Dubai, Beirut, Sao Paolo, London, Kiev, Jakarta and Cairo, an appellate court in New York City ruled Tuesday that the Manhattan restaurant, calling itself Buddha-Bar NYC, must stop using the Buddha Bar name and concept.

By CLAUDE SALHANI UPI Contributing Editor BEIRUT, Lebanon, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- Neither Israel nor Hamas seems to be in much of a hurry to implement a U.N. Security Council resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire between the two parties and help bring an end to the two weeks of insane carnage that has been decimating much of the Gaza Strip. For the moment, the only thing making sense in this ...

ROCKETS FIRED AT ISRAEL FROM LEBANON -- A man inspects the damage to a building at Nahariya in northern Israel on Jan. 8, caused by Katyusha rockets fired from Lebanon. Several rockets landed in northern Israel, causing light injuries.

BEIRUT -- Looming over the Gaza conflict is the long shadow of Iran, which has much to win or lose from the outcome of the battles raging nearly two weeks after Israel launched its devastating onslaught to stop Hamas rocket attacks.

NABATIYEH: Hizbullah warned Israel over the weekend against using the recent rockets' attack on northern Israel as a pretext to spark conflict with Lebanon.

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Nearly 20,000 people have been marching in Lebanon to protest Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip. The rally in a southern Lebanese town was organized by Hezbollah, a strong militant ally of Hamas that fought its own war with Israel in 2006.

BEIRUT (Reuters) - U.N. peacekeepers in south Lebanon found suspected explosives hidden in a garbage truck in front of their base on Sunday, the peacekeeping force said in a statement.

Source: Reuters BEIRUT, Jan 11 (Reuters) - U.N. peacekeepers in south Lebanon found suspected explosives hidden in a garbage truck in front of their base on Sunday, the peacekeeping force said in a statement. Two ...

Hizbullah warned Israel over the weekend against using the recent rockets' attack on northern Israel as a pretext to spark conflict with Lebanon. Speaking before a mass of Hizbullah supporters who rallied in the southern town of Nabatiyeh, MP Mohammad Raad said his group was ready to react forcefully in the event of an Israeli attack.

LEBANON TWP. - An Internet-based grant program has helped fund several projects in the Lebanon Township schools, including a mobile laptop station.

Associated Press - January 11, 2009 7:13 AM ET BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - An estimated 2,500 Lebanese and Palestinians have protested peacefully in downtown Beirut against Israel's offensive in the...

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - An estimated 2,500 Lebanese and Palestinians have protested peacefully in downtown Beirut against Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip.

BERLIN ? Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in cities across Europe and in Lebanon today, shouting protests against the Israeli offensive in Gaza.

The Lebanese Army and UN peacekeepers found a weapons cache in South Lebanon near the border with Israel Friday, a day after rockets were fired on the Jewish state. A launcher and several "non-operational rockets" were found in an area near a position of UN peacekeepers in Southern Lebanon, the army said in a statement.

BEIRUT: The Lebanese broadcast media are unapologetic for their flagrant political factionalism. And, why wouldn't they be? They have been kept alive by benefactors with deep pockets and even deeper ties bound within the country's dense political landscape.

A bystander takes a picture of Liberal MP Shawn Murphy and his wife, Yvette, as they arrive at the Delta Prince Edward in Charlottetown for the Lebanese New Year party Saturday night.

Associated Press - January 10, 2009 3:03 PM ET BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Nearly 20,000 people have been marching in Lebanon to protest Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip.

Sun, Jan 11, 2009 (4:21 a.m.) An estimated 2,500 Lebanese and Palestinians have protested peacefully in downtown Beirut against Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip.

BEIRUT: The Telecommunication Ministry on Friday received offers to operate Lebanon's two cellular networks from three leading companies.

Near the old civil-war front line in the centre of Beirut stands a large digital clock with blood-red numbers. It has almost reached the neat, round figure of 1,500 and represents the days since Rafiq Hariri was murdered. You still hear people in Lebanon asking for "haqiqa" ? "the truth"; my driver Abed even has a slim, black sticker tied to the mirror of our car with the word in Arabic ...

The South Korean troops working under the command of UN Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) suspended Saturday their mission in southern Lebanon, local Elnashra website reported. The South Korean chief of staff office said that suspension of the mission is "temporary" and was at the request of the United Nations, the report said. Local al-Moustaqbal TV quoted a South Korean spokesman as saying ...

Robbie Johnson and the Warriors suffered a heart breaking 77-73 loss to Lebanon Friday in District 7AAA action. The Warriorettes, however, kept the night even as they picked up the 59-55 win improving to 16-2 overall.

Nearly 20,000 people marched through southern Lebanon on Saturday to protest Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip, as thousands also took to the streets in several European cities to show their anger.

Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in cities across Europe and in Lebanon Saturday, shouting protests against the Israeli offensive in Gaza.

Lebanese cabinet announced that it refuses to give Israel a "pretext" to launch an offensive against Lebanon, al-Nahar daily reported Friday. "Lebanon denounces and condemns launching rockets and retaliation acts, since this would be a violation of UN resolution1701," Information Minister Tareq Mitri said after an emergency session Thursday night in Baabda palace. Mitri added that the cabinet ...

BEIRUT, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Below is a table of the latest Lebanese economic statistics.

Hamas rejects the UN resolution on Gaza as it is not in the best interest of the Palestinian people, an official with the militant group told AFP in Beirut.

BEIRUT, Jan. 9 (PNA/ANTARA) - Palestinian Islamist group Hamas denied on Thursday it was responsible for firing rockets into northern Israel from south Lebanon.

Lebanese army and international forces bolstered troop numbers, stepped up patrols and declared a state of alert Thursday after a morning rocket attack on Israel by an unknown group in southern Lebanon threatened to widen the ongoing Gaza Strip conflict.

TIRI/BEIRUT: French President Nicolas Sarkozy assured his Lebanese counterpart, Michel Sleiman, during a five- hour visit to Lebanon on Tuesday that Syria will soon appoint an ambassador to Beirut.

Mt. Lebanon made a statement that it deserves its Post-Gazette No. 1 ranking in WPIAL Class AAAA girls' basketball. The Blue Devils went on the road and out-scored undefeated No.

JERUSALEM/BEIRUT: The United Nations agency that provides food to half of Gaza?s 1.5m population suspended all its activities in the embattled territory yesterday, saying the Israeli offensive made it too risky to continue its work.

Rockets launched from southern Lebanon into Israel raised fears of a renewed war between the countries, but worries subsided when it appeared the attack came from small militant groups.

Some Wausau students are keeping a close eye on the tensions in Gaza. They were scheduled to make an exchange trip to the region this week. Now, that trip is postponed.

The Council of Maronite Bishops warned Wednesday against the spread of the war in Gaza to Lebanon and urged unity among the Lebanese "to ward off possible dangers." "One of the dangers of the fighting in Gaza is its spread to other areas and countries, including Lebanon," Monsignor Youssef Tawk read from a statement.

Leader of the Lebanese Option Group (LOG) Ahmad al-Assaad lashed out at Hizbullah on Wednesday, accusing the resistance group of following Iranian orders. During a rally to commemorate Ashura at the Beirut International Exhibition and Leisure Center (BIEL), Assaad called for the disarmament of Hizbullah.

Source: Reuters BEIRUT, Jan 8 (Reuters) - A senior Iranian politician on Thursday described proposals put forward by Middle Eastern and European states to end the Gaza conflict as "honey injected with poison& ...

French President Nicolas Sarkozy assured his Lebanese counterpart, Michel Sleiman, during a five- hour visit to Lebanon on Tuesday that Syria will soon appoint an ambassador to Beirut. Following talks with Lebanese officials, Sarkozy flew by helicopter to the base of his country's contingent operating.

The salvo of rockets launched into northern Israel on Thursday morning prompted flashbacks of the punishing war between Israel and the radical Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah that in 2006 turned huge swaths of both Israel and Lebanon into virtually uninhabitable bombardment zones.

The United States on Thursday condemned the launch of rockets into northern Israel from Lebanon and stressed it did not want to see a second front open up in the Gaza war.

The Lebanese government criticised a rocket attack from south Lebanon into Israel on Thursday, saying it was a violation of a UN Security Council resolution that halted a 2006 war between Hizbollah and the Jewish state.

BEIRUT, Lebanon ? Lebanon's prime minister has condemned rocket attacks on Israel from his country as well as the Jewish state's retaliation. In a statement Thursday, Prime Minister Fuad Saniora said the attack from south Lebanon was designed to undermine stability.

A Lebanese official said the rocket attack on northern Israel was a violation of UN Security Council resolution 1701, Saudi Arabian al-Arabiya TV reported Thursday. UN resolution 1701 ended the 34-day war between Hezbollah and Israel in 2006, and prohibited any attacks from Lebanon on Israel. Meanwhile, the Lebanese army released a statement saying "Two or three rockets were fired by an unknown ...

Lebanese militants fired at least three rockets into Israel early Thursday, threatening to open a new front for the Jewish state as it pushed forward with a bloody offensive in the Gaza Strip that has killed nearly 700 people.

Associated Press - January 8, 2009 9:43 AM ET BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - A Hezbollah minister in Lebanon's Cabinet is denying any involvement by the militant group in the firing of rockets from...

BEIRUT (AFP)--Lebanon Thursday launched a probe into a rocket attack on northern Israel amid indications that Hezbollah wasn't involved and heightened fears of a second front opening up in the Gaza war.

Israel?s conflict with Hamas in Gaza threatened to broaden as at least three rockets came into northern Israel from Lebanon.

Lebanese militants fired rockets into northern Israel early Thursday, threatening to open a new front for the Jewish state as it pushed forward with its offensive in the Gaza Strip.

BEIRUT (AFP)--Additional U.N. troops have been deployed in southern Lebanon to prevent any further incidents following a rocket attack launched from the region on northern Israel, a U.N. spokeswoman told AFP.

Lebanon's prime minister has condemned rocket attacks on Israel from his country as well as the Jewish state's retaliation.

The Lebanese Government has criticised a rocket attack from south Lebanon into Israel, saying it was a violation of a UN Security Council resolution that halted a 2006 war between Hezbollah and the Jewish state.

Source: Reuters BEIRUT, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Lebanon's Information Minister Tareq Mitri said on Thursday he did not believe Hezbollah was behind a rocket attack on Israel from southern Lebanon, according to an aide. & ...

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Lebanon's government said Thursday it was trying to determine who fired rockets from southern Lebanon into Israel and stressed that it remains committed to peace. Israel responded to the rocket attacks by firing mortars into southern Lebanon.

Source: Reuters BEIRUT, Jan 8 (Reuters) - The Lebanese army denied that a new rocket had been fired from southern Lebanon into Israel on Thursday. A Lebanese army source said it was a sonic boom. The Israeli ...

Israeli media say Lebanese militants have fired a second barrage of rockets on northern Israel.

Associated Press - January 8, 2009 3:33 AM ET BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - A Lebanese government official says his country is trying to determine who launched rockets from southern Lebanon into...

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) ? A Lebanese government official says his country is trying to determine who launched rockets from southern Lebanon into Israel. The official also says Lebanon is committed to a U.N.-brokered truce that ended the brutal 2006 war between the militant group Hezbollah and Israel.

Several rockets fired from Lebanon struck northern Israel Thursday, slightly wounding two people, police and medics said, in attacks seen as linked to Israel's war on Hamas Islamists in the Gaza Strip.

Lebanese militants fired at least three rockets into northern Israel early Thursday, threatening to open a second front for the Jewish state as it pushed forward with its offensive in the Gaza Strip.

Lebanese militants fired at least three rockets into northern Israel early Thursday, threatening to open a second front for the Jewish state as it pushed forward with its offensive in the Gaza Strip. Gaza militants fired a rocket barrage into southern Israel almost simultaneously.

BEIRUT, Jan 08, 2009 (AFP) - Palestinian Islamist group Hamas denied on Thursday it was responsible for firing rockets into northern Israel from south Lebanon.

Jan. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Crude oil traded little changed after rising on concern Israel?s conflict in Gaza will widen and disrupt supplies as rockets from Lebanon hit the Jewish state.

At least three rockets are fired from Lebanon into northern Israel raising fears that the current conflict in Gaza could spill over.

Israel's conflict with Hamas and Gaza threatened to broaden on Thursday as a small number of rockets were fired into the north of Israel from Lebanon.

Four rockets struck northern Israel from Lebanon on Thursday, wounding two people, Israeli police and emergency medical services said.

JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli police say at least three rockets have been fired into northern Israel from Lebanon. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld says the rockets fell Thursday around the town of Nahariya, five miles south of the Lebanese border.

Source: Reuters BEIRUT, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Between three and five rockets were fired from southern Lebanon into northern Israel on Thursday, Lebanese security sources said. Earlier, Israeli police said three rockets ...

Four rockets hit northern Israel from Lebanon early Thursday, military sources told AFP.

Three to four rockets hit northern Israel from Lebanon early Thursday, military sources told AFP.

Israeli police say at least three rockets have been fired into northern Israel from Lebanon.

Finally the interview that the co-host Jomanah Bo Eid was anxiously waiting for to meet with the Lebanese artist Najwa Karam finally came.

The Lebanese artist Dina Hayek just finished filming a new video clip for the song ?Tebat Albi? (The Sweetness Of My Heart) under the management of director Basem Maghneh. The clip was filmed in Beirut over a two-day period.

RAS LAFFAN VISIT: Ras Laffan director Sheikh Khalid bin Khalifa al-Thani presents a gift to Lebanese Minister of Industry Ghazi Zaiter during a visit to Ras Laffan Industrial City yesterday.

City Council has tossed the ball back to city negotiators and railroad officials and told them to work together on a plan that will get the Lebanon Mason Monroe Railroad running on city-owned tracks again.

The leader of Hizbollah has told crowds in Beirut that if Israel were to open up a second front against them in Lebanon, the reaction would make the?

Hezbollah uses the Muslim festival of Ashura in Lebanon to rally its supporters against Israel, says the BBC's Natalia Antelava in Beirut.

A nationally-based pipe and tubing manufacturer will expand its Lebanon facilities early this year. NIBCO will combine the manufacturing plant for its Dura-Pex tubing products with its distribution operations at a 130,000 square foot facility located at 2800 Henkle Drive.

Source: Reuters By Tom Perry BEIRUT, Jan 7 (Reuters) - A defeat for Hamas in its fight with Israel could increase the risk of another Middle East conflict between the Jewish state and the Palestinian group's ...

The Lebanon School Board and the Oregon School Board Association are soliciting public input for the qualities and qualifications the community would like to see in a permanent school superintendent.

Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Seniora said Wednesday that the Israeli killings of civilians in Gaza are characterized as "war crimes," which are witnessed by the whole world, local Elnashra website reported. Seniora urged UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to pressure Israel for its "war crimes," saying "an investigation should be carried out to punish those responsible for the massacres." He ...

Beirut - The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah Wednesday warned Israel from venturing into a new attack against Lebanon, saying it would be nothing compared to the July 2006 war. What they (Israelis) saw in the July War is nothi...

Lebanese Christian Maronite bishops warned Wednesday during their monthly meeting that the fighting in Gaza could spread to Lebanon, local LBC TV station reported. Heads of the churches of the majority Maronite Christians in Lebanon said in their statement following the meeting that the situation in Gaza could move to other neighboring countries, particularly Lebanon. "The division in Lebanon of ...

BEIRUT (AFP) - Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said Wednesday "all possibilities" are open against Israel and warned the Jewish state's 2006 war with his party would resemble "a walk in the park" in the event of renewed conflict.

BEIRUT (AFP)--Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah Tuesday warned that "all possibilities" were open against Israel as he gave a fiery speech on Israel's offensive in Gaza.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy visits the French UNIFIL troops in southern Lebanon on Jan. 6. Lebanese officials are playing down concerns that the fighting in Gaza could spread to Israel's northern border and spark a renewal of the 2006 summer war Israel fought with the Lebanese Shiite organization.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Tuesday in Beirut that France wants to be friends with all Lebanese and wants Lebanon to be free and independent, local Naharnet website reported. Following his meeting with Lebanese President Michel Suleiman upon his arrival in Lebanon, Sarkozy said that France wants the upcoming Lebanese elections in June to be transparent. After meeting with Suleiman, ...

Thousands of Lebanese children gathered Tuesday in front of the UN building in downtown Beirut to denounce the Israeli aggressions against the children of Gaza, Lebanese New TV reported. Aged less than 13 years, the children gathered in front of the headquarters of the United Nations Economic and social commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) holding pictures of children killed during the Israeli ...

LEBANON ? After suffering two straight home losses, the Lebanon Warriors were eager to notch another win in front of the home fans Tuesday night. They didn't disappoint.

DOHA: Qatar and Lebanon have signed a Memorandum of Understanding on technical cooperation between the two countries in the field of standards, meterology and equipment and quality systems.

LEBANON ? Parents of Lebanon High School students can now check their children?s grades and assignments online.

QANA, Lebanon (AFP) - Akil Sayegh will not stick around this time. Like many of his fellow residents in this southern Lebanese town pummeled during the 2006 war between Hezbollah and Israel, he stands ready to flee at the first sign of a renewed conflict.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived in Beirut on Tuesday to meet with his Lebanese counterpart Michel Sleiman at the end of a Middle East tour aimed at achieving a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

Beirut - Lebanon has informed Damascus of its readiness to begin demarcating the border between the two countries, local radio broadcasters reported Tuesday. Border demarcation was one of the demands of United Nations Security Council resolutions, wh...

There are splits within the Palestinian community in Lebanon between those who support the Palestinian Authority and peace talks, and those who support Hamas and its rejection of Israel. But all the major Palestinian factions in Lebanon have made a point of working together during the Gaza conflict.

LEBANON - Lancaster Mennonite's two inside players held off Lebanon Catholic on Monday night in a 55-51 win for the Blazers in Lancaster-Lebanon League Section IV girls' basketball.

The Deputy Premier and Minister of Energy and Industry, H E Abdullah bin Hamad Al Attiyah, yesterday received at the Qatar Petroleum headquarters the Lebanese Minister of Industry, Ghazi Mohammed Zuayter, and his delegation.

Protesters approached the U.S. embassy premises in Awkar East of Beirut for the second time Monday but riot police and security forces forced them away from it, local New TV reported. According to the report, around 500 university students held the demonstration in protest against Israeli's ground offensive on Gaza. They carried sticks and tried to break through the bared wire fences surrounding ...

Lebanese Information Minister Tareq Mitri told foreign press Monday that all factions in the Lebanese cabinet insist on not dragging the country into a war with Israel. "There is a united stand in the government which insists on stability in the country," Mitri said. He added that there was no "sign that Hezbollah would jeopardize to drag Lebanon into this conflict." He said the Lebanese cabinet ...

Lebanese parliament's majority leader, Saad Hariri answers to journalists at the Elysee palace after a meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy on January 2, 2009 in Paris.

Lebanese and Palestinian youth exchanged views about recent political and social events during a series of workshops organized by the Developmental Action without Borders Organization (NABAA) over the weekend in the southern port city of Sidon. The workshop, organized by NABAA in association with the Dutch Embassy in Lebanon.

BEIRUT: Lebanon will hold parliamentary elections on June 7, the interior ministry announced yesterday. ?The ministry of interior announces the promulgation of a decree calling on voters to elect legislators,? a statement said.

Second Avenue remained closed today between West End Avenue and Passey Gardens for an investigation into a fire that broke out Saturday afternoon at Kan Zaman Lebanese Bistro and Bar.

LEBANON--Lebanon Community Library is closing Sundays and Wednesdays, starting this week, due to a deficit from last year, a six percent state funding cut and other increased costs, announced Jayne Tremaine, library director.

Beirut - French President Nicolas Sarkozy, due to arrive in Beirut on Tuesday, promised to exert more effort to resolve lingering issues between Lebanon and neighbouring Syria. Lebanon and Syria are now cooperating to restore relations based on trus...

Lebanon will hold parliamentary elections on June 7, the interior ministry announced on Monday. "The ministry of interior announces the promulgation of a decree calling on voters to elect legislators," a statement said.

Lebanon will hold parliamentary elections on June 7, the interior ministry announced on Monday.

BEIRUT, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Lebanon's Finance Ministry said on Monday it expected 3 percent real growth for the economy in 2009 and announced a draft budget with a deficit equal to 9.4 percent of gross domestic product.

Lebanon will hold parliamentary elections on June 7, the interior ministry announced on Monday.

BEIRUT, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Lebanon's Finance Ministry said on Monday it expected 3 percent real growth for the economy in 2009 and announced a draft budget with a deficit equal to 9.4 percent of gross domestic product.

Despite talk in recent days about the possible opening of a second front on the Lebanese border, it is unlikely that Hezbollah will attack unless Hamass situation becomes desperate, analysts say.

BEIRUT, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Lebanon's Finance Ministry said on Monday it expected 3 percent real growth for the economy in 2009 and announced a draft budget with a deficit equal to 9.4 percent of gross domestic product.

BEIRUT, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Lebanon's Finance Ministry said on Monday it expected 3 percent real growth for the economy in 2009 and announced a draft budget with a deficit equal to 9.4 percent of gross domestic product. Finance Minister Mohammad Chatah said last month the government would likely cut its growth forecast for 2009 to between 3 and 3.5 percent from 5 percent because of concerns about ...

BEIRUT, Lebanon ? Thousands protesting Israel?s ground offensive on Gaza converged Sunday in Beirut and Istanbul as the leaders of the only two Mideast Arab nations to sign peace treaties with Israel demanded an end to the attack.

Lebanon: AUB Professor and former Finance Minister Samir Makdisi has been named as a Distinguished Senior Public Policy Fellow at the Issam Fares Institute (IFI) for Public Policy and International Affairs at AUB. [AMEInfo.com]

Despite talk in recent days about the possible opening of a second front on the Lebanese border, it is unlikely that Hezbollah will attack unless Hamas?s situation becomes desperate, analysts say.

The specter of Israel's illfated 2006 war on Hezbollah hangs heavy over Gaza, with both sides hoping to profit from lessons learned in Lebanon.

Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said Sunday that Israel's current aggression against Gaza Strip, "amid Arab silence," is targeting every Arab city, NBN TV reported. Addressing visitors at his home town Msayleh, in south Lebanon, the Shiite parliament speaker stressed that those who took the Palestinian case to the UN should have known that Israel is above all international resolutions. ...

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Thousands protesting Israel?s ground offensive on Gaza converged Sunday in Beirut and the Turkish capital, as the leaders of the only two Mideast Arab nations to sign peace treaties with Israel demanded an end to the attack.

BEIRUT, Lebanon - Thousands protesting Israel's ground offensive on Gaza converged Sunday in Beirut and the Turkish capital, as the leaders of the only two Mideast Arab nations to sign peace treaties with Israel demanded an end to the attack.

The Global Property Guide's annual report on real estate investment trends around the world indicated that Lebanon ranked in 60th place globally, up from 62nd place in 2007, and 4th among 10 markets in the Middle East & North Africa in terms of "roundtrip transaction costs" (RTCs) which reflects all costs of buying.

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Officials in Lebanon say six people have been injured during a protest against Israel's ground offensive in Gaza. The demonstration was 1 of several that have brought thousands of people to the streets in cities from Tehran to Damascus.

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Officials in Lebanon say six people have been injured during a protest against Israel's ground offensive in Gaza. The demonstration was one of several that have brought thousands of people to the streets in cities from Tehran to Damascus.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy said the Islamist movement Hamas "bears a heavy responsibility in the suffering of the Palestinian people in Gaza", in an interview with Lebanese newspapers to be published Monday.

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Officials in Lebanon say six people have been injured during a protest against Israel's ground offensive in Gaza. The demonstration was 1 of several that have brought thousands of people to the streets in cities from Tehran to Damascus.

Police fired tear gas on Sunday at scores of demonstrators rallying against Israel's ground offensive in Gaza as the protesters tried to reach the U.S. Embassy compound north of the Lebanese capital, Beirut.

Sun, Jan 4, 2009 (11:15 a.m.) Israel says the main goal of its ground offensive against Gaza's Hamas rulers is to end years of rocket fire on its southern towns. But perhaps an equally important, if unspoken, objective is to wipe away the errors of Israel's 2006 war in Lebanon.

JERUSALEM - Israel says the main goal of its ground offensive in the Gaza Strip is to end years of rocket fire on its southern towns. But perhaps an equally important, if unspoken, objective is to wipe away the errors of Israel's 2006 war in Lebanon.

Israel says the main goal of its ground offensive against Gaza's Hamas rulers is to end years of rocket fire on its southern towns. But perhaps an equally important, if unspoken, objective is to wipe away the errors of Israel's 2006 war in Lebanon.

Sun, Jan 4, 2009 (9:42 a.m.) Police fired tear gas on Sunday at scores of demonstrators rallying against Israel's ground offensive in Gaza as the protesters tried to reach the U.S. Embassy compound north of the Lebanese capital, Beirut.

Police fired tear gas on Sunday at scores of demonstrators rallying against Israel's ground offensive in Gaza as the protesters tried to reach the U.S. Embassy compound north of the Lebanese capital, Beirut.

Associated Press - January 4, 2009 6:53 AM ET BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Lebanese security officials say police forces have fired tear gas at scores of demonstrators who tried to reach the U.S.

BEIRUT, Lebanon, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- Israel's Gaza invasion is widening a gulf between Arab leaders who criticize militant Palestinians and rank-and-file citizens who support them, analysts say.

Lebanese security forces dispersed demonstrators on Sunday outside the American embassy at Aokar using water hoses and tear gas.

Sun, Jan 4, 2009 (3:57 a.m.) Lebanese security officials say police forces have fired tear gas at scores of demonstrators who tried to reach the U.S. Embassy compound north of Beirut.

(By BASSEM MROUE, Associated Press Writer) Lebanese security officials say police forces have fired tear gas at scores of demonstrators who tried to reach the U.S. Embassy compound north of Beirut. They say the demonstrators were protesting Israel's ground attack on the Gaza Strip. The officials say about 250 demonstrators tried to cut through barbed wire placed by Lebanese police on a road ...

Lebanese security officials say police forces have fired tear gas at scores of demonstrators who tried to reach the U.S. Embassy compound north of Beirut.

In 'Two Rooms,' Colonial Players present well-acted offering of relevant material Colonial Players continues its 60th season with the first of its three abbreviated weekend offerings in Lee Blessing's 1988 political drama "Two Rooms," a play that celebrates love. A husband and wife are political hostages across miles - he imprisoned by Lebanese radicals, and she in the study of their ...

BEIRUT ? President-elect Barack Obama's silence on the weeklong conflict in Gaza is drawing criticism among Arabs who have grown skeptical about hopes that his administration will break with the Mideast policies of the Bush era.

On the same day that Israeli ground forces entered the Gaza Strip, protesters in Lawrence marched down Massachusetts Street denouncing the country?s military escalation. Wrapped in or waving Palestinian and Lebanese flags, carrying signs that asked for peace, handing out pamphlets and chanting for a free Palestinian nation, protesters were speaking out against what they said was the killing and ...

Israel's offensive against Hamas illustrates the widening chasm between longtime Arab leaders and those they govern over the Palestinian cause.

Head of Hezbollah's parliamentary block, MP Mohammad Raad, said Saturday that the upcoming parliamentary elections in Lebanon is a completion between Israel and the resistance, local naharnet website reported. "If you want to defeat the resistance, it would be through refraining from voting," Raad told Ashoura gathering in south Lebanon major town Nabatieh. He stressed that the 2009 elections ...

Lebanese Druze majority leader Walid Joumblat said Saturday that the Palestinians should be united and not divided like the Lebanese, local Elnashra website reported. "Do not fall in the trap which we have fell after the 2006 war, your cause is more important than any other cause in the world, Joumblat said to crowd visiting him at his residence in Mouktara in the Shouf mountain. He also said ...

BEIRUT, Jan. 4 (PNA/RIA Novosti) - The death toll from Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip rose to 440 Palestinians with some 2,285 people injured as the conflict entered its second week, Lebanon's Al-Manar TV reported on Saturday.

TEL AVIV, Israel ? Israel has a long and largely unsuccessful history of sending ground forces into Palestinian and Lebanese cities. Its forces have either gotten bogged down or sustained heavy casualties, without quelling violent groups or halting attacks for good. The most recent example is the 2006 war against Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas, who fought mighty Israel to a draw. But that ...

Three people including a firefighter were injured in a blaze this afternoon that destroyed a restaurant on West End Avenue. The building housing the Zamah Lebanese Bisto and Bar at 95 West End Ave. was engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived shortly after the fire was reported at 3:21 p.m., said city Fire Marshal Kevin J. Hayes Sr. He said the building was evacuated immediately and a second ...

BEIRUT ? President-elect Barack Obama's silence on the weeklong conflict in Gaza is drawing criticism among Arabs who have grown skeptical about hopes that his administration will break with the Mideast policies of the Bush era.

Matthias S Klein: Russia has promised to give Lebanon 10 fighter jets. But they could be more of a liability than an military asset

London, Jan 3 : Radical Islamist preacher Omar Bakri, who has been banned from Britain, is on the run after Lebanese authorities issued an arrest warrant against him for giving weapons training to an extremist group called al-Qaeda Lebanon.

Lebanon's public debt may hit $47 billion

Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Seniora expressed hopes on Friday that the Arab delegation headed by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to the United Nations can succeed in reaching a ceasefire in Gaza, local Naharnet website reported. Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat announced that Abbas left on Friday with other Arab leaders for UN Security Council to get a binding resolution stopping Israeli ...

BEIRUT: Middle East Airlines (MEA) chairman Mohammad Hout reiterated Friday that the time was not ripe to sell the airline's shares in 2009 due to the unfavorable market conditions.

Lebanese and Palestinian leftist youth organizations, who have been staging sit-ins to protest the Israeli attacks on Gaza, threw old shoes at the fences of the Egyptian embassy in Beirut Friday, Elnashra website reported. The demonstrators were protesting against the removal of Palestinian flags by the embassy security, which were planted by protesters earlier this week. The surroundings of the ...

LEBANON ? James Lee said it was a ?mini-tornado?.

The funeral for Judge James O. Bond, a longtime jurist in the 15th Judicial District, is scheduled for 1 p.m. today at Lebanon Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 522 Castle Heights Ave.

EATON, Ohio ? A New Lebanon, Ohio, woman is expected to be fined for disobeying Ohio?s seat belt laws after a car accident east of here sent her son to the hospital with serious injuries, police said Friday.

BEIRUT, Jan. 3 (PNA/Xinhua) -- Hezbollah's head of its Parliamentary block Mohammed Raad said Friday that Israel will be surprised by the range of the rockets fired by Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip, Local Naharnet website reported.

A man wearing a Palestinian flag as a cape and a checkered headscarf 'Keffayeh' walks in front of fake coffins wrapped in black with the Arabic writing 'All of us are Gaza' during a march oragnised by Lebanese activists outside the Egyptian embassy in Beirut in protest against Israel's continuing bombardment of the Gaza Strip.

BEIRUT: Lebanon's public debt last year is expected to have reached $47 billion, Finance Minister Mohammad Chatah said. Lebanon's gross public debt stood at around $45.65bn at the end of September last year, the minister was quoted as saying by Al Hayat newspaper yesterday.

According to statistics released by the Ministry of Industry, imports of industrial machinery, which mirror the activity of investments made in the industrial sector, amounted to LL231.8 billion or $153.8 million in the first 10 months of 2008, up by 11.4 percent from the same period of 2007.

By virtue of its location, an exhibition at Beirut's famous "Dome" building, literally tied together the political and the poetic, installing works by Lebanese and Italian artists at a site famously used by snipers during the Civil War. Also known as "the Egg," and formally known as the City Center Cinema, the bullet-riddled, history-laden.

Prime Minister Fouad Siniora warned on Friday that Israel was seeking to draw Lebanon into its intensifying conflict in Gaza, and called for Arab solidarity in the face of the Jewish state's military offensive against the coastal strip. "Israel is working on entrapping our country," Siniora told reporters after Friday prayers.

BEIRUT (AFP) - Lebanon's Shiite militant group Hezbollah -- vying with Hamas as Israel's 'public enemy number one' -- will not rush to rescue Gaza Strip Palestinians nor open a second front with the Jewish state, analysts said on Friday.

The famous Lebanese artist Haifa Wahbe refused signing any contract for any film, even if the contract is with the same director that she already worked with Khaled Yousif.

BEIRUT (AFP) - Thousands of protesters joined rallies all over Lebanon on Friday to condemn Israel's deadly raids on the Gaza Strip and what demonstrators called Egypt's complicity in the attacks.

Thousands of protesters joined rallies all over Lebanon on Friday to condemn Israel's deadly raids on the Gaza Strip and what demonstrators called Egypt's complicity in the attacks.

Beirut - Thousands of protesters from various Palestinian and Lebanese groups demonstrated Friday in front the Egyptian Embassy in the capital Beirut to protest what they described as the Arab stand towards the Gaza attack. Where are the Arabs? Wh...

HUMANITARIANS: Free Gaza Movement ship Dignity arriving at the Lebanese port of Tyre en route to Gaza.

French President holds talks with Lebanese majority leader about peace in Mideast ahead of region?s tour.

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PARKERSBURG - As diverse as the traditions of different cultures are, most share a common theme of unity when it comes to celebrating the new year. Rizkallah Helou and Chams Ekelman, co-owners of Chams' Lebanese Cuisine on Market Street, celebrated New Year's Eve Wednesday with a party for their customers.

Dwayne Bullock had dreams of forming a large family, building a new home and creating a business with his brother, Joey.

A Lebanon-born Danish citizen turned himself in to police Thursday in the shooting of two Israeli citizens in the town of Odense, police spokesman John Jacobsen said.

Many thanks indeed to Monday Morning, which, at the end of the year 2008, has offered me the chance,to express to all the Lebanese my warmest and most sincere good wishes. May 2009 see the fulfillment of all their aspirations in a Lebanon at peace, reconciled with itself and prosperous.

A year-end look at trends in the Arab world during the past 12 months reveals little to be optimistic about.

Beirut - A Lebanese parliamentary leader on Thursday accused Israel of trying to end resistance in the Gaza Strip and urged Arab states to cut diplomatic ties to Israel. Speaking before a meeting of the Arab Parliamentarian Council, Shiite House Sp...

Volunteers sign up for bone marrow registry

Thu, Jan 1, 2009 (12:09 a.m.) Since taking control of the Gaza Strip in 2007, Hamas has adopted the rocket tactics used by Lebanese Hezbollah, shifting away from its reliance on suicide bombers in attacks on Israel.

Since taking control of the Gaza Strip in 2007, Hamas has adopted the rocket tactics used by Lebanese Hezbollah, shifting away from its reliance on suicide bombers in attacks on Israel