Al-Aqsa TV run by the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) will begin broadcasting from Beirut for one hour a day to develop its capabilities outside Gaza, local Naharnet website reported Saturday. Hamas- Al-Aqsa TV station in Gaza was hit by Israeli troops during the 22-day Israeli war on Gaza, according to press reports that the building of the TV station has been completely ...

  

BEIRUT: HE the Minister of Business and Trade Sheikh Fahd bin Jassem bin Mohamed al-Thani and his accompanying delegation left Beirut yesterday afternoon concluding a three-day visit to Lebanon.

  

BEIRUT - Bank Audi on Friday posted a 19 per cent rise in net profit for 2008 and said it aimed to increase net earnings and assets in 2009 despite a difficult regional economic outlook.

  

Increased military cooperation between Lebanon, Syria mirrored by warming of diplomatic relations.

  

Syria denied on Friday statements made by French President Nicolas Sarkozy's Envoy Philippe Marini in Beirut that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had played a positive role in Hezbollah's self-restraint during the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip. A Syrian official source denied the statements by Marini in which "he said he understood from President Assad during a meeting in Damascus that Syria ...

  

The office of Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Seniora hit back at Hezbollah Chief Hasan Nasrallah's accusations concerning the case of missing Iranian diplomats in Lebanon since 1982, local NBN TV reported Friday. A statement by Seniora's office late Thursday said the government sent a letter to UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Sep. 13, 2008,urging him to help resolving the fate of the four Iranian ...

  

Mr. Dodge was the first American to be kidnapped in Lebanon and held hostage for an extended period during the country's 15-year civil war.

  

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.

  

LEBANON-Covenant Christian Child Care Center will be appealing the state's revocation of its license for allowing two toddlers who walked out of the building unaccompanied last December.

  

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.

  

NASHVILLE (AP) - Dell Inc. will close part of its Lebanon plant and move more than 250 employees about 25 miles west to Nashville next week.

  

BEIRUT, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Lebanon's BLOM bank said on Friday its 2008 net profit rose 23 percent to $251.6 million.

  

Beirut, Jan 30: Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Seniora has hit back at Hezbollah chief Hasan Nasrallah for holding his government responsible for the four Iranian diplomats who went missing in 1982, a media report said Friday.

  

Kantar says despite staying prison for 30 years, still waiting for date to confront 'occupying enemy'.

  

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 ...

  

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.

  

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," ...

  

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.

  

The famous Lebanese television broadcaster Razan Al Maghribi confirmed that she has joined 'Rotana.' She had signed a contract with Rotana to have the company produce her new and upcoming album.

  

"The Lebanese woman, be she Muslim or Christian, lives a contradiction between what she is, what she wants to be and what she is allowed to be."

  

Dell is shutting down its desktop manufacturing operation in Lebanon tomorrow, citing reduced demand for the product line due to the economy and consumer preference for small, portable laptops and notebook computers.

  

Lebanese militant and convicted murderer Samir Kantar, who was released by Israel in a prisoner swap last year, called for the destruction of Israel during a visit to Tehran 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 - The head of the pro-Iranian Hezbollah movement on Thursday urged Lebanon to not give up efforts to find the remains of Lebanese and Arab prisoners he said are still being held in Israel. Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah said during a press conference...

  

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.

  

BEIRUT -- The sound that blasts from the loudspeakers in the mosque near my office in Beirut is causing the windowpanes to shudder. It is noon on Friday, and the local muezzin is leading the faithful in prayer. The mosque is crowded with believers spilling over to the sidewalk.

  

LEBANON - People with boxes in Lebanon's branch post office in the Roth's IGA shopping plaza must collect their last letters and bills there as of March 9.

  

?Enjoy this wine back home in Australia,' said a friend, pressing a well-regarded Lebanese red into my hands before I left Beirut. BLOG: Do you have a travel horror story' I put the bottle in my hand

  

Head of the Future Bloc in the Lebanese Parliament MP Saad Hariri said the March 14 coalition remains solid ahead of legislative elections and will stand candidates throughout Lebanon, describing the polls as decisive and "a primary line" in the defense of Lebanon, Arabs, the Palestinian cause, the martyrs of the Cedar Revolution, and the 2006 and the Gaza aggressions.

  

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.

  

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad used his influence with Hezbollah to prevent the Lebanese militant group from taking action during Israel's deadly onslaught on the Gaza Strip, a French envoy said on Wednesday.

  

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

  

BEIRUT (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama's assertion that "the moment is ripe" to renew Israeli-Palestinian peace talks seems to fly in the face of several harsh realities.

  

Source: Reuters By Alistair Lyon, Special Correspondent BEIRUT, Jan 28 (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama's assertion that "the moment is ripe" to renew Israeli-Palestinian peace talks seems to fly ...

  

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

  

PRINCETON (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.

  

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]

  

Lebanese Foreign Minister Fawzi Salloukh announced Tuesday that Syria has approved the nomination of the first Lebanese ambassador to Damascus Michel Khoury, Elnashre website reported. The first ever-Lebanese ambassador Michel Khoury was nominated last month, but his name was not officially announced then, in accordance to diplomatic norms. The name of the Syria ambassador to Lebanon was not ...

  

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...

  

Craving Lebanese food for lunch' The newest Shockoe Bottom restaurant, Aziza's on Main, gets a rave review from Style Weekly!

  

BEIRUT: Former Lebanese president and head of the Lebanese Phalange Party Amin Gemayel met here yesterday the Qatari Ambassador to Lebanon Saad bin Ali al-Muhannadi.

  

BEIRUT: Syria has approved the nomination of Michel el-Khoury as Lebanon's first ever ambassador to Damascus, Lebanon's foreign minister announced yesterday.

  

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

  

BERLIN, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- A German of Lebanese descent won $65,000 in damages from Macedonia after arguing he was abducted there by the CIA and taken to Afghanistan, his lawyer said.

  

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

  

Syria has approved the nomination of Michel el-Khoury as Lebanon's first ever ambassador to Damascus, Lebanon's foreign minister announced on Tuesday.

  

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.

  

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.

  

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

  

BEIRUT - Syria is ready for dialogue without conditions with the Obama administration, President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview aired on Monday.

  

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.

  

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, 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 ...

  

Lebanese artist Najwa Sultan is getting ready to start recording her new songs for her upcoming album. According to the London daily Elaph, Najwa will soon travel to Cairo to listen to new songs by Egyptian composers.

  

(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. ...

  

David Stuart Dodge, the former head of American University of Beirut who was kidnapped by extremists during Lebanon's civil war, has died.

  

David Stuart Dodge, the former head of American University of Beirut who was kidnapped by extremists during Lebanon's civil war, has died.

  

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.

  

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.

  

Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Seniora on Saturday called on rival Palestinian factions to unite against Israel and rebuild the Gaza Strip battered by 22 days of massive Israeli airstrikes. In a TV interview organized by Lebanese media to support Gaza people, Seniora said the Palestinian split is the biggest favor that could be given to Israel, national news agency reported. "All Arabs are asking ...

  

Lebanon: With close to half of the Arab population constituting of youths, a quarter of whom are unemployed and many of whom are blamed for rising militancy, the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs saw fit to dedicate its annual seminar to youth issues. [AMEInfo.com]

  

Lebanon: Nestled amid snowy peaks only 53 Km away from Beirut, the Mzaar mountain reaches 2465 meters with direct access to the ski slopes. [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 ...

  

The Lebanese football side twice threatened to end their King's Cup clash against Thailand in Phuket on Wednesday night. read more

  

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

  

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.

  

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.

  

By day, Dana Romanello works as a program administrator at Nashville radio. By night, she actually makes music herself, and she'll bring her bluegrass act to Lebanon's Grand Opry House, Saturday, Jan. 24. \

  

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.

  

The Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) will conduct another round of well-water sampling in Lebanon in January and February.

  

BEIRUT (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 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.

  

(Bolivar, MO) -- As many as 80 employees of the Tracker Marine aluminum boat production plant in Bolivar may be looking for work. The company announces it will move its aluminum boat operations from Bolivar to its Lebanon plant, which also makes aluminum boats.

  

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 ...

  

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, 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.

  

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.

  

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

  

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 ...

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon?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.

  

Gate City earns 54-40 home win over Lebanon Pioneers in huge Clinch Mountain District clash on Friday as Tihlee Anderson tallies 25 points.

  

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.

  

Famous Lebanese artist Carole Samaha is the first Arab artist to stand on the stage of the Windsor Caesars Palace. Samaha performed in front of more than three thousand fans.

  

Famous Lebanese artist Carole Samaha is the first Arab artist to stand on the stage of the Windsor Caesars Palace. Samaha performed in front of more than three thousand fans.

  

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

  

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Hamas officials emerged from weeks in hiding Monday for a defiant "victory celebration" with their supporters outside the gutted parliament building, the latest sign that Israel's three week assault neither broke the militant Islamist group nor weakened its control of the Gaza Strip.

  

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

  

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.

  

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.

  

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.

  

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

  

Barack Obama plans to name former Sen. George Mitchell as his Middle East envoy in one of his first actions as the new U.S. president, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday.

  

The deeply divided Arab League failed on Tuesday to come up with a plan to reconstruct the devastated Gaza Strip and could not agree on whether to back Egyptian peace efforts to end the crisis.

  

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.

  

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.

  

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

  

The state Medical Examiner says the death of a 14-year-old Lebanon boy was accidental, but that hypothermia and alcohol consumption may have played roles in his death.

  

+ Beirut will take their Eastern European-sounding songs to... Western Europe this May . So close! The tour's London date will also feature Shearwater. + Cutesy L.A. guy-girl duo the bird and the bee (everything's cuter in lower case, obvs) are readying even more TV-ready tunes (see: various Grey's Anatomy scenes) with sophomore LP Ray Guns Are Not Just the Future , out January ...

  

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.

  

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.

  

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.

  

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 ...

  

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.

  

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

  

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

  

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.

  

There are only a handful of subjects on which I actually trust the writing of columnist Thomas Friedman?Beirut and the environmental economy among them. And while he occasionally gets it right in other areas, like the general economy,...

  

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.

  

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

  

Beirut - Angry Lebanese and Palestinian demonstrators protesting Israel's attacks on the Gaza Strip clashed with Lebanese security forces near the US embassy north of Beirut on Sunday, as the Palestinian group Hamas confirmed a one-week truce in Gaza...

  

(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.

  

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.

  

Beirut, Jan 18: A Hamas representative in Lebanon, Osama Hamdan, said Saturday if there is no Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and no lifting of siege there will be no ceasefire.

  

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

  

Hamas leader Osama Hamdan in Beirut said that the group was under no obligation to defer to Israel demands and bring Gaza attacks to an end.

  

GEORGE TOWN: Readers of The New York Times have chosen Penang as the second best destination among '44 Places To Go in 2009?. In top spot in the recommendations found on the paper's website ( http://www.nytimes.com ) was Beirut.

  

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

  

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.

  

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.

  

The Ebenezer branch of the Jonestown Bank and Trust Company on Route 72 was robbed at 5:58 p.m. Friday, according to North Lebanon Twp. police. Two men entered the bank shortly before closing, jumped over the counter and took money, police said.

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - 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.

  

(By ZEINA KARAM, Associated Press Writer) 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 ...

  

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.

  

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.

  

Source: Reuters BEIRUT, Jan 17 (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 ...

  

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 ...

  

Lebanon held off one Siegel run.

  

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.

  

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 ...

  

BEIRUT, Jan 16, 2009 (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.

  

Lebanese star Madeline Matar just finished filming her new Kuwaiti song 'Wahishni Moot' (Miss You Like Crazy) which is written and composed by Sheikh Duaig Al Khalifa Al Sabah. The filming lasted for one day where for the first time Madeline worked with the director May Al Yas.

  

Lebanese artist Mueen Al Sharif is working on his new and upcoming album which is scheduled to see the lights at the beginning of the next summer season.

  

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. ...

  

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.

  

BOSTON -- A Cape Air flight that took off from Lebanon Airport in New Hampshire was forced to make an emergency landing in Boston on Friday.

  

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.

  

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.

  

Cairo, Jan 16 : A Lebanese antiquities dealer was arrested in Bulgaria after being charged with smuggling stolen ancient Egyptian artefacts, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) has said.

  

Spanish Defense Minister Carme Chacon stressed Thursday from south Lebanon, that the Spanish peacekeepers under UN Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) will stay in their task until UN resolution 1701 is implemented, local Elnashra website reported. The Spanish defense minister inspected her country's troops in south Lebanon accompanied with UNIFIL commander Claudio Graziano. "We regret the rocket ...

  

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.

  

Town of Lebanon officials are seeking applicants for town historian and seats on the planning board and board of appeals for January. All interested town residents are

  

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.

  

Israel has warned Lebanon it will retaliate with aerial bombardment against southern Lebanon targets next time the Jewish state is attacked by rockets from Lebanon.

  

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

  

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.

  

Seattle coffee company celebrates 10 years in China. Company denies supporting Israeli military.

  

Three rockets fired from Lebanon slammed into northern Israel on Wednesday in an attack that frayed nerves on both sides of the tense border for the second time in less than a week.

  

Three rockets fired from Lebanon slammed into northern Israel on Wednesday in an attack that frayed nerves on both sides of the tense border for the second time in less than a week.

  

Lebanese Information Minister Tareq Mitri denounced Wednesday the firing of rockets from southern Lebanon into northern Israel, local Naharnet website reported. "Firing rockets targeting Lebanon's national interest and the interest of the Palestinian," Mitri told reporters after meeting with Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Seniora. Mitri said last week that all Lebanese factions inside the ...

  

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.

  

Militants in Lebanon sent rockets crashing into northern Israel on Wednesday, the second such attack in a week, and Israel responded by firing artillery across the border as diplomatic efforts to end the military offensive in Gaza intensified.

  

BEIRUT (AFP)--The Lebanese government 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.

  

Israeli aircraft struck a Gaza City cemetery on Wednesday, unearthing dozens of bodies, and pounded militants' weapons positions and arms smuggling tunnels, witnesses and the military said, as guerrillas in Lebanon raised the specter of a new front by sending rockets crashing into northern Israel.

  

Rockets fired from Lebanon struck Israel on Wednesday for the second time in a week while its Gaza offensive ground on, but there was no immediate sign the incident would escalate into wider violence.

  

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

  

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

  

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.

  

By BASSEM MROUE BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- 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.

  

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.

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon?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.

  

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 ...

  

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Maria Appakova) - "In many respects, the war in Gaza has compensated for the shortcomings of the Second Lebanon War. This time around, the decision to launch the offensive was calculated and reasoned, and the army has shown impressive capabilities."

  

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.

  

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.

  

The Lebanese cabinet approved Qatar's initiative to convene an emergency Arab summit to discuss the Israeli offensive against the Gaza Strip, local Daily Star reported Tuesday. Unidentified Lebanese sources revealed the Lebanese cabinet approved the call in its late Monday meeting and that the summit might be held in Kuwait on Jan. 22. Fourteen Arab states have accepted the invitation, a number ...

  

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.

  

BEIRUT -- Zain Group, the leading 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 ...

  

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.

  

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]

  

Lebanon: 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 Telecommunications. Zain said it plans to increase mtc touch's customer base by an additional 400,000 as part of a rapid and committed government-funded expansion plan. Currently mtc touch has over 800,000 active customers. [AMEInfo.com]

  

BEIRUT (AFP) - 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.

  

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.

  

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.

  

Rahbani, who composed many poems and songs for Fairuz, passes away following long illness.

  

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.

  

Telecom majors' deal with MTC Touch and Alfa mobile networks worth $145mn.

  

Beirut, 13 gen. (Adnkronos/Dpa) - Il segretario generale delle Nazioni Unite, Ban Ki-Moon, e' atteso venerdi' in Libano per colloqui incentrati sulla crisi in Medio Oriente. A darne notizia sono state fonti del governo di Beirut.

  

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

  

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, 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 -- 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.

  

BEIRUT: Beirut has been named as one of the "44 places to go in 2009" by the New York Times, one of the world's most influential newspapers. The daily included the Lebanese capital on its annual list of the best travel destinations for its readers, which appeared on Sunday.

  

Vietnam coach Henrique Calisto admits he knows nothing about upcoming opponent Lebanon and will be without two key players for Wednesday's clash. read more

  

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 said the resistance and confrontation in Gaza will have an impact on the regional situation, as-Safir daily reported Monday. "The resistance in Gaza will draw a new formula in the region," Berri said, without elaborating how the region would be shaped by the resistance referring to Gaza militant groups led by Hamas. He pointed out that the "strength of the ...

  

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.

  

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.

  

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.

  

HAMAS is set to reject Egypt's proposals to end Israel's 17-day-old offensive in the Gaza Strip, acccording to Lebanese political sources.

  

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.

  

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's Cabinet on Monday accepted a Qatari initiative for the holding of an emergency Arab League summit in Doha on Friday to discuss Israel's devastating offensive against the Gaza Strip. Fourteen Arab states - enough to convene an emergency gathering under the league's charter.

  

Mine- and cluster-bomb clearance teams in Lebanon are facing a funding crisis that could leave millions of square meters of land in the south of the country with no prospect of being cleared of dangerous explosives. Two of the seven international mine clearance organizations working in the south over the past year have suspended operations in recent weeks.

  

With Israel's brutal Gaza offensive now in its third week, there has been no let-up in the angry condemnations from Lebanese protesters. But in the country's overcrowded refugee camps, there are few sources of comfort or distraction for Palestinian children struggling to make sense of the violence, which has so far killed more than 900 Palestinians.

  

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

  

LEBANON - Nibco Inc., a global supplier of flow control products for a variety of uses, is moving its polyethylene tubing extrusion operation at 2775 Henkle Drive, into a larger, 130,000 square-foot building across the street at 2800 Henkle.

  

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.

  

NAQURA, Jan 12, 2009 (AFP) - A small amount of plastic explosives were found at the weekend in a garbage truck entering a UN base in southern Lebanon and two suspects were detained, a United Nations military spokesman told AFP on Monday.

  

A MOTHER AND CHILD -- This mother and child have no home after the family evacuated southern Lebanon during the Israeli attacks on Lebanon in 2006. They, like others, live in a school in Beirut and in other temporary accommodation.

  

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.

  

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.

  

It was an evening of hummus, belly-dancing and formal wear at the Delta Prince Edward Saturday as Charlottetown celebrated the 45th annual Lebanese New Year's levee.

  

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 ...