A manifesto that will allow the new Lebanon government to take office will be ready on Friday, Information Minister Tareq Mitri, seen here in Fabruary 2008, said on Thursday.

  

The Arab Investment & Export Credit Guarantee Corporation estimated that Arab investments in Lebanon reached $3.343 billion in 2007, up 47.5 percent from $2.267 billion in 2006, and an 87.8 percent rise from $1.780 billion in 2005. "Lebanon's share of aggregate inter-Arab investments in 2007 reached a record high since 1995.

  

Although Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's announced resignation could markedly affect the Jewish state's negotiations with Syria and the Palestinians, his departure will most likely not have significant repercussions on Lebanon, a number of analysts told The Daily Star on Thursday.

  

31 July 2008 - The independent United Nations team dispatched by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to assess the monitoring of the Lebanese border with Syria has wrapped up its two-week mission to Lebanon.

  

A manifesto that will allow the new Lebanon government to take office will be ready on Friday, Information Minister Tareq Mitri said on Thursday.

  

A new book Design Destinations: Worldwide (Peribo, $95) out in August, showcases the very coolest locations on the globe. From Beirut to Bali, Istanbul to New York it is your ticket to the hotels, shops, spas, bars and restaurants that are at the forefront of design and cutting-edge architecture.

  

LEBANON, Ore. -- A police officer posted to Lebanon High School has lost his certification after allegations surfaced about an inappropriate relationship with a student.

  

Iran - Lebanon - Victories President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday that Lebanese great people will clinch bigger victories and that Iran will always stand by the Lebanese nation.

  

TRIPOLI (NORTHERN LEBANON), 31 July 2008 (IRIN) - Hundreds of Shia Allawi families who have fled the upsurge in violence since 25 July between the Jebel Mohsen (mainly Allawi) and Bab al-Tabbaneh (mainly Sunni) neighbourhoods of Tripoli are living without basic necessities and have yet to receive support.

  

A troubled Lebanese pop singer has been found stabbed to death in her apartment in an upmarket district of Dubai, according to reports.

  

Email this article Printer friendly page Barack Obama makes stop at Lebanon's Bell Restaurant today. See Thursday's edition of the Daily Record for full story.

  

FBI agents say 35-year-old Ali Hammoud tried to pull off a caper worthy of the big screen. Last Thursday, agents say Hammoud was minutes away from boarding an overseas flight in Miami with millions of stolen dollars sitting in a Beirut bank account.

  

LEBANON - Three people have applied to replace Sherrie Sprenger as the Zone 1 representative on the Lebanon School Board.

  

BAROUK, Lebanon - Sturdy cedars perched high in the mountains stand for many Lebanese as symbols of their fractured land's survival. But some environmentalists worry that the trees face a new threat from global warming.

  

The Lebanon Public Library has asked for city council's help to tear down the house the library owns at 23 W. Main St. The library requested a permit to demolish the house in April after years of trying to give the building away. The board wants to build a park in its spot.

  

The Lebanon Public Library has asked for city council's help to tear down the house the library owns at 23 W. Main St.

  

(RTTNews) - A Lebanese soldier was shot dead and another injured Wednesday, when unidentified gunmen attacked a military post in eastern Lebanon, reports quoting security sources said.

  

BEIRUT (AFP)--Lebanese Cabinet ministers are to meet Wednesday in a new bid to draft a policy statement that will allow the government to formally take office after a parliamentary vote of confidence.

  

Dubai - Lebanese singer Suzan Tamim was found murdered in her Dubai apartment, with her murderer still unknown, media reports said Wednesday. The 33-year-old singer was last seen at 1 am on Sunday. She returned home in the company of some friends, th...

  

BEIRUT - A Lebanese soldier was killed and another was wounded on Wednesday when unidentified gunmen opened fire on a Lebanese army post in Hermel, eastern Lebanon, security sources said.

  

A security official said gunmen have attacked a Lebanese military post in the country's east, killing one soldier and injuring another. According to him, the machine-gun attack took place at dawn Wednesday in Lebanon's eastern province of Hermel.

  

BEIRUT, July 30 (Reuters) - BLOM Bank , one of Lebanon's two largest banks, said on Wednesday its net profit for the first half of 2008 had risen 40.28 percent from the same period a year ago.

  

Lebanese singing star Suzanne Tamim is found dead at her home in the Gulf emirate of Dubai, media reports say.

  

BEIRUT (AFP)--Hezbollah accused Israel on Wednesday of intensifying its violations of Lebanese airspace and called for action by the U.N. and the government in Beirut.

  

BEIRUT (AFP)--Gunmen opened fire on an army checkpoint in eastern Lebanon on Wednesday, killing one soldier and wounding another, the army said. "A military position in the eastern Bekaa came under fire Wednesday morning by unknown gunmen. The soldiers responded to the fire," the statement said.

  

A security official says gunmen have attacked a Lebanese military post in the country's east, killing one soldier and wounding another.

  

Unknown assailants fire on a military post in eastern Lebanon, killing a soldier and wounding another, officials say.

  

Lebanon: The Faculty of Medicine at the American University of Beirut recently held its first annual White Coat Ceremony at the Issam Fares Hall. [AMEInfo.com]

  

BEIRUT: Hizbullah has created a new political file for Arab relations in conjunction with its department of international affairs, and is set to formulate a new political charter, media reports said Tuesday.

  

DUBAI: Lebanese singer Suzanne Tamim ( pictured ) was found murdered in an apartment in Dubai Marina late on Monday, police sources said. Some Arabic websites said the singer was found stabbed and disfigured, according to Dubai press reports.

  

Sturdy cedars perched high in the mountains stand for many Lebanese as symbols of their fractured land's survival. But some environmentalists worry that the trees face a new threat from global warming.

  

Source: Reuters By Alistair Lyon, Special Correspondent BAROUK, Lebanon, July 30 (Reuters) - Sturdy cedars perched high in the mountains stand for many Lebanese as symbols of their fractured land's survival. But ...

  

A Fatah military commander was seriously wounded in an overnight explosion in a Palestinian refugee camp in south Lebanon, a medic said, after a Palestinain official had earlier said he had been killed.

  

Seven million Lebanese live in Brazil. Last month, the regional branch of Rotary International sent five more. As part of the Rotary Group Study Exchange (GSE,) a member of the Beirut Rotary club traveled with four other young professionals to meet their Brazilian counterparts, tour the country, and give presentations on Lebanon and the Middle East.

  

The Faculty of Medicine at the American University of Beirut (AUB) recently held its first annual "White Coat Ceremony" at the Issam Fares Hall, a statement issued by the university said on Tuesday. The ceremony is a rite of passage to medical school, held in over 90 percent of American medical schools usually at the start of the first year.

  

Lebanon Junction Police Chief Darrell Paul said he was fired this afternoon by Mayor James "Butch" Sweat.

  

A Fatah military commander has been seriously wounded in an explosion in a Palestinian refugee camp in south Lebanon, a medic says. It comes after a Palestinian official had earlier said the commander had been killed.

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon?A roadside bomb critically wounded a military commander of the Fatah movement Tuesday, setting off gunbattles at a Palestinian refugee camp that has been torn by factional fighting, Lebanese and Palestinian security officials said.

  

A Fatah military commander was seriously wounded in an explosion on Tuesday in a Palestinian refugee camp in south Lebanon, a medic said after a Palestinain official had earlier said he had been killed.

  

AIN EL-HELWEH, Lebanon (AFP)--A commander of the Fatah faction loyal to Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas was killed Tuesday in an explosion in a refugee camp in south Lebanon, a Palestinian official said.

  

TRIPOLI (NORTHERN LEBANON), 29 July 2008 (IRIN) - A few hours after evacuating their bullet-riddled three bedroom flat on the street which divides Sunnis from Shia Allawis in Tripoli's poorest neighbourhood, Khaled Mansour and his new wife were woken by the sound of their front room exploding.

  

Mika has enjoyed a historical homecoming in Beirut after playing to 15,000 fans in the Lebanese capital.

  

LEBANON, Pa. -- The cost of parking in Lebanon is going up. Digital meters are being installed along streets in the downtown area. The cost of parking will go from 25 cents to 50 cents an hour.

  

BEIRUT: A tense calm prevailed in Tripoli on Monday after Lebanese army troops arrested a number of gunmen on the streets of the northern port city a day earlier.

  

This issue will be the object of study by the governments of both countries, and we want to reach an agreement. But it cannot be done overnight since this council is the result of treaties and accords reached between the two countries.

  

BEIRUT: The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) presented last week scholarship assistance checks totaling $1,652,434 to the Lebanese American University (LAU), a statement by the university said Monday.

  

A Lebanon man was taken into custody after police said he sexually assaulted a girl.

  

Email this article Printer friendly page BOONVILLE - Despite holding a 7-0 lead in the second inning over the host team, Boonville, the Lebanon 15-year-old All-Stars were unable to hold on and were eliminated from the state tournament on Sunday.

  

Lebanon: Lebanon's national carrier, Middle East Airlines (MEA) has become the newest customer for the Airbus A330-200, following the delivery of their first directly purchased aircraft at a ceremony in Toulouse, South Western France. [AMEInfo.com]

  

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

  

With its sun-kissed Mediterranean coast, and cedar-laden snow-bound mountains, Lebanon, like California, is one of the few places where you can top up your tan in the morning, and ski in the afternoon.

  

Lebanon: Bank Audi sal - Audi Saradar Group announced that it has successfully closed a landmark syndicated $380m multi-currency bridge facility for the Syrian Cement Company, a Lafarge subsidiary. [AMEInfo.com]

  

A Hammond man was killed Sunday when his sport utility vehicle clipped a semi-tractor trailer as he tried to pass it on the right, flipping several times and ending up in the median of I-65 just north of Lebanon.

  

BEIRUT: In its first report about Lebanon since the Doha accord, Citigroup indicated that despite a series of political shocks since 2005, the Lebanese economy has struggled but has been surprisingly robust.

  

Beirut - Mika, the so-called genius of pop music, enchanted late Sunday some 14,000 of his Lebanese fans in down own Beirut by singing his famous song Relax, Take It Easy. Mika, whose real name is Michael Penniman and was born in Beirut from a Lebane...

  

Lebanese President Michel Sleiman on Saturday said that what Syria and Lebanon have in common is "much stronger" than the issues that divide the two states.Commenting on the frosty relations between Lebanon and Syria over the past three years, Sleiman said "this period would be overcome because what we have in common is much stronger than what could separate us."

  

Lebanese politicians and religious figures reacted over the weekend to comments made last Thursday in Vienna by an Iranian vice president, Gholam Reza Aghazadeh, with two MPs accusing the Islamic Republic of using Lebanon as a bargaining chip in its attempts to resolve the international row over its nuclear program.

  

Beirut - Lebanese tanks were out in force Sunday on the streets of the northern port city of Tripoli, after two days of sectarian fighting that left at least nine people dead, security official said. Militants from rival communities of Sunni Muslims ...

  

TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AFP)--Hundreds of people were still homeless Sunday after the latest bout of deadly sectarian fighting in the northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli.

  

NICOSIA [MENL] -- Hizbullah was said to have incited sectarian violence in an effort to expand control in Lebanon. Allies of Prime Minister Fuad Siniora said Hizbullah and Syrian agents were fueling violence around the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli.

  

There has been an outbreak of violence in northern Lebanon.

  

Sectarian clashes in northern Lebanon continued for a second day on Saturday, killing three people and wounding 27, security officials said.

  

BEIRUT: Lebanese marksman Ziad Richa faced enough challenges in his Olympic bid before a UN Security Council resolution curbed his ammunition supply.

  

BEIRUT: International pop singing sensation Mika is set to play to a sell-out crowd today when he stages his first concert in Beirut, the city of his birth.

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Three people were killed and 27 wounded as sectarian clashes in northern Lebanon continued for a second day yesterday, security officials said.

  

Vegetation covers the entrance of the abandoned Magen Abraham synagogue which was damaged during Lebanon's 1975-1990 civil war in Beirut in April 2008. It's not easy being Jewish in Beirut where the synagogue is crumbling, the rabbis have left, the community is dwindling and where Jews are commonly branded "Israelis".

  

It was a sunny afternoon on Beirut's glamorous seafront in April 1983 and the world was about to change for ever. Old men stood fishing on the rocks opposite the American embassy. Women in high heels and sunglasses strolled along the boardwalk undeterred by the civil war and the honking traffic.

  

It's not easy being Jewish in Beirut where the synagogue is crumbling, the rabbis have left, the community is dwindling and where Jews are commonly branded "Israelis".

  

Sectarian clashes in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli continue for a second day. Several people have been killed in the clashes and dozens have been wounded. Gunmen exchanged heavy machine-gun and grenade fire from the Sunni and Alawite districts of the city until dawn.

  

TRIPOLI, Lebanon - Lebanese tanks were out on the streets of Tripoli on Saturday to restore security after nine people were killed in a fresh bout of sectarian fighting in the northern port city.

  

The Lebanese army has been deployed to halt two days of sectarian violence that has killed at least nine people and wounded more than 50 others.

  

The Lebanese army deployed on Saturday to halt two days of heavy sectarian fighting in the northern city of Tripoli which medical sources said had killed nine people.

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Lebanese security officials say three people have been killed in the second day of sectarian clashes in northern Lebanon. The clashes in Tripoli are between Sunnis and Alawites, an offshoot of Shiite Islam.

  

Associated Press - July 26, 2008 8:23 AM ET BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Lebanese security officials say three people have been killed in the second day of sectarian clashes in northern...

  

Associated Press - July 26, 2008 8:23 AM ET BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Lebanese security officials say three people have been killed in the second day of sectarian clashes in northern...

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Lebanese security officials say three people have been killed in the second day of sectarian clashes in northern Lebanon. The clashes in Tripoli are between Sunnis and Alawites, an offshoot of Shiite Islam.

  

Associated Press - July 26, 2008 8:23 AM ET BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Lebanese security officials say three people have been killed in the second day of sectarian clashes in northern...

  

Source: Reuters (Updates casualty toll, adds security official, politician) TRIPOLI, Lebanon, July 26 (Reuters) - The Lebanese army deployed on Saturday to halt two days of heavy sectarian fighting in the northern ...

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon - He was told not to grow a beard, or wear Islamic clothing, or show any outward sign of religious devotion.

  

Lebanese tanks were out on the streets of Tripoli on Saturday after nine people including a boy were killed in sectarian fighting which raged through the night in the northern port city.

  

Source: Reuters TRIPOLI, Lebanon, July 26 (Reuters) - Rival sectarian factions clashed in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli on Saturday for a second consecutive day and medical sources said the death toll from the ...

  

BEIRUT: Senior Shiite cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah said the national dialogue should focus on the way that all Lebanese parties take part in the defense of Lebanon.

  

BEIRUT: The prices of electricity, water, fuel oil and transport are taking their toll on Lebanese consumers who are already reeling under the high cost of food, according to a new survey conducted by Central Administration of Statistics (CAS). The report follows the repeated warnings of economists and consumer groups who have said that rising costs are becoming an increasingly unbearable burden ...

  

Police in Lebanon say as many as seven people have been killed and more than 30 injured in heavy fighting between rival sectarian factions in the northern city of Tripoli. The violence began at dawn after a hand grenade was reportedly thrown toward a Sunni area.

  

Seven people, including a child, were killed in fierce sectarian clashes on Friday in Lebanon's northern port of Tripoli as fighters exchanged rocket-propelled grenades and sniper fire, a security official said.

  

At least four people were killed in a gunbattle between opposing forces in northern Lebanon Friday, a senior security source told CNN.

  

(RTTNews) - Lebanon's northern part witnessed renewed sectarian violence Friday, resulting in the death of five people and injuries of more than 20, reports quoting the police said.

  

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) Friday lodged a formal complaint with Israel for a series of violations of Lebanese airspace over a two-day period. In a press release Friday, UNIFIL spokeswoman Yasmina Bouzianne demanded Israel bring a halt to their over flights as they constituted.

  

Sectarian clashes broke out Friday in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, killing at least two people and wounding 12, including a soldier, police officials said.

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon - A slate of candidates led by the son of assassinated former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri appeared to have swept the initial round of Lebanon's parliamentary elections yesterday, the first balloting held in 30 years without the shadow of civil war or Syrian military domination.

  

BEIRUT, July 25 (RIA Novosti) - At least five people were killed and 18 wounded on Friday in sectarian clashes in northern Lebanon, the National News Agency reported.

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Sectarian clashes broke out Friday in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, killing five people, including a policeman, and wounding at least 15, police officials said.

  

Tourists visit the temple of Bacchus at the Roman acropolis in the historical city of Baalbeck in the Bekaa valley on July 23. Tourists are flocking back to Beirut packing nightclubs, beaches and restaurants in a country that just months ago stood on the brink of civil war.

  

Sectarian clashes broke out Friday in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, killing five people, including a policeman, and wounding at least 15, police officials said.

  

Beirut - At least three people were killed and more than 20 wounded in sectarian clashes that raged in northern Lebanon Friday, police said. Residents fled the fighting between the Sunni Muslim Bab Tabbaneh and the Alawite Jabal Mohsen districts of T...

  

At least four people were killed in fierce sectarian clashes in Lebanon's northern port of Tripoli on Friday as fighters exchanged rocket-propelled grenades and sniper fire, a security official said.

  

New Yorker Dareen Hakim had dreamed of waking up in her grandmother's house in the mountains overlooking Beirut to a breakfast of fresh fruit jams and a manousheh -- a Lebanese thyme-flavoured flatbread.

  

LONDON, July 25 (Reuters) - Lebanon plans to sell a dollar bond and has hired BLOM Bank, Byblos Bank and Deutsche Bank to manage the sale, one of the banks managing the sale said on Friday.

  

TRIPOLI, Lebanon: At least three people were killed in fierce sectarian clashes in Lebanon's northern port of Tripoli on Friday as fighters exchanged rocket-propelled grenades and sniper fire, a security official said.

  

TRIPOLI, Lebanon, July 25 (UPI) -- Violence surfaced Friday in two districts of Tripoli in northern Lebanon after a hand grenade was set off in Bab El-Tabbaneh, security officials said.

  

At least three people were killed in fierce sectarian clashes in Lebanon's northern port of Tripoli on Friday as fighters exchanged rocket-propelled grenades and sniper fire, a security official said.

  

Beirut - At least one person was killed and ten wounded in sectarian clashes that raged in northern Lebanon Friday, police said. The clashes started at dawn and continued throughout the day during which the rival sides used rocket-propelled grenades ...

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Lebanese police say sectarian fighting in the northern city of Tripoli has killed one person and wounded 10.

  

Gunmen from rival sectarian factions exchanged machinegun and grenade fire on Friday in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli, killing at least three people and wounding 17, medical sources said.

  

BEIRUT: Barack Obama has convinced Arabs and Iranians he will put Israel's interests first if he becomes US president, after a Middle East tour that ended yesterday.

  

TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AFP)--One person was killed as sectarian clashes intensified in the north Lebanese port city of Tripoli on Friday, a security official told AFP.

  

TRIPOLI, Lebanon - Sectarian clashes intensified on Friday in the north Lebanese port city of Tripoli, with heavy gunfire taking over from hours of sporadic sniper fire, an AFP correspondent said.

  

Matthias S Klein: Britain's attempt to crack down on the military wing of Hizbullah is likely to strengthen the Lebanese Shia organisation

  

The map will replace this text. If any users do not have Flash Player 8 (or above), they'll see this message. Lyrical notes from the saxophone of United States jazz artist Branford Marsalis waft into the cool night air of a mountain palace courtyard in Lebanon.

  

One person was injured in sectarian violence in the northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli overnight, a security official told AFP.

  

BEIRUT: Former Premier Omar Karami on Wednesday night called on all political leaders to implement Article 95 of the Lebanese Constitution, which calls for the formation of a national council for the abolition of sectarianism in politics.

  

BEIRUT: In an effort to influence the status of contract negotiations with the government, the Order of Engineers and Architects of Beirut (OEAB) together with the Lebanese Contractors Syndicate (LCS) called Thursday for a one-day strike to be held next Wednesday.

  

Iranian Vice President Reza Aghazadeh said in Vienna on Thursday that negotiations with world powers on its nuclear program could be used to resolve wider Middle East problems from Lebanon to oil prices. "If the negotiations get under way, then solutions could be found for many problems like Iraq, Lebanon or fuel prices," said Aghazadeh.

  

Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Butros Sfeir said Thursday there should be no armed factions outside state control, in a direct reference to Hizbullah. Sfeir made the remark to members of the Journalists Union who visited him at his seat in suburban Bkirki, north of Beirut. "States of the world have resistance [movements] but these are non-armed factions.

  

BEIRUT - Iraqi and U.S. forces have come close to capturing Islamic militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi at least twice since mid-January, according to Kurdish intelligence officials.

  

The chase for the 2008 championship will continue Friday night at the Lebanon Midway Speedway as the USRA Modifieds, Factory Stocks, B-Mods, Bombers, Winged Sprint Cars and Super Stocks will be in action as the list of new winners continued last weekend.

  

LEBANON - The Brumley Gospel Sing will celebrate its 40th anniversary Aug. 6 to 9 at the Kenneth E. Cowan Civic Center in Lebanon. More than 30 full-time gospel artists will perform in six concerts over four days.

  

Lebanon: United Nations mission helps quench forest fires (AKI) - The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) is helping the country's authorities fight forest fires that have broken out southeast of the capital this week.UNIFIL on Wednesday dispatched a second helicopter after sending a first one late on Tuesday. The UN said its force responded immediately to a request from ...

  

Lebanon: AUB professor Ghazi Zaatari, who chairs the pathology and laboratory medicine department, has been appointed at the chair of the World Health Organization (WHO) Study Group on Tobacco Product Regulation. [AMEInfo.com]

  

Beirut - The Lebanese army said Thursday that Israel Air Force warplanes have violated Lebanon's airspace by flying over Beirut and elsewhere in the country. At least three enemy Israeli warplanes violated Lebanese airspace overnight and Thursday mo...

  

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

  

JERUSALEM: Israel's government press office cut all contacts with pan-Arab Al Jazeera television yesterday, accusing its Beirut bureau of throwing a party for a freed Lebanese militant who committed a triple murder in Israel.

  

BEIRUT: The price of gasoline in Lebanon is approximately 34,000 Lebanese pounds ($21.3) per 20 liters and a robust 11-12 percent inflation is taking a heavy toll on the economy.

  

BEIRUT: The Lebanese government appears to be giving serious thought to revising the electricity tariff structure in a bid to alleviate the mounting deficit of Electricite du Liban (EDL).

  

An area city may be breaking the law when it comes to hiring. This news comes as the state auditor released her findings of an investigations into the city of Lebanon.

  

State Auditor Susan Montee found several concerns related to economic development building projects in Lebanon.

  

BEIRUT - Hezbollah turned over the remains of 114 Syrian and Arab fighters to Syria yesterday after receiving them as part of a prisoner swap with Israel last week.

  

LEBANON - Avast ye, landlubbers: This weekend, pirates be takin' over Cheadle Lake.

  

For Fawzi Yassin, who graduated this year with a degree in computer science, academic standards were not his only motivation for choosing to study at the American University of Beirut (AUB) - an accommodating attitude was a high priority.

  

The price of gasoline in Lebanon is approximately 34,000 Lebanese pounds ($21.3) per 20 liters and a robust 11-12 percent inflation is taking a heavy toll on the economy. To make matters worse, the Goldman Sachs analyst who predicted 2007's $100 per barrel of oil in 2005 recently predicted $200 per barrel by the end of 2008.

  

Hizbullah turned over the remains of 114 Syrian and Arab fighters to Syria on Wednesday after receiving them as part of a prisoner swap with Israel last week. The coffins were taken from Beirut to the Masnaa border crossing in the eastern part of the country by Hizbullah's Islamic Health Committee.

  

Syria has received the bodies of 114 Arab fighters that were handed over by Israel as part of a prisoner exchange between the Jewish state and the Lebanese Hezbollah group.

  

A West Lebanon limestone crushing plant has been fined after an employee died on the job.

  

Bassam Kantar (R) kisses his brother, freed Lebanese prisoner Samir Kantar in his hometown of Abai, southeast of Beirut, July 17. Israel's government press office has cut all contacts with pan-Arab Al-Jazeera television, accusing its Beirut bureau of throwing a party for Kantar .

  

BEIRUT - Firemen in Lebanon brought a large forest fire under control on Wednesday amid exploding cluster bombs and the danger of mines, a civil defence official told AFP.

  

(Lebanon, MO) -- The city of Lebanon will hear the results of a state audit this evening. Missouri State Auditor Susan Montee will deliver a report during a public meeting at 6:30 tonight.

  

Lebanese women cannot pass on nationality to own children as some politicians fear demography change.

  

Caritas Lebanon Migrant Center has taken initiatives to support Nepalis who have reached Lebanon in search of jobs but are facing problems in the new society.

  

Firemen are battling a forest fire in Lebanon, amid exploding Israeli cluster bombs and the danger of mines left over from the country's 1975-1990 civil war, a civil defence official said.

  

We will start with relations with Syria, whose normalization will be achieved through officials from both countries.

  

A great welcome, on the official and popular levels was given to Samir Kantar, 'dean' of the Lebanese prisoners held in Israeli jails, and to the four other detainees: Khodr Zeidan, Maher Kourani, Mohammad Srour and Hussein Sleiman, kidnapped during the July War, which ended August 14, 2006.

  

LEBANON, Ind. - A woman accidentally stabbed herself in the foot with a 3-foot-long sword while performing a Wiccan good luck ritual at a central Indiana cemetery.

  

Iran - Publication - Sadr Books Imam Mousa Sadr's Cultural and Research Institute published five books by the Lebanese Shiite leader in Persian language.

  

BEIRUT, 22 July 2008 (IRIN) - Thousands of children in Lebanon are denied full access to education, healthcare and residency because they do not have Lebanese citizenship. Lebanese women cannot pass on their nationality to their children and in the event of separation, it is the father who gains automatic custody, according to Lebanese nationality law.

  

The Lebanon EIT Bureau's tax collection selection committee is recommending Keystone Municipal Collections of Irwin be hired to collect EIT, school district real estate and per cpaita and local services taxes.

  

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CONCORD, N.H. -- A Lebanon company will pay $90,000 to settle an environmental lawsuit. The state alleged in a lawsuit that Luminescent Systems, Inc., illegally disposed of more than 15,000 pounds of hazardous waste Lebanon's Solid Waste Landfill.

  

A Lebanon, N.H., company will pay $90,000 to settle an environmental lawsuit. The state alleged in a lawsuit that Luminescent Systems, Inc., illegally disposed of more than 15,000 pounds of hazardous waste Lebanon's Solid Waste Landfill. The state said Luminescent did not analyze wastes to determine if they were hazardous and illegally sent it to the landfill for 15 years.

  

Hizbullah has identified 157 fighters whose bodies Israel returned in a prisoner swap with the Lebanese resistance group. Hizbullah says DNA tests identified the nationalities of the fighters. Among the 157 were Lebanese, Palestinian, Syrian, Jordanian and Libyan, a Kuwaiti and a Tunisian.

  

BEIRUT, July 22 (Reuters) - Below is a table of the latest Lebanese economic statistics.

  

BEIRUT: Lebanese President Michel Suleiman will visit Syria soon to discuss establishing diplomatic ties between the neighbouring countries, the Syrian foreign minister said yesterday.

  

Syria reiterated that it intends to establish diplomatic relations with Lebanon, for the first time since the two nations gained independence more than 60 years ago.

  

Lebanon is accusing Israel of waging a high-tech propaganda campaign against its citizens using anti-Hezbollah recorded phone calls and mass text messages. The allegations of interference with Lebanon's telecommunications network, first reported by press outlets affiliated with Hezbollah, were given official weight during the weekend in an official letter from the Lebanese foreign minister, ...

  

ERBIL, Iraq, July 21 (UPI) -- Lebanon sees Iraqi Kurdistan as a potential partner for business and investment opportunities, the Kurdistan Regional Government said Monday.

  

The Kuwaiti communication ministry has banned the famous Lebanese superstar Ragheb Alameh's latest album. The permission the company 'Vanilla' received to distribute the album in Kuwait was revoked before three months.

  

It's not easy practicing Judaism in Beirut where the synagogue is crumbling, the rabbis have left, the community is dwindling and where Jews are commonly branded "Israelis." The last vestiges of the Jewish community in Lebanon, the Magen Abraham synagogue in the Lebanese capital, reflects a community falling into oblivion.

  

Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Butros Sfeir said on Monday the majority of Lebanese emigrants to Australia - who number nearly 80,000 - have not forgotten Lebanon, but are disturbed by the rifts among the Lebanese. "The Lebanese living in Australia are eager to see their fellow citizens abide by their country's regime.

  

(RTTNews) - Monday, Syrian foreign minister Walid al-Moallem confirmed an earlier commitment made by his government on reviving diplomatic relations with Lebanon.

  

Mon, Jul 21, 2008 (9:18 a.m.) Syria's foreign minister said Monday his country was determined to establish diplomatic relations with Lebanon for the first time since the two neighbors gained independence from France more than 60 years ago.

  

Syria's foreign minister said Monday his country was determined to establish diplomatic relations with Lebanon for the first time since the two neighbors gained independence from France more than 60 years ago.

  

Mike Sergeant meets a Lebanese shooter training near Beirut, where the noise of gunfire has been a familiar sound down the years.

  

Beirut - A member of the Sunni Fundamentalist group Jund al-Sham, Abu Ramez al-Sahmarani, escaped an assassination attempt at Ain el-Hilweh refugee camp in south Lebanon Monday, security sources said. The unknown assailants fired machine guns toward ...

  

BEIRUT - Lebanese President Michel Suleiman will visit Syria soon to discuss establishing diplomatic ties between the neighbouring countries, the Syrian foreign minister said on Monday.

  

BEIRUT (AFP)--Visiting Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem said Monday that Damascus was keen to open a new chapter in its relations with Lebanon and to delineate the border between both countries.

  

Lebanese President Michel Suleiman will visit Syria soon to discuss establishing diplomatic ties between the neighboring countries, the Syrian foreign minister said on Monday.

  

Syrian FM Walid Mouallem visits Beirut, a week after Damascus agreed to establish formal diplomatic ties with Lebanon.

  

Beirut - Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem, arriving in Beirut on Monday, extended an official invitation to Lebanese President Michel Suleiman to visit Damascus in an effort to improve relations between the two countries. The Lebanese and Sy...

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Syria's foreign minister has arrived in Lebanon on the first such visit by a senior Syrian official in more than three years. Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem plans to meet later Monday with Lebanese President Michel Suleiman.

  

The abandoned Magen Abraham synagogue which was damaged during Lebanon's 1975-1990 civil war in Beirut in early April.

  

BEIRUT: Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem is to visit Beirut on Monday a week after Lebanon and Syria agreed to establish diplomatic relations between the adjoining nations.

  

Lebanese militant freed from Israeli prison becomes an emblem of Hezbollah's foothold.

  

BEIRUT: Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem is to visit Beirut today, a Lebanese official said yesterday, a week after the two neighbours agreed to establish diplomatic relations for the first time.

  

Shahrul Nizam Salleh kissing his daughter Nurzulaika Amalina, as his wife Nariasyariah Alias and child Nurzulaika Adrina (right), watches before he left for Lebanon yesterday.

  

Indian Ambassador Dr George Joseph is to be posted to Lebanon at the end of his tenure in Qatar. Asked when he was likely to leave Doha, the ambassador said no decision had yet been taken since the incumbent in Beirut had not yet received instructions about the next posting.

  

The Beirut Stock Exchange (BSE) had a relative short week with four days of trading that was interrupted by a prisoner swap holiday. Trading was characterized by profit taking following weeks of speculative trading on the parts of investors. This caused the BLOM Stock Index (BSI) to retreat from its all-time high and settle at 2,043 points with a year-to-date increase of 36.09 percent.

  

AABEY, Lebanon - The skinny young brothers fidgeted in their plastic chairs as they gazed up at the beefy killer soaking in his first days of freedom after nearly three decades in Israeli prison.

  

Lebanese soldiers secure an army checkpoint at the entrance to the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain el-Helweh on the outskirts of the southern Lebanese city of Sidon. Three Palestinians have been killed after an argument between rival factions in a refugee camp in Lebanon turned violent.

  

It has been claimed that Israel is sending pre-recorded messages to mobile phone owners in Lebanon as part of an ongoing psychological war. The Lebanese Al-Manar TV broadcaster, citing the fairly respected Voice of Lebanon Radio as it source said that there are increasing complaints about the recorded messages being sent to mobile phones.

  

Three Palestinians have been killed after an argument between rival factions in a refugee camp in south Lebanon turned violent, a Palestinian official said on Sunday.

  

EIN AL-HILWEH, Lebanon - The leader of a small Sunni Islamist group has died from wounds suffered in a gunbattle with members of the Fatah faction at a Palestinian refugee camp in south Lebanon, camp officials said on Sunday.

  

Israel releases a known murderer to a hero's welcome in Beirut while all Israel receives in return are the dead bodies of two soldiers ("Monsters' Ball," July 17). The swap was brokered by a UN-appointed German official. What other country in the...

  

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem is to visit Beirut on Monday, a Lebanese official said on Sunday, a week after the two neighbours announced they would establish diplomatic relations for the first time.

  

BEIRUT (AFP)--Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem is to visit Beirut on Monday, a Lebanese official said Sunday, a week after the two neighbors announced they would establish diplomatic relations for the first time.

  

Source: Reuters EIN AL-HILWEH, Lebanon, July 20 (Reuters) - The leader of a small Sunni Islamist group has died from wounds suffered in a gunbattle with members of the Fatah faction at a Palestinian refugee camp in ...

  

Lebanon: The number of people who are addicted to drugs is increasing every year in Lebanon. [AMEInfo.com]

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon - Wearing a bright blue veil carefully wrapped around her head, the TV host smirked as she listened to her guest's comments about the lack of U.S. strategies in the Middle East.

  

Global Holidays, a leading travel advisor based in Beirut, was appointed General Sales Agent (GSA) in Lebanon by Saudi luxury air carrier Kayala Airlines, a move aimed at meeting the special needs of VIPs and business people regularly flying the Saudi Arabia-Lebanon routes.

  

A former Israeli defense official says that the Israeli military used cluster bombs for two weeks during the 2006 Lebanon war without telling the Israeli government.

  

Lebanon: Global Holidays, a leading travel advisor based in Beirut, has signed a General Sales Agent (GSA) agreement with Saudi carrier NAS Air to offer budget air travel between Saudi Arabia and Lebanon. [AMEInfo.com]

  

Lebanese security officials say two Palestinian militants allied to a pro al-Qaida group have been killed in a clash with members of the mainstream Fatah movement in a southern refugee camp.

  

JERUSALEM - A former Israeli defence official says the Israeli military used cluster bombs for two weeks during the 2006 Lebanon war without telling the Israeli government.

  

Syria is open to having an embassy in the Lebanese capital of Beirut and a Lebanese embassy in the Syrian capital of Damascus, a Syrian official said Saturday.Syrian Information Minister Mohsen Bilal said Syria is attempting to meet Lebanese requirements for the proposed embassies in an attempt to foster better relations between the two countries, the Kuwait News Agency KUNA reported.The ...

  

Residents of several neighborhoods in Lebanon were forced to evacuate their homes Saturday afternoon. Just before 4:00 p.m. two vehicles collided and struck a gas main causing a leak at the intersection of OH-48 and Burt Road.

  

At least one person has been killed in a gunbattle between the Fatah faction and Sunni Islamist militants at a Palestinian refugee camp in south Lebanon.

  

Source: Reuters (Increases death toll to two) EIN AL-HILWEH, Lebanon, July 19 (Reuters) - Two people were killed on Saturday in a gunbattle between members of the Fatah faction and Sunni Islamist militants at a ...

  

Beirut - A team sent to Lebanon by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon began Saturday examining the country's border security, a UN source said. The Lebanese Independent Border Team (LIBAT) includes four experts with military, police and customs experie...

  

At least one person was killed on Saturday in a gunbattle between the Fatah faction and Sunni Islamist militants at a Palestinian refugee camp in south Lebanon, a security official at the camp said.

  

Source: Reuters EIN AL-HILWEH, Lebanon, July 19 (Reuters) - At least one person was killed on Saturday in a gunbattle between the Fatah faction and Sunni Islamist militants at a Palestinian refugee camp in south ...

  

Kayala Airline, the Middle East's only business travel carrier operated by Saudi-based National Air Services (NAS), announced that it landed today at Rafic Hariri International Airport.

  

Beirut, July 17, 2008-- IFC IFC , a member of the World Bank Group, today signed an agreement to support Butec Group S.A.L. Holding Butec Group S.A.L. Holding , one of Lebanon's leading construction companies.

  

Lebanon: BBAC s.a.l. Bank of Beirut and the Arab Countries has exclusively partnered with RIA (money remittance) to become RIA's local correspondent for all money transfer operations. [AMEInfo.com]

  

BEIRUT: Lebanese judges held a strike on Friday to protest against what the Higher Judicial Council has repeatedly described as "unjustified attacks" against judiciary authorities in the country.

  

Lebanese judges held a strike on Friday to protest against what the Higher Judicial Council has repeatedly described as "unjustified attacks" against judiciary authorities in the country. The strike forced the suspension of all judicial activity in Lebanon on Friday and comes on the heels of a general meeting of magistrates chaired by.

  

Just in the time for the summer holiday season, the Municipality of Beirut and ASSABIL - the Friends of Public Libraries Association - inaugurated a third municipal public library in the Monnot neighborhood of the capital on Friday. The new library, which is located in the St. Joseph University Street next to the Monnot Theater, specializes in arts and culture.

  

JERUSALEM, July 18 (UPI) -- Israeli officials say Hezbollah has been buying land in villages in southern Lebanon for use as bases for cross-border rocket attacks.

  

The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has held a funeral for eight guerrillas killed during its 2006 war with Israel.

  

Analysts in Syria have largely welcomed the news that Syria and Lebanon plan to open embassies in each other's capitals. French president Nicolas Sarkozy announced the development after he met Lebanese president Michel Suleiman and Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad in Paris last week.

  

BEIRUT - Lebanon has complained to the United Nations about recorded voicemail threats sent to Lebanese mobile phones from Israel, officials said Friday.

  

A Lebanon man trapped in his car after it crashed Thursday evening east of Lebanon suffered serious injuries, the Missouri Highway Patrol reported.

  

Fresh clashes in Lebanon's northern port city of Tripoli have left one person ded and six others wounded, a security official said on Friday.

  

The European Commission will provide a total of '42 million ($66.36 million) in assistance to Lebanon under the European Neighborhood Policy, a news release said Thursday.

  

BEIRUT: The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private arm of the World Bank, acquired Thursday a minority share in a leading Lebanese construction company.

  

BEIRUT: Israel is sending automated voice messages to mobile phones and interfering with phone lines in Beirut and southern Lebanon in what appears to be an attempt to incite the Lebanese against Hizbullah one day after a United Nations-brokered prisoner swap, Lebanese media reported on Thursday morning.

  

Two South Lebanon residents have won nice chunks of change playing the lottery in the past month.

  

TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AFP) One person was killed and six were wounded in fresh clashes early Friday in Lebanon's northern port city of Tripoli, a security official told AFP.

  

NAHARIYA, Israel (AP) -- Thousands of Israelis prayed and cried at funerals Thursday for two soldiers whose return from Lebanon in black coffins touched off a nationwide wave of anguish.

  

Lebanon's Telecommunications Minister has accused Israel of bombarding Lebanese people with threatening phone calls, a day after a controversial prisoner swap between Israel and Hezbollah.

  

BEIRUT: Lebanon's new telecommunications minister on Thursday accused Israel of bombarding Lebanese people with threatening phone calls, a day after a controversial prisoner swap between Israel and Hezbollah.

  

Israel is sending automated voice messages to mobile phones and interfering with phone lines in Beirut and southern Lebanon in what appears to be an attempt to incite the Lebanese against Hizbullah one day after a United Nations-brokered prisoner swap, Lebanese media reported on Thursday morning.

  

The Lebanon Independent Border Assessment Team (LIBAT), dispatched by United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, began its second mission to Lebanon on Thursday, according to a statement issued by the UN Information Center. The team will conduct a broad review of Lebanon's ongoing efforts to enhance.

  

The European Commission will continue to provide financial aid to Lebanon under the European Neighborhood Policy with a grant of 42 million euros ($66.6 million) during the upcoming year, a statement issued by the commission said on Thursday. As part of the 2008 Action Program, the European Commission is allocating money among the private sector.

  

Nasrallah says Hezbollah's only concern is to defend Lebanon's people, territory.

  

Lebanon City Council is faced with the difficult proposition of funding desperately needed road repairs without an easy answer.

  

Associated Press - July 17, 2008 12:33 PM ET BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Five Lebanese militants freed as part of a prisoner swap with Israel pledge to keep fighting the Jewish state.

  

Associated Press - July 17, 2008 12:33 PM ET BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Five Lebanese militants freed as part of a prisoner swap with Israel pledge to keep fighting the Jewish state.

  

Lebanon: Israel 'sends threats' to southern city's mobile phones (AKI) - Israel has allegedly sent text messages to people's mobiles in the Shia-dominated southern city of Tyre, threatening "retaliation" against Lebanese Shia group Hezbollah militants who attack the Jewish state."If Hezbollah carries out any action against Israel, we will retaliate. Yours, the State of Israel," read ...

  

Samir Qantar, Lebanon's longest serving prisoner released by Israel as part of a swap deal, says he has no regrets over the killings for which he was convicted.

  

Lebanon has been welcoming lorryloads of its dead, released by Israel as part of yesterday's exchange deal. Nearly 200 bodies of those killed while trying to infiltrate Israel in recent years were exhumed and sent north over the Lebanese border on Red Cross trucks.

  

Beirut - Four tractor-trailers carrying the remains of nearly 200 Lebanese and Palestinian fighters headed Thursday from southern Lebanon to Beirut, a day after a prisoner exchange between Israel and Lebanon. The convoy carrying the coffins which wer...

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) _ Four tractor-trailers carrying the remains of nearly 200 Lebanese and Palestinian fighters are headed to Lebanon's capital a day after a prisoner exchange between Israel and Lebanon.