A suspect suicide bomber was killed Saturday at a Lebanese army checkpoint near Lebanon's largest Palestinian camp, Al Manar TV reported. A Palestinian wrapped with a belt of explosives was shot and killed by Lebanese soldiers at th ...

  

Soldiers have shot dead a man they suspected of planning a suicide bombing at an army checkpoint near a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon.

  

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Soldiers have shot dead a man they suspected of planning a suicide bombing at an army checkpoint near a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon.

  

BEIRUT (AFP)--A senior U.S. defense official said Saturday that his government wants to strengthen military cooperation with Lebanon.

  

Lebanese troops shot and killed a suicide bomber near Lebanon's largest Palestinian refugee camp Saturday.

  

Lebanese troops shot and killed a man wearing an explosive belt near Lebanon's largest Palestinian refugee camp Saturday, a senior military official said.

  

COLUMBUS - Grove City scored a 3-1 victory over Lebanon Saturday in a division I reigonal final at OHio State University. The Warriors took a 1-0 lead with a run in the bottom of the fifth, but Grove City responded with three runs - on four straight hits - in the sixth to take control.

  

COLUMBUS - Grove City scored a 3-1 victory over Lebanon Saturday in a division I reigonal final at OHio State University. The Warriors took a 1-0 lead with a run in the bottom of the fifth, but Grove City responded with three runs - on four straight hits - in the sixth to take control.

  

BEIRUT - A senior military official says troops shot and killed a suspected suicide bomber near Lebanon's largest Palestinian camp.

  

Lebanese soldiers shot dead a man carrying explosives strapped around his body as he left a Palestinian refugee camp in south Lebanon, security sources said.

  

Beirut - An explosion shook the area near an army post Saturday in north Lebanon, killing one soldier, as the army managed to foil a second attack in southern Lebanon, Lebanese security sources said. Lebanese soldiers killed a man late Saturday after...

  

Lebanese soldiers shot dead a man carrying a hand grenade outside the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Helweh on Saturday, an army spokesman said.

  

Lebanese security sources say a soldier has been killed in an explosion at an army intelligence post near the northern city of Tripoli.

  

A Lebanese soldier was killed by an explosion at dawn Saturday in the north of the country, the military said.

  

Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora wrapped up two days of talks with leaders of rival parliamentary blocs on Saturday on forming a national unity government but gave no date for a new line-up.

  

An explosion kills a soldier near the north Lebanese city of Tripoli, as politicians in Beirut resume talks.

  

A Lebanese soldier has reportedly been killed in a blast at an army intelligence post near the northern city of Tripoli.

  

The food is what everyone talks about after the annual Lebanese Festival at St. Anthony of Padua Church in Walnut Hills.

  

A soldier has been killed in an explosion in Lebanon. The cause of the explosion in the northern town of Abdeh was not immediately known and the army said it was investigating.

  

Lebanon: Riding on the success of its popular Flatron series, LG Electronics, a major player in the global flat panel display market, annouced that it will consolidate its market-leading position in the Middle East and Africa commercial display business by targeting high-traffic areas such as airports, malls and hospitals. [AMEInfo.com]

  

The wet weather that has played havoc on metro-east teams throughout the spring followed the Lebanon Greyhounds to the Class 1A Softball Tournament.

  

BEIRUT: Lebanon's budget deficit in the first four months of 2008 rose to 30.29 percent, or LL1.421 trillion, of total spending, up from 26.73 percent in the same period of 2007 due to rising losses in the electricity sector, the Finance Ministry said Friday.

  

The Tribune's Liz Sly reports that revelry fills the capital as a deal ends Lebanon's factional conflict, but a shadow looms over the party One day they were shooting at each other. And almost as quickly as the fighting had erupted, Lebanese were back out partying together. The Tribune's Liz Sly reports from Beirut.

  

Beirut - An explosion shook the area near an army post Saturday in north Lebanon, killing one soldier, Lebanese security sources said. The explosion occurred in Al Abedeh near the northern port city of Tripoli, the sources said. ...

  

BEIRUT, May 30, 2008 (AFP) - Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora held the first of two days of talks on forming a new government on Friday after an accord last week ended a protracted political crisis that turned deadly.

  

The American Task Force for Lebanon (ATFL) applauds the 110 countries that reached agreement in Dublin, Ireland, on Wednesday, May 28, to ban cluster bombs. We congratulate the United Kingdom, a staunch NATO ally, for its turnabout and now fully supporting the treaty. Lebanon is a signatory and staunch supporter of the treaty.

  

RIYADH, 31 May 2008 - Saudis are returning back to one of their top tourism destinations: Lebanon.

  

BEIRUT: Lebanese President Michel Suleiman received yesterday Qatar's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Energy and Industry HE Abdullah bin Hamad al-Attiyah, who is visiting Lebanon to discuss the current developments.

  

Lebanon's budget deficit in the first four months of 2008 rose to 30.29 percent, or LL1.421 trillion, of total spending, up from 26.73 percent in the same period of 2007 due to rising losses in the electricity sector, the Finance Ministry said Friday. The ministry estimated that the deficit at state-owned Electricite du Liban (EDL) jumped by LL274 billion.

  

President Michel Suleiman said on Friday that the unity of the Lebanese Armed Forces has proven to be a model for the unity of the Lebanese people. Addressing a visiting delegation from the army command at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, Suleiman called on the army to "continue the path."

  

The United States supplied over 1,356,000 rounds of ammunition of various calibers to the Lebanese Army last week, a US Embassy statement said on Friday. The delivery, totaling over 376 tons, is part of the multi-year US Security Assistance program to Lebanon, the statement added.

  

Lebanon's premier-designate Fouad Saniora held a series of consultations with parliamentary bloc leaders to form a new cabinet of national unity and faced a demand by Hizbullah to be represented by two non-Shiite ministers, a Sunni and a Druze.

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon, May 30 (UPI) -- Lebanese President Michel Suleiman is stressing in meetings with military and political leaders that the nation cannot survive without unity.

  

After more than six months of Presidential vacuum and tough political disputes between the different political parties and factions in Lebanon, Lebanese politicians reached an agreement on the 21st of May in their four day meeting under the patronage of Doha Qatar, The election came after th e fierce armed clashes which broke in Beirut and other Lebanese cities during the mid of May, Lebanon was ...

  

BEIRUT, May 30 (RIA Novosti) - Lebanon's prime minister designate, Fuad Siniora, began consultations with lawmakers on Friday to form a national unity government.

  

It is the first time for years; Arab governments did a positive thing.

  

This weekend marks the 10th annual Lebanese Festival at St. Elias Catholic Church in Roanoke. Organizers say there will be plenty of food, fun and music.

  

BEIRUT - Prime Minister-designate Fouad Siniora began talks with Lebanese lawmakers on Friday on forming a national unity government in which Hezbollah-led minority factions will wield veto power.

  

BEIRUT - Prime Minister-designate Fouad Siniora began talks with Lebanese lawmakers on Friday on forming a national unity government in which Hezbollah-led minority factions will wield veto power.

  

Beirut had never been like this before. There was a big smile on the face of the city, and oxygen in its lungs. Not even on 25 June 2000, when the Israelis withdrew from South Lebanon; not even in August 2006, when they left defeated after their last bloody war.

  

Twin worlds of war and good life intersect in Beirut where militants are found next to tycoons.

  

Lebanon's twin worlds of war and the good life intersect at the St. George's Yacht Club, where sunbathers loll beside the pool of a hotel...

  

For three consecutive seasons tourism revenue, once Lebanon's lifeblood, was reduced to a trickle by violence and political uncertainty.

  

BEIRUT: Summer music festivals in Lebanon, which usually attract visitors in their thousands, are back this year after being silenced by war and political instability, organisers announced yesterday.

  

Moorestown doesn't forget its war heroes. Public parks in the old Quaker town are named after Wesley Bishop, the first resident killed in World War II, and Jeff Young, a young Marine who died in Beirut in 1983.

  

BEIRUT - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan attended the oath-taking ceremony of Lebanon`s newly elected President Michel Suleiman On Sunday.

  

ANKARA - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan left for Lebanon on Sunday. Foreign Minister Ali Babacan is accompanying Erdogan. Erdogan and Babacan will follow presidential election and oath-taking ceremony at Lebanese parliament.

  

Not long after Downtown Beirut on Thursday wraps up its activities celebrating the recent political breakthrough, a crowd of a similar spirit will flood the streets on Sunday for the capital's second annual Run for Peace. The marathon consists of a 5-kilometer students' race and a 21-kilometer international half-marathon, and is open to athletes of all nationalities.

  

Hussein Madi's new exhibition very much seems to complement downtown Beirut's renewed sense of cheer. "Omaggio alla Donna," the Lebanese artist's acrylic-on-canvas paintings, staunch iron sculptures and more delicate ink-on-paper nudes, offer an inviting but somewhat puzzling humor.

  

The European Commission Delegation in Beirut said on Thursday that the recent adoption of proposals for the Union of the Mediterranean would benefit all participants of the Barcelona process, including Lebanon. In a statement issued on Thursday the commission said that it adopted on May 20.

  

Noura Jumblatt, president of Beiteddine Festival Committee and wife of Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt, presents the acts set to perform during the Beiteddine Festival this summer during a press conference in Beirut.

  

BEIRUT (AFP) - Summer music festivals in Lebanon, which usually attract visitors in their thousands, are back this year after being silenced by war and political instability, organisers announced on Thursday.

  

BEIRUT, May 29 - Below is a table of the latest Lebanese economic statistics.

  

Lebanon: The American University of Beirut has announced the establishment of the Zakhem Deanship of the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture (FEA), which was made possible by a generous donation from the Zakhem family. [AMEInfo.com]

  

Lebanon's twin worlds of war and the good life intersect at the St. George's Yacht Club, where sunbathers loll poolside at a hotel that was blasted during the 1975-90 civil war and bombed three years ago.

  

Just a week after feuding Lebanese leaders sealed a political deal to end 18 months of conflict, restaurants have re-opened, hotel bookings have soared and tourists have replaced gunmen on the streets of Beirut.

  

DANBURY -- Educators from the region were honored for their contributions Wednesday during the fifth annual Lebanese American Day festivities.Nearly 50 teachers and school staff members were honored during the flag-raising ceremony held at City Hall.

  

Moorestown doesn't forget its war heroes. Public parks in the old Quaker town are named after Wesley Bishop, the first resident killed in World War II, and Jeff Young, a young Marine who died in Beirut in 1983.

  

Lebanon's twin worlds of war and the good life intersect at the St.

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon - Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora won a new term yesterday with the backing of a pro-U.S. coalition, angering the Hezbollah-led opposition, which had pressed for a change in leadership.

  

Newly-elected Lebanese President Michel Sleiman (R) meets with Lebanese Parilament speaker Nabih Berri at the presidential palace in Baabda, southeast of Beirut. Sleiman on Wednesday appointed incumbent premier Fuad Siniora to head a government of national unity.

  

The last time Lebanon High School's softball team played at Ohio State University's Buckeye Field, the Warriors were eliminated by Gahanna Lincoln in the 2003 Division I regional final.

  

Lebanon's newly appointed premier Fuad Siniora prepared for consultations Thursday with various parliamentary blocs on forming a 30-member cabinet, which will include the Hezbollah-led opposition.

  

COLUMBUS - The last time Lebanon High's softball team played at Ohio State University's Buckeye Field, the Warriors were eliminated by Gahanna Lincoln in the 2003 Division I regional finals.

  

New Lebanese President Michel Sleiman has appointed incumbent Prime Minister Fuad Siniora to head a government of national unity after the parliamentary majority gave Siniora its backing.

  

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday she looked forward to working with Lebanon's new president Michel Sleiman, whom she said will defend Lebanon's independence and democracy.

  

Israel is to release and deport on Sunday a Lebanese-born man jailed more than six years ago on charges of spying for Hizbullah, senior security sources said on Wednesday. Nessim Nisr, born to an Israeli Jewish mother and a Lebanese Muslim father, held Israeli citizenship at the time of his arrest in 2002.

  

Human rights in Lebanon are inadequately protected in many ways, according to an annual global human rights report released by Amnesty International (AI) at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Beirut on Wednesday. The rights account, entitled Amnesty International Report 2008: The State of the World's Human Rights, is released every year.

  

Lebanon's new president has asked outgoing Prime Minister Fuad Saniora to form a new Cabinet despite reservations by the Hezbollah-led opposition.

  

JERUSALEM - Israel plans to release on Sunday a Lebanese prisoner who has completed his jail term and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Wednesday he would be repatriated to Lebanon.

  

LEBANON, Maine - Authorities say two teenage girls were struck and seriously injured by a freight train in the town of Lebanon, Maine on the New Hampshire border. Police...

  

(RTTNews) - Lebanon's parliamentary majority on Wednesday nominated Prime Minister Fuad Siniora to head the next unity government under newly elected President Michel Sleiman.

  

Authorities say two teenage girls were struck and seriously injured by a freight train in the town of Lebanon, Maine on the New Hampshire border.

  

Lebanon's president appointed Prime Minister Fouad Siniora on Wednesday to head a new cabinet that will govern until a parliamentary election in 2009.

  

Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora at a press conference in Beirut earlier this month. Lebanon's Western-backed parliamentary majority has chosen Siniora to head the next cabinet of national unity under newly elected President Michel Sleiman.

  

Lebanon's new President Michel Sleiman was holding consultations on Wednesday on the makeup of a national unity government set to be headed by the current premier Fuad Siniora.

  

-- Lebanon school officials are eyeing a 30-acre parcel on Route 4, which they say could potentially accommodate a new junior high. NEWS: High Court Aids Workers On Bias Suits Washington -- The Supreme Court said yesterday that workers who claim they faced retaliation for complaining of racial or age discrimination may sue in federal court, and made clear that federal employees enjoy the same ...

  

Lebanon's Western-backed parliamentary majority said on Wednesday it has chosen Prime Minister Fuad Siniora to head the next cabinet of national unity under newly-elected President Michel Sleiman.

  

A Lebanese soldier was killed in clashes late Tuesday between pro-government and opposition supporters, the latest incident to flare up despite a deal aimed at ending a long-running political feud.

  

BEIRUT (AFP)--A Lebanese soldier was killed in clashes late Tuesday between pro-government and opposition supporters, the latest incident to flare up despite a deal aimed at ending a long-running political feud.

  

EVEN before he was sworn in as Lebanon's new president on Sunday, Gen. Michel Suleiman had earned the sobriquet tawafoqi - "man of consensus." He lived up to that label in his first address as president - with something for everyone. Suleiman, the...

  

Lebanon's Western-backed parliamentary majority has chosen Prime Minister Fuad Siniora to head the next cabinet of national unity under the newly elected President Michel Sleiman, it said in a statement.

  

The majority coalition bloc in Lebanon's parliament has nominated Fouad Siniora, the current prime minister, to form the country's first government since a new president was elected.

  

Lebanon's parliament confirmed Sunday army chief General Michel Suleiman as president, filling a post left vacant since November because of the country's political crisis. All political parties of Lebanon have agreed to back Suleiman.

  

A total of 130 Portuguese soldiers are scheduled to head for Lebanon on Wednesday for a mission as part of the United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL), the Portuguese General Staff of the Armed Forces announced on Tuesday. ...

  

Lebanon's parliamentary majority coalition has agreed to nominate Prime Minister Fouad Siniora to form the country's first government under newly elected President Michel Suleiman.

  

Lebanon's parliamentary majority coalition has agreed to nominate incumbent Prime Minister Fouad Siniora to form the country's first government under newly elected President Michel Sleiman.

  

Leaders of parliament's pro-Western majority decided late Tuesday to back Fuad Saniora to remain as Lebanon's prime minister in the new unity Cabinet being formed with the Hezbollah-led opposition, a government official said.

  

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's parliamentary majority coalition agreed on Tuesday to nominate Prime Minister Fouad Siniora to form the country's first government under newly elected President Michel Suleiman, senior officials said.

  

A Lebanese-born man who has been imprisoned in Israel for six years for collaborating with Lebanon's Hizbullah will be released on Sunday, his family said. Nessim Nisr, who held Israeli citizenship at the time of his arrest in 2002, was sentenced by an Israeli court to six years in jail.

  

Lebanon's parliamentary majority has agreed to nominate incumbent PM Fouad Siniora to form the country's first government under President Michel Sleiman.

  

(RTTNews) - A Lebanese soldier was killed on Tuesday after being caught in the crossfire between Hezbollah supporters and pro-government loyalists in the village of Aramoun, south of Beirut, Lebanese security officials said.

  

LEBANON'S parliamentary majority coalition agreed today to nominate incumbent Prime Minister Fouad Siniora to form the country's first government under newly elected President Michel Sleiman.

  

Supporters of Lebanon's rival factions fired off gunshots in a Sunni Muslim district of the capital, Beirut, yesterday.

  

One man was injured in a house fire in Lebanon today, May 26.

  

BEIRUT (AFP)--The Lebanese interior ministry Tuesday announced an indefinite ban on motorbikes, provocative convoys, slogans or flag waving in the capital Beirut.

  

WASHINGTON (AFP)--Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah's claim that his group does not want to control Lebanon may reveal how self-defeating its recent armed offensive in Beirut was, a senior U.S. official said Tuesday.

  

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah's claim that his group does not want to control Lebanon may reveal how self-defeating its recent armed offensive in Beirut was, a senior US official said Tuesday.

  

Two Lebanon police officers were injured last week while arresting two men on firearms, drugs, and other charges. Police said the officers responded May 20 to reports of a disturbance at Gary's Sports Bar, 414 N. Seventh St., Lebanon.

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon - Lebanon's new president got a red carpet welcome yesterday, but he was quickly thrust into the political thicket as Hezbollah's leader warned against any efforts to disarm his Iranian-backed guerrilla group.

  

Lebanon: The American University of Beirut has declared its campus a smoke-free zone, thus becoming among the first to do so in the Arab world. [AMEInfo.com]

  

(RTTNews) - The Israeli official responsible for handling the issue of soldiers kidnapped by the Hizbullah told the Islamic militant outfit that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert had approved the release of five Lebanese prisoners, including Samir Kuntar, in exchange for captured Israeli soldiers Ehud Golwassser and Eldad Regev, the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar quoted senior officials as saying Tuesday.

  

Kuwait Financial Centre S.A.K. (Markaz), one of the leading investment banking and asset management companies in the Middle East, announced that it has begun offering luxurious apartment units for sale in Clemenceau, Lebanon.

  

BEIRUT, May 26, 2008 (AFP) - Supporters of Lebanon's rival factions fired off gunshots in a Sunni Muslim district of the capital on Monday night, a security official told AFP.

  

Bank of Sharjah announced today that it is in the process of changing the name of its wholly owned subsidiary from Banque de la Bekaa SAL Lebanon to Emirates Lebanon Bank SAL 'ELBank'.

  

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki Monday said Iran keeps constant contacts with all Lebanese parties and works for dialogue among Lebanese parties. Mottaki made the remarks in a press conference here, adding that "our aim ...

  

Hassan Nasrallah, 'the secretary-general of Hezbollah, has said that his organisation "is siding with the resistance in Iraq" in a speech to hundreds of thousands of supporters in Beirut, the Lebanese capital.

  

By Pratap John The Lebanese peace deal has kindled hopes of an economic recovery in the country which was almost paralysed due to an 18-month standoff between the US-backed government and the Hezbollah-led opposition.

  

Supporters of Lebanon's rival factions have fired off gunshots in a Sunni Muslim district of the capital Beirut, a security official says. "A clash took place in the Corniche Mazraa area and gunshots were fired," the official said.

  

Lebanon's new president got a red carpet welcome Monday, but was quickly thrust into the political thicket as Hezbollah's leader warned against any efforts to disarm his Iranian-backed guerrilla group. Sheik Hassan Nasrallah delivered his stern message after military bands and an honor guard saluted President Michel Suleiman on his first day on the job. Suleiman, the former army ...

  

Supporters of Lebanon's rival factions have fired off gunshots in a Sunni Muslim district of the capital Beirut, a security official says.

  

BEIRUT - President Michel Suleiman, the army chief elected Lebanon's head of state on Sunday, kept the military unified through three years of turmoil that pushed the country to the brink of a new civil war.

  

Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has pledged not to use weapons for political gain in the country, and says Hezbollah does not seek to rule Lebanon.

  

BEIRUT (AFP)--Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah vowed on Monday that his powerful militant movement was not seeking control of Lebanon, in a fiery speech on new President Michel Sleiman's first full day in office.

  

HEZBOLLAH leader Hassan Nasrallah vowed overnight that his powerful militant movement was not seeking control of Lebanon, in a fiery speech on new President Michel Sleiman's first full day in office.

  

BEIRUT (AFP)--Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah vowed that his militant group would not use its arms to achieve political gains, in a fiery speech Monday to mark the anniversary of Israel's withdrawal from south Lebanon.

  

BEIRUT - Lebanese President Michel Suleiman will appoint a prime minister on Wednesday to head a new cabinet to be formed as part of an agreement ending 18 months of political conflict.

  

BEIRUT - U.N.-sponsored indirect talks between Israel and Hezbollah over a prisoner exchange have made major progress, Lebanese political sources said on Monday.

  

filled ceremony greeted newly elected Lebanese President Michel Suleiman Monday as he entered Lebanon's presidential palace.

  

US President George W. Bush Monday invited incoming Lebanese President Michel Sleiman to Washington for talks after congratulating him on taking office, Bush's spokesman said.

  

BEIRUT (AFP)--Progress has been made in U.N.-sponsored talks on a prisoner exchange between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, Lebanese sources involved in the issue told AFP on Monday.

  

Lebanon's newly elected president Michel Sleiman prepared to launch consultations on forming a national unity government on Monday as he began his first full day in office.

  

BEIRUT - Lebanese President Michel Suleiman will on Wednesday appoint a prime minister to head a new cabinet that will be formed as part of an agreement to end 18 months of political conflict.

  

Lebanon's' new President, Michel Suleiman, arrives at Baabda palace to begin his first full day in office.

  

Lebanon's newly elected president Michel Sleiman prepared to launch consultations on forming a national unity government on Monday as he began his first full day in office.

  

Lebanon's newly elected president Michel Sleiman prepared to launch consultations on forming a national unity government on Monday as he began his first full day in office.

  

BEIRUT (AFP)--Arab League chief Amr Mussa headed to Damascus on Monday for talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on the Doha accord that ended the Lebanese political crisis, a league official told AFP.

  

BEIRUT - Lebanon's parliament elected the army commander, Gen. Michel Suleiman, as president yesterday, filling a post vacant for six months and bringing a symbolic if tenuous end to the country's worst crisis since the 15-year civil war ended in 1990.

  

New president's ties hoped to fix crisis BEIRUT?Backed by most of Lebanon's major communities and their international patrons, former army chief of staff Michel Suleiman ascended to the presidency of this volatile Mediterranean country Sunday.

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon - After 18 months of grinding political conflict, Lebanon's Parliament elected a new president Sunday in the first formal step toward enacting a new power-sharing pact among the country's bitterly divided political factions.

  

Lebanon's new president Michel Sleiman prepared for his first full day in office Monday after hearing his appeal for unity in the violence-hit country endorsed on all sides by the international community.

  

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's parliament elected army chief Michel Suleiman as head of state on Sunday, reviving paralysed state institutions after an 18-month standoff between a U.S.-backed government and the Hezbollah-led opposition.

  

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday congratulated the Lebanese people on the election of a new president. Lebanon's parliament elected army chief Michel Suleiman into the presidential office eight months after ex-president Em ...

  

Lebanese parliament on Sunday approved army chief Michel Suleiman as the new president of the country. Of the 127 lawmakers casting their ballots, 118 voted for Suleiman's election, six abstained, and three voted for others, local N ...

  

Lebanon celebrates the election of a new president and new hopes for the future, writes Jim Muir in Beirut.

  

Images from Lebanon as army head Gen Michel Suleiman is sworn in as new president, ending months of political deadlock.

  

After a six-month vacancy, Lebanon swears in a new president Sunday. The vote in parliament for Gen. Michel Suleiman ends 18 months of political stalemate. Sulieman vows to strengthen ties with Syria; Lebanon's relationship with its neighbor is a source of much its political turmoil. Mohanad Hage Ali, political editor the Arab world daily Al-Hayat , speaks with NPR's Guy Raz.

  

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The crackle of gunfire and sound of explosions erupted over Beirut late yesterday afternoon - but this time it was an act of celebration, not conflict, as Lebanon elected General Michel Suleiman, the commander of the Lebanese Army, as President.

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon_Lebanon's feuding political factions put aside their differences today and elected the nation's army commander as president, filling a six-month vacancy and bringing a festive feel to a capital that had been a war zone just days ago.

  

Military commanders often ride to power atop a tank. But in Lebanon, the key to army chief Michel Suleiman's rise to the nation's top job has been keeping his men out of the fight.

  

BEIRUT, May 25 -- Lebanon's parliament elected the army commander, Gen. Michel Suleiman, as president Sunday, filling a post vacant for six months and bringing a symbolic if tenuous end to the country's worst crisis since the 15-year civil war ended in 1990.

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon, May 25 (UPI) -- Celebratory gunfire rang out in Beirut Sunday after Lebanon's Parliament elected Gen. Michel Suleiman the nation's 12th president.

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- Military commanders often ride to power atop a tank. But in Lebanon, the key to army chief Michel Suleiman's rise to the nation's top job has been keeping his men out of the fight.

  

Lebanon's parliament elected army commander Gen. Michel Suleiman as president in a long-delayed vote that was a key step toward reconciling political factions.

  

BEIRUT (Thomson Financial) - Lebanese army chief Michel Sleiman was sworn in as president on Sunday following a vote in parliament that capped a long-running political crisis in the country.

  

Michel Suleiman was sworn as Lebanon's president Sunday after parliament elected him in long-delayed vote that was a key step toward restoring political stability.

  

Lebanon's parliament elected army chief Michel Suleiman as head of state on Sunday, reviving paralysed state institutions after an 18-month standoff between a U.S.-backed cabinet and the Hezbollah-led opposition.

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon, May 25 (UPI) -- The Lebanese parliament Sunday said it agreed to elect army Gen. Michel Suleiman as president following months of political violence.

  

Lebanon's army chief Michel Sleiman was elected president by lawmakers on Sunday in a first step towards ending a long-running political crisis between the Western-backed ruling coalition and the Hezbollah-led opposition.

  

Lebanon's parliament elected army chief General Michel Suleiman as the country's president on Sunday, a vote count aired live on television showed.

  

BEIRUT (AFP)--Lebanese lawmakers gathered to elect army chief Michel Sleiman as president Sunday in a first step towards ending a crippling political crisis that took the country to the brink of civil war.

  

Jim Muir reports from Beirut on the challenges facing Lebanese Army Commander Gen Michel Suleiman, expected to be elected the next president.

  

BEIRUT - Lebanon's parliament gathered on Sunday to elect army chief Michel Suleiman as head of state, reviving paralysed state institutions after an 18-month standoff between a U.S.-backed cabinet and the Hezbollah-led opposition.

  

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's parliament gathered on Sunday to elect army chief Michel Suleiman as head of state, reviving paralyzed state institutions after an 18-month standoff between a U.S.-backed cabinet and the Hezbollah-led opposition.

  

BEIRUT (AFP)--Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki Sunday welcomed the Doha agreement that ended Lebanon's long-running political crisis and said that peace in Lebanon is key to regional stability.

  

Lebanon's parliament is set to elect army chief General Michel Suleiman as the country's president on Sunday, filling a post left vacant for six months by a political crisis that threatened a new civil war.

  

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's parliament is set to vote in army chief General Michel Suleiman as the country's 11th president on Sunday, filling a post left vacant for six months by a crisis that threatened a new civil war.

  

The Lebanese Parliament prepared Sunday to vote in the army chief, General Michel Suleiman, as the country's 11th president, filling a post left vacant for six months by a crisis that threatened to start a new civil war.

  

Source: Reuters May 25 (Reuters) - Lebanon's parliament is due to elect army chief General Michel Suleiman as president on Sunday, filling a post left vacant for six months because of a political crisis that had ...

  

Lebanese flags and pictures of army chief Michel Suleiman adorned Beirut's streets Sunday as parliament prepares to elect the consensus candidate as president - a key step toward reconciling Lebanese factions after a long political crisis.

  

Source: Reuters May 25 (Reuters) - Lebanon's parliament is due to elect army chief General Michel Suleiman as president on Sunday, filling a post left vacant for six months because of a political crisis that had ...

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon - Lebanese flags and pictures of army chief Michel Suleiman adorned Beirut's streets today as parliament prepared to elect the consensus candidate as president - a key step toward reconciling Lebanese factions after a long political crisis.

  

The Lebanese parliament convenes on Sunday to elect army chief Michel Sleiman as president in a first step towards defusing an often deadly 18-month standoff between feuding political factions.

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon?Lebanese flags and pictures of army chief Michel Suleiman adorned Beirut's streets Sunday as parliament prepares to elect the consensus candidate as president?a key step toward reconciling Lebanese factions after a long political crisis.

  

BEIRUT (AFP) - The Lebanese parliament convenes on Sunday to elect army chief Michel Sleiman as president in a first step towards defusing an often deadly 18-month standoff between feuding political factions.

  

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's parliament is set to vote in army chief General Michel Suleiman as the country's 11th president on Sunday, filling a post left vacant for six months by a crisis that threatened a new civil war.

  

Beirut - Lebanon's parliament is set to convene on Sunday to elect army chief General Michel Suleiman as president amid tight security measures. The election is regarded as a step that will end 18 months of political crisis that has brought the count...

  

Lebanon's long-running political stalemate should be resolved today, with the long-awaited appointment of a new president.

  

(RTTNews) - Lebanon's parliament is expected to elect a new president and end a deadlock, which has left the country without a head of state since November, the BBC News reported Sunday.

  

Lebanon: A joint American University of Beirut-Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) team has been awarded a $2.8m research grant from the US National Cancer Institute to study the exposure to toxicants as a result of narghile (water pipe) smoking. [AMEInfo.com]

  

BEIRUT, May 24, 2008 (AFP) - Lebanese premier Fuad Siniora, whose term in office has been dominated by a standoff with the Hezbollah-led opposition, said on Saturday that he will step down with a clear conscience and is ready to turn the page.

  

LIBERTY TWP. - The Lebanon Warriors finally got over the hump. District runners-up in each of the past three seasons, the Warriors rallied twice on Saturday, May 24, to beat Colerain in extra innings 3-2 and win that elusive Division I softball district championship.

  

A poster of Lebanese army chief and presidential candidate Michel Sleiman is displayed in Beirut. The Lebanese parliament convenes on Sunday to elect Sleiman as president in a first step towards defusing an often deadly 18-month standoff between feuding political factions.

  

Bow (11-1) didn't allow a goal in the second half, cruising to a comfortable win over Lebanon (3-9).

  

BEIRUT (AFP) - The Lebanese parliament convenes on Sunday to elect army chief Michel Sleiman as president in a first step towards defusing an often deadly 18-month standoff between feuding political factions.

  

LIBERTY TWP. - The Lebanon Warriors finally got over the hump. District runners-up in each of the past three seasons, the Warriors rallied twice on Saturday to beat Colerain in extra innings, 3-2, and win that elusive Division I softball district championship.

  

LIBERTY TWP. - The Lebanon Warriors finally got over the hump. District runners-up in each of the past three seasons, the Warriors rallied twice on Saturday to beat Colerain in extra innings, 3-2, and win that elusive Division I softball district championship.

  

Lebanon's parliament is set to vote in army chief General Michel Suleiman as the country's 11th president on Sunday, filling a post left vacant for six months by a crisis that threatened a new civil war.

  

BEIRUT - Lebanon's parliament is set to vote in army chief General Michel Suleiman as the country's 11th president on Sunday, filling a post left vacant for six months by a crisis that threatened a new civil war.

  

DUBAI: Lebanon's long drawn political crisis appears to ending with the election of Army chief Michel Sleiman to the presidency. General Sleiman is expected to be elected shortly as President in the presence of several foreign ...

  

Hezbollah fighters have pulled back since seizing parts of Lebanon's capital, but their brazen display has made one thing clear.

  

Lebanese lawmakers are poised to elect army chief Michel Sleiman as president on Sunday in a first step toward defusing a crippling and often deadly 18-month standoff between rival factions.

  

200 dignitaries invited to attend parliament session of electing Suleiman as President of Lebanon.

  

Amsheet, Lebanon - Lebanon was preparing Saturday to elect a new president after a six-month delay amid hopes that the appointment will bring unity and stability to the politically-deadlocked country. Some 127 MPs were poised to elect army commander ...

  

LEBANON - The budget committee for the Lebanon Community School District approved a budget Thursday with an amendment that may mean fewer cuts to classified staff than originally planned.

  

Gen. Michael Suleiman, commander of the Lebanese armed forces, will assume the presidency in a special session of Parliament, Speaker Nabih Berri announced.Among those expected to be on hand for Sunday's ceremony are Qatari Emir Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, Arab League chief Amr Moussa, European Union Foreign Policy Commissioner Javier Solana, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon ...

  

Lebanon, N.H. fourth-graders learn about watersheds by stepping right intonearby streams.

  

?Was there really a protest here or was it just a bad dream?' joked Fadi Abu Karim, 34, an accountant, gazing at the traffic-filled streets and full car park that a few days ago had housed a tent city that was occupied by Hezbollah supporters and their allies.

  

French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said in Jerusalem on Friday that the accord reached by Lebanon's rival leaders fails to tackle the roots of the crisis, though it was a first step. "It goes in the right direction, but none of the essence (of the crisis) appears to have been resolved.

  

The Lebanese Association for Prisoners held a ceremony at the site of the former Khiam detention camp on Friday on the occasion of the eighth anniversary of Liberation Day, which marks Israel's withdrawal from most of the South in May 2000. Hizbullah's commander in the South, Sheikh Nabil Qaouk, said:

  

For fans of contemporary oriental music, the Babel Theater will be the place to be on Saturday and Sunday evening, when oud virtuoso Charbel Rouhana and his band, the Beirut Oriental Ensemble, will hold a concert to mark the launch of their new CD, "Shughal Bayt" (the album's English title is "Hand Made").

  

Beirut - For most Lebanese, when parliament meets to elect army commander Michel Suleiman as president on Sunday will mark a turning point for a brighter future, but fear prevails for some because several key issues are remain unresolved. Can someon...

  

Lebanon: Hopes that army chief will unite rivals and resolve conflict (AKI) - Lebanese army general Michel Suleiman was expected be sworn in as the new Lebanese president on Sunday in a bid to end the country's long-running political stalemate.Suleiman, widely regarded as a unifying figure, emerged as a consensus candidate in a deal forged on Wednesday in the Qatari capital Doha by ...

  

(Adds views on Israel-Palestinian peace process.) JERUSALEM (AFP)--French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said in Jerusalem on Friday that the deal reached by Lebanon's rival factions fails to tackle the roots of the crisis, though it was a first step.

  

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's army chief, who is poised to become the country's new president, urged for national unity after feuding politicians agreed to end 18 months of conflict, a newspaper reported on Friday.

  

File photo of Lebanese army commander Michel Suleiman (L), seen here with Syrian army chief of staff Ali Habib as they participate in a farewell ceremony in in the Bekaa valley, April 26, 2005 to mark the completion of Syria's pullout, which put an end to Syria's 29-year military presence in Lebanon.

  

General Michel Suleiman, set to be elected Lebanon's president on Sunday, has kept the army unified through three years of turmoil that have taken the country to the brink of a new civil war.

  

Christine Brewer, of Lebanon, has become the English Idol among classical music fans.

  

BEIRUT - Lebanon's army chief, who is poised to become the country's new president, urged for national unity after feuding politicians agreed to end 18 months of conflict, a newspaper reported on Friday.

  

Source: Reuters BEIRUT, May 23 (Reuters) - Lebanon's army chief, who is poised to become the country's new president, urged for national unity after feuding politicians agreed to end 18 months of conflict, a ...

  

Lebanon: Politics not religion the problem, says top Muslim cleric (AKI) - Political rather than religious differences in Lebanon had caused chronic institutional deadlock and the deadly violence that occurred there early this month, according to a top Lebanese cleric."Dissent amongst the Lebanese is centred on the government, the current electoral law and other [political] issues," ...

  

The Carollton Hawks tried to pitch around Lebanon's Paige Washington, but she wouldn't let them.

  

LEBANON - A controversial apartment complex on Sunset Road received approval Monday to move forward to the general planning process.

  

BEIRUT: As municipality and Sukleen workers removed the remaining concrete barriers and swept the streets in Beirut Central District (BCD), restaurant and shop owners in this fancy commercial area slowly opened their business Thursday.

  

After six days of consultations in Qatar under the aegis of the Arab League, Lebanese leaders finally agreed on settling the domestic political crisis. Does this mean that civil war in Lebanon has been averted' What is the importance of the Doha agreements for the Middle East?

  

The European Parliament on Thursday approved a resolution on the situation in Lebanon, calling on the parties in the country to "fully implement" the agreement they reached the previous day. The parliament approved the resolution in ...

  

New York, May 23: The UN Security Council Thursday declared its strong support for the agreement reached this week by Lebanese parties to end 18 months of political impasse.

  

Since 1993 Lebanon has had three mayors and all three have received the same salary: $37,000 a year. Now some Lebanon city council members think it's time to give the mayor a raise. The five member council is due to vote Tuesday on an ordinance that would raise the mayor's salary to $56,000 a year.

  

The U.N. Security Council is giving strong backing to the deal to end Lebanon's 18-month political crisis.

  

The UN Security Council on Thursday welcomed the breakthrough deal reached by Lebanon's rival factions to end an 18-month political standoff and elect a new president.

  

Lebanon's House Speaker Nabih Berri has announced that the session to elect army commander Michel Suleiman as the next president would be held on Sunday. 19 earlier attempts to elect a president had failed due to differences between the opposition-led Hezbollah and the western-backed ruling majority led by Prime Minister Fouad Seniora.

  

The Doha entente that was signed on May 20, 2008, among the warring Lebanese factions will guarantee, more or less, a long truce. This is a very positive development indeed, considering that permanent civil peace in Lebanon is not possible. This article will explain why. The violent events in Beirut and elsewhere in Lebanon on May 7-10 served a reminder.

  

Gas-rich Qatar scored a diplomatic coup by pulling off a deal on Wednesday to end Lebanon's protracted crisis, thanks to its ties with the rival factions and regional powers with influence in Beirut. Qatari leaders basked in the glory of a feat that seemed almost impossible just a day earlier as they announced the agreement between rival Lebanese factions at a televised ceremony in Doha.

  

The United States and Britain said on Thursday they believed Hezbollah had been weakened by this month's fighting in Beirut despite the greater influence the militant group gained in Lebanon's Cabinet.

  

Cleaners and businesses work to reopen in the Lebanese capital's downtown area after an opposition sit-in.

  

Lebanese army chief Michel Sleiman is set to take the helm as the nation's president this weekend, as part of an agreement between rival political factions to end their long-standing feud.

  

Lebanon has been without a president since November and for the past year and a half the country has been mired in some of the worst violence since the civil war that ended in 1990. Journalist Rami Khouri describes the situation from his base in Beirut.

  

Moody's Investors Service has assigned Aa2.lb/LB 1 Lebanese National Scale Ratings (NSRs) to Banque Bemo sal (Bemo).

  

BEIRUT - The heart of downtown Beirut was buzzing again as shops and restaurants prepared on Thursday to reopen their businesses with a splash after government opponents ended an 18-month protest that had turned the area into a virtual ghost town.

  

Lebanon: Lebanese physicians already using medical websites and search engines three times as much since Lebanese Order of Physicians Awareness Campaign Launch in February. [AMEInfo.com]

  

Lebanon: A joint American University of Beirut-Virginia Commonwealth University team has been awarded a $2.8m research grant from the US National Cancer Institute to study the exposure to toxicants as a result of shisha smoking. The study will examine the effects of smoking water pipe tobacco on the heart, lungs and cell biology in individual users by measuring their toxin exposure as well as the toxin content of water pipe tobacco smoke. The team will also study group water pipe tobacco smoking in cafs examining the effects of sharing a water pipe on levels of toxin exposure and content. Finally, the team will compare toxin exposure and effects between water pipe tobacco smoking and cigarette smoking. [AMEInfo.com]

  

Lebanon's Western-backed government and the Hezbollah-led opposition reached a deal Wednesday to end an 18-month political crisis that pushed the country to the brink of a new civil war.

  

The Hezbollah-led Shiite opposition and the Lebanese government, backed by the West and Saudi Arabia, agreed Wednesday to resolve a crisis that had set off the worst fighting since the 1975-1990 civil war.

  

Lebanon's feuding factions reached a breakthrough deal Wednesday that ends the country's 18-month political stalemate, but also gives the militant Hezbollah group and its allies veto over any government decision.

  

Rival Lebanese leaders signed a deal on Wednesday to end 18 months of political conflict, pulling their country away from the brink of civil war and paving the way for the election of a new president.

  

Rival Lebanese factions reached a deal Wednesday to resolve an 18-month political crisis that pitted Hezbollah against the Western-backed government and pushed the country to the brink of a new civil war.

  

Protest camps that the Hezbollah-led opposition has set up in central Beirut would be removed from Wednesday, Lebanon's parliament speaker Nabih Berri said.