Lebanon's government is increasingly "subordinate" to Iran and Syria, who have been helping Hezbollah rearm, a top US lawmaker told UN special envoy Terje Roed-Larsen on Tuesday.

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- Russia has offered to give Lebanon a free arsenal of weapons, including helicopter gunships and tanks, amid U.S. unease about providing arms to a country on Israel's doorstep in which the Iranian-backed Hezbollah is the most powerful force.

  

Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei held a meeting with Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri in Tehran on Monday to discuss current developments in the region and bilateral issues. -MNA

  

LEBANON - One of Peggy Allen's favorite books to read to her students at South Lebanon Elementary School is 'The Best Christmas Pageant Ever.' Now Allen will get to live out the book's story of a Christmas pageant gone awry on stage.?I love to watch the evolution of the characters,' said Allen, who plays Grace Bradley, a befuddled novice director charged with taking a herd of unruly kids and ...

  

David Gard/New Jersey Local News ServiceTwo ambulances in the Lebanon Township rescue squad's headquarters. LEBANON TOWNSHIP - Peapack-Gladstone Bank is asking Lebanon Township to pay the local rescue squad's $57,000 debt. The town says no way. Lebanon Township First Aid...

  

Injecting drug use and growing HIV/AIDS epidemic in Middle East and North Africa region to be focus of the International Harm Reduction conference taking place in Beirut, Lebanon April 3-7 2011

  

Lebanon: Federal Bank of Lebanon has signed an agreement with provider of financial services OMT to provide "cash to bank" service to customers in the country. The new service gives the bank's clients the convenience of being able to directly transfer cash into their current accounts and settle loan payments and credit card bills in the most convenient and reliable way through any of OMT's 900 locations. [AMEInfo.com]

  

A tripartite meeting between military officials from Lebanon, Israel and the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) was held on Monday to discuss the upcoming withdrawal from the north sector of the Lebanese border village of Ghajar.

  

BEIRUT: Israel's continued flouting of international law and denial of human rights to millions of Palestinian civilians living under occupation was strongly denounced Monday by a collection of leading United Nations and Lebanese political figures speaking on the occasion of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. Commemorated annually on December 29

  

A list of local crimes, as reported by the Lebanon City Police Department.

  

BEIRUT - Iranian Red Crescent ambulances were used to smuggle weapons to Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group during...

  

BEIRUT (AP) - Iranian Red Crescent ambulances were used to smuggle weapons to Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group during its 2006 war with Israel, according to newly leaked U.S. diplomatic memos.

  

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told visiting Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri on Monday that he should strengthen his ties with the Shiite group Hezbollah.

  

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri says Lebanon does not consider itself as part of a scheme to pressurize Iran's nuclear program.

  

The Iranian president has urged Lebanon to unite with the militant anti-Israeli group Hezbollah for the common good.

  

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri has paid a visit to Iran Khodro Company (IKCO), lauding Iran's progress in the auto industry.

  

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah warned on Sunday that Israel could wage a new war on Lebanon after the publication of indictments by a UN-backed tribunal probing the murder of ex-premier Rafiq Hariri.

  

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri met Iran's defense minister Sunday, stressing that unity between Arab states and Iran against common threats was of "great importance."

  

Iranian Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi on Sunday told Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri that Tehran was prepared to help the Lebanese army, state television's website reported.

  

Lebanon: Lebanese real estate developer, Noor International Holding has been awarded the development contract for "Assal" touristic and commercial complex in Homs, Syria. Set on a 29,700 sq m land, the project comprises a series of world class 4-star hotels, restaurants, event halls offices, retail stores, a three storey mall, and 15-storey office building. The project is scheduled for completion in 40 months after receiving the required permits. [AMEInfo.com]

  

LEBANON - Charles Poppe remembers driving in Lebanon 's first carriage parades as one of the coldest days he?d ever experienced.?It had to be about 10 degrees that day and dropping,' Poppe remembered. 'We had about 30 entrants in the first parade that afternoon and when the second one came around it was down to maybe 11 or 12. I thought to myself 'Well, they?ll never do this again.??

  

Lebanon's Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri arrived in Iran on Saturday, seeking its help to prevent political tensions turning violent if a U.N.-backed tribunal indicts Hezbollah members for killing his father.

  

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri arrived in Iran on Saturday as part of a two-day visit to the country aimed at expanding relations, Iranian state media reported.

  

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri expressed concerns for stability in the Middle East as he began a visit to Tehran Saturday to rally Iran's support for his efforts to keep Lebanon stable amid...

  

Saad al-Hariri visits Tehran amid political standoff at home over the UN investigation into his father's murder.

  

Lebanon: Noor International Holding, a Lebanese real estate development company, announced today it has been awarded the development contract for "Assal" touristic and commercial complex, to be set on a 29700 square-meter land in the heart of Homos, Syria. [AMEInfo.com]

  

FROM the strife-torn city of Beirut comes a man with great expertise and a big vision. Oussama Kabbani was born in Beirut and educated in an environment of civil unrest.

  

BEIRUT: Lebanese-born physician Professor Philip Salem has been honored in the United States for his achievements in researching cancer treatments. A celebration was held by the Arab community in the US to pay tribute to Salem, a US physician of Lebanese origin who dedicated his life to treating cancer and serving humanitarian causes

  

BEIRUT: Much like the countless skyscrapers going up across the capital, Beirut real estate is on the rise. Its explosion has been unimpeded by the near-constant threat of political instability or the global economic recession that sunk the almighty construction sectors in Dubai and Spain. And yet, for all the activity and demand - prices are thought to have jumped 60 percent in the last two years

  

NEW LEBANON - New Lebanon awarded its new trash and waste hauling contract to Dempsey Waste Systems II, Inc. and they?re saving a little money.The $12.25 per month represents a $0.72 savings or $8.64 per year.

  

LEBANON - The Lebanon High School Marching Band performed its '?I Love NY?' show Nov. 12 for the final time this season at the Bands of America Grand Nationals held at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.The Marching Warriors were among 90 high school bands nationwide that competed.

  

Lebanon 's Christmas for Tots has started its Christmas Campaign. The non-profit organization gives gifts to children in need at Christmas time and is solely a local organization that only assists families within the Lebanon School District.This year, they are collecting new toys with a value of $15 or monetary contributions. Children from infant to age 14 benefit from the program.

  

Q&A with Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri Edited transcript of interview by Washington Post's Janine Zacharia with Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri at his home office in Beirut, Saturday, Nov. 13, 2010.

  

MANILA, Nov. 26 (PNA) -' The 163 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) repatriated recently from Beirut, Lebanon said they were maltreated by abusive employers and illegal recruiters.

  

Turkey will not remain silent if Israel attacks Lebanon or Gaza, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in Beirut on Thursday, as ties between the longtime allies remained at an all-time low.

  

Source: Human Rights Watch (Beirut) - Lebanon rejected a large number of important recommendations about the rights of women, refugees, migrants, and homosexuals during its UN Human Rights Council review, Human Rights Watch ...

  

Six Israeli warplanes have violated the Lebanese airspace as the fighter jets infringe Beirut's sovereignty almost every day.

  

KIEV, Ukraine, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- Speaking at a news conference with Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich, Israeli President Shimon Peres said Israel's relations with Lebanon were good.

  

A Lebanon High School custodian is under arrest, accused of having sex with a 15-year-old student.

  

BEIRUT: President Michel Sleiman said Tuesday following talks with Qatari Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani it was imperative that the Lebanese strengthen their commitment to the Doha and Taif Accords as Lebanon's national unity and civil peace face dangers. Sleiman made his remarks at the opening of the Lebanese Embassy in Doha as Syrian-Saudi contacts aimed at easing

  

BEIRUT: Legal reforms are necessary to fight against gender-based violence but they must be accompanied by wider social and political transformations, activists said Tuesday. Gathering in Beirut for a two-day conference, a conglomeration of women's rights groups joined forces in calling for the implementation of civil law and for tougher measures to be taken against

  

BEIRUT: US President Barack Obama said Monday Lebanon has fought enough fights and urged the Lebanese to work together, not against each other, for a sovereign and independent country that enjoys both justice and stability. In a statement to mark Lebanon's 67th Independence Day celebrated on November 22, Obama said Washington was

  

Lebanon is on a knife-edge amid mounting tension over a UN probe into the murder of the country's ex-premier and efforts by regional leaders to try to contain a potentially explosive situation.

  

A court in Lebanon releases the radical Muslim cleric, Omar Bakri Muhammad, on bail pending a retrial.

  

Radical Islamist preacher Omar Bakri, who was sentenced in Lebanon to life in prison on a number of charges, was freed on bail on Wednesday pending a retrial, a judicial source said.

  

Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu convened his inner Forum of Seven ministers on Wednesday on concerns that Hezbollah could attempt a coup in Lebanon in the face of a UN probe, Israeli media reported.

  

Lebanon: As part of the "Reaching out to Children in Hospitals" program, Coca Cola inaugurated today its 18th children's library at Tal Chiha Hospital in Zahle. The library was launched under the auspices and the presence of the Minister of Culture Mr. Salim Wardy and was attended by Coca Cola and Tal Chiha hospital senior officials as well as members of the press. [AMEInfo.com]

  

Chief prosecutor at Hariri tribunal 'extremely disappointed' in broadcast's accusations of incompetence

  

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri said leaking information to the media doesn't serve 'justice' after a report claimed United Nations investigators had discovered Hezbollah killed his father

  

HH the Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani and Lebanese President Michel Suleiman yesterday officially opened the new premises of the Lebanese embassy in Doha.

  

To weigh one man's death against the lives of four million Lebanese and countless other millions who could be caught up in a regional conflagration is sheer madness.

  

New York/Beirut - The UN tribunal on the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri said Tuesday a report aired by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation may put lives in jeopardy.

  

A Lebanese minister says Beirut has found new evidence over Israel's illegal espionage activities in the country's telecommunication sector.

  

BEIRUT, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Below is a table of the latest Lebanese economic statistics.

  

A city man wanted in the shooting death of Aurelio "Lelo" Quezada was found Thursday hiding in a closet in the Bronx, N.Y. Lebanon police have sought the 24-year-old James Melendez since the Oct. 24 shooting after a fight on Lehman Street.

  

Lebanon needs to end an era of impunity by finding out the truth about former prime minister Rafic Hariri's death, U.S. State Department spokesman Philip Crowley said on Monday.

  

A Lebanese military intelligence operative was killed in a drive-by shooting near the Syrian border on Monday, a security official said, as the country celebrated its 67th Independence Day.

  

Qatar's premier flew to Beirut on a surprise visit on Monday in a bid to contain rising tensions in Lebanon hours before the country's president was due to leave for Doha the president's office said.

  

BEIRUT - Qatar's prime minister flew to Beirut on a surprise visit Monday in a bid to contain rising tensions in Lebanon, hours before the country's president was due to leave for Doha, the president's office said.

  

Fears of Hezbollah takeover, civil unrest, political instability compete with desire for justice for assassination of Hariri

  

BEIRUT (Reuters) - U.N.-backed investigators have found that members of Hezbollah were behind the assassination in 2005 of Lebanese prime minister Rafik al-Hariri, CBC News has reported citing inquiry sources and documents.

  

Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Monday that Lebanese premier's upcoming visit to Iran will improve bilateral ties, the local satellite Press TV reported.

  

BEIRUT - Lebanon's state media say a shootout erupted near the Syrian border, killing one Lebanese soldier. It is not immediately known what sparked the exchange of fire early Monday near the Masnaa border crossing in Lebanon's Bekaa valley.

  

Waiting in the emergency room is almost as painful as the injury that brought you there. University Medical Center is trying to ease that sting a little by letting patients know what they're in for.

  

WASHINGTON - A Lebanese police officer and UN investigators unearthed extensive circumstantial evidence implicating the Syrian-backed Hezbollah movement in the February 2005 assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri, according to an investigation by the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.

  

Earlier this year, Albany re-instituted its bylaw banning non-residents from working for the city. This is as it should be. Most cities and towns require their municipal employees to be residents.

  

A Lebanese police officer and U.N. investigators unearthed extensive circumstantial evidence implicating the Syrian-backed Hezbollah movement in the February 2005 assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri, according to an investigation by the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.

  

HH the Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani and Lebanese President Michel Suleiman will formally open the newly built premises of the Lebanese embassy in Doha tomorrow (Tuesday), local Arabic dailies reported yesterday.

  

TEHRAN, Nov. 21 (MNA) -- Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri will travel to Tehran on November 27 on the invitation of Iranian First Vice-President Mohammad-Reza Rahimi.

  

Lebanon: The Lebanese economy ministry has said that the country's real estate market is expected to grow by up to 15% in the next three years, the Daily Star has reported. "Lebanon has gone against the current of the international financial crisis in the real estate sector," director general of the economy ministry Fuad Fleifel said at the Beirut International Property Fair. "Its [real estate] value has risen by 9% during the first eight months of 2009, with expectations that it will rise between 10% and 15% until the year 2013." In the first quarter of 2010, Lebanon's real-estate transactions spiked by 41% over the same period of 2009, totalling just over $2bn, according to the Directorate of Real Estate. The market benefited from strong economic growth as well as remittances from expatriates, it said. [AMEInfo.com]

  

Lebanon Catholic School will take part in a videoconference being hosted by Harrisburg Diocese Bishop Joseph P. McFadden on Monday morning to announce the launching of a diocese wide area computer network.

  

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Saturday congratulated Lebanon on its upcoming independence day, reaffirming the US commitment to the country's unity and sovereignty.

  

A Lebanese source says the military would move into the occupied area, which Israel says would return, noting that liberation is incomplete until after the deployment.

  

In his new book, the photographer Max Milligan depicts a Lebanon few outside the Middle East see.

  

BEIRUT: Lebanon's real estate market will grow by up to 15 percent in the next three years, director general of the Economy Ministry Fuad Fleifel said Thursday at the Beirut International Property Fair.

  

Two McKendree University Debate Team members are ranked best inthe nation.

  

Ghajar straddles the Israeli-Lebanese frontier, but its residents are Syrian nationals -- and Israeli citizens

  

Ghajar straddles the Israel-Lebanon frontier, but its residents are Syrian nationals -- and Israeli citizens

  

General James Mattis, the US Central Command chief, on Friday pledged his country would continue to support the Lebanese army, a week after Washington lifted a freeze on military aid to Beirut.

  

While the search for inner beauty is this month drawing Muslims to Mecca for the Hajj pilgrimage, a different kind of search -- this time for beauty of a more obvious kind -- is drawing many from the Middle East to another location.

  

' Programmes examine assassination of former PM - Tribunal may be about to accuse Hezbollah members The BBC has suddenly pulled a documentary film series about the assassination of the former Lebanese prime minister Rafik al-Hariri as tensions mount in Beirut over expectations that Hezbollah operatives are about to be accused of involvement in the killing. The first of three parts of Murder in ...

  

BEIRUT: The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has shelved a documentary on the murder of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri amid local disquiet over the United Nations-backed probe mandated to find the premier's killers. The broadcaster said in a statement that it needed additional time to ensure that "Murder in Beirut" - a series of films that

  

A senior U.N. official said on Thursday he expected a court probing the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri to issue indictments "in the coming months."

  

A Lebanon man is being held in lieu of $100,000 bond for 13 felony charges including child molestation. Read more at www.WISHTV.com

  

The BBC said Thursday it had delayed a documentary film series about the murder of ex-Lebanese premier Rafiq Hariri amid tensions in Lebanon over a UN-backed probe into his death.

  

The decision to withdraw Israeli troops from Ghajar comes more than four years after Israel's 2006 war with Lebanon's militant Shiite Hezbollah ended.

  

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Lebanon: Today marks the launch of the 2010 Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) in Lebanon, a global initiative to encourage and foster the entrepreneurial spirit among the country's youth. [AMEInfo.com]

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- Twenty-eight years after the Sabra and Shatila massacres, the president of Lebanon's only golf course is still having to deny the bodies are buried there.

  

The pullout from a village straddling the Lebanon border would remove a long-standing point of contention.

  

Israel agreed Wednesday to pull its troops from the northern half of a village that straddles the border with Lebanon, defusing a long-standing political dispute but frightening villagers who don't want their community divided.

  

Israel on Wednesday approved the withdrawal of troops from the northern half of a village that straddles the border with Lebanon - a step that would end its four-year presence in the volatile area.

  

A drawdown of troops from the northern half of a village that lies in a strategic corner where the boundaries of Syria, Israel and Lebanon are in dispute would end Israel's four-year presence in the volatile area. The pullout is expected to take place in the coming weeks.

  

Source: Reuters * Israel wants UN to safeguard Lebanese part of village * Residents loyal to Syria, but hold Israeli citizenship (Adds details) By Dan Williams JERUSALEM, Nov 17 (Reuters) - The Israeli ...

  

Israel's inner Cabinet of decision makers were debating Wednesday whether to withdraw troops from the northern half of a divided village that straddles the border with Lebanon.

  

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his Lebanese counterpart Michel Suleiman held talks here on Tuesday over the situation in Lebanon, Syrian official SANA news agency reported.

  

The timing for Lebanon Transit and commuters to Harrisburg couldn't be better.

  

One of Lebanon High School s most gifted graduates has been named the recipient of the district s 2010 Distinguished Alumna Award.

  

Israel's army chief has warned that the militant group Hezbollah could stage a coup in Lebanon if an international court targets its members over the murder of ex-premier Rafiq Hariri.

  

BEIRUT - Lebanese police said Tuesday they are hunting a militant of the radical Sunni group Fatah al-Islam who has gone missing from the country's notorious Rumieh jail.

  

Radical Islamist preacher Omar Bakri has appointed a Hezbollah legislator as his defence lawyer when he goes on trial, a judicial source said on Tuesday, following his arrest in northern Lebanon.

  

With bullet holes still scarring its buildings from recent wars, Lebanon is heading toward a crisis that could derail its unsteady progress to stability. And at the centre of the storm is a Canadian-led tribunal that some fear is pushing it toward the edge.

  

Russia will offer Lebanon six combat helicopters, 31 tanks and 36 artillery pieces complete with ammunition and shells, Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri announced late Monday from Moscow.

  

Lebanon's ski resorts have survived civil war but now face an insidious threat from climate change expected to cut snow cover by 40 percent by 2040.

  

LEBANON?A Lebanon man was shot at early Sunday in the 500 block of East Cumberland Street by a man who said he was performing the act for another person, police said.

  

Those in Peoria's Lebanese community are proud of Ray LaHood's accomplishments. What they may not know is that he's just as proud of their's. "So many of you have come up to me to tell me you're proud of me," the U.S. secretary of transportation said to a gathering of those with Lebanese roots at St. Sharbel Church on Sunday afternoon. "But I'm proud of you. I would not be who I am today ...

  

Cheap cosmetic surgery operations in Beirut lure patients from all over the world. read more

  

Under the patronage of BLOM Bank and the UFA insurance firm, this eighth edition of the Beirut Marathon had, in addition to its sporting side, the air of a great popular fiesta, with vast crowds lining the streets along the route of the race, which led the runners from the heart of the city into its suburbs and back again.

  

Just up behind my Beirut home is a narrow, shady laneway called Makhoul Street. And in Makhoul Street, there is a small shop with a rusting door behind which an Armenian sells ancient postcards of Beirut. Related Stories Robert Fisk: Canberra, Ankara and other 'fake' capitals Robert Fisk: Lebanon can't escape the shadow of Hariri's murder

  

BEIRUT: The Economist Intelligence Unit's Global Microfinance Index ranked Lebanon in 49th place among 54 countries worldwide and in last place among 14 countries in the Middle East and Africa (MENA) in terms of the environment for microfinance, as reported by Lebanon This Week, the economic publication of the Byblos Bank Group.

  

FARAYA: Lebanon's ski resorts have survived civil war but now face an insidious threat from climate change, expected to cut snow cover by 40 percent by 2040. The effects of global warming are still a low priority for conflict-prone Lebanon, where environmental neglect is endemic. Skiers and the tourist businesses that depend on them hope

  

AFP/Beirut Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri has vowed not to give in to 'threats' in a television interview, after his Hezbollah rivals ramped up rhetoric against a UN-backed probe into his father's murder.

  

Lebanese police have arrested radical Islamic preacher Omar Bakri at his home in Tripoli.

  

A radical Islamist cleric in Lebanon facing a life sentence on charges of aiding an al Qaeda affilliate has been arrested following a shootout in the northern city of Tripoli, the country's state news agency reported Sunday.

  

Lebanese PM vows not to capitulate following Hezbollah rhetoric over UN-backed probe into his father's murder.

  

Lebanese police on Sunday arrested radical Islamic preacher Omar Bakri, just days after the formerly British-based cleric boasted he would "not spend one day" of a life sentence behind bars.

  

BEIRUT - Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri has vowed not to give in to 'threats' in a television interview, after his Hezbollah rivals ramped up rhetoric against a UN-backed probe into his father's murder.

  

Lebanese police on Sunday arrested radical Islamic preacher Omar Bakri, just days after the formerly British-based cleric boasted he would "not spend one day" of a life sentence behind bars.

  

Lebanese police arrest radical Muslim cleric Omar Bakri Muhammad after a military court had sentenced him in absentia to life in jail.

  

Lebanon: Following its wild success in the Gulf region, Sukar.com, the luxury online shopping club, is now available for Lebanese shoppers to buy high-end lifestyle goods at up to 90 per cent discount. Sukar.com naturally appeals to Lebanese buyers with their flair for fashion and fine design. [AMEInfo.com]

  

Saudi Arabia's Supreme Court has refused to ratify the death sentence of a Lebanese psychic convicted of practicing witchcraft.

  

Saudi Arabia's Supreme Court has refused to ratify the death sentence of a Lebanese psychic convicted of practicing witchcraft in a case that has outraged international human rights groups.

  

U.S. lawmakers lifted a congressional hold on $100 million in military assistance for Lebanon's armed forces, as the Obama administration moved to bolster Beirut's pro-Western government.

  

BEIRUT: Lebanon issued Friday a $725 million dual-tranche offering with international orders accounting for 26 percent of subscriptions on the aggregate amount.

  

A former Lebanese prime minister Friday described as "inaccurate" statements by Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite armed group, that his government had asked Israel to continue its attacks on Lebanese targets in 2006 in order to crush the guerilla.

  

A key US lawmaker lifted his hold Friday on 100 million dollars in US military aid to Lebanon, saying he was reassured Lebanese troops would try to prevent flare-ups along the border with Israel.

  

Two key members of Congress on Friday released their holds on $100 million in U.S. military aid to Lebanon's army, clearing a major hurdle to resuming the assistance.

  

Under a United Nations plan, Israel will reportedly remove its troops from the town of Ghajar on the Lebanese border - and thus remove a bone of contention with Hezbollah.

  

LEBANON 'The cost of a shower in Lebanon may increase again.Council is mulling a proposed 6 percent increase in water rates starting in 2011, the third hike in three years. Water rates also rose 6 percent in 2009 and 6 percent in 2010 following a heated debate among council.

  

The radical Muslim cleric, Omar Bakri Mohammad, says he has been sentenced to life in prison in Lebanon.

  

Radical Islamic preacher Omar Bakri has been sentenced to life in prison by a Lebanese military court on a host of charges, including inciting murder and belonging to an armed faction, a judicial official said Friday.

  

Chief of Lebanese Shiite armed group Hezbollah said Thursday that the party would not allow the arrest of any of its members by a UN-backed court probing the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafic Hariri.

  

BEIRUT: Government authorities, legal experts and student activists called for reforming Lebanese prisons and improving social and medical conditions of prisoners, during a seminar held Thursday. The event was organized by the social initiative Operation SeptiEme Jour, part of UniversitE Saint Joseph (USJ), in cooperation with the Beirut Bar Association

  

BEIRUT: The United Nations joined the United States Thursday in voicing its concerns over Lebanon's increasingly incendiary security situation. The UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon Michael Williams, in meetings with President Michel Sleiman and Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Butros Sfeir, said his organization was worried about Lebanon, just a few hours after US

  

LEBANON - The preamble of the U.S. Constitution contains the phrase - 'Provide for the common defense.?When asked about Veterans Day and his father's military service during World War II, the reference jumped to the mind of Jim McCracken, founder, chief scientist and vice president of defense contractor The Design Knowledge Co.

  

The leader of Hezbollah said Thursday his militant group will "cut the hand" of anyone who tries to arrest its members for the death of a former Lebanese prime minister, an explicit warning that comes amid escalating fears of violence in the country.

  

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hezbollah will not allow the arrest of any of its members if the inquiry into the 2005 killing of Lebanese statesman Rafik al-Hariri indicts them, the group's leader leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said Thursday.

  

The Lebanese resistance movement, Hezbollah, has warned of potential US-planned and Israeli-waged warfare on Lebanon and Syria.

  

BEIRUT: The ongoing talk about a possible security setback if some of Hizbullah's members are implicated in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has had little or no effect on the Lebanese banks that are aggressively raising their capitals and expanding to other countries, according to many bankers.

  

BEIRUT - Lebanon's cabinet was to hold a crucial meeting Wednesday on a UN-backed tribunal on former premier Rafiq Hariri's murder, as political deadlock over the court threatens to bring down the unity government.

  

Beirut - The Lebanese cabinet postponed on Wednesday a debate on witnesses accused of misleading UN investigators probing the 2005 assassination of former prime minister Rafik Hariri, in a bid to avoid more tension in the country.

  

Lebanon's political deadlock continued on Wednesday after the cabinet failed to agree on what to do about alleged bogus witnesses in the probe of the 2005 assassination of ex-premier Rafiq Hariri.

  

Representatives of 16 Arab states meeting in Doha for an Interpol general assembly have contested the validity of 33 Syrian arrest warrants mostly against Lebanese, Lebanon's police chief said Wednesday.

  

There is a constant low whir coming from the grounds of Lebanon Middle School, and it may be one of the most welcome sounds in town.

  

Every year, some lucky people find the St. Antony Hafli dinner by accident. Out for a jog or walking the dog, they follow their noses to the little church, tucked just west of the University of Tulsa ...

  

Lebanon: Lebanon's central bank is considering legislation to boost Islamic finance after the industry failed to garner 1% of total banking assets, Bloomberg has reported. Bank of Lebanon is working with a group of local lenders to amend a 2004 law that allowed the establishment of Shariah-compliant banks, first vice-governor Raed Charafeddine told the news service. The central bank is also considering introducing a product in the first quarter that helps Islamic lenders manage their liquidity, he said. [AMEInfo.com]

  

Kabobji may conjure images of djinns emerging from magic lamps, but the word means a maker of kebabs. And there are kebabs aplenty at the new North Bay Village restaurant by that name, along with appetizers, wraps, salads, soups and seafood meals including whitefish in spicy tahini sauce.

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- At least two members of Shiite resistance movement Hezbollah may be indicted for the 2005 assassination of a former Lebanese leader, sources said.

  

Lebanon native Craig Virgin has been elected into the USA National Track and Field Hall of Fame.

  

TRIPOLI, Libya: As the Libyan crowd started pouring into the 23rd of September Hall you could sense that something special was about to happen. The support for the home nation has been phenomenal throughout the competition and the intimidating atmosphere created must have played a huge part on the result of this match. This is the first time that Lebanon

  

OTTAWA: A lawyer for a Canadian man of Lebanese origins facing extradition to France in connection with a 1980 Paris synagogue bombing that killed four people said Monday that he wants his client's case halted. Donald Bayne told an Ontario courtroom that documents related to his client Hassan Diab's case, which were handed over by France

  

Lebanon, where Muslims make up more than half the population, is considering legislation to boost Islamic finance after the industry failed to garner 1 percent of total banking assets.

  

BEIRUT (AFP) - Lebanon is powerless to stop a UN-backed probe into the murder of ex-premier Rafiq Hariri despite a campaign by Hezbollah to torpedo the court, visiting US Senator John Kerry said on Monday.

  

(11-08) 08:11 PST BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- A 12-year-old chimpanzee was heading to a sanctuary in Brazil on Monday after animal rights workers discovered him smoking cigarettes to entertain visitors at a Lebanese zoo....

  

U.S. Sen. John Kerry says nobody in Lebanon has the power to influence the international tribunal investigating the 2005 assassination of a former prime minister.

  

TEHRAN, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- Tehran believes its experience in the energy sector could help Lebanon tap into oil reserves in eastern Mediterranean waters, an official said.

  

Lebanon: Berytech welcomed the Director General of the Ministry of Education, Mr. Fadi Yarak, and high-level school authorities including Dr. Leila Fayad, Director of the Center for Education and Research Development (CERD) at a roundtable luncheon in their honor, as they introduce the educational tools of Edulab. [AMEInfo.com]

  

BEIRUT -- Lebanese-born New York designer Reem Acra has a message to successful Lebanese entrepreneurs: No matter how big you become abroad, in the end you have to return home.

  

Lebanon: ICT Leaders conference held in Beirut from the 1-2 November focussed on the need of developing ubiquitous Broadband services across the Levant to support achieving wider national social and economic goals, including overcoming challenges associated with internet security and the need for greater protection of the child. [AMEInfo.com]

  

More than 28,000 runners hit the streets on Sunday for the annual Beirut Marathon in what the prime minister called a show of unity despite warnings of another crisis looming in Lebanon.

  

Israel is planning to withdraw its troops from part of a disputed village on the Lebanese border and hand over control to a UN peacekeeping force, an official said on Sunday.

  

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will on Monday present a plan to the United Nations for Israel's withdrawal from part of a disputed village along the Lebanese border, a political source said on Sunday.

  

BEIRUT (DPA) - Beirut is in the grip of a construction frenzy that threatens to erase the historic heritage of a city which once had Ottoman-style mansions and lavish gardens. Many of these old buildings are now being demolished to make way for high-rise apartment complexes that are mushrooming across the Lebanese capital. ''When I look now at Beirut all I see is cement blocks ... This is ...

  

French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner held talks with Lebanese officials Friday over the problematic issue of the UN-backed court probing the assassination of Lebanese former Prime Minister Rafic Hariri.

  

Lebanon 's army chief admitted yesterday that he is concerned about tensions in the country ahead of an indictment from a UN-backed court on the assassination of ex-premier Rafik al-Hariri.

  

Lebanon's top army chief admitted on Saturday that he is concerned about tensions in the country ahead of an indictment from a UN-backed court on the assassination of ex-premier Rafiq Hariri.

  

Lebanese President Michel Sleiman hails the recent move by ambassadors of Iran, Syria and Saudi Arabia to hold talks in Beirut, saying it will ease tension in Lebanon.

  

BEIRUT, LEBANON : The Lebanese parliament on Thursday said that Israel is setting up 21 wiretapping and spy posts along Lebanon's border.

  

Lebanon: As the Middle East and North Africa region grapples with the reality of acute water scarcity, the regional governments are increasingly focusing on water efficiency solutions and sustainable development initiatives. A World Bank report predicted that water availability is to drop from 1,100 cubic metres per person per year now to 550 cubic metres by 2050. [AMEInfo.com]

  

Lebanon says it is investigating incident that appeared to target officials from UN inquiry into prime minister's death.

  

Source: Reuters * Court sleuths were forced by crowd to leave clinic * Tribunal may indict Hezbollah members in Hariri killing By Patrick Worsnip UNITED NATIONS, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Lebanon has told the United ...

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- Iran's moves to join Lebanon in exploring for oil and gas in the Mediterranean near Israeli waters where big strikes have been reported complicate a flash point energy dispute at a time of major tension across the Middle East.

  

BEIRUT (AFP) - French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner arrived in Lebanon on Friday hoping to ease tensions between rival factions over a UN probe into the 2005 murder of former prime minister Rafiq Hariri.

  

WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- Washington looks forward to a long-standing friendship with a peaceful and independent Lebanese state, said U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

  

Hezbollah conducted a simulation of the zero hour to demonstrate its ability to maintain a security and military grip on Lebanon, thereby giving its Iranian master the coveted reins over Lebanon.

  

BEIRUT: Lebanese Army Commander General Jean Kahwaji urged troops Thursday to work on safeguarding and promoting citizens' trust in the military institution. Kahwaji inspected the Army Intelligence's Combat Unit headquarters, where he attended maneuvers conducted by a team from the unit and awarded certificates to members who had completed

  

The United States reaffirmed its support for Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri on Thursday, amid high tensions over an international probe into the murder of his father, ex-premier Rafiq Hariri.

  

LEBANON?A tax increase of 4.2 percent in real estate taxes is proposed in the city of Lebanon, where Mayor Sherry Capello is asking the city's three unions to accept a salary freeze next year to help avert possible layoffs.

  

The Hariri murder probe is getting closer to issuing indictments, straining ties between Lebanon and Syria and complicating US goals in the region.

  

Hezbollah and its allies boycotted the latest round of Lebanon's national dialogue on Thursday because of tensions surrounding a U.N. tribunal's investigation of the 2005 assassination of a former prime minister.

  

Lebanon: The Arab world is facing the prospect of severe water and food shortages as early as 2015, as the annual per capita share will be less than 500 cubic meters. This is below one-tenth of the world's average, currently estimated at over 6,000 cubic meters, according to a report released today by the Arab Forum for Environment and Development (AFED) at the opening of its annual conference in Habtoor Grand Hotel, Beirut. [AMEInfo.com]

  

LEBANON - A mother and her 13-year-old daughter were in serious condition and nearly 30 people were being relocated Wednesday, one day after a massive fire gutted the 10-unit Steeplechase Apartments.Speculation that the fire, believed to have begun about 9 p.m., was caused by gas fumes that exploded when a woman lit a cigarette in her two-story townhouse could not be confirmed.

  

The Qatar chapter of the alumni association of the American University of Beirut (AUB) is holding a gala dinner at the La Cigale Hotel today. The gala dinner is expected to gather some 700 alumni and friends. AUB president Dr Peter Dorman and other dignitaries will attend.

  

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States on Wednesday pledged $10 million for a U.N. tribunal that is investigating the killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri in 2005 and whose funding has provoked a political standoff in Lebanon.

  

BEIRUT - Lebanese-born New York designer Reem Acra has a message to successful Lebanese entrepreneurs: No matter how big you become abroad, in the end you have to return home.

  

BEIRUT (AP) - Lebanese-born New York designer Reem Acra has a message to successful Lebanese entrepreneurs: No matter how big you become abroad, in the end you have to return home.

  

The president of a U.N.-backed tribunal set up to prosecute the assassins of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri made an impassioned plea Wednesday for Lebanese to give the court a chance to show it can dispense impartial justice.

  

The Lebanon volleyball team capped its Mid-Willamette Conference schedule with a 3-0 win at Dallas Oct. 26, giving the Warriors three straight-set victories in as many contests.

  

BEIRUT, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Below is a table of the latest Lebanese economic statistics.

  

LEBANON - Flames shot 50 feet in the air out of a Lebanon apartment building tonight following an explosion that could be felt two blocks away.The fire at the Steeplechase Apartments, 800 Franklin Road/Ohio 123 in Lebanon , started shortly before 9 p.m. after something exploded in one of the apartments, residents said.

  

Beirut - Beirut is in the grip of a construction frenzy that threatens to erase the historic heritage of a city which once had Ottoman-style mansions and lavish gardens.

  

BEIRUT: Nine years ago May al-Khalil was training for a marathon when she was tragically hit by a car and left unable to run long distances. Two years later she organized the first ever Beirut Marathon, with 6,000 runners taking part on October 19, 2003. The marathon is now a major fixture in Lebanon's sporting calendar. Some 28,000 people registered to run in

  

SIDON: Muslim and Christian clerics continued to denounce Tuesday the deadly violence that killed 52 Christian hostages in Iraq. A vigil in remembrance of the victims was held Tuesday evening in Downtown Beirut's Martyrs Square. Meanwhile, Christian and Muslim religious figures gathered at the Greek Catholic Archdiocese in the southern city of Sidon

  

BEIRUT: The Energy Ministry of warned Monday that Beirut and the south will be deprived of water unless the Basri dam, part of the recently launched Awli Project, is built very soon. "In the case of lack of rapid response from the Finance Ministry and the Development Council - Beirut's residents will go thirsty and the lands in the south will not be irrigated because of

  

The Syrian, Saudi and Iranian ambassadors to Lebanon met on Tuesday in a bid to contain rising tensions over the fate of a UN-backed probe into the murder of ex-premier Rafiq Hariri.

  

LONDON, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- London sees the work of a tribunal probing the slaying of a Lebanese prime minister in 2005 as vital for the country's independence, the foreign secretary said.

  

Source: IRIN The past unexpectedly caught up with Hussein Ahmad* one morning in the neighbourhood of Jabal Mohsen, in Lebanon's northern port city of Tripoli, as he was busily organizing excited local children into five-a-side football teams for an event aimed at easing communal tensions.

  

Lebanon: Building on its continued efforts to implement initiatives that aim to enhance investors' confidence and promote local businesses, Renno & Associates, the regional corporate communications and publishing consulting agency, announced today that work has commenced on its most recent corporate publishing project - Branding MENA Lebanon - Lebanon's high profile branding guidebook. [AMEInfo.com]

  

BEIRUT: Lebanon's trade deficit in the first nine months of 2010 reached $10.172 billion, the highest in the country's history, with economists attributing this increase to the continuous rise in personal loans offered by Lebanese banks.

  

Syria needs to pressure Iran and Hezbollah to rein in their activities in Lebanon if it wants to rebuild relations with the United States, the top U.S. diplomat for the Middle East said in an interview .

  

BEIRUT - The Lebanese town of Dahr el Ahmer has named its main street after the late Shaikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan.

  

Lebanon: November 2010 marks the opening of Gaucho's flagship international restaurant in the Middle East's cosmopolitan hotspot, Beirut. Bringing the best in Argentine food and wine with the sophisticated glamour of Buenos Aires, Gaucho is the ultimate dining destination. [AMEInfo.com]

  

01 November 2010 Beirut used to conjure up images of clear skies, sparkling sea and red-roofed Ottoman-era houses, but cranes and new buildings now puncture its Mediterranean skyline and the cacophony of bulldozers has shattered the idyll.