Siegel trails Lebanon, 17-3, at halftime from Siegel Stadium tonight.

  

Pope Benedict XVI (R) talks with Lebanese President Michel Sleiman during a meeting at the Vatican. The Pope discussed the plight of Christians in the Middle East on Friday when he met with Sleiman, the Maronite Christian president of mainly Muslim Lebanon.

  

Twelve Israeli military aircraft flew over southern and northern Lebanon on Friday in violation of a United Nations resolution, the Lebanese Armed Forces said in a statement. Six Israeli jets flew over the southern village of Alma al-Shaab for about 30 minutes during the morning, while six other planes overflew the northern region of Batroun.

  

A panel of professors from the American University of Beirut agreed Thursday that US foreign policy will remain the same no matter who wins the US presidential elections. Economics professor Marcus Marktanner, anthropology professor Patrick McGreevy, who is the director of the Center for American Studies and Research (CASAR.

  

The American University of Beirut (AUB) held a two-day Wellness Fair on Thursday and Friday which aimed at raising awareness among the AUB community about the importance of staying fit, eating right, and thinking well. AUB president Peter Dorman inaugurated the fair and toured the booths at the exhibit, which was held at West Hall.

  

The Lebanese government intends to remove the subsidies on flour as of November 15 after the prices of wheat in international markets started to drop, Economy and Trade Minister Mohammed Safadi said on Friday. The previous government subsidized flour after prices of wheat in the international market rose drastically.

  

Iona - The South Lebanon supervisors Tuesday night approved a resolution to remove nine streetlights on East Walnut Street. The lights had been replaced by shorter lights during the summer.

  

Pope Benedict XVI Friday discussed the plight of Christians in the Middle East on Friday when he met with Michel Sleiman, the Maronite Christian president of mainly Muslim Lebanon.

  

Fri, Oct 31, 2008 (9:15 a.m.) The Lebanese army says 12 Israeli warplanes have violated the country's airspace by flying reconnaissance missions over northern and southern Lebanon.

  

(The Associated Press) The Lebanese army says 12 Israeli warplanes have violated the country's airspace by flying reconnaissance missions over northern and southern Lebanon. The army says in a statement carried by the country's official news agency that six Israeli warplanes flew over the border village of Alma al-Shaab and other southern towns and villages for about 30 minutes Friday. The ...

  

LEBANON - Eating healthy, helping your neighbors and building community were among the topics at Samaritan Lebanon Community Hospital on Wednesday when the Community Health Improvement Partnership celebrated its fifth anniversary.

  

VietNamNet Bridge - All parties concerned in Lebanon should scrupulously abide by the Doha Agreement, and jointly shoulder the responsibility of strengthening the country's political stability and socio-economic reconstruction in the best interests of the Lebanese people.

  

Vatican City - Pope Benedict XVI met Friday with Lebanese President Michel Suleiman and expressed hope for the safeguard of Lebanon's peculiar identity , the Vatican said. Talks between Benedict and Suleiman, the Maronite Christian president of the ...

  

Lebanon is seeing an unexpected bonus at a time when jitters zip through the global financial sector -- apparently unscathed by the turmoil, its banks are flush with cash, increasing their net profits and even attracting new depositors.

  

Syria has expanded troops deployment along the borders to reach eastern Lebanon's Bekaa valley region, As-Safier daily reported here Friday. Almost 3,000 troops, equipped with heavy weapons, had been deployed in the area facing east Lebanon villages, the report said. Syria is deploying its troops along the border with eastern Lebanon, as "it did in September on the northern border," a Lebanese ...

  

World Vision Middle East/Eastern Europe office (MEERO) The launch of the first Beirut Human Rights Film Festival in Lebanon this week helped viewers cut through the taboo surrounding issues such as domestic violence, child labour and sexual abuse and forced them to confront them on the big screen.

  

BEIRUT: Economists and real-estate brokers predicted on Thursday a drop or at least a freeze in the prices of properties in Lebanon due to the global credit crunch, a fall in the prices of building materials and an expected reduction in remittances from Lebanese expatriates working in the Gulf Arab states.

  

BEIRUT- Syria will deploy more troops along its border with Lebanon in an effort to stop smuggling, the Lebanese army said on Thursday.

  

(RTTNews) - Syria has deployed more troops on its border with eastern Lebanon to combat smuggling and prevent the movement of people illegally across the borders, the Lebanese army said Thursday.

  

Hundreds of Civil War veterans are buried in Oregon cemeteries, many in unmarked graves. The group Sons of the Union is getting a hand from the Lebanon Genealogical Society in their goal of identifying every Civil War grave in Oregon.

  

Sears has a store in Lebanon for the first time in about 20 years.

  

An AIDS outreach group in Lebanon is catching criticism meant for a political group with the same name.

  

Economists and real-estate brokers predicted on Thursday a drop or at least a freeze in the prices of properties in Lebanon due to the global credit crunch, a fall in the prices of building materials and an expected reduction in remittances from Lebanese expatriates working in the Gulf Arab states.

  

Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) leader Walid Jumblatt was a special guest at the opening of the Imam Al-Sadeq complex in Beirut's southern suburbs on Thursday. Jumblatt, a stalwart of the anti-Syrian March 14 Forces, sat with Iranian Ambassador Mohammad Reza Shibani, shook hands with Hizbullah number two Sheikh Naim Qassem.

  

Zach Condon clearly needed a break. After issuing two stellar albums in as many years as Beirut -- 2006's Gulag Orkestar and 2007's The Flying Club Cup -- and traveling the world with his increasingly large band, Condon pulled out of a planned European tour scheduled for this summer , citing a need to "change some things, reinvent some others, and come back at some point with a ...

  

Syria will deploy more troops along its border with Lebanon in an effort to stop smuggling, the Lebanese army said on Thursday.

  

LEBANON--A South Lebanon Twp. man was sentenced to two-and-a-half to six years in state prison Wednesday on charges stemming from a homemade bomb explosion that injured his brother-in-law at a family picnic last Memorial Day.

  

BEIRUT (AFP)--Syria has deployed extra troops on its border with eastern Lebanon to combat smuggling and arrest fugitives, a Lebanese army official said Thursday.

  

New York - Lebanon and Syria have moved to fully implement a UN Security Council resolution to end decades of conflicts by establishing diplomatic ties, a UN special envoy in the Middle East said Thursday. The council asked in 2004 that Syria end its...

  

Lebanon: The global economy remains at substantial risk, but the speed and size of the various governmental rescue efforts bode well for a recovery in the not-too-distant future -this from the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Global Economic Outlook 4th quarter report. [AMEInfo.com]

  

Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, Vice Chairman of the UN Global Compact, emphasised that the world has entered a new stage of economic prosperity, during his address at the opening session of the' Corporate Listing: Opportunities and Horizons' conference held in Beirut under the auspices of the Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora.

  

Lebanese Christian opposition leader Michel Aoun is to visit Syria for the first time before the end of this year, Naharnet website quoted him as saying Thursday. As the head of majority of Christian Members of Parliament and the Christian opposition, Aoun's visit to Syria represents a major development after more than three decades of animosity between the two sides, the report said. Earlier ...

  

nas air, the first budget carrier in the Kingdom, announced that effective November 1st 2008 it will fly from Riyadh to Beirut following the inaugural of Jeddah-Beirut route earlier this year with an unbeatable one way fare starting from SR 199 on all reservations.

  

Lebanon: The American University of Beirut has received a $10m pledge from Beirut MP Saad Hariri to name and endow the School of Nursing at the University. [AMEInfo.com]

  

It's a common sight on the streets of Jerusalem, Damascus, Beirut and other Middle Eastern cities: vendors hawking falafel, small fried balls of blended and marinated chickpeas topped with chopped vegetables and tangy tahini (roasted sesame paste) or hummus (seasoned chickpea puree).

  

Stolen Iraqi antiquities recovered by Lebanese customs officials in eastern Lebanon. Around 32,000 artefacts were looted from 12,000 archaeological sites in Iraq during the chaos that followed the US-led invasion in 2003, while 15,000 items were stolen from the Baghdad National Museum.

  

BEIRUT: The Finance Ministry said on Wednesday that the budget deficit in the first nine months of this year has jumped by LL297 billion (just under $200 million) compared to the same period of last year.

  

In first-round Class I action, Merrimack Valley took on Lebanon (10-6-1) on the turf at Hanover and pulled off the mild upset.

  

Iran - Lahoud - Larijani Former Lebanese President Emile Lahoud conferred with Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani here Wednesday afternoon.

  

The American University of Beirut (AUB) received a $10 million pledge from Future Movement leader MP Saad Hariri on Wednesday to name and endow the School of Nursing at the university. The school will be named after his late father, former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, who was an AUB trustee. Hariri was assassinated on February 14, 2005, by a car bomb.

  

German prosecutors called for life imprisonment Wednesday for a Lebanese man over a failed plot to bomb packed German passenger trains as his trial wound down here. A state prosecutor told the higher regional court in this western German city that Youssef Mohammad al-Hajj Dib, 24, was an Islamic extremist guilty of an undetermined number of counts of attempted murder.

  

For the second season in a row, the Lebanon High volleyball team saw its season come to an end in the Division I district final at the hand of the defending state champion.

  

Should there be a parking garage in downtown Lebanon' Could Lebanon residents support more franchised restaurants' These are just a couple of the many questions tackled by city officials as they update their comprehensive plan for the city's growth and future development.

  

Lebanon's junior varsity soccer teams finished their seasons last week.

  

Lebanon on Monday opened a three-day conference for religious leaders in the country to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS issues, the Daily Star reports. More than 60 participants attended the workshop, which was organized by the United Nations Development Program and the Public Health Ministry.

  

The city of Lebanon has become a healthier place thanks to the opening of the Corwin M. Nixon Health Center. More than 300 people attended the ribbon-cutting and took a tour of the new state-of-the-art doctors' offices at 1470 N. Broadway.

  

The BBC's Bob Trevelyan spends a day hiking in the Bekaa Valley with one of Lebanon's thriving ecotourism companies.

  

Lebanon: Social Media Exchange, a Beirut-based NGO, has helped introduce and train members of Lebanon's civil society in social and participatory media on the Internet throughout its program. [AMEInfo.com]

  

BEIRUT, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Below is a table of the latest Lebanese economic statistics.

  

MT. JULIET Major developments are breathing new life into Lebanon Road in Mt. Juliet.

  

Lebanon: In 2005, a Lebanese educator brought international language teaching standards to Lebanon. [AMEInfo.com]

  

The Cougars (5-10-2) fell to Lebanon in a hard-fought, soggy Class I first round matchup.

  

Lebanon, chronically battered by war, turns out to have a banking sector that has so far been a beacon of stability and growth.

  

Lanes of Illinois 4 from U.S. 50 in Lebanon to south of U.S. 40 near St. Jacob will be closed starting Wednesday to patch the pavement.

  

Lebanese policemen secure the area as forensic experts gather evidence from the site of an explosion in the northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli on September 29, 2008. Lebanon's prosecutor has charged 34 people in connection with deadly attacks in the northern city of Tripoli over the past several months, a judicial source said on Tuesday.

  

The Telecommunication Ministry intends to increase the capacity of Lebanon's cellular networks by 80 percent to improve quality of service, end congestion and enhance the value of the mobile system, a senior official said on Tuesday. "We have already started ... and this work will continue until we reach the desired target," Roger Najar.

  

LEBANON - The Lebanon Fire District plans to start using a new substation near the intersection of Weirich Drive and Highway 20 in early December.

  

Lebanon's prosecutor has charged 34 people in connection with deadly attacks in the northern city of Tripoli over the past several months, a judicial source said on Tuesday.

  

Fire crews were called to a burning home in Lebanon early Tuesday morning.

  

Iran - Lebanon - Mottaki Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki here on Tuesday described ties with Lebanon as deep-rooted and said stability and tranquility of Lebanon is regarded as security and stability of Iran as well as other countries of the region.

  

BEIRUT (AFP)--Lebanese customs agents have seized dozens of stolen Iraqi antiquities including statues, pottery and stone carvings, from two smugglers along the Syrian-Lebanese border, officials said Tuesday.

  

BEIRUT, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Shares in Lebanese real estate firm Solidere climbed more than 14 percent on Tuesday, recovering from a sharp drop the previous session.

  

BEIRUT, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Shares in Lebanese real estate firm Solidere climbed more than 14 percent on Tuesday, recovering from a sharp drop the previous session.

  

Lebanon's top rival Sunni and Shiite Muslim leaders have held a long-awaited meeting as part of efforts to defuse sectarian tensions in the country.

  

Iran - Lebanon - Lahoud Former Lebanese president Emile Lahoud said on Tuesday that only Iran and Syria have supported Lebanese resistance against Israeli aggression.

  

HP Middle East today announced its sponsorship and participation in the New Arab Woman Forum held this October in Beirut, Lebanon.

  

Lebanon: With the incredible growth of internet investments in the MENA region, Lebanon-based Eastline Marketing, specialized in online marketing strategies, is widening its operations into the Middle East and North Africa region. [AMEInfo.com]

  

(By HUSSEIN DAKROUB, Associated Press Writer) Lebanon's top rival Sunni and Shiite Muslim leaders held a long-awaited meeting, the two sides' reported Monday, as part of efforts to defuse sectarian tensions in the country. The landmark meeting Sunday night between pro-Western parliament majority leader Saad Hariri and the Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah was the first face-to-face ...

  

A Northern Territory Fire and Rescue Officer has likened this years high road toll to a war zone.

  

Lebanon's top rival Sunni and Shiite Muslim leaders held a long-awaited meeting, the two sides' reported Monday, as part of efforts to defuse sectarian tensions in the country.

  

Lebanese President Michel Suleiman on Monday contacted his Syrian counterpart Bashar Assad to denounce "Sunday's American aggression" against the Syrian village of Abu Kamal near the border with Iraq, local Elnashra website reported. During the contact, President Suleiman presented his condolences to the families of the victims of the U.S. raid and expressed his solidarity with Syria in imposing ...

  

BEIRUT: Lebanon's Shi'ite Hizbollah chief Syed Hassan Nasrallah met his main political foe, Sunni majority leader Saad Al Hariri, for the first time since the war with Israel in 2006.

  

Lebanon - Iran - Ambassador On the eve of former Lebanese president Emile Lahoud visit to Tehran, Iran's ambassador to Beirut conferred with him Monday.

  

LEBANON - The city of Lebanon will pay a matching grant of $25,000 to Partners for Progress Inc., a nonprofit dedicated to bolstering downtown businesses.

  

The Lebanese Army Command on Monday denied reports that it had arrested armed members of a fundamentalist group in Beirut's southern suburb of Ouzai. The statement said an army patrol, while performing its regular duties in Ouzai, had "searched a number of civilian vehicles driving a number of workers from the North."

  

Lebanon's top rival Sunni and Shiite Muslim leaders held a long-awaited meeting, the two sides' television channels reported Monday, as part of efforts to defuse sectarian tensions in the country.

  

Edgar Maalouf, an MP affiliated with the Bloc of Reform and Change (Aounist) thinks the reequipping of the Army should be postponed until after Lebanon's legislative elections next spring.

  

He first explained that his objective was 'to reposition Lebanon on the international scene?. He added, 'We are a country that is distinguished by its pluralism and its role in the wider world.

  

Beirut - The head of Lebanon's anti-Syrian ruling majority, Saad Hariri, has met for the first time in two years with pro-Syrian Hezbollah chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, it was confirmed Monday. The meeting, which took place Sunday night, was describ...

  

Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Seniora's office said a deadly U.S. raid on Syria is a violation of Syrian sovereignty and an unacceptable aggression, local Naharnet website reported Monday. "The raid is in violation of Syrian sovereignty and unacceptable aggression regardless of the excuses," the report quoted the prime minister's office as saying. Meanwhile, the report cited the U.S. military as ...

  

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's Shi'ite Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has met his main political foe, Sunni majority leader Saad al-Hariri, for the first time since the war with Israel in 2006, a statement said on Monday.

  

BEIRUT - Lebanon's Shi?ite Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah held talks with his main political foe, Sunni majority leader Saad al-Hariri, for the first time since the war with Israel in 2006, political sources said on Monday.

  

BEIRUT, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Shares in Lebanon's market heavyweight Solidere tumbled nearly 15 percent on Monday, dragging the main index down 7 percent, along with other markets in the region.

  

BEIRUT, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Shares in Lebanon's market heavyweight Solidere tumbled nearly 15 percent on Monday, dragging the main index down 7 percent, along with other markets in the region.

  

Beirut - Lebanon's Prime Minister Fouad Seniora denounced Monday the US helicopter-borne commando raid in Syria which allegedly targeted the al-Qaeda-linked insurgents streaming into Iraq. According to Syria, eight people, including a married couple ...

  

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's Shi'ite Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah held talks with his main political foe, Sunni majority leader Saad al-Hariri, for the first time since the war with Israel in 2006, political sources said on Monday.

  

Lebanon's Shi'ite Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah held talks with his main political foe, Sunni majority leader Saad al-Hariri, for the first time since the war with Israel in 2006, political sources said on Monday.

  

Beirut, Lebanon - U.S. forces ferried by helicopter crossed five miles into Syria on Sunday and launched a commando raid near the Iraqi border

  

Iran - PGCC - Visit Secretary-General of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC) Abdul Rahman bin Hamad al-Attiyah and former president of Lebanon, Emile Lahoud, will arrive here later in the day, Foreign Ministry spokesman, Hassan Qashqavi, said on Monday.

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon - Reports about the health of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have stirred speculation about whether the controversial populist will run again for the country's highest elected office in June.

  

BEIRUT: In its first report about Lebanon since the worsening of the global financial crisis, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) estimated real GDP growth at 4.2 percent in 2008 and revised downward its forecast for 2009 from 4.6 percent to 3.1 percent in 2009, as reported by Lebanon This Week, the economic publication of the Byblos Bank Group.

  

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According to the London daily Elaph, the Lebanese artist Carole Samaha will travel to Algeria bat the end of the month to celebrate with the young Algerian fans the opening of the new music talent show 'Alhan Wa Shabab,' (Rhythms and Youth ), for young musicians.

  

Beirut, Oct 27 : US embassy sources in Beirut said Sunday evening that a US diplomat in Damascus was called in to the Syrian foreign ministry over the reported incident of a US military raid inside Syria.

  

The U.S. military is supplying military aid and equipment to the Lebanese military, which was once considered ineffective, officials say.Groups of Lebanese soldiers drive new American Humvees and trucks, and some of the country's soldiers carry new American rifles and grenade launchers, The New York Times reported Sunday.The aid program, the first major American military assistance to Lebanon ...

  

To live in Lebanon is to be bombarded with trite references about laws being mere suggestions rather than hard-and-fast rules, but Saturday afternoon in Beirut's Gemmayzeh district demonstrated why such habitual disregard is anything but funny. At around 3 p.m., a fire broke out at a building on the neighborhood's main street.

  

It was another turbulent week for the Beirut Stock Exchange as the global financial crisis weighed down on the trading mood of local investors despite the local economy apparent immunity. Consequently, total value and volume dropped by 70 percent and 63 percent to $17.43 million and 47.56 million respectively.

  

The United States is supplying only light arms and other equipment to the Lebanese Armed Forces, in accordance with its policy of supporting the Lebanese government, The New York Times says. The report said Pentagon and State Department officials were considering a Lebanese request for more substantial weaponry including tanks.

  

Beirut - US embassy sources in Beirut said Sunday evening that a US diplomat in Damascus was called in to the Syrian Foreign Ministry over the reported incident of a US military raid inside Syria. The sources said US charge d'affaires in Damascus, Ma...

  

The three-year effort is seen as too little and too late for the Lebanese military, but still draws opposition in Israel.

  

Iran - Lebanon - Visit Former Lebanese President Emile Lahoud and his son is to visit Iran on October 27 at the invitation of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

  

Lebanese artist Elaine Lahood is singing for the first time in the Lebanese dialect. She usually sings western style music in the French, and has released solo singles in both French and English.

  

During a ceremony to commemorate the 63rd UN anniversary Friday, United Nations Interim Forces (UNIFIL) command awarded nine Lebanese staff members who have served for more than 25 years with the peacekeeping mission, local Daily Star reported Saturday. "Your sense of duty and dedication represents an example to all of us as we strive to contribute to the establishment of sustainable peace in ...

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon - He had had a rotten day at the office - the boss had barked at him, ordering some project done within an impossible deadline. So he got aboard his pearl-white Harley-Davidson Street Glide, turned the ignition, gripped the throttle and revved the engine.

  

A product line of Tracker boats will move from production in Bolivar to Lebanon, the local plant manager confirmed Thursday.

  

The effort is intended to stabilize Lebanon's fractured state and provide a legitimate alternative to Hezbollah.

  

Kentucky State Police captured two escaped inmates in Lebanon Junction on Friday night.

  

South Lebanon (NEWS CENTER) -- Police are not yet releasing the name of the driver killed in a car crash early Saturday morning. It happened just before 2 a.m. on the River Road. Officials say the driver was partially ejected from the Hyundai Elantra after driving off the road and hitting a tree.

  

BEIRUT, China, Oct. 25 (UPI) -- South Korean President Lee Myung-bak says Asian and European leaders should help him entice North Korea into demilitarizing through economic cooperation.

  

"The BLT is gone" came a rasping cry, as US Navy senior chief petty officer Joe Ciokon stumbled out of his sleeping quarters and into the choking grey dust that now enveloped the US military compound in Beirut.

  

Tyre, Lebanon - A Lebanese woman working in a restaurant kitchen found 26 pearls in an oyster she was preparing for the table and is to submit the find to the Guinness Book of Records.

  

SUBANG, Oct 25 (Bernama) -- The Malaysian Armed Forces contingent (Malcon) comprising 164 officers and men left for Lebanon Saturday to serve with the United Nations (UN) peacekeeping force in the troubled country.

  

SUBANG, Oct 25 (Bernama) -- The Malaysian Armed Forces contingent (Malcon) comprising 164 officers and men left for Lebanon today to serve with the United Nations (UN) peacekeeping force in the troubled country.

  

Electrical and wiring devices maker Leviton Manufacturing Co. will open a distribution center in Lebanon in February, bringing 150 jobs to the area.

  

Lebanon: The Lebanese association for the development of Palestinian Camps, Inaash, is holding a two day exhibition in Dubai on Saturday and Sunday, the 25th and 26th of October. [AMEInfo.com]

  

LEBANON - The Lebanon School Board will meet at 6 p.m. Wednesday to discuss which candidates to interview for the position of interim superintendent for the Lebanon Community School District.

  

Students at Northern Lebanon High School and Middle School were evacuated for about two hours yesterday morning after a note containing a bomb threat was found.

  

The Lake Area Narcotics Enforcement Group, a multi-jurisdictional drug task force had determined that a 23-year-old man from Lebanon was involved in distributing methamphetamine, and busted him on Wednesday.

  

LEBANON, Pa. -- Lebanon Mayor Bob Anspach's last day as mayor is Sunday. He's leaving office more than a year before his second term was set to end. Anspach is taking a job with the state working in the Department of Homeland Security.

  

Leviton, a leading manufacturer of electrical and electronic wiring devices, plans to expand its operations in Lebanon, the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce's Partnership 2010 announced Friday.

  

By definition, near-death experiences are not every-day occurrences - unless, of course, one just happens to be in Lebanon. No, there isn't a war going on. It's just the daily routine of getting to and from work on streets packed with impatient, outspoken and careless drivers on roads that twist and turn, rise and fall.

  

LEBANON - A fire that destroyed a vacant house Thursday night at 695 Hansard Ave. has been labeled suspicious, according to fire officials.

  

Firefighters in the Lebanon Fire District are investigating a suspicious fire that burned a one-story house to the ground Thursday night.

  

A PROMINENT youth worker has used the funeral of a young Lebanese man shot dead on Wednesday to appeal for other young men in Sydney to turn from a life of crime and empty machismo.

  

CAMP LEJEUNE About 1,000 Marines, veterans and others at Camp Lejeune yesterday honored the more than 200 people who died when suicide bombers attacked the U.S. barracks in Beirut in 1983.

  

Lebanon mosque opens amid tensions - BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Calls for unity and religious moderation from Muslim and Christian leaders marked the opening of Lebanon's biggest mosque in the capital.

  

Murder victim's funeral hears plea to Sydney's young Lebanese men to shun crime and being macho.

  

LEBANON-Republican city residents interested in serving as acting mayor through the end of 2009 will have until Nov. 7 to submit a resume to City Council.

  

Finance Minister Mohammad Shatah on Thursday underlined the need to implement fiscal reforms and privatization to stimulate the economy and improve the living conditions of the Lebanese. "The livelihood of the Lebanese could have been much better if proper measures had been adopted," Shatah told.

  

LEBANON - The city of Lebanon will use state grant money to purchase 10.21 acres near Cheadle Lake from a private owner.

  

Second chances don't come often in sports. This Saturday, Oct. 25, however, the Lebanon High volleyball team gets one more shot at a district championship - once again against a defending state champion from the Girls Greater Catholic League.

  

Miamisburg dictated the style of play on Saturday night, and as a result determined the result as the Vikings eliminated Lebanon in the second round of the Division I Dayton boys soccer sectional tournament, 2-1.

  

Lebanon High's girls soccer team saw its most successful season in school history end in cruel fashion Monday night at the Dayton I Division I sectional finals.

  

Thu, Oct 23, 2008 (10:39 a.m.) About 1,000 Marines and others at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina are honoring nearly 300 people who died when suicide bombers attacked a U.S. barracks in Beirut in 1983.

  

About 1,000 Marines and others at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina are honoring nearly 300 people who died when suicide bombers attacked a U.S. barracks in Beirut in 1983.

  

In 1983, the NewsHour dispatched Jim Webb, now a U.S. senator, to cover the Marines on the front lines in Lebanon. Watch his Emmy-winning report from just two weeks before their barracks were bombed plus NewsHour coverage of the attack.

  

Just over 100 workers at the Tracker Marine plant in Bolivar are being asked to apply for those jobs at the Tracker plant in Lebanon following a decision to close one line of Tracker V boat production at Bolivar, a spokesman with Bass Pro said.

  

LEBANON - A two-vehicle accident in front of Lebanon High School sent two victims to a local hospital. Authorities are unsure whether any students were involved in the accident on Drake Road that at about 7:25 a.m. today, Oct. 23.

  

Lebanon: Prevalent vitamin D deficiencies, among all segments of Lebanese age groups despite the country's sunny weather, and the need to help prevent them through daily intake of three dairy servings are at the core of this year's highlights from the Lebanese Osteoporosis Prevention Society (LOPS) congress featuring a number of prominent local and international speakers. [AMEInfo.com]

  

Lebanon: AUB students exhibited their designs which proposed enhancements for the residential area located between Bliss Street, Makhoul Street, Sidan Street, and Hamra Street. [AMEInfo.com]

  

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) - Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James T. Conway will deliver the Beirut memorial address marking the 25th anniversary of the Beirut barracks bombing.

  

IT was 25 years ago this morning that a suicide bomber blew up the Marine compound in Beirut, killing 241 men. My men. The 21,000 pounds of explosives caused the largest single-day loss of life for the Corps since Iwo Jima in 1945. It marked the...

  

BEIRUT, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Lebanon's Byblos Bank said on Thursday its net profit for the first nine months of 2008 rose 30.5 percent to $79.1 million.

  

BEIRUT, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Lebanon's Byblos Bank said on Thursday its net profit for the first nine months of 2008 rose 30.5 percent to $79.1 million.

  

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) - Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James T. Conway will deliver the Beirut memorial address marking the 25th anniversary of the Beirut barracks bombing.

  

TRIPOLI, Lebanon -- Despite two decades of lost battles, Samir Hassan sees no alternative to more fighting.

  

First Lt. Glenn Dolphin sat up in his rack - Marine Corps slang for a bunk - in the bay of an old firehouse at Beirut International Airport, stretched, and contemplated whether to take a buddy up on an offer for an early morning workout at the base gym.In ...

  

Nate Woods serves two vital purposes on the Lebanon Warrior football team. His main role is visible to the casual fan as the senior tailback is Lebanon's workhorse, leading the team with 122 carries, 734 yards and nine touchdowns going into last week's game at Xenia.

  

Tomorrow will mark the 25th anniversary of the Beirut Bombing where 241 Marines and Sailors from Camp Lejeune died when a suicide bomber attacked their barracks in Beirut.

  

Army Maj. Randall A. Carlson was killed in Beirut on Sept. 25, 1982. Marine Cpl. Edward J. Gargano was killed Jan. 8, 1984.

  

Sport: Volleyball. School: Lebanon High School. Class: Senior. Age: 17. Claim to fame: "I have accepted a scholarship to play volleyball at Auburn University."

  

Minister for the Displaced Raymond Audi said Tuesday that Lebanon is expected to register its highest GDP growth in many years. Audi, who is also the chairman of Audi Saradar Bank, said he believes that Lebanon can register GDP growth of 6 percent in 2008 and 5 percent in 2009 despite the global financial crisis.

  

Three months after his release from an Israeli jail in a prisoner swap, Lebanese militant Samir Kantar says he is more than ever committed to working to wipe the Jewish state off the map.

  

Divorce sought refuge to avoid losing son to husband at age seven under Islamic law

  

In a unanimous decision Monday evening the Lebanon School Board agreed to contract with the Oregon School Board Association (OSBA) to help conduct the search for interim and permanent superintendents.

  

Ken Toombs is completing his third two-year term as mayor of Lebanon and is asking voters to keep him on for another term.

  

(By RAPHAEL G. SATTER, Associated Press Writer) A Lebanese mother and her child who fled to Britain to avoid being separated under their country's Islamic law can stay in the country, Britain's highest court ruled Wednesday. The divorced woman, identified only as EM, sought asylum in Britain for herself and her 8-year-old son after fleeing Lebanon on false papers in December 2004. She told ...

  

LONDON - A Lebanese mother and her child who fled to Britain to avoid being separated under their country's Islamic law can stay in the country, Britain's highest court ruled Wednesday.

  

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

  

BEIRUT, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Fourth-quarter growth at Lebanon's BLOM Bank will be comparable to the first nine months of the year, Chairman and General Manager Saad Azhari told Reuters on Wednesday.

  

Lebanese deputy Prime Minister Issam Abu Jamra withdrew Tuesday night from the cabinet session in protest against failure to agree on his powers prerogatives, local Naharnet website reported Wednesday. Abu Jamra, who is a member of Christian opposition leader Michel Aoun, free patriotic movement, told reporters that "the deputy Prime Minister should be a real deputy, he should head cabinet ...

  

BEIRUT (AFP) - Something of a revolution is taking place on Lebanon's notoriously dangerous roads.

  

Something of a revolution is taking place on Lebanon's notoriously dangerous roads. Drivers are beginning to stop at red lights, to wear seat belts and no longer have their cell phones glued to their ears.

  

BEIRUT: The Economic Committee, a group representing private companies, on Tuesday flatly rejected any salary raise and additional transportation allowance to employees on retroactive basis.

  

The great Lebanese artist Asi Hilani has finished recording more than 20 songs, 12 of which he will select to include on his upcoming album to be released within the next three weeks.

  

Arab League (AL) Secretary General Amr Moussa said on Tuesday that the pan-Arab organization is keen on maintaining the stability of Lebanon. At a joint press conference with visiting leader of Lebanon's Progressive Socialist Party Walid Jumblatt, Moussa said AL is looking forward to the fully implementation of the Doha deal reached between Lebanese rival leaders in May. Calling for the cease of ...

  

It is a reverent spot inside a bustling city. Since its dedication in 1986, people have visited the Beirut Memorial for a variety of reasons. Some are drawn by curiosity.

  

The city of Lebanon is seeking a second opinion regarding its ailing railroad tracks.

  

A Monticello man was killed in 1983 during the Beirut Bombing. Now 25 years later Clemon Alexander is remembered.

  

Representatives of government, UN agencies, NGOs and experts on drug prevention met on Tuesday as part of a two-day conference organized by the Beirut-based NGO Mentor Arabia. The conference is being held to form an umbrella organization under Mentor Arabia that will unite civil society, government and businessmen in working toward drug prevention in the Arab world.

  

The Economic Committee, a group representing private companies, on Tuesday flatly rejected any salary raise and additional transportation allowance to employees on retroactive basis. The committee also threatened to challenge the government's decision to raise the salaries for all categories of employees by LL200,000 at the state Shura Council.

  

Egypt invited Hizbullah leader Hasan Nasrallah to an official visit to Cairo, the Lebanese daily al-Akhbar reported Tuesday.

  

At least two Lebanon citizens have received calls soliciting charitable donations from a number that, when called, is out of service.

  

The city of Lebanon is seeking a second opinion regarding its ailing railroad tracks.

  

As the financial crisis sends shock waves through global markets, Lebanon's banks are bucking the trend as the beneficiaries of an unprecedented flow of remittances from overseas.

  

As the financial crisis sends shock waves through global markets, Lebanon's banks are bucking the trend as the beneficiaries of an unprecedented flow of remittances from overseas.

  

Iraqi singer Hasan Al Rasam just finished filming a new video clip for one of his latest songs in Beirut. The new song is called 'Amanina' (Our Wishes) and was written by Diya Al Miyali and composed Nasrat Al Bader.

  

CENTERVILLE - Lebanon High's girls soccer team saw its most successful season in school history end in cruel fashion Monday night at the Dayton I Division I sectional finals.

  

CENTERVILLE - Lebanon High's girls soccer team saw its most successful season in school history end in cruel fashion Monday night at the Dayton I Division I sectional finals.

  

A new report commissioned by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) calls for strengthening laws and criminal justice mechanisms to combat human trafficking in Lebanon, a destination country for victims smuggled from Eastern European countries such as Moldova.

  

The UN has called for Lebanon's human trafficking laws to be reformed because the country has become a popular destination for women smuggled from Moldova and other East European countries to be used as sex slaves. A report released by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said that Lebanon's laws.

  

Israeli Foreign Ministry officials are exploring the possibility of a long-term non-belligerence pact with Lebanon that could prevent future hostilities between the neighbors, Israeli officials media outlets said Monday. The Israeli daily Haaretz reported that the director general of the Foreign Ministry, Aharon Abramovich.

  

Over a period of two days (October 14 and 15) some 70 fires were recorded in widespread areas of Lebanon. The worst took place in the Chouf Mountains, particularly in Iqlim al-Kharroub, where much of the green areas were destroyed by the uncontrolled fires.Twenty million square meters of forest areas were lost.

  

JERUSALEM, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- Israeli officials say they are considering a non-belligerence agreement with Lebanon to increase stability along their shared border.

  

By CLAUDE SALHANI UPI Contributing Editor WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- Sunday, Oct. 23, 1983, began much like any other Sunday in Beirut. But that didn't last very long. In fact, Sundays were much like the other days of the week, with the exception that we, much like the U.S. Marines serving with the Multinational Force, got to sleep in a little later. Conflicts tend not to respect much, and ...

  

Economic hardship fuels dissent in northern Lebanon as people are caught up in a wider struggle for power and influence.

  

NICOSIA [MENL] -- Al Qaida has been welcomed by Sunni rivals of the dominant Shi'ite community in Lebanon. Lebanese sources said Al Qaida-inspired groups have emerged in both northern and southern Lebanon over the last 18 months.

  

GraphOn Corporation (OTCBB: GOJO), a leading worldwide developer of thin-client application publishing and Web-enabling solutions, today announced that it has signed a reseller agreement with Open Link sarl to market GraphOn's GO-Global for Windows software in Lebanon and throughout the Middle East.

  

SANTA CRUZ, Calif.----GraphOn Corporation , a leading worldwide developer of thin-client application publishing and Web-enabling solutions, today announced that it has signed a reseller agreement with Open Link sarl to market GraphOn's GO-Global for Windows software in Lebanon and throughout the Middle East.

  

The establishment of diplomatic relations earlier this month between Syria and Lebanon is a symbolic act of considerable importance. It is the first time these neighbours have established such relations since the 1940s, says Patrick Seale .

  

Iran - Lebanon - Visit Former President of Lebanon Emile Lahoud will visit Iran in next 10 days, Lebanese newspaper 'Al-Akhbar' said on Monday. Al-Akhbar said that president Lahoud along with his son will visit Tehran at a formal invitation from Iranian officials.

  

Four people were injured in overnight shooting and dagger fighting in Beirut's Borj Abu Haidar neighborhood between partisans of MP Saad Hariri's Mustaqbal Movement and AMAL Movement supporters.

  

BEIRUT, Oct 20 (Bernama) -- Lebanese economists said that the fall in oil prices and depreciation of the euro helped stimulate Lebanon's economy, China's Xinhua news agency reported Monday, quoting local Daily Star.

  

Lebanon: Lebanese President Michel Sleiman recently received a delegation from the General Arab Insurance Federation at Baabda Palace in Beirut. [AMEInfo.com]

  

BEIRUT: It was once known as one of the most dangerous cities on earth, with the mere mention of its name conjuring up images of civil war, kidnap and destruction.

  

It was once known as one of the most dangerous cities on earth, with the mere mention of its name conjuring up images of civil war, kidnap and destruction. But Beirut's revival as one of the world's most vibrant cities has been confirmed by the travel guidebook company Lonely Planet, who have named it one of the 10 most lively cities on the planet.

  

BEIRUT - Lebanon's Premier Fouad Seniora declared Lebanon's solidarity with Iraq's Christians on Sunday and urged their speedy return to their homes.

  

Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Seniora has sent two letters to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, denouncing Israeli violations of Lebanese sovereignty, a statement from his office said on Saturday. The statement said that one of the letters was "in relation to Israeli threats and violations," while the other was "in relation to cluster bombs." In the first letter, Seniora condemned the ...

  

Many of the Marines were still asleep the morning of Oct. 23, 1983, when a hijacked water delivery truck filled with thousands of pounds of explosives plowed into the entryway of the 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon.

  

Lebanon: The Faculty of Engineering and Architecture at the American University of Beirut recognized six of its alumni with awards during the Seventh FEA Student Conference, which was held on October 16 and 17. [AMEInfo.com]

  

U.S. Under Secretary of Defense Eric Edelman and the Lebanese army commander Gen. Jean Kahwaji signed an agreement that would give additional automatic grenade launcher to the Lebanese army, local Daily Star reported Saturday. Edelman met Friday with Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Seniora and Kahwaji to discuss ways to enhance the Lebanese army's capabilities, the report said. "The U.S. will ...

  

A suspect is in police custody Saturday afternoon after a reported stabbing this morning. Lebanon Police were called to a report of a shooting or stabbing at 407 N. Mechanic Street around 4:00 a.m today. The victim, who is not identified, was found at the scene with multiple stab wounds.

  

A Lebanon man was arrested Friday on drug charges, according to the Missouri Highway Patrol.

  

An Egyptian tycoon and an associate sat side-by-side in a metal cage in a packed Cairo courtroom Saturday and denied charges that they orchestrated the murder of Lebanese pop star Suzanne Tamim, famed for her striking green eyes.

  

CAIRO, Egypt - An Egyptian tycoon and an associate pleaded not guilty Saturday to charges they orchestrated the gruesome murder of a Lebanese pop star in a case that has transfixed the Middle East.

  

ADIH signs deals to develop $1.2b mixed use Beirut Gate Project

  

Egyptian tycoon Hisham Talaat Mustafa and an ex-policeman who was his alleged accomplice pleaded not guilty on Saturday to involvement in the brutal slaying of the Lebanese pop singer who jilted him.

  

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) _ An Egyptian tycoon and an associate pleaded innocent Saturday to charges they orchestrated the gruesome murder of a Lebanese pop star in a case that has transfixed the Middle East.

  

An Egyptian tycoon has pleaded innocent to charges he ordered the gruesome murder of a Lebanese pop star in the high profile trial that opened in Cairo.

  

BEIRUT, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Deposits in Lebanese banks, which have surged this year, will continue to rise since these banks are viewed as being shielded from the global financial crisis, Bank Audi's group chief financial officer said on Saturday.

  

BEIRUT, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Lebanon's Bank Audi posted a 28.7 percent increase in net profits for the first nine months of the year to $180.6 million, helped by a surge in deposits, the bank said on Saturday.

  

Thousands gather in central Beirut to pray at 10,000-square-metre mosque after inauguration.

  

Lebanon held top-ranked Woodburn boys soccer team scoreless through the first half, but the Bulldogs scored three second-half goals to give themselves the 3-0 victory at home.

  

BEIRUT: Bank of Beirut announced on Friday that its net profits in the first eight months of 2008 rose by 74.58 percent to $49.5 million. The bank attributed the sharp rise in profits to successful operations both in Lebanon and abroad.

  

Senior quarterback Matt Nolan's 1-yard run in the fourth quarter helped host Northern Lebanon stave off a late Donegal rally and preserve the victory Friday night in Fredericksburg. Nick Dzwonchyk ran in from the 7 in the first quarter to open the scoring, then Robert Boyer broke off a 70-yard t...

  

A ceremony at 1 p.m. Sunday in Christopher Columbus Park on Atlantic Avenue in Boston will commemorate the 25th anniversary of the suicide bombing at a Marine barracks in Beirut that killed 241 servicemen. Among the casualties was Michael Devlin, a 21-year-old lance corporal. Less than three months later, a 21-year-old Marine from Quincy was also killed in fighting in Lebanon.

  

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- In polarized Lebanon, flaunting a political leader's poster can be enough to spark a gunfight. So shopkeepers on Beirut's al-Maamoun Street are breathing a little easier now that "poster disarmament" has been declared.

  

The inner walls of a war ravaged building at Beirut's Sodeco Square is seen in September 2008. The sandbags, the sniper slits in the walls and the pockmarked facade stand as a chilling reminder that this building was a death trap during the country's 1975-1990 civil war.

  

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. - 'They Came In Peace.' An observance ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the Beirut bombing is scheduled to be held at the Beirut Memorial located in the Camp Lejeune Memorial Gardens Oct. 23 at 10:30 a.m.

  

BEIRUT (AFP) - The sandbags, sniper slits and pockmarked facade of a Beirut house stand as a chilling reminder of Lebanon's 1975-1990 civil war.

  

BEIRUT (AFP) - Moved by the emigration of her two sons, theatre director Nidal al-Ashkar decided to highlight on stage the plight of thousands of youths heading abroad to escape Lebanon's political upheavals.

  

The sky-blue dome and towering minarets of Beirut's Mohammad al-Amin mosque, which opened on Friday, are potent symbols of Lebanon's turbulent recent past.

  

BEIRUT?Moved by the emigration of her two sons, theater director Nidal al-Ashkar decided to highlight on stage the plight of thousands of youths heading abroad to escape Lebanon's political upheavals.

  

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem (right) and his Lebanese counterpart Fawzi Salukh shake hands after signing the agreement in Damascus. Iran welcomed Syria and Lebanon's establishment of diplomatic ties (AFP Louai Beshara)

  

The 17th annual homemade soup and pie supper will be held in Lebanon on Saturday from 5 to 9 p.m. The meal features homemade soup and pie, served with fry bread, jelly and honey butter, and a beverage....

  

Iran welcomed on Friday Syria and Lebanon's establishment of diplomatic ties, the ISNA news agency reported.

  

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti commentator Andrei Murtazin) - Syria and Lebanon established diplomatic relations on October 15, 2008, sixty years after gaining independence from France in the mid-1940s.

  

Beirut 'Yellow House' poised to become museum aimed at ensuring no-one ever forgets civil war horrors.

  

Oct. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Abu Dhabi Investment House yesterday signed two agreements worth a total of $1.2 billion to develop its Beirut Gate project in the capital's central district, Annahar reported, citing a statement by ADIH.