Lebanon News

BEIRUT, Lebanon-Police and soldiers cordoned off a plush commercial center near the Lebanese Foreign Ministry after officials reported a bomb threat.

The head of the UN inquiry into the murder of former Lebanese premier Rafiq Hariri was wrapping his latest mission to Damascus, a Syrian close to the case said.4

His detractors call him an apologist for terrorists. His admirers, including American journalist Amy Goodman, count on him to tell the stories no one else is telling.

Israel declared its frontier with the Gaza Strip an international border yesterday, formally ... disarmament resolution and warned the United States against meddling in Lebanese affairs.

Argent Networks Opens Support and Excellence Centre in Beirut Auckland, 22 September - New Zealand technology and telecommunications company, Argent Networks today announced the opening of their new Regional ...2.7

BEIRUT: "Why is there always a war, the places you go?" This, virtually the opening line of Volker Schlsndorff's "Circle of Deceit" - asked by the wife of a German journalist returning to Lebanon for a ...4

BEIRUT: A leading industrial lobbyist accused the Lebanese government of seeking to profit from the recent gasoil deal with Kuwait on the account of the industrial sector and threatened to take appropriate ...4.2

BEIRUT: "Unless we fight the stigmas of the disease we will never be able to raise awareness for it and an estimated 30,000 cases of Alzheimer's in Lebanon and 1.5 million cases throughout the Arab World are ...4

RMEILEH, Lebanon: Finding myself with an urge to get away from the tension in Beirut recently but without the deep pockets or time to relocate to a remote guesthouse on some Thai island, I responded to ...4

Bashir: interim government shortly in Sudan The Sudanese president Omar Hassan al-Bshir stressed the nearby formation of an interim government which he said will be of the largest number of political parties in ...2

The Lebanese investigation judge Rasheed Mizher on Sunday listened to a testimony of a woman living in al-Ashrafeyah quarters in Beirut of a Christian majority.

A grenade exploded in the Kuwaiti Information Office on Monday, killing a man and wounding two other people, Lebanese security officials said.4.6

BEIRUT: Elie Saab's ability to get Hollywood's hottest in his outfits has never been in doubt since Halle Berry accepted an Oscar for Best Actress in one of his dresses.4

ENLARGE PHOTO Photo by Los Angeles Times Mohammed Ahmad Younis prepares to sing before the panel ... Although Iraqis gobble up tapes, CDs and videos of sexy Lebanese and Egyptian entertainers, Islamic militants often group singers and dancers with prostitutes.

By Neal Rubin / The Detroit News Ricardo Thomas / The Detroit News Kamal Shouhayib, 59, of Troy is an engineer, a developer, a passionate Rotarian, a philanthropist and a former Troy Citizen of the Year.1.3

Opinion Dr. Louis G. Hobeika Following the successful New York meeting and in preparation for the upcoming Beirut conference, the Lebanese government should start implementing its promised reform program.4

He resides in Lebanon, deported from his adopted home in Germany. Though the injustice of his arrest and deportation has been cleared by a German Court, he continues to live in a forced separation from his ...3.1

A powerful bomb exploded in a Christian neighborhood of eastern Beirut late Friday, killing at least one person and wounding 23, officials said.1.7

At least one person was killed and 22 wounded in a bomb attack in a Christian section of the Lebanese capital Beirut, police and rescue services said.1.8

Making it clear that Pakistan is not in favour of the use of force against Iran President Gen Pervez Musharraf said Islamabad wants peaceful solution of Iran's Nuclear issue.2.9

BEIRUT: "We are worried about the tremendous increase in the number of medical doctors in Lebanon," said Dr.4

Today is Friday, September 16, the 259th day of 2005. There are 106 days left in the year ... 1982 - Lebanese Christian militiamen massacre 800 Palestinian refugees at Shatilla and Sabra refugee camps in west Beirut, controlled by the Israeli army.

Saudi Prince Al Walid Bin Tala, owner of Rotana Production Company, has made a personal call to Lebanese singer Walid Tawfiq to inquire about his health condition after the latter suffered a paralysis to his ...1.3

BYBLOS: Theodore Hanf is in the business of asking questions ... He divides his time between the University of Freiburg in Germany, where he holds a professorship, and Lebanon, where he occasionally teaches at St Joseph University and the American University of Beirut.4

Lux Fashion World, a leading regional fashion event, will launch its fourth fashion show ... In addition to the Saudi designers, other Arab designers featured include Lebanese Abed Mahfouz and Hanna Touma, Egyptian Hany El-Beheiri and Kuwaiti Awatef Al Hai.2.7

Editor's note: This is the first of two articles examining Lebanese views on the political and theological background of the Salafi movement and local concerns about sectarian strife breaking out between this ...4

BEIRUT: The time has come for driver's licenses to be earned, as opposed to simply bought, ... Hanna Jorr, the coordinator of the Lebanese Association for School Safety, described the campaign's goal as decreasing the number of injuries and deaths resulting from road accidents by 40 percent in 2006-2007.4

She's energetic and spontaneous. She dresses princesses from the Persian Gulf and European celebrities.2.9

Terrorism: The German public prosecutor's office is convinced that last December it narrowly averted the first Islamic terrorist attack on German soil.2

BEIRUT: The Lebanese war movie is getting old. That is not to say - as some do - that Lebanon's Civil War is necessarily growing hackneyed as a subject.4

In this photo released by the U.S Marine Corps in December 2004, Cpl ... Hassoun mysteriously surfaced in Lebanon in the following month and was later charged with desertion, but disappeared again before his trial was scheduled to begin in January.

Bumper growing conditions meant that Afghanistan's opium production remained almost unchanged this year even though a crackdown on poppy farming cut the land under cultivation by 21 percent, the U.N. anti-drug ...1.3