Beirut - Members of the United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon on Thursday began erecting a barbed-wire fence along the Lebanon-Israel border to prevent violations of the 'Blue Line' that could jeopardize the region's fragile ceasefire.

Damascus - The United States is using the ongoing investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri as a means to pressure Damascus politically, a foreign ministry official said Thursday.

Beirut / Sofia - Profits from drugs trafficking through Bulgaria have been used to fund organizations like Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad, the parliamentary security commission said on Tuesday.

By Diana Elias A key witness in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri has reportedly called a Kuwaiti newspaper to say that he is well but in hiding in Europe for fear for his life, the

Beirut / Washington - The top two U.S. officials in Iraq accused Iran, Syria and Lebanon's Hezbollah on Tuesday of fueling recent fighting in Baghdad, saying Tehran and Damascus were pursuing a "Lebanization strategy" in Iraq.

Some fabricated and totally unfounded news were published lately in certain media about alleged intentions to demolish the Maghen Abraham Synagogue of Wadi Abou Jamil in Beirut city center.

Wearing an armor-like Chinese suit, Chinese actress and singer Zhou Xun is the cover girl for world's top fashion magazine VOGUE for its May's Chinese edition.The star flew to London to work with David Sims, a world renowned fashion photographer,

Osaka, Japan, Apr 9, 2008 - (JCN Newswire) - Capcom Co., Ltd. (TSE: 9697) is pleased to announce that 'Monster Hunter Freedom 2G' for the PlayStation(R)Portable (PSP(R)) has shipped over 1.5 million units in Japan. 'Monster Hunter Freedom 2G' has

Tokyo, Japan, Apr 10, 2008 - (JCN Newswire) - TDK Corporation announced today that it has developed a new series of isolated DC-DC converters for industrial applications. The series comprises a total of 64 products rated for 15W or 30W.

The Lebanese village of Tanoura in the Bekaa Valley shares a common concern with the Jordanian town of Irbil: a lack of reliable water supply. In Tanoura, just one well provides the entire village with water, and people are forced

When they founded Bokja Designs in 2000, Hoda Baroudi and Maria Hibri aspired to combine the age-old artisan traditions of the East with contemporary furniture designs against the background of Lebanon's rich cultural and historical heritage, as Bokja's homepage explains.

The UN Development Program (UNDP) is about to flood Lebanon's media with tales of ordinary citizens who took the initiative to make positive changes in their surroundings here, in a campaign to shatter the negative tone permeating the country's public

Music resonates down the rundown streets of Beddawi, an overpopulated suburb of Tripoli. People have moved into garages and covered the entrance with bed sheets in a feeble attempt at privacy. Children play on the sidewalks. Their parents sit around

Spain officially joined the ART GOLD (ART) initiative in Lebanon during a conference held at the UN House in Beirut on Wednesday, becoming the second large European state to directly support the project. Established in 2004 by the United Nations

Information Minster Ghazi Aridi stressed the importance of holding a dialogue on Wednesday. "Yet for a large-scale crisis, dialogue must be led by the president," Aridi said. "Speaker Nabih Berri is too smart to undertake any move that would counter

Hizbullah politburo member Ghaleb Abu Zeinab said on Wednesday that the political situation in Lebanon was "stagnant." "As soon as an initiative is launched to achieve a breakthrough, it is met by rejection from all sides. The latest was Prime

Saudi Arabia is believed to be behind the assassination of top Hizbullah commander Imad Mughniyeh, Iran's semi-official Fars news agency said in a report carried on Wednesday. The report, carried by the Italian news agency Aki, said Fars quoted unidentified

MP Ali Bazzi of the Development and Liberation bloc told LBC television on Wednesday that "France has adopted an advanced and balanced position and supports Speaker Nabih Berri's call for dialogue." "There is French support for Berri's initiatives, regardless of

The Union for Lebanon, a newly founded political group headed by Massoud al-Ashkar, warned against attempts to settle Palestinians in Lebanon. "The settlement of Palestinians has sparked the 1975-1990 Civil War and until today this predicament still persists," the union