Beirut- Supporters of Lebanon 's ruling majority protested against the Arab summit that opened today in Damascus . The protesters waved Lebanese flags and posters of those assassinated since 2005 , blaming Syrian president Bashar al Assad for the assassinations
Beirut - On the eve of the Arab League summit in Damascus, Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said Friday that his government was staying away from the gathering to demonstrate the Lebanese people's refusal to accept a presidential vacuum.
Beirut / Damascus - Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan president, poured contempt on fellow Arab leaders at a summit that was overshadowed by the absence of several key figures.
Beirut - In an interview with "Voice of Lebanon , former ambassador Johnny Abdo said General Michel Aoun is reminding us of his past because he is ashamed of his present.
Beirut- Damascus - Lebanon on Sunday harvested what is tantamount to a victory in absentia at the Arab Summit in Damascus, the final statement of which called for the speedy election of a president,
Beirut / Damascus - A two-day Arab summit, subdued in the absence of leaders critical of Damascus, ended in the Syrian capital on Sunday with a warning to Israel that an Arab peace offer depends on Israeli behavior.
Beirut /Baghdad - The Iraqi prime minister says a decision by Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to pull his fighters off the streets is ``a step in the right direction.''
In what they hope to be the first of many events to introduce Indonesian culture to the Lebanese, the American University of Science and Technology (AUST) and the Indonesian Embassy held a joint celebration of Indonesian Cultural Day on Thursday
The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) organized a protest at the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp near Sidon on Friday, on the occasion of Land Day and the holding of the Arab summit in Syria this weekend.
The Security Council requested the International Independent Investigation Commission to report every four months on its progress. This report is the tenth provided by the Commission to date, and the first report of Commissioner D.A. Bellemare who took office on
Navigating Lebanon's treacherous political landscape is a hideously difficult challenge for all those who venture in, and it is especially complicated for Hizbullah. The primary reason for the party's establishment in the early 1980s - resistance against foreign occupation -
Senior Shiite cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah said on Friday that Lebanon, which boycotted the Arab summit in Damascus, would not find any solution to its current internal crisis because the latter is linked to a regional crisis on which
UN peacekeeping chief Jean-Marie Guehenno warned Thursday that UN missions in Lebanon and Kosovo faced risks due to political disagreement both internally and internationally."A political process is not something that can be coerced," he said at Washington's Center for Strategic
On the eve of the Arab Lague summit in Damascus, Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said Friday that his government was staying away from the gathering to demonstrate the Lebanese people's refusal to accept a presidential vacuum. In a televised
Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri along with MPs Yassine Jabre and Walid Khoury visited the Greek capital on Friday for the fourth Euro-Mediterranean general parliamentary meeting. During the gathering presided over by the speaker of the Greek Parliament, Dimitris Sioufas, the
A UN investigation commission said on Friday that a "criminal network" had carried out the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and was connected to other acts of political violence in Lebanon, but the commission's report did not
Muslim leaders in the Netherlands on Friday urged Muslims abroad to stay calm and be responsible after the release of a controversial anti-Islam film by Dutch far-right MP Geert Wilders. "We want to let our Muslim brothers abroad know that
Oil prices fell heavily on Friday on renewed concern that a slowdown in the US economy would dampen energy demand and on news that damage to an Iraqi pipeline was not as serious as first thought, analysts said. New York
A thorough "rehabilitation" of Egypt's late King Farouk is under way, and that should make today's Arab leaders worry. The monarch was overthrown in 1952, he died in 1965, and his reputation has been subjected to decades of abuse. New
