Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden slammed Western leaders for taking part in Israel's 60th anniversary of its creation overtop Palestinian land and vowed that Muslims would fight and not give up "one inch of Palestine," in an audio message Friday.
Foreign rescue teams arrived in China's quake-devastated southwest on Friday, laden with specialist equipment to aid the desperate search among the rubble of shattered buildings. A Japanese team began work in Sichuan Province, the first time the Chinese government has
Lebanon's feuding political leaders gathered in Qatar Friday for Arab League-brokered talks aimed at ending a long-running crisis that drove the country to the brink of a new civil war. Qatar's Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani read an opening
Middle East Airlines (MEA) is still determined to expand its fleet despite losses the company incurred during the week-long closure of Rafik Hariri International Airport, the company's chairman, Mohammad Hout, said on Friday. "We incurred some losses during the closure
The resumption of dialogue between Lebanon's rival factions in Doha gave a boost to Beirut Stock Exchange on Friday with Solidere shares climbing to more than $28. BLOM Stock Index rose to 1, 780.55 points from 1,672.61, an increase of
Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblatt said Friday after visiting his Druze rival, Lebanese Democratic Party head Talal Arslan, that political disputes cannot be resolved through the use of arms. "Resorting to weapons does not yield any solution ... Our
At least five Nepalis, including two women, have gone missing from Beirut, where deadly fighting between opposition and pro-government forces erupted last Wednesday, claiming the lives of at least 65 people and wounding more than 200 others, Nepalese media reported
Hip-hop is unlikely to conjure up images of Jewish academics and Arab accountants, but the unusual alliance of Canadian duo Chromeo continues to defy convention while at the same time revealing the genre's universal appeal. Dave 1 and P-Thugg bonded
Spectral figures hang in what appears to be suspended motion, fleeing an unseen threat. They, says artist Jane Frere, represent the multitude of Palestinians who lost their homes to the creation of Israel six decades ago. Some carry babies, suitcases
US President George W. Bush's speech to the Israeli Knesset on Thursday generated near-immediate controversy in the United States for all of the wrong reasons. Within hours, Senator Barack Obama, the likely Democratic nominee for president, had accused Bush of
One of the most appealing but untested promises of Barack Obama's presidential campaign is that he would break down the partisan divisions in America and govern across party lines. He has a chance to make this gauzy idea of consensus
Americans speak of "Middle America" and Britons of "Middle England." Both are near mythic places that supposedly embody the authentic character of the nation. Israel, too, has its "Middle Israel," but it is very different from the place that Americans
The agreement among all the Lebanese political leaders to hold talks in Doha, Qatar, Friday and keep meeting until they resolve their current political impasse will probably bring peace and quiet to Lebanon for a period of time, certainly months
The Lebanese National Bloc party headed by Carlos Edde said on Thursday the government's revoking of its decisions to dismantle Hizbullah's telephone network "will be considered as a sign of weakness." The bloc said in a statement that consensual presidential
Of all the human rights that have been systematically obliterated in Lebanon over the past century or so, the most precious is, unquestionably, the right to life, especially when large numbers of human beings, innocent or not, are easily and
The General Labor Confederation (GLC) issued a statement on Wednesday saying that plans for the general labor strike on May 7, which escalated into the worst violence in Lebanon since the 1975-1990 Civil War, "had in fact begun over a
Minister of Transport and Public Works Mohammad Safadi said on Thursday the Lebanese have to initiate a dialogue immediately to discuss the future of their country and pave the way for a new phase of a agreement. "Overloading the Lebanese
Senior representatives of feuding Lebanese political parties are scheduled to begin talks on resolving their power struggle in Doha today, and the venue could not be more appropriate: Hundreds of thousands of Lebanese have effectively been made economic refugees by
A suicide bomber apparently wearing a burqa blew up in a busy bazaar in southwestern Afghanistan Thursday, killing 16 people, officials said, as eight rebels died elsewhere in the country. The extremist Taliban movement, which regularly uses suicide attacks in
