The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
Beirut - Lebanon celebrated its 66th Independence Day on Sunday amid calls to enhance national unity and bring about about economic and political reforms. On November 22, 1943, Lebanon was liberated from a French mandate that lasted 23 years after th...
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | yesterday
Lebanese anti-aircraft guns opened fire on Saturday on an Israeli drone that entered Lebanese airspace in the south of the country, the military said in a statement. "A surveillance drone of the Israeli enemy" overflew "the area of Bint Jbeil at medium altitude" in the morning, the statement said. "Army anti-aircraft batteries opened fire on the drone, forcing it to gain altitude...
YaLibnan (Free subscription) | yesterday
Beirut- President Michel Suleiman addressed the nation on the eve of Lebanon’s 66th anniversary of independence saying: "To encourage vast participation in political life , a national committee should be established and charged with abolishing political sectarianism ." Suleiman also proposed "changing the electoral law relating to general elections in order to obtain better representation...
GayandRight (Free subscription) | yesterday
India is giving millions of dollars to UNRWA for a Palestinian embassy in India.. India's representative to the Palestinian Authority delivered a check for 1 million US dollars to UNRWA director Karen Abu Zayd in Jerusalem on Friday. The ambassador said the aid package came within India's pledge to donate 10 million US dollars for building a Palestinian embassy and residence for diplomats in New Delhi....
Infidel Bloggers Alliance (Free subscription) | yesterday
GERTZ: Prospects of new war on rise as Hizbullah gains control in Lebanon WASHINGTON -- Iran's proxies, particularly Hizbullah, are preparing for an imminent war against Israel, a report said. The Washington Institute for Near East Policy said that Hizbullah has increasingly dominated Lebanon and could force the nation into another war against Israel. In a report, the institute said none of the issues...
France24 (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
The school dropout rate among Palestinian refugees in Lebanon is alarmingly high with 50 percent of 17-year-olds and 40 percent of 16-year-olds receiving no education, UN officials warned on Friday. "We are sounding the alarm that the dropout rate is too high among school-aged children from the intermediary to the high school level," said Ray Virgilio Torres, head of the UN Children's Fund...
Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
La Sagesse school in Beirut pays tribute to Bishop Mubarak--a sectarian bigot who testified before the UN commission dealing with the Palestinian question in 1947 in support of the Zionist movement. There was uproar in Lebanon about that at the time, and he was denounced by Maronite MPs. (thanks "Ibn Rushd")
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Beirut - Six Saudis facing terrorism charges in Lebanon will briefly return to their home country at the request of the Saudi government, a Lebanese judicial source said Friday. The men allegedly participated in bloody gunfights with the Lebanese arm...
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
BEIRUT -- The militant Hezbollah group announced Thursday that Sheik Hassan Nasrallah has been re-elected as the Shiite Muslim group's leader for a sixth term. A Hezbollah statement didn't say when the group's top officials voted to re-elect Nasrallah, who has held the post since an Israeli helicopter gunship killed his predecessor, Sheik Abbas Musawi. No one ran against Mr. Nasrallah. Naim Kassim...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Freelance writer was kidnapped at gunpoint in 1985 while writing about Palestinian refugees for the UN British investigators in Lebanon may be poised to solve a 25-year-old murder mystery after finding human remains believed to be of the journalist Alec Collett. Collett, a freelance writer, was kidnapped at gunpoint in 1985 while working on an article for the United Nations about Palestinian refugees...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Alec Collett was missing after being abducted by Palestinian militants in 1985 A body recovered in Lebanon could be that of British journalist Alec Collett, who was kidnapped by Palestinian militants more than 20 years ago. A forensics team excavating a site in the Bekaa Valley have reportedly dug up two bodies, one of which is undergoing DNA testing to determine if it is Collett, who was abducted...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Beirut- The search for a British journalist abducted, held hostage and murdered in the 1980s has yielded a body, Lebanese security sources said Wednesday. A nine-member British military team are currently in Lebanon, and conducting DNA test on the co...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Beirut - Two people were wounded Tuesday when armed clashes broke out between two families in eastern Lebanon in a dispute over a car parking space, police said. The Jaafar and Wehbe clans exchanged machine-gun and rocket- propelled-grenade fire in t...
Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
This is classic in the Hummus Army. So the Lebanese Army was performing at LAU in Beirut to mark the fake independence of Lebanon. And as usual in such performances by that army, they did what they always do: they bite into a snake. This is based on an old, pre-19th century proverbial saying that somebody is so strong that he can bite into a snake. So the Lebanese Army still abides by that measure...
Boston Herald (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
BEIRUT - Lebanon's new government, a shaky coalition of Western-backed factions and the militant Hezbollah, is unlikely to tackle the chief challenge the country faces...
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