Beirut - All the prisoners and the remains of the Lebanese and Arab fighters arrived from Israel within the last 2 days . The focus today will be on the burial of all the remains of the Hezbollah and Arab

Beirut / Paris - MP Nabil Nicola on Friday protested against a request by French authorities to take off his shoes at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris

Ein El Helweh - Two men were killed and four wounded on Saturday evening during clashes between Fatah and Jund el Sham in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein El Helweh in south Lebanon

Beirut / New York - The independent United Nations team tasked with assessing the monitoring of the Lebanese border with Syria has begun its second mission to Lebanon, it was announced today.

Beirut / Jerusalem - A high-ranking Israeli security source has advised Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah not to go out from hiding, a day after a similar threat was made against released prisoner Samir Qantar.

Beirut - The focus today and until Thursday will be the ministerial statement that the cabinet will present to the parliament to secure the vote of confidence . According to reports circulating in Beirut the statement will be drafted by

ArmInfo. Azerbaijan has made one more irresponsible statement proving that its judiciary system is politicized, the prosecutor general of Armenia Agvan Hovsepyan said during a press-conference today.Hovsepyan pointed out that during a meeting of the CIS Coordinating Council of Prosecutors

ArmInfo. Lluis Maria de Puig, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), is to make an official visit to Armenia from 22 to 25 July to deepen co-operation between Armenia and the Assembly and to promote

since any fact of xenophobia is investigated, Solicitor General of RF Yevgeny Zabarchuk told ArmInfo during his unofficial visit to Armenia. 'We pay special attention to any display of nationalism and racism and respond to and investigate every such case',

The Deal.com thinks so. They published a piece this week in which they concluded that "Chinese Internet company Oak Pacific Interactive is considering a public offering either in Hong Kong or the U.S."Oak Pacific operates Mop.com which The Deal.com describes

Wipro, which offers system integration, software application development and back-office services, said net profit rose to 8.14 billion rupees ($190 million) in its fiscal first quarter to June from 7.10 billion a year ago under U.S. accounting rules. A Reuters

The global economy has weathered the impact of the credit crunch better than first feared, the IMF said Thursday as it issued a downbeat forecast for the second half of 2008, amid concerns about inflation, particularly in emerging markets. "The

New York-listed Satyam, which specialises in business software and offers back-office outsourcing services, said consolidated net profit for the quarter ended June rose to 5.48 billion rupees ($128 million) up from 3.78 billion a year ago. A Reuters poll had

Easing tensions between Iran and the West and worries that high prices and a weaker U.S. economy will undermine demand have combined to send oil down more than $15 in just three days. U.S. light crude rose 46 cents to

Platinum fell to an 11-week low as a sell-off in Tokyo futures put pressure on spot prices. The metal has lost more than 19 percent in value since rallying to a lifetime high of $2,290 in March after power shortages

Financial stocks, which had been knocked down sharply this month due to weak global sentiment towards the sector, rebounded as the outlook seemed not as bad as feared. No. 2 lender ICICI bank jumped 12.1 percent to 617.60 rupees and

ITC has interests in paper, through ITC Bhadrachalam Paperboard, which was doing well, the paper said quoting unnamed sources. Ballarpur, belonging to Avantha Group, is India's top paper maker. "We are not there to sell stake. Our shares are there

International Business Machines Corp, the world's biggest technology company, impressed investors by easily beating quarterly profit expectations and raising 2008 forecasts when it reported along with other big tech companies on Thursday. In contrast, Microsoft Corp missed estimates amid concern

Oil's losses this week are the steepest in dollar terms since futures began trading in New York in 1983 and the steepest in percentage terms since December 2004. U.S. crude settled down 41 cents at $128.88 a barrel in the

Michael Fenger accepted "millions of dollars in cash, restricted stock units, and stock options" in exchange for agreeing not to join a competitor for two years after leaving Motorola, where he oversaw mobile devices in Europe, the Middle East and