Beirut- Al Mustaqbal Movement leader MP Saad Hariri on Wednesday donated the cost of leasing two helicopters from Cyprus for three months to help combat forest fires that usually rage in the summer.

Beirut / Washington - Damascus suffered a setback in Washington Tuesday as the State Department back peddled on a meeting between a visiting Syrian delegation and Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs David Welsh.

Beirut - Three controversial topics have prevented agreement on a policy statement for the new cabinet: Hezbollah's resistance and its weapons; relations with Syria; and the state's sovereignty over its territories.

ArmInfo. The first stage of CSTO joint command and staff exercises "Rubezh 2008" starts in Yerevan today.Delegations of the participant-countries, representatives of different governmental agencies of Armenia, including Ministry of Emergency Situations, National Security Service and Police, observers, including the

ArmInfo. Aggression against one of CSTO members will be considered as aggression against all of its members, CSTO Secretary General Nikolay Bordyuzha said at today's press-conference in Yerevan in response to the question about the Organization's position in the context

ArmInfo. CSTO Secretary General Nikolay Bordyuzha is not against NATO exercises in the territory of Armenia. Speaking at a press conference devoted to the first stage of CSTO exercises 'Rubezh 2008' in Yerevan, N. Bordyuzha said: 'Every country has a

ArmInfo. The Armenian delegation, headed by RA Transport and Communication Minister Gurgen Sarkisyan, will take part in the opening of the Universal Postal Union on Geneva on July 23, the Ministry's press service reports.Armenia joined the Universal Postal Union (UPU)

ArmInfo. ArmenTel CJSC (Beeline brand) has introduced new service Global Roaming.The PR service of Beeline reports that as a result the number of the company's roaming partners has grown from 237 to 440 in 190 countries.The service is accessible in

ArmInfo. Not heavy industry but high-end technologies are the future of the Armenian economy, Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisyan told journalists today.He also added that creation and functioning of big industrial facilities requires great time and money resources which the

ArmInfo. Armenian government will finance training of Armenian students, which entered the leading universities in abroad, Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisyan said today when meeting representatives of youth in Tsakhadzor. He also added they should not become an obstacle for

Armenian Defence Minister Seyran Ohanyan said at today's press-conference dedicated to his 100 days staying in office, when commenting on Armenian soldier G.Manasaryan's body returning from Azerbaijan.

ArmInfo. The Armenian authorities are so afraid of the opposition's actions that they descend to arrange a bargain on sanctioning the rally, member of the oppositional All-National Movement Levon Zurabyan said at today's press-conference in "Urbat" club.He also said that

ArmInfo. The opposition plays into the hands of Armenia's enemies when offering to bring ex-President Robert Kocharyan to justice of Hague tribunal, representative of ARF Dashnaktsutyun's Supreme Body Armen Rustamyan said today. 'One should not forget that our Azerbaijani neighbours

Armenian Transport and Communication Minister Gurgen Sarkisyan told ArmInfo correspondent.'In particular, I think we should raise the number of buses in Yerevan, the fares of which should be lower of those for the route taxi, but fares for taxi-services should

ArmInfo Today, the maximum buying rates at commercial banks of Yerevan were 301 drams for 1 dollar, 475drams for 1 EUR and 12,8 drams for 1 Russian ruble. The minimum selling rates stood at 302 drams for 1 dollar, 479

ArmInfo. Armavia national air carrier registered its passenger number three hundred for 2008 on July 23. ArmInfo correspondent reports that it were just married Onik Avetisyan and Agapni Hovhannissyan who flew to spend their honey moon in Samara. Armavia presented

representative of Armenian Revolutionary Federation Dashnaktiutyun supreme Body, Armen Rustamyan, said today.'The first reason of such a situation is that the ill-timed resolving of the accumulated problems led to unsatisfactory development rates of the country in the main directions -

ArmInfo. Private Sector of Armenia keenly fights for highly qualified specialists, Prime Minister of Armenia Tigran Sargsyan told media at the meeting with youth in the resort town of Tsakhkadzor when commenting on how the government intends to settle the

Seeking Alpha had a good piece Sunday on the poor performance of China's biomedical industry when it comes to venture capital funding.The comparison is simple enough. In the U.S., biomedical projects rake in 31% of all venture capital funding. In

Thousands of children in Lebanon are denied full access to education, healthcare and residency because they do not have Lebanese citizenship. Lebanese women cannot pass on their nationality to their children and in the event of separation, it is the