Beirut - The focus continues to be the formation of the national unity government . The allocation of the sovereign ministries seems to be the stumbling block . MP Walid Jumblatt and Speaker Nabih Berri met Wednesday evening and agreed
Beirut- MP Mohammed Hajjar of the Democratic Gathering bloc said the only way to end the chaos and eliminate the repercussions of the clashes in Beirut was for the offenders to "confess their sins."
Beirut- Army sappers safely defused two explosive charges planted along the main Abdeh-Homs international highway about four kilometers from the Lebanese-Syrian borders in north Lebanon
Beirut- The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) will ask for $450 million dollars from the Vienna Conference of donor countries to rebuild Nahr el-Bared Palestinian refugee , according to Hoda Samra
Foreign Affairs - The Bush administration's new strategy in Iraq has helped reduce violence. But the surge is not linked to any sustainable plan for building a viable Iraqi state and may even have made such an outcome less likely
Pakistan's military condemned a "cowardly" US air strike that killed 11 Pakistani troops near the Afghan border on Wednesday, saying it could jeopardize cooperation in the "war on terror." The attack on a checkpoint in Pakistan's volatile tribal zone was
With three babies born every minute and a record population density on its inhabitable slices of land, Egypt is struggling under the weight of a demographic crisis. "Demographic growth is a major challenge for our generation, and all those to
The speaker of the Welsh Assembly is to boycott a meeting with Israel's ambassador to Britain because of the Jewish state's failure to meet international standards in its treatment of Palestinians. Dafydd Elis-Thomas said he would not meet Ron Prosor
US President George W. Bush on Wednesday backed Europe-led diplomacy to convince Iran to curtail its nuclear program but warned he has not ruled out using force. "My first choice of course is to solve this diplomatically. All options are
UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday recommended an end to discrimination against people carrying the AIDS virus, including travel restrictions imposed on them by some countries - including several in the Middle East. "I call for a change in laws
Sudanese authorities were still searching Wednesday for passengers who escaped a jet carrying over 200 people that exploded on landing at Khartoum airport a day earlier, burning at least 30 to death. The Sudan Airways Airbus A310 burst into flames
Former Pakistani Premier Nawaz Sharif, a leading member of the ruling coalition, said Wednesday he would join a "long march" for the reinstatement of judges sacked by President Pervez Musharraf. Thousands of lawyers and political activists are set to join
A French Senate committee on Wednesday rejected a measure that would have made a referendum on Turkey's membership in the European Union mandatory, saying it could harm relations with Ankara. The Foreign Relations and Defense Committee said the provision of
Dozens of Saudi pro-reform activists urged King Abdullah on Thursday to release a prominent Saudi reformist who was detained last month, or ensure that he gets a fair trial. "Signatories to this appeal exhort [Abdullah] to order the release of
The Turkish Parliament on Thursday passed a bill to introduce a Kurdish-language channel on state television in line with a government promise to the Kurdish minority. The law restructuring public Turkish Radio and Television (TRT) to ease restrictions on foreign-language
A bomb has been discovered and defused at the home of the Iraqi ambassador in Tehran, the Fars news agency reported on Wednesday. "Last night my driver came to our residence and saw a suspect package in front of the
Cholera has been identified among victims of a diarrhea epidemic in Sudan, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) said Wednesday. "Medical evidence shows that at least some of the cases recently reported are due to
Yemen on Wednesday said US criticism of a jail sentence meted out to a journalist was "political pressure." The US criticism "is surprising given the silence over [American] violations of human rights at Guantanamo, in Iraq, in Afghanistan and elsewhere,"
