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Safadi: Hezbollah must guarantee it won't use its arms internally

28.06.2008 20:28    yalibnan.com
Beirut - Lebanon's Minister Mohammed Safadi said Saturday citizens need to be assured that Hezbollah's weapons would not be used against the citizens of this country.


Lebanon's Grand Mufti condemns Tripoli blast

28.06.2008 20:28    yalibnan.com
Beirut - Lebanon's Grand Mufti Sheik Mohammed Rashid Qabbani on Saturday condemned the Tripoli blast as a "crime aimed at sparking factional fighting."The Mufti, in a statement, warned against the apparent "determination to spark unrest in Tripoli."

Iran using Hezbollah, Hamas to threaten Israel

28.06.2008 20:28    yalibnan.com
Beirut -The chief of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards has issued a new warning against Israel not to attack it, saying the Jewish state is well within range of its missiles, a newspaper reported on Saturday. ( in reference to Lebanon's

Suleiman wants the new cabinet formed within 48 Hours

28.06.2008 20:28    yalibnan.com
Beirut- Lebanon President Michel Suleiman said Saturday he was hopeful that a new cabinet will be announced within 48 hours. "There is no excuse for not forming a national unity government,


US: Satellite images confirm Syrian troops in Lebanon

28.06.2008 14:35    yalibnan.com
Beirut- Satellite imagery obtained by Jane's shows Syrian troops on Lebanese soil in the remote and rugged hills north of the town of Rashaya al-Wadi, despite Damascus having ended its military occupation of Lebanon in April 2005.

Gen. Aoun embarrasses Lebanon's opposition

28.06.2008 14:35    yalibnan.com
Beirut - Opposition media outlets reported Saturday that Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun has embarrassed Hezbollah and AMAL movement by rejecting a proposal they had sponsored to facilitate efforts aimed at forming the new cabinet.

Sarkozy, Perez, Olmert: survivors of failed assassination plot?

28.06.2008 14:35    yalibnan.com
Beirut, Lebanon - Ya Libnan published an article on June 25 titled "Is Israel trying to cover up an assassination attempt?" We have since received several emails agreeing with our assessment

2 killed 32 injured in a blast in northern Lebanon

28.06.2008 14:35    yalibnan.com
Tripoli - At least two persons were killed and 32 were injured on Saturday in a powerful blast that shook a six-storey residential building in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, a security official said.

Rival leaders hint that Beirut will have new unity cabinet within days - or not

28.06.2008 08:19    dailystar.com.lb
An air of optimism surrounded consultations aimed at forming a new cabinet in Lebanon on Friday, as Prime Minister-designate Fouad Siniora met at the Grand Serail with a senior official of the opposition Free Patriotic Movement (FPM), Gibran Bassil. Bassil

Ban 'disappointed by lack of progress' on unity cabinet

28.06.2008 08:19    dailystar.com.lb
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon expressed disappointment Thursday over "lack of progress" in the formation of a national unity cabinet in Lebanon, urging the full implementation of the Doha accord which ended the country's protracted political crisis."The Doha Agreement

Italian peacekeeping unit has long history

28.06.2008 08:19    dailystar.com.lb
In 1836, when Italian General Alessandro La Marmora formed the Bersaglieri to serve as an elite, highly mobile fighting unit in his army, the general could hardly have imagined the role they would one day play on the far side

A key Hariri witness returned to Paris

28.06.2008 03:06    yalibnan.com
Beirut / Paris - Mohammed Zuhair Siddiq , a key witness in the 2005 assassination of Lebanon's former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has reportedly returned to Paris, according to a French diplomatic source.

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