Beirut / Jerusalem : The Israeli prisoner swap with Hezbollah could go ahead in two weeks if the Lebanese militia provides a report on the fate of an Israeli airman who went missing in Lebanon in 1986, officials said on
Beirut - Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblatt expressed concern over a possible deal being prepared at the expense of Lebanon and the international tribunal.
Beirut- Lebanon's Democratic Gathering leader MP Walid Jumblatt has reportedly threatened to reconsider his tentative approval of giving up the telecommunications ministry in the new cabinet.
Beirut - The Mufti of Tripoli and North Lebanon Sheikh Malik Shaar expressed his worry that the temporary calm between Bab al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen were in fact no more than a truce.
Beirut - The army command on Monday urged troops to safeguard their unity by disregarding media agitation. The command, in a release to troops, said some factions harmed by the atmosphere of reconciliation and entente that followed recent violence, especially
Families of Lebanese prisoners held in Israeli jails have started preparing for the return of their loved ones following the Israeli Cabinet's approval a prisoner swap on Sunday. Mohammad Abdel Hamid Srour's 60-year-old mother Sobhieh has been waiting for her
Lebanon's National Council for Scientific Research denied on Monday Israeli reports that a large-scale earthquake could soon rock Lebanon and parts of the Jewish state, saying that it was "impossible" to predict such seismic activity. The council's secretary general, Mouein
The saga over distributing portfolios in Lebanon's new cabinet continued on Monday as President Michel Sleiman was reported to have initiated fresh efforts to break the logjam. As the crisis persisted, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri was reported to have left
Telephone signals in South Lebanon have been subject to at least three types of network interference, the director general of the Telecommunications Ministry said Monday at an assembly called by the municipal council in the Southern district of Khiam.
A draft press law adopted by a ministerial committee in the United Arab Emirates excludes jail terms for journalists found guilty of defamation or other media offences, an official said on Monday. The bill, which envisages fines as punishment for
Iran has made new changes at its Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), which looks after negotiations with the West in the nuclear crisis, the Mehr news agency reported on Monday. Javad Vaeedi has been replaced as the council's deputy head
The Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip said on Monday that they had released the detained spokesman of a faction that fired rockets on Israel last week in breach of a fragile truce. Mohammad Abu Irmana, also known as Abu
An Algerian journalist and her newspaper boss have seen their 2006 conviction for defamation quashed by an appeal court in Oran, El Watan daily said Monday. Salima Tiemcani and Omar Belhouchet were each fined 50,000 dinars (around $790) after El
An Iranian court has sentenced to death a man found guilty of spying for Israel, the Fars news agency reported on Monday, amid spiraling tensions between Tehran and the Jewish state. The sentence against Ali Ashtari, 43, who was arrested
Egypt is to open its border with Gaza for two days for Palestinians needing to leave the territory, a security official said. "Egypt has decided to open the crossing for two days from Tuesday to allow through Palestinians from the
African Union observers condemned Zimbabwe's one-man election as undemocratic on Monday, intensifying pressure on Robert Mugabe as he faced his peers after a vote much of the world has dismissed as a farce. Mugabe was attending an African summit in
At Ootacamund in Karnataka in the 1970s, Sathya Sai Baba is reported by various Indian devotee parents of eighteen (very frightened) students there as having made a large number of predictions about a coming global catastrophe. These predictions were similar
As common people grope for means to counter the ever-increasing prices of essential commodities, the economists and financial analysts fear that the recent hike in fuel prices would soon push inflation past 9 per cent. In an interview to rediff.com's
It is no secret that Lebanon is largely split along sectarian lines: The 1975-1990 Civil War, recent clashes and our current system of government are all testaments to that fact. However, since the assassination of Rafik Hariri in 2005, the
