Shocking evidence of Sathya Sai Baba's draconian punishment for nothing: In her book, Other than You refuge there is none (Anyatha Saranam Nasthi) the elderly Indian woman devotee, Smt. Vijaya Kumari, who was with Sai Baba already in the 40s

Beirut / Damascus - Dozens of inmates were killed and wounded when prison authorities put down a riot staged by Islamist political prisoners in Sidnaya prison north of Damascus over poor conditions, Syrian human rights groups said.

Beirut - Prime Minister-Designate Fouad Siniora was General Aoun's guest of honor today for lunch at his al Rabiyah residence . After the lunch and the meeting with Aoun Siniora spoke to reporters

By Manal LutfiBeirut - If the absence or presence of a person were capable of changing the course of the history of a political movement in a state, then the presence and disappearance of Sayyed Musa al Sadr, the founder

Beirut - The focus will again be the formation of the government with one difference ...the countdown has started and it looks like the predictions have come true. If all goes well and as planned Lebanon could witness the birth

Beirut/ Damascus - At least 25 inmates were killed and many were wounded when prison authorities put down a riot staged by Islamist political prisoners in Sidnaya prison north of Damascus over poor conditions, Syrian human rights groups said.

By: Randa TakieddineBeirut/ Paris - Meeting with French expatriates at the French Embassy in Riyadh on January 14, French President Nicolas Sarkozy expressed his appreciation and respect for the Kingdom's monarch, Abdullah bin Abdel-Aziz.

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Cyprus has ratified the European Union's Lisbon Treaty despite the opposition of the euroskeptic communist party of President Demetris Christofias. Thursday's vote came less than a month after Irish voters in a referendum rejected the treaty aimed at streamlining EU

Maher Arar, whose "rendition" to Syria is widely viewed as an egregious example of mistaken identity, has again been denied the right to appear in court, and Congressional efforts to rein in the George W. Bush administration's widespread use of

Israel has received a report from Hizbullah that an Israeli airman reported missing in Lebanon since 1986 has been dead for more than 10 years, the Haaretz daily reported on Friday. Israel's government had demanded that the resistance provide a

A top member of the Darfur rebel group that staged an unprecedented attack on Khartoum has appeared in court for the first time as Sudan stepped up trials of suspects arrested after the strike. Abdul Aziz Ashur, brother-in-law of Justice

Asel didn't come to Jordan because he wanted to. Neither did his parents. They, like so many others, stole out of their native Iraq at the last minute, when word came that gangs were coming to kill them and their

The Follow-Up Committee for the Support of the Lebanese Detainees in Israeli Prisons (FCLD) and the Khiam Rehabilitation Center for the Victims of Torture held a news conference on Friday after a prisoners swap deal was reached between Hizbullah and

The Higher Judicial Council on Friday named Judge George Badih Karam examining magistrate in the assassination of MP and journalist Gebran Tueni. A short statement said the council approved a proposal by Justice Minister Charles Rizk to appoint Karam as

Sometimes the simplest of problems are the hardest to solve. One of the problems of my country can be summarized in one word: "disrespect." We, the people of this nation, should take a minute to re-evaluate ourselves in view of

Polished, yet distinctly partial. The National Christian Gathering (NCG), a Lebanese Christian political front, was launched at the Le Royal Hotel in Dbayyeh on Friday, during a convention with a clear bent toward the opposition Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) and

Senior Shiite cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah said on Friday that the resistance could impose a new victory on Israel through the impending prisoner swap. He added that the victory calls on the Lebanese to get out of their "tight

he British ambassador to Lebanon, Frances Mary Guy, clarified her government's recent move to classify the military wing of Hizbullah as a terrorist organization in an interview published in the Lebanese daily As-Safir Friday. Guy denied implications that the announcement's

Prospects of forming a national unity government seemd to improve Friday, with the political pendulum shifting back toward optimism after a mid-week sputter due to a dispute over the distribution of already-determined cabinet shares threatened to derail talks. Premier Fouad