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.
Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has spelled out his terms for further prisoner swaps with Israel, according to a letter from UN chief Ban Ki-moon to the president of the Security Council seen on Wednesday. Ban said he had received
Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Butros Sfeir said on Wednesday that it is good to realize that the Lebanese nationality should be given to Lebanese emigrants, who he said, "deserve it." "According to many people, the Lebanese nationality has been offered to
Israel's security chiefs said on Wednesday that more needed to be done to protect Occupied Jerusalem from Palestinian attacks as debate raged after a second payloader rampage in the holy city this month. A Palestinian from Occupied East Jerusalem plowed
A German couple held captive by pirates in Somalia have been reached by telephone and described a terrifying ordeal, German news magazine Der Spiegel reported on Wednesday. The two, who were abducted June 23, told a journalist who contacted them
Lebanon's Ambassador to the UN Nawwaf Salam sharply criticized on Tuesday Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak's comments last week that UN Security Council Resolution 1701 "is not and will not be implemented." Salam said Israel was violating Resolution 1701, thus
Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said Wednesday that the ministerial statement committee's primary task is to draft a policy platform for the new government, while stressing that the committee, made up of an assortment of ministers from competing political coalitions, is
Italian Parliament Speaker Gianfranco Fini said on Wednesday that Italy has no intention of withdrawing its troops from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL).Fini told the French weekly Politique Internationale that Italy can help restore peace to war-torn
A US initiative to resolve the dispute over the occupied Shebaa Farms is still on the table, and is being considered by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, An-Nahar newspaper's correspondent in Washington on Wednesday quoted an American official as
Hizbullah turned over the remains of 114 Syrian and Arab fighters to Syria on Wednesday after receiving them as part of a prisoner swap with Israel last week. The coffins were taken from Beirut to the Masnaa border crossing in
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani rejected a provincial election bill Wednesday a day after it was adopted in Parliament, making it all but certain that October polls would be delayed. "The president does not accept a law like this, a law
Some 30,000 Iraqi soldiers and police are to launch a military assault against Al-Qaeda fighters and insurgents in Diyala Province from August 1, army and police officers said Wednesday. "The operation is aimed at cleansing the region of insurgents, Al-Qaeda
Police rounded up 26 people nationwide Wednesday and investigated whether they were linked to an alleged plot to topple Turkey's Islamist-rooted government, the Anatolia news agency reported. Earlier media reports said the arrests were part of a widening investigation into
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday dubbed the US presence at international talks aimed to diffuse the row over Iran's nuclear program as a "positive step," while vowing that Iran would not abandon its right to atomic energy. The United
Captured Bosnian Serb genocide suspect Radovan Karadzic is to defend himself before the UN war crimes court, his lawyer said Wednesday, raising memories of the trial of his late ally, Slobodan Milosevic. Karadzic, who stands indicted for genocide and crimes
A British soldier serving with NATO forces in Afghanistan was killed in fighting with insurgents, the Defense Ministry in London said Wednesday. The soldier, from the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers attached to the 2nd Battalion Parachute Regiment, died Tuesday
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir danced before thousands of supporters in Darfur Wednesday, defying a possible arrest warrant for genocide with a heavily-protected visit to the war torn area. Travelling by plane and in a convoy of army, police and national
