The deputy commissioner general of UNRWA, Filippo Grandi, inaugurated Friday new housing for over 10 families near the Nahr al-Bared camp in North Lebanon, which was destroyed by fighting last year. This will bring the total number of temporary shelters

Jacques Bitlou, Head of General Political Security for Federal Foreign Affairs in Berne, Switzerland, gave a lecture Friday at the Lawyers Home within the framework of a program by the Lebanese Association of Political Studies (LAPS). The lecture, "Swiss defense

Information Minister Ghazi Aridi said Friday the Lebanese aspire for peace as they are victims of an Israeli terrorism supported by the US. Speaking during a debate organized by the Maharat Foundation Beirut's Le Meridien-Commodore Hotel, he said: "The media

Decades after the outbreak of its last civil war, Lebanon is teetering on the edge of a new conflict as a bitter political power struggle pits Muslim against Muslim and Christian against Christian. Lebanese are faced with difficult choices and

A museum and research centre is to be built at Saar and a children's museum is also on the way, she told a Press conference at Bahrain Fort. Both will open by 2011, while a modern art museum is scheduled

Nato Secretary-general Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said the deal involved the co-operation and exchange of classified information, including intelligence. The Belgium-based organisation already has a similar agreement with Kuwait, which signed one in December 2006. Mr Scheffer will sign the

He warned of a "new Iraq" in Bahrain, if extremist clergy did not stop fuelling sectarian hatred. Shaikh Al Saeedi, who policeman cousin was also murdered during the troubles of the 1990s, said he was outraged by the murder of

Upholding the order on an appeal by the city Collector, a Division Bench, comprising Justice Dharma Rao and Justice M Venugopal said 'on a scrutiny of the entire materials we are unable to accept the contention attributing malafides on the

The event, which is being held under the patronage of Oil and Gas Affairs Minister Abdulhussain Mirza, is being organised by the Islamic Awareness Centre, which comes under the umbrella of the Islamic Enlightenment Society. It is being held under

The upsurge in fighting comes as the top US officials in Iraq testified in Washington that they opposed setting a timetable to withdraw troops from the five-year-old war. Other parts of Baghdad were quiet, with streets clear of traffic because

He trained for nearly two years to take on the Marathon Des Sables (MDS) in Morocco, which took him on a 240km run across the Sahara over six days (or seven for some, say veterans). The challenge started on March

Four girls in their early 20s were arrested by crime branch sleuths of Goa Police in the capital city of Panaji. Police have launched an intensive search for the lady. "This is an international prostitution racket run by a Russian

In a televised speech, Bush said he had told the top US commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, that he "will have all the time he needs" to carry out the review. Making it clear that the bulk of the

It is now evident that the UPA government has miserably failed to control inflation and price rise. It has committed the biggest fraud on the interest of the 'Aam Adami' (common man) whose cause it claim to be represent," party

One of the things mentioned (in the report) is that inflation is running a little on the high side and that requires some attention immediately", David Burton, Director of the IMF Asia and Pacific Department, said at a press conference

Isoboehi Ditsu, who arrived in the national capital on April 4, was found dead in a room in 'Next Inn' in Paharganj at around 11:30 am and some sleeping pills were also recovered from there, they said. The room attendants

The envoy, Ryan Crocker, also defended the work of private security contractors like Blackwater USA, which has been accused of using unnecessary deadly force while protecting US diplomats in Baghdad. He said they are "absolutely essential" to the functioning of

Superintendent of Police Cuttack (Rural) A N Sinha said, "The explosion at around 9.30 pm damaged a portion of the four-room building that housed the police station and was abandoned in January." No one was injured in the blast as

But he said taking someone's life was not in the hands of the people, but God's, and that killing anyone without a genuine cause, such as in self-defence, was against the teachings of religion. "Burning public or private property is