Constitutional Council head defends legality of body
Source: The Daily Star
Beirut :: Lebanon | updated 2013-05-08 15:32:44 -0700 | political-news
Issam Suleiman, the head of the Constitutional Council, defended the legality of his body Wednesday, and said that a lack of candidates to replace incumbent council members had led five to continue to serve in their posts, well after the...
Over $13,000 worth of jewelry stolen from Bekaa Valley home
Source: The Daily Star
Beirut :: Lebanon | updated 2013-05-08 15:32:38 -0700 | political-news
Incidents of armed robberies and assaults topped police reports Wednesday, including one heist where a thief stole LL20 million worth of jewelry. In the Bekaa Valley, Fatima Ahmad filed a complaint at a police station in Jib Jannin after a...
Axed host threatens to sue MTV
Source: The Daily Star
Beirut :: Lebanon | updated 2013-05-08 15:32:37 -0700 | political-news
A dispute between a controversial television host and MTV escalated Wednesday with Joe Maalouf threatening legal action against the station after owner Gabriel Murr reportedly canceled his show Enta Horr and banned him from the premises. Maalouf criticized Dikwaneh Mayor...
EU envoy urges respect for Lebanon's sovereignty
Source: The Daily Star
Beirut :: Lebanon | updated 2013-05-24 00:55:07 -0700 | political-news
EU Ambassador to Lebanon Angelina Eichhorst stressed Wednesday the need for all sides to respect Lebanon's sovereignty and refrain from acting in any manner that could exacerbate the critical situation in the region. Her remarks came after a meeting with...
Calm in Tripoli attributed to ISF, Army measures
Source: The Daily Star
Beirut :: Lebanon | updated 2013-05-24 00:55:08 -0700 | political-news
The recent improvement in the security situation in Tripoli is the result of strict measures taken by the Army and the Internal Security Forces and supported by leading figures in the city, caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati said Wednesday. Mikati...
Assad's Plan B is 'ethnic cleansing': Turkey FM
Source: The Daily Star
Beirut :: Lebanon | updated 2013-05-24 09:14:40 -0700 | political-news
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu speaks with his German counterpart at the Hilton Hotel in Istanbul on October 13, 2012. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has accused Syrian President Bashar al-Assad of resorting to a new strategy of "ethnic cleansing"...
Family of alleged Israeli spy urges Arab intervention
Source: The Daily Star
Beirut :: Lebanon | updated 2013-05-08 02:47:03 -0700 | political-news
The family of a suspected Israeli spy who began a hunger strike 10 days ago called Wednesday on President Michel Sleiman and Arab leaders to intervene to rescue their innocent son. We plead with President [Sleiman] and the heads of...
Youngest graduate doctor in the region has noble dreams
Source: Qatar English Daily
Beirut :: Lebanon | updated 2013-05-07 18:45:50 -0700 | political-news
H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser and to all the individuals who helped her along the way. The fresh graduate will be starting her residency at the prestigious Cleveland Clinic in the United States this summer and she hopes to...
Ex-Mossad member: Claims about Zygier's crime are ‘fiction'
Source: Jerusalem Post
Beirut :: Lebanon | updated 2013-05-07 17:23:56 -0700 | political-news
Australian state television said Zygier unwittingly sabotaged a secret 2007 Mossad mission to exhume the bodies of three Israeli tank crewmen captured and killed in a battle with Syrian forces, and disclosed the identity of an alleged Lebanese agent while...
Lebanon's first-ever civil marriage registered
Source: The Daily Star
Beirut :: Lebanon | updated 2013-05-24 05:03:26 -0700 | political-news
Lebanon's first ever civil marriage contract was processed Tuesday at the a registry office in Hermel. Kholoud Succariyeh and Nidal Darwish announced in January they had wed with a civil contract by having their religious sects legally struck from their...
Man who killed sister-in-law arrested for mother's death
Source: The Daily Star
Beirut :: Lebanon | updated 2013-05-07 16:05:28 -0700 | political-news
Police have arrested a man, who earlier served time for killing his sister-in-law, for allegedly murdering his mother. Internal Security Forces personnel arrested M.A., in his late 30s, for purportedly killing his mother, A.L., in the Chouf village of Wadi...
Thefts top police reports across country
Source: The Daily Star
Beirut :: Lebanon | updated 2013-05-07 16:04:49 -0700 | political-news
Thefts topped police reports across the country Tuesday as Army intelligence personnel managed to apprehend a man who allegedly took part in the robbing of a currency exchange shop in Beirut one day after the incident. Army intelligence personnel arrested...
Zygier sabotaged mission to bring home soldiers' remains
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Beirut :: Lebanon | updated 2013-05-24 01:20:25 -0700 | political-news
Australian Mossad agent Ben Zygier unwittingly sabotaged a top secret spy operation aimed at bringing home the bodies of Israeli soldiers missing in Lebanon. A Foreign Correspondent investigation has revealed that his reckless indiscretion caused Mossad officials to abort the...
Arrests made in Beirut exchange shop robbery
Source: The Daily Star
Beirut :: Lebanon | updated 2013-05-24 01:20:34 -0700 | political-news
The Lebanese Army said it arrested Tuesday a Palestinian man in connection to the recent robbery of a money exchange shop in Beirut. In a statement, the military said Army Intelligence agents arrested Samir Fouad Dehaibis in Aqbieh, near the...
Dubai looking to better ties with Lebanon: Abboud
Source: The Daily Star
Beirut :: Lebanon | updated 2013-05-07 02:20:00 -0700 | political-news
Dubai is seeking to boost brotherly ties with Lebanon the country Emiratis consider their second home caretaker Tourism Minister Fadi Abboud said Tuesday. He was quoting Dubai deputy ruler Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammad bin Rashed al-Maktoum during a meeting with...
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