CAIRO: The year 2011 saw “no improvement” in the protection of human rights since the fall of Hosni Mubarak, according to a report released by a leading international watchdog Sunday.
Human Rights Watch (HRW), during the launch in Cairo of its (...)
CAIRO: Defense and prosecuting lawyers clashed in the courtroom Saturday as the case the case of Naguib Sawiris, the Coptic billionaire tycoon who tweeted images of Mickey and Minnie Mouse in Muslim garb, was adjourned to next month.
The legal (...)
BEIRUT - When the first indictment from the United Nations-backed investigation into the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri landed earlier this month, naming Hizbullah members as suspects, the reaction in Beirut was (...)
Beirut--Violent protests erupted across Lebanon on Tuesday as a Hezbollah-backed candidate was chosen as its next prime minister, plunging the country further into turmoil.
Four demonstrators were injured in clashes in Beirut, Tripoli and in other (...)
Beirut--Lebanon's national unity government collapsed Wednesday after the withdrawal of Hezbollah ministers and allies from the cabinet. The move follows months of disagreement over a United Nations-backed probe into the 2005 assassination of former (...)
BEIRUT: Hizbullah fired Monday its strongest warning yet that it will oppose indictments against party members in the United Nations-backed investigation into the murder of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, as Lebanon prepared for the Eid (...)
BEIRUT: Hizbullah members will be implicated in the death of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri when the United Nations-backed court issues indictments, sources close to the investigation said Monday.
The Wall Street Journal said that “between (...)
BEIRUT: A Lebanese court has sentenced the pilot of a Beirut bound passenger jet to 20 years in jail, after it emerged his actions caused a crash which killed least 136 people.
Beirut-bound UTA Flight 141, which plunged into the sea in 2003, was (...)
BEIRUT: A Lebanese soldier was killed and four civilian women injured in separate incidents Thursday, as Hillary Clinton voiced her concerns with President Michel Sleiman that civil strife could follow indictments in the United Nations probe into (...)
BEIRUT: Lebanon's political leaders renewed discussions on Monday over the United Nations investigation into the killing of Rafik Hariri, following talks between Syria and Saudi Arabia over how to avert all-out civil conflict.
Syrian President (...)
BINT JBEIL, South Lebanon: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wrapped up a two-day visit to Lebanon Thursday night with a speech to tens of thousands of supporters in the southern town of Bint Jbeil – four kilometers from Israel – after telling (...)
BEIRUT: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Beirut Wednesday morning to start his controversial two-day visit, described by the United States as “provocative.”
The President and his entourage touched down in two passenger jets at (...)
BEIRUT: Hizbullah over the weekend fired the latest shot in the fight surrounding the UN probe into the death of former premier Rafik Hariri, as Lebanon braced itself for the controversial visit of Iranian President Mahmood Ahmadinejad.
Party (...)
BEIRUT: Syria has called for the arrest of 33 people suspected of providing false testimony to the United Nations probe into the murder of former Lebanese premier Rafik Hariri, a general implicated in the killing said.
Jamil Sayyed, the former (...)
BEIRUT: A leading animal rights group gathered supporters from across Lebanon to plant 1,000 trees on Sunday in celebration of World Animal Day (WAD).
Animals Lebanon decided on the tree planting to highlight the dangers faced by Lebanese (...)
BEIRUT: Looming indictments in the United Nations probe into the death of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has led to a resurgent Beirut weapons trade, with political parties as well as individuals arming themselves in the event of (...)
BEIRUT: President Michel Sleiman has warned those negotiating the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks that his country will not accept a deal which compromises Lebanese priorities, raising the specter of wider Arab obstinacy towards (...)
BEIRUT: The Israeli Army fired bullets into Lebanon late Monday evening, aimed towards Lebanese soldiers conducting maintenance work close to the disputed Blue Line.
“Lebanese soldiers were working at their positions in the Dhayra area when (...)
BEIRUT: Politicians warned on Sunday of Lebanon entering “a dark place” as scathing rhetoric fueled the furor surrounding the United Nations probe into the death of former premier Rafik Hariri.
The probe into Hariri's 2005 assassination has been (...)
BEIRUT: Andreas, a journalist working for a Danish newspaper, had been sending dispatches from Lebanon for several months before he was deported.
“They have given me a week [to leave Lebanon]. They are doing that to everybody. They didn’t (...)
BEIRUT: It took the visit of a top Syrian official to quell the recent torrent of abuse aimed at Lebanon’s president, but even soothing tones from Damascus failed to completely silence the critics of Michel Sleiman.
Syrian Ambassador to Lebanon (...)
BEIRUT: On the first Saturday of December, when Beirut was gearing up for its sixth-annual marathon, traffic cloyed heavier than usual at the capital’s streets.
Barriers erected by inept race organizers blocked some of downtown’s busiest (...)
BEIRUT: As a small country, Lebanon punches above its weight in many spheres. Its financial sector is apparently invulnerable to global shocks; it has the largest stockpile of gold in the Middle East.
Lebanon’s graduates are some to the best (...)
NABATIEH, Lebanon: Ali Murad smiles serenely as he tells of the day he lost his leg.
Ali, 25, was working as a mine clearer close to the Blue Line that splits Lebanon and Israel and had not long been in the job. He was part of a 400-strong squad (...)
BEIRUT: We’ve been in Haifa Hospital for precisely seven minutes before the power cuts out.
The clock on the wall by the reception booth sits proudly between a picture of Yasser Arafat and a plastic sign showing a Kalashnikov rifle struck (...)