President Michel Suleiman is expected to challenge parliament’s decision to extend its mandate for 17 months, reported the daily An Nahar Saturday.He believes that Friday’s extension contradicts several constitutional articles, adding that the reasons for it are “not convincing and they do not justify the failure to stage the parliamentary elections,” it said.He told […]

  CHICAGO: A Lebanese immigrant in Chicago was sentenced to 23 years in federal prison Thursday for plotting an attack and planting what he thought was a bomb near the city’s Wrigley Field baseball park. Sami Samir Hassoun, 25, pleaded guilty last year to charges of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and […]