MIT was mourning on Friday the loss of a 23-year-old graduate student, who was found dead in his university-owned residence in Cambridge Thursday night, officials said. Hadi Kasab of Saida, Lebanon, was a second-year graduate student in MIT’s program in computation for design and optimization, the school said Friday. His body was found in his room […]

  Judicial police arrested over the weekend a 21-year-old man who posted a picture on the internet of himself kissing a statue of the Virgin Mary. In a statement, the Internal Security Forces said it apprehended Ali Itawi, a Lebanese citizen, in Beirut’s southern suburbs on March 9. The arrest came after President Michel Sleiman asked the […]

  Protesters took to the streets of Beirut Saturday on International Women’s Day to demand better protection for women amid an uproar over husbands murdering their wives. Artists perform as they hold up figures depicting the likeness of a couple during a sit-in in front of Beirut’s national museum against domestic violence against women, marking […]

  Protesters took to the streets of Beirut Saturday on International Women’s Day to demand better protection for women amid an uproar over husbands murdering their wives.   The march by some 4,000 women, men and children from the National Museum to the Palace of Justice, was led by mothers and other relatives of women […]

  A Beirut-based Danish journalist has been freed after being abducted in Lebanon and held hostage for almost one month, his former employer, Danish broadcaster DR, said on Friday. "Jeppe Nybroe was abducted just under a month ago, while he was in the Beqaa Valley in eastern Lebanon, near the Syrian border," DR said on […]

  Dans un entretien exclusif avec L’Orient-Le Jour, le président de la République, Michel Sleiman, a fustigé la campagne menée contre lui ces derniers jours par le Hezbollah et les milieux qui lui sont proches, faisant valoir que le président « fort » n’est pas celui qui se soumet au « diktat » de ce […]

  A Middle East Airlines plane was forced to return to Beirut airport while in midair after Iraqi authorities refused to allow it to land in Baghdad without the son of an Iraqi official on board, the airlines said in a statement. Later in the day, MEA issued another statement, saying the company was waiting for […]

  Maronite bishops regretted on Wednesday Hizbullah’s campaign against President Michel Suleiman and condemned the "assault on his dignity" as the symbol of the nation’s unity.   Following its monthly meeting under Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi in Bkirki, the council of Maronite bishops “urged all parties to stop the campaign against the president … out of […]

khazen.org offers its complete support to the  President General Michel Sleiman  as the Commander in Chief of all of Lebanon. The presidency office is key for Lebanese prosperity and security. We thank President Sleiman for his leadership. We strongly reject any attacks or disrespect to the office of the presidency.

From L-R, Lebanon’s President Michel Suleiman, French President Francois Hollande and U.N. Under Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman attend the joint Declaration and Meeting of the International Support Group for Lebanon at the Elysee Palace in Paris March 5, 2014.

French president Francois Hollande (L) welcomes his Lebanese counterpart Michel Sleiman prior to their meeting on March 5, 2014 in Paris (AFP Photo/Alain Jocard)

Lebanese President Michel Suleiman (L) looks on as French President Francois Hollande (2ndL) speaks with Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergei Lavrov (C), U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (R), and French Foreign Affairs Minister Laurent Fabius (2nd R) during the joint Meeting of the International Support Group for Lebanon at the Elysee Palace in Paris, March 5, 2014. REUTERS/Alain Jocard/Pool (FRANCE – Tags: POLITICS)

Lebanese President Michel Sleiman (L) speaks with US Secretary of State John Kerry at the Elysee presidential palace in Paris, on March 5, 2014 (AFP Photo/Kevin Lamarque)

French President Francois Hollande (2ndR) and Lebanon’s President Michel Suleiman (R) greets U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (2ndL) who stands with French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius (L) at the joint Declaration and Meeting of the International Support Group for Lebanon at the Elysee Palace in Paris, March 5, 2014. REUTERS/Jacky Naegelen (FRANCE – Tags: POLITICS)

French president Francois Hollande (L) welcomes his Lebanese counterpart Michel Sleiman prior to their meeting on March 5, 2014 in Paris (AFP Photo/Alain Jocard)

Paris (AFP) – Lebanese President Michel Sleiman on Wednesday sought financial and military aid to help his country tackle the spillover from the Syrian conflict at an international meeting in Paris.

The influx of Syrian refugees — currently running at 50,000 a month — "represents a real danger which threatens Lebanon’s unity," Sleiman said ahead of the meeting of the International Support Group for Lebanon.

The meeting was attended by the foreign ministers of 10 countries, including Britain, China, France, Russia, the United States, Germany and Saudi Arabia.

"There are more than one million Syrian refugees in Lebanon," said French President Francois Hollande. "It is a very heavy burden."

  Lebanon’s "state-sponsored amnesia" towards its 15-year civil war has left communities segregated and without justice or reconciliation, a non-governmental organisation reported Tuesday. The International Centre for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) said real peace and reconciliation in multi-sectarian Lebanon requires "meaningful accountability" for violence during the war and "institutional reform." "Lebanon has made no serious attempts to comply […]