Telecoms Minister Boutros Harb Friday unveiled Lebanon’s first unlimited broadband Internet plan, while cutting prices and increasing speeds on existing DSL services. Harb said the price of the new 2 Mbps, unlimited download plan would be LL75,000. Previously, for LL75,000, consumers could get a 2 Mbps plan with a 20 gigabyte data limit, paying LL6,000 […]

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(Reuters) – Outgoing Lebanese President Michel Suleiman said on Saturday that dialogue was the only way to overcome deep divisions in the country, which is struggling to cope with political and security spillover from Syria’s civil war.

Suleiman made his remarks during his farewell speech hours before his six-year term ends and two days after parliament failed for the fifth time to choose a successor. The impasse highlights the stark political divisions in the country.

With his departure, Lebanon enters a presidential vacancy with no clear sign when it will end.

BEIRUT: Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblatt said Saturday that he would miss the political approach of outgoing President Michel Sleiman.

“We will miss President Sleiman and the political line he established,” Jumblatt said during the farewell ceremony for the president.

Prior to the ceremony, Sleiman presented Jumblatt with the National Order of the Cedar Medal “in appreciation for his national role and political moderation and his call for dialogue among political rivals.”

Sleiman expressed hope that the PSP leader would continue to play such role “to preserve the political stability in the country.”

Both Sleiman and Jumblatt classify themselves as centrists amid the sharp political divisions in the country, mainly between the March 8 and March 14 camps

  Lebanese Prime Minister Tammam Salam sought Saudi Arabia’s help on Tuesday to deal with the influx of Syrian refugees into his country during his meeting with Crown Prince Salman, deputy premier and minister of defense. “We have discussed crises faced by the Lebanese government, including the influx of Syrian refugees and the impact of […]

  Lack of a breakthrough in Lebanon’s presidential election was a foregone conclusion ahead of a parliamentary vote scheduled for Thursday with a majority of March 8 lawmakers pledging to boycott the session again. The lack of quorum will bring Lebanon ever closer to presidential vacuum as President Michel Sleiman’s term ends Sunday.   But despite […]

  President Michel Suleiman has promised to follow up on the achievements that he has made during his tenure, including the implementation of the Baabda Declaration, hoping for similar moves by the country’s new head of state. In remarks to An Nahar daily published on Thursday, two days before a ceremony he will hold on the […]

  Maronite institutions warned on Wednesday lawmakers against the failure to elect a new president and the consequent vacuum in the country’s top post. They said: “Obstructing presidential elections sessions violates the constitution and the national pact.” They made their statement after holding a meeting chaired by Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi at Bkirki. Moreover, they cautioned that vacuum […]

  Tele Liban’s chairman of the board said Wednesday that the state-run television station is waiting on Doha about rights to broadcast the 2014 World Cup. “There is no confirmation,” Chairman Talal Makdessi told The Daily Star on Wednesday. Makdessi said that political and diplomatic sources received a “verbal promise” that they would be able to […]

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  The Jewish community in Lebanon has officially denounced the State of Israel as the country’s sole synagogue prepares to reopen in Beirut. “We have no connection to those who wanted to live in Palestine and kill innocent people,” Isaac Arazi, head of Lebanon’s dwindling Jewish community, announced to a reporter. He spoke with the London-based A-Sharq […]

  SIDON, Lebanon: A statue of a Phoenician priest has been uncovered at an excavation site in the southern city of Sidon, along with other antiquities, the most unique find for Lebanon in decades, the British Museum team announced Monday. The priest, 115 centimeters high and dating back to the sixth century B.C., was found at […]