NEWTOWN, Connecticut — A worker who turned on the intercom, alerting others in the building that something was very wrong. A custodian who risked his life by running through the halls warning of danger. A clerk who led 18 children on their hands and knees to safety, then gave them paper and crayons to […]

  Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi criticized on Sunday Lebanese politicians for failing to agree on fateful issues such as a new electoral draft-law ahead of the polls next year. “It’s a shame … that political parties have suspended (attempts to find) solutions to fundamental national causes such as a new electoral draft-law other than the 1960 […]

  Lebanon’s premier said that the cabinet will not provide the content of mobile phone messages to security forces investigating the October 19 assassination of Internal Security Forces intelligence chief Wissam al-Hassan, and instead will transfer only SMS traffic logs.  “What is being requested is the contents of the SMS texts… We will provide them […]

  BEIRUT: The renewed speculation on the potential use of chemical weapons in Syria’s civil war has taken a twist toward Hezbollah with Israel’s ambassador to the U.S. warning that a “red line” will be crossed if the Lebanese resistance group receives such weapons from the regime of President Bashar Assad. Michael Oren said in […]

    لم تكن زيارة قداسة الحبر الأعظم البابا بنديكتوس السادس عشر الى لبنان في ايلول الماضي فقط رسالة اطمئنان الى المسيحيين في هذا الشرق وتأكيد على أنّ مرجعيتهم الروحية تقف الى جانبهم في هذه المرحلة المفصليّة على مستوى المنطقة، بل أيضا إشارة متجدّدة الى الاهتمام الذي يوليه الفاتيكان للتعايش المسيحي – الاسلامي في هذه […]

  BEIRUT: A draft National Action Plan for Human Rights was launched in Parliament Monday, on the occasion of the U.N. Human Rights Day, and covers a comprehensive raft of legislation, from judicial reform to the rights of women and children. The action plan – a 195 page document – was drafted by the Parliament’s Human […]

  A Lebanese man living in Bulgaria was taken by members of the Shiite group Hezbollah while on a visit to his home country, according to his wife.  Talal Mohammad Khalil arrived in Beirut on November 15, 2012 and has not been in touch with his family for the past 10 days, according to his […]

  In the Old City district of Damascus, the Greek Orthodox Church of Syria held a funeral on Monday for Ignatius IV Hazim, patriarch of Antioch and All the East. The ceremony was attended by a large number of religious leaders of several faiths, including Catholic Patriarch Gregory III Laham, as well as government officials. Hazim was […]

  Syrian authorities are not likely to hand over several bodies of Lebanese men slain in Tall Kalakh to Lebanon’s General Security on Saturday after Prime Minister Najib Miqati urged Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim to receive them in a single round. Informed sources told al-Joumhouria newspaper that Syria froze its decision to hand over the bodies […]

  BEIRUT: On the second day of his visit to Athens, President Michel Sleiman made a plea for the establishment of a sovereign Palestinian state, calling it the only way to cement democracy in the Arab world. “Democracy in the Arab world can take root and become stable when Palestinians are given the right to self-determination […]