CAIRO – The Union of Arab Journalists (UAJ) has decided to boycott a meeting, organised by the International Journalists Union (IJU) and …

ANJAR, Lebanon, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Lebanese forces excavated a suspected third mass grave on Sunday, a day after unearthing 25 decomposed corpses in an eastern town that was the headquarters of Syrian intelligence for three decades. Security forces were digging for more bodies at the third site near two other mass graves close to an old onion farm in the eastern town of Anjar, long used by Syrian intelligence as a notorious interrogation centre.

Security sources said the 25 bodies found so far -- most now only skeletons in scraps of underwear -- had lain in the shallow graves for over 12 years but it was not clear who they were and how they died, though one wore military trousers. The finds were the first directly linked to Syria's 29-year military presence, which ended in April, though the bodies of 13 Lebanese soldiers killed during Lebanon's 1975-1990 civil war were exhumed from Defence Ministry grounds at Yarze last month.

Bryan Plamondon, The number of tourists to Lebanon fell for the third consecutive month in October, plunging 48% month-on-month (to 61,093) following …