In what appears to be an attempt to pressure caretaker Prime Minister Najib Miqati, caretaker Energy Minister Gebran Bassil on Friday warned that Israel could be stealing offshore oil and gas resources from Lebanese waters. He called for the caretaker government to immediately act on passing the decrees needed for Lebanon to begin its […]

  President Michel Suleiman hit back on Monday at requests made by March 14 alliance officials to hold the army accountable over the clashes in the southern city of Sidon, saying such demands should not be turned into a political campaign that targets its patriotic role. In a statement released by Baabda palace, Suleiman lauded the […]

  BEIRUT: A car bomb explosion ripped Tuesday through Beirut’s southern suburbs, a stronghold of Hezbollah, wounding of at least 21 people, security sources said. Ambulances and fire trucks rushed to the scene of the blast site in Bir al-Abed just before noon and plumes of thick smoke could be seen from miles away.   At […]

  An Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 with 307 people on board crashed and burst into flames as it was attempting to land at San Francisco International Airport after a flight from Seoul yesterday, killing two people and injuring more than 180. Witnesses to Saturday’s crash said the tail of the plane appeared to hit the approach […]

  A new cultural venue opened its doors in Beirut last month, tucked away on a back alley between Gouraud and Pasteur Streets in Gemmayzeh. Visitors to Dawawine – espace des arts de la scène, du son, et de l’image – will immediately be struck by the space’s conceptual and visual novelty and calm, welcoming […]

  BEIRUT: While in its regional context Lebanon does have certain social and political assets, it remains a particularly hard sell to European investors, a senior European Union official told journalists Friday. Regional turmoil and uncertainty are of course among the deterrents but Lebanon also has its own internal raft of problems that present obstacles […]

  رأى عضو تكتل التغيير والاصلاح النائب فريد الخازن أن هناك من يستهدف الوضع الامني ومن يسعى لافتعال الفتنة ، معتبرا أن هذه المحاولات لن تنجح بجر البلاد الى الحرب والفتنة ، ومؤكدا أن أخطر ما حصل في هذا الاطار هي حوادث عبرا . واشار الخازن لبرنامج "نهاركم سعيد" عبر الـLBCI الى أن  ما حصل في […]

THE noun “Der Shitstorm” made a timely entrance to the official German lexicon this week. France is in a similar “avalanche d’emmerdements”. So, too, are countries as far afield as Japan, India and Turkey, which are also digesting revelations about the nature and extent of America’s electronic espionage on them. Material leaked to Germany’s Der […]

BEIRUT: Military Prosecutor Judge Saqr Saqr charged 37 people Thursday, including Salafist Sheikh Ahmad Assir and his two sons, over the recent clashes between Assir’s gunmen and the Lebanese Army in the Sidon suburb of Abra. Among those charged were 10 people still at large, including Assir, Lebanese pop singer turned Islamist Fadl Shaker and […]