One law enforcement official said that the F.B.I. and the police were seeking “a number of people with whom we would like to speak in furtherance of the investigation.” Asked if any were suspected accomplices or co-conspirators, the official would say only that investigators were “not ready” to classify anyone yet. Another official said that […]

  German Chancellor Angela Merkel telephoned President Michel Suleiman, lauding his role in preserving stability in Lebanon and hoping that a new cabinet would be formed soon, Baabda palace said Friday. A presidential statement said that Merkel also expressed support to Lebanon’s call for a U.N.-led international conference to discuss the issue of Syrian refugees. Their talks […]

  BEIRUT: Renowned musician Iman Homsi, known as the “the lady of the qanun”, passed away Wednesday at the age of 45, the National News Agency reported. The report added that Homsi, the most prominent Qanun player in Lebanon, died after struggling with an illness.Homsi graduated in 1991 from the High National Musical Institute in […]

Apart from hosting Hezbollah and bordering Israel, Lebanon has little international significance. But with the alarming rise of radical Sunni Islamism – from Mali to Pakistan – Lebanon stands as the last bastion of moderate Sunnis, something that Hezbollah might have realized. Lebanon’s moderate Sunnis, however, face the risk of extinction. Like their Arab peers […]

(Reuters) – A deadly explosion and fire tore through a fertilizer plant in a small Texas town late on Wednesday, injuring more than 100 people, leveling dozens of homes and spewing toxic fumes that forced evacuations of half the community, authorities said. They said an undetermined number of people had been killed, and that the […]

  Two bombs exploded in the crowded streets near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday, killing at least three people and injuring more than 140 in a bloody scene of shattered glass and severed limbs that raised alarms that terrorists might have struck again in the U.S.   A White House official […]

    ردًا على تصريح الشيخ محمد علي الجوزو صدر عن النائب نعمة الله أبي نصر البيان التالي:        ليس غريبًا على الشيخ محمد علي الجوزو أن يصمت زمنًا لينطق كفرًا.        لقد شعر الشيخ الجوزو أنّ الشيخ أحمد الأسير خطف منه وهج التطرّف والشعبية فوجد أنّ أفضل السبل للبروز الإعلامي هو التهجّم على البطريرك […]