President Michel Suleiman on Thursday noted that Syria was not seeking to stir chaos in Lebanon, stressing that the weapons of non-state actors will be eventually removed, “whether they belong to Hizbullah or the Salafist forces.”   “Syria does not have the objective of stirring chaos in Lebanon as it is barely being able […]

  SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook said Thursday it has more than a billion users but it remained haunted by worries about how it would make money from members increasingly tuning into the social network on mobile devices. Co-founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg made the announcement, saying the number is "humbling." "This morning, there are more than […]

  Jubilant Republicans declared the US election race back on Thursday, calling Mitt Romney’s resounding victory over Barack Obama in the first of the presidential debates a "game changer". With just over a month left to the election, Republicans gleefully celebrated a rare win they are hoping will arrest Romney’s campaign slump. The Republican governor of New […]

  Skandar Keynes is a young British actor best known for his role as Edmund Pevensie, the boy who betrays his siblings to the White Witch in The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – The Chronicles of Narnia. Born to a Lebanese mother and British father, Keynes is denied the right to Lebanese citizenship, […]

  BEIRUT: Armenian Christians in Aleppo are being dragged in to the increasingly sectarian civil war in the country, straining the leadership’s policy of neutrality. Government shelling and fighting between the forces loyal to President Bashar Assad and the opposition fighters has reached the predominantly Christian neighborhoods of Al-Midan, Suleimaniyah and Azizieh in the center of […]

  BEIRUT: The European Union said Saturday it understood Lebanon’s dissociation policy toward events in Syria and said it was committed to offering humanitarian assistance to those fleeing violence in Lebanon’s neighbor. Olof Skoog, head the Political and Security Committee (PSC) of the Council of the European Union, following a meeting with Prime Minister Najib Mikati […]

  (Reuters) – The debate between President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney on Wednesday marks the first time the two candidates will be able to challenge each other directly on the economic issues that have been the focus of the presidential campaign. Viewers should be able to determine how each candidate fares by keeping […]

  Two unknown assailants opened fire on a church in the town of Bqosta near Sidon on Saturday night, the National News Agency reported on Sunday. According to the NNA, the assailants shot at the town’s Saint Joseph Church with hunting rifles, damaging the building’s windows. The report also said that Internal Security Forces members arrived at […]

  WikiLeaks website has revealed that Israeli intelligence, Mossad, may have been involved in the 2010 Ethiopian plane crash off Beirut’s shore, said various media reports on Sunday. They said that the plane have been the victim of sabotage by Israeli intelligence because it mistakenly suspected that senior Hizbullah official Hashem Safieddine may have been on […]

  غادر البطريرك الماروني مار بشارة بطرس الراعي، الثامنة من صباح اليوم بيروت متوجها الى هنغاريا وروما، في اطار زيارة تستمر حتى 30 تشرين الاول المقبل. ورافقه النائب البطريركي العام المطران بولس صياح ومدير مكتب الاعلام في بكركي المحامي وليد غياض. وفي المطار رد الراعي على اسئلة الصحافيين. سئل: بعد ان القى مجلس المطارنة الموارنة […]