The hacktivist group Raise Your Voice hit again on Thursday, hacking around 10 Lebanese government websites, the second such attack in nine days.   “We are RYV, short for Raise Your Voice, and we are simply a group of people who could not bare (sic) sitting in silence, watching all the crimes […]

    أقرّ مجلس الوزراء الية اقتراع المغتربين المقدمة من وزير الخارجية. وكان قد اقر في وقت سابق تخفيض وزن ربطة الخبز الى 900 غرام مع الابقاء على سعرها الحالي. وطلب مجلس الوزراء الى وزير المالية محمد الصفدي الاستمرار في دفع الرواتب والاجور وملاحقاتها، كما وافق على زيادة التعريفات الطبية والاستشفائية. ووافق مجلس الوزراء على […]

  A man and his two children crossed from Lebanon into Israel on Wednesday and were immediately detained by Israeli troops, witnesses and Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported. The incident took place at the Fatima Gate in southern Lebanon, facing the Israeli town of Metulla, the agency said. Witnesses interviewed by an Agence France Presse correspondent […]

  President Michel Suleiman reiterated his rejection to sign a decree that would legitimize the $5.9 billion spending bill of Premier Najib Miqati’s government to avoid subjecting it to an appeal. In remarks to Ad-Diyar daily published Wednesday, Suleiman said that the parliamentary finance and budget committee had made several important remarks on the bill. The parliament […]

    دفعت «القوات اللبنانية» قضية استئجار بواخر إنتاج الكهرباء وما رافقها من ملابسات واتهامات إلى دائرة الضوء من خلال تقديم عضو كتلة «القوات» النائب جورج عدوان طلباً إلى رئيس مجلس النواب نبيه بري لتأليف لجنة تحقيق برلمانية في هذا الموضوع. وإذ أمل «أن يصار إلى تشكيل هذه اللجنة من قبل الهيئة العامة حرصاً على […]

    President Michel Suleiman noted on Monday that French citizens of Lebanese heritage practiced their right to vote in France’s presidential election on Sunday. He therefore said that “it is only natural for Lebanese expatriates to vote in the 2013 parliamentary elections.” He hoped that “serious discussion and efforts” would kick off over the adoption […]

    Three people were injured on Sunday when armed people opened fire on an anti-Syrian regime protest in Tripoli’s area of Abi Samra, the National News Agency reported. “Armed people opened fire toward a protest in Tripoli injuring three people who were transferred to hospitals in the area,” the NNA said, identifying two of the […]

    في مثل هذه الايام من العام الماضي، كان عبور طريق ضهر البيدر من والى البقاع، مهمّة صعبة لا بل مغامرة، قي ظلّ غياب الحدّ الادنى للسلامة العامة على طريق دولية حريّ بها ان تكون نموذجا في هذا المجال. الا انه، ومع اطلالة الصيف الماضي، انطلقت اعمال وزارة الاشغال العامة التي قامت باعادة تأهيل […]

    Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi denied on Sunday that he supports the adoption of proportional representation for the 2013 parliamentary elections. He said: “We support an electoral law that best represents the Lebanese people.” He made his remarks from the airport ahead of travelling on a one-month tour of Mexico, the United States, and Canada. “I don’t […]

    Two young Lebanese men who have been detained for daubing graffiti on Beirut walls in support of the uprising in neighboring Syria were released, media reports said on Saturday. Fadi Tawfiq, a writer and rights activist, told Agence France Presse Ali Fakhri and Khodr Salameh were detained on Friday night for painting the flag […]