It has been a busy few weeks for the Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea. On Wednesday he dodged a bullet—in fact two—just days after organizing a rally to commemorate the dissolution of his party in 1994. This followed Geagea’s high-profile criticisms in mid-March of two leading Maronite figures, Patriarch Bechara al-Rai and Michel […]

    The presidency and the Maronite patriarchate in Bkirki are expected to issue separate statements on the visit of Pope Benedict XVI to Lebanon during which the head of the Roman Catholic Church will emphasize that the fate of Christians and Muslims are intertwined. Full Article    

    قوانين قطع الحسابات المالية الصادرة سابقا او التي ستصدر لاحقا (بما فيها مشاريع القوانين 2006 الى 2010)، ناقصة وغير صحيحة وتنطوي على مخالفات خطيرة… فهي لم (ولن) تلحظ قيمة الهبات الفعلية وكيفية التصرّف بها! هذا ما خلصت اليه عملية التدقيق بحسابات الهبات والتبرّعات النقدية، التي انجزت وزارة المال مرحلتها الاولى وشملت الاعوام من […]

  Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat warned Prime Minister Najib Miqati that if the cabinet adopted an electoral law based on proportionality then this would lead to the collapse of the government, al-Liwaa newspaper reported on Wednesday. For more information, click Here.

  Unknown assailants opened fire at the Maarab residence of Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Wednesday, announced the LF media department in a statement. The security personnel at the residence immediately headed to the scene where they found empty bullet shells belonging to a 12.7 sniper rifle, it said. LF MP Antoine Zahra later […]

  وتعليقاً على ما يتعرّض له البطريرك مار بشارة بطرس الراعي من انتقادات، ذكّر سعادة بأنّ موقف الكتائب كان واضحاً بهذا الصدد. وقال "بكركي بالنسبة إلينا خط احمر والذي لديه أيّ مشكلة مع البطريرك فليحلّها داخل أسوار بكركي وليس عبر الاعلام". وردّاً على سؤال عن دور الكتائب في حلحلة الازمة بين الجامع الازهر وبكركي، خصوصاً […]

  Jal el-Dib residents blocked the highway again to voice their anger at the lack of an alternative for the dismantled bridge. They blocked the highway for more than an hour and the police is now reopening the roads.  

    President of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon Judge Sir David Baragwanath held talks on Monday with President Michel Suleiman and Prime Minister Najib Miqati separately as he is expected to meet with several other senior Lebanese officials. The National News Agency reported that Suleiman discussed with Baragwanath at the Baabda Palace the progress of […]

  The residents of Jal el-Dib and neighboring areas are expected to stage a sit-in on Tuesday morning on the Beirut-Jounieh highway in protest of the cabinet’s failure to find an alternative solution to traffic after the dismantlement of the metal bridge, Voice of Lebanon radio (93.3) reported. [Source]

  Residents of the southern city of Sidon were surprised on Monday to see two rabbis touring Jewish sites in the city’s old quarter. "For 40 years we have not seen a rabbi in Sidon. And the last Jewish families left after the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, fearing reprisals," said one resident on condition […]