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المركزية – اشاد رئيس المجلس العام الماروني الوزير السابق وديع الخازن بالموقف الملفت لرئيس اللقاء الديموقراطي النائب وليد جنبلاط الذي حرص على ابقاء حادث قتل الشابين زياد غندور وزياد قبلان بمنأى عن التسييس.تعليقا على الإجماع الوطني حول إدانة جريمة خطف وقتل زياد قبلان وزياد غندور أدلى الخازن بالتصريح التالي:

لم يشهد لبنان إجماعا وطنيا على قضية كمثل إجماع قياداته على إدانة القتل الفتنوي الذي أرتكب بحق شابين بريئين في مقتبل العمر، لا لشيء إلا بدافع مشبوه من أجل الإيقاع بين اللبنانيين لا سيما على خلفية مذهبية بغيضة.فإذا كانت العبرة بالنتائج فإن دم الزيادين، الغالي على قلوب مواطنيهم وضمائرهم، لن يذهب هدراً بفضل جهود القيمين على الجيش اللبناني وقوى الأمن الداخلي والأجهزة الأمنية على إختلافها.

After a night full of beauty at Casino Du Liban, only one girl wore the tiara & carried the title of Miss Lebanon 2007 … 19-year-old Nadine Njeim was crowned by the former Miss Lebanon Gabrielle Bou Rached.
This is really funny, this is the second Nadine Njeim that wins a Miss Lebanon title!
Nadine will be represnting Lebanon in the Miss Universe 2007 pageant, which will be heald in Mexico on May 27th. Good Luck!
The two runner-ups are Maha Khoury & Sahar Sbeity. For more pictures and VIDEOS click read more

VIDEO Miss Lebanon Nadine Njeim LINKS!

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By Nada Bakri,  BEIRUT: Columnist and political activist Alia Solh, who was the eldest daughter of former Prime Minister Riad Solh, died on Thursday in Paris. She was 75. Solh died of a heart attack a few days after checking in to the American Hospital of Paris. Known as "the daughter of independence," Solh was heir to the towering legacy of Lebanon’s first prime minister, a politician who helped lead the struggle to drive French troops out of Lebanon. her father was also widely considered to be a pillar of the pan-Arabism movement.

Alia Solh started a long career of advocacy, writing about and influencing Lebanon’s po- litical life from the campus of the American University of Beirut in the early 1950s. On campus she was known for leading demonstrations for women’s rights, and she wrote extensively about Lebanese and Arab causes for a variety of publications.

When the 1975-1990 Lebanese Civil War entered its eighth year, Solh left Beirut to settle in Paris. "I preferred to leave and to take my memories with me, so I could tell the world about them and the Lebanon I knew, so that people would not forget the pearl that lies under the dirt," she said during a 2001 interview published by The Daily Star.

By Robert Fisk in Beirut , Walid Jumblatt may be one of the more charismatic figures in Lebanese political life but when he tells his people to avoid violence, they do as they are told. And so another sectarian killing – the murder of a 12-year-old Sunni boy and his neighbour, their bodies dumped outside Sidon on Thursday night – was transformed into a reminder that the post-civil war Lebanese can remain united.

JERUSALEM, April 28 (UPI) — An Israeli board of inquiry says Israel’s prime minister was rash in going to war against Lebanon last summer. The Winograd Commission concluded Ehud Olmert used "misguided and rash judgment," but stopped short of calling for his dismissal, The Times of London reported Saturday. There is a widespread perception in […]

PARIS, April 24, 2007 (AFP) – French President Jacques Chirac, who leaves office next month, is to move from the Elysee palace to a chic apartment on the capital’s Left Bank, a French newspaper reported Tuesday.
    The apartment is being lent to the Chiracs by the family of the former Lebanese president Rafic Hariri, who was assassinated in Beirut in February 2005. Chirac was a close personal friend of Hariri.
    Bernadette Chirac is already overseeing the moving of their furniture and possessions to the 180 square-metre (1,900 square-feet) apartment, which has a view across the River Seine to the Louvre museum, said the daily Le Parisien.
    The building lies not far from the historic Ecole des Beaux Arts (Fine Arts School) in a neighbourhood known for up-market antique dealers and art galleries. However it is north-facing and fronts onto the Quai Voltaire, which is a major traffic artery.
    According to Le Parisien, several photographers stationed outside the apartment were told to leave by police Monday after a complaint from Bernadette Chirac.

BEIRUT: With the second anniversary of the withdrawal of Syrian troops from Lebanese territories to be marked this weekend, the Free Patriotic Movement’s (FPM) youth club at the American University of Beirut (AUB), in collaboration with detainee advocacy group SOLIDE, hosted a conference on Wednesday calling for attention to the plight of Lebanese detainees in Syrian prisons. "We consider the withdrawal of Syria from Lebanon to be incomplete if our compatriots are still being held over there," Bassam Karam, vice president of the youth club, told The Daily Star. "The message from today is that we will continue to press forward with this, and we want the United Nations to extend its mandate on the Hariri  investigation to include an investigation into the detained in Syria."

The club circulated a petition prior to the conference calling for such an expansion to the role of the UN commission investigating the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Attending the conference was FPM MP Gibran Bassil, SOLIDE founder and activist Ghazi Aad, FPM youth club members and some of the parents of inmates held in Syria.  Karam questioned the priorities of the international community. "Why do the assassination of a high-ranking official and the assassination attempt of another official deserve an international investigation, while a crime committed every day by Syrian authorities against the families of the detainees and their children does not deserve an international investigation committee? Are the missing second-class citizens?" he said.

By Nadim Ladki, BEIRUT, April 26 (Reuters) – Lebanese police on Thursday found the bodies of a Sunni Muslim government supporter and a 12-year-old boy whose abduction earlier this week was linked to Lebanon’s rising sectarian tension. The bodies of Ziad Qabalan, 25, and Ziad Ghandour, 12, were found in a field north of the port city of Sidon, 40 km (25 miles) south of Beirut, after a local television station received an anonymous phone tip, police sources said.

Ghandour’s father and Qabalan are members of the Progressive Socialist Party of pro-government Druze leader Walid Jumblatt, a fierce opponent of Syria and its Lebanese ally Shi’ite group Hezbollah. Jumblatt swiftly appealed to supporters not to take things into their own hands.

       البطريرك صفير في المطار مع الوزير وديع الخازن      رأى البطريرك الماروني الكاردينال نصر الله بطرس صفير ضرورة حصول انتخابات رئاسية وفق الدستور اللبناني وايد قانون انتخابات مبطناً يفسح في المجال للناس بانتخاب مرشحين يمثلونهم خير تمثيل. غادرصفير امس الى روما في زيارة تستمر حوالى 10 أيام يلتقي خلالها البابا بنديكتوس السادس عشر، […]

أوضح النائب الدكتور فريد الخازن في حديث إلى إذاعة "صوت لبنان" حقيقة مشاركته مع وفد نيابي في حلقات حوارية متخصصة استضافتها سويسرا، مشيرا إلى أن هذه "المشاركة لا تحمل أبعادا على صلة بمبادرات جديدة لحل الأزمة اللبنانية"، مؤكدا وجود اهتمام ومتابعة سويسرية للوضع اللبناني، لكنه نفى وجود أي مبادرة رسمية.   وأوضح أن "الوفد النيابي […]