UN chief Ban Ki-moon urged Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday to press all sides in Lebanon to accept an international trial of Lebanese ex-premier Rafiq Hariri's suspected assassins.
Former Interior Minister Suleiman Franjieh on Tuesday hailed Iran's "constant support of Lebanon" and what he said were continuing Iran-ian efforts to promote Lebanese accord. Franjieh met on Tuesday with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran. Sources close to the meeting said.
Australian cleric Taj al-Din al-Hilali has launched an inquiry into how he distributed money raised in Australia across Lebanon after the summer 2006 war but not without much criticism from other Muslim leaders, The Australian newspaper said on Tuesday.
Twenty-one overseas Filipino workers have arrived from Lebanon in addition to 108 other OFWs who were greeted by President Arroyo at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Tuesday, the Department of Foreign Affairs said.
MANILA -- Twenty-three distressed overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), including a domestic helper who survived a five-story fall from her employer’s apartment, returned home Tuesday from Lebanon.
ISLAMABAD: The government on Tuesday announced appointment of Nawabzada Amin Ullah Khan Raisani as Ambassador of Pakistan to Lebanon.
LEBANON — Nominations are being accepted for the 2007 Citizen of the Year award. People of good character who have made significant volunteer contributions to their community can be nominated. They can be volunteers at clubs, organizations, churches and hospitals.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon met President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday during a delicate mission to Syria to discuss the planned international trial of ex-Lebanese premier Rafiq Hariri's assassins.
The visiting Lebanon's former interior minister Suleiman Franjieh said that his visit to Iran under such difficult conditions aimed to prove to the world that his country is standing next to Iran.
Mt. Lebanon commissioners approved a controversial tax-increment financing plan Monday for a luxury condominium and retail complex.