LEBANON - The Lebanon County commissioners announced last month they were taking control of several programs that serve low-income residents. Yesterday, they announced they bought a building to house the programs.
John Battle and Lebanon’s stay in the Hogoheegee District is coming to an end. The two high schools will be joining the newly formed Clinch Mountain District in 2007-08, along with Gate City, Lee High and Virginia High.
Troops from India, serving as part of the U.N. peacekeeping force in Southern Lebanon, are giving yoga classes in hopes of relieving the stresses of living in the war-torn region.
As Lebanon heads down the track to trade liberalization, some observers, including British-based charity Oxfam, are predicting a devastating impact on the country's small farmers. According to government statistics, there are 200,000 farmers in Lebanon, representing 1.4 million people, including their families.
Source: IRIN Testimonies by self-confessed sectarian militants show they are using Lebanese territory for increasing numbers of deadly attacks which are threatening stability in the country and across the region. The wider security breakdown inside Lebanon is creating a fertile breeding ground for extremist groups, and the country is becoming a stop-off point for foreign jihadists, say ...
Unusually late spring-time storms in Lebanon have left a trail of low-level destruction across the country, damaging cherry crops in the Chouf and flooding hamlets in the Bekaa Valley, where the government deployed earth-moving equipment Thursday to redirect waters that had trapped residents in their homes.
Interior Minister Hassan Sabaa met Thursday with Abbas Zaki, the Palestine Liberation Organization representative in Lebanon, to discuss recent developments in the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp outside Sidon and elsewhere.
Four people were injured in a two-vehicle, head-on accident last night in South Lebanon Township. Jonas Sechrist, 79, of 135 Weidman Road, Newmanstown, was in serious condition this morning at Hershey Medical Center.
US envoy David Welch urged Lebanon on Wednesday to hold an election on time to choose a new president he said must be independent of outside interference.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban-Ki-moon personally plunked during a recent Lebanon visit for an international tribunal to try suspects in a spate of assassinations starting with former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and 22 others in February 2005, then sent the t