Several homes in Mt. Lebanon were evacuated for a short time Monday evening after police stopped a motorist who had several homemade bombs in his car.
DUBAI — UAE suffered their second defeat when they went down 106-64 to Lebanon in their Group B match of the 24th Asian Basketball Championship in Tokushima yesterday.
Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos ended his two-day visit to Lebanon and traveled to Damascus on Monday, as Spain added its efforts to those of the French in trying to resolve Lebanon's nine-month-old political deadlock. "There is a Lebanese will to end the crisis," Moratinos told reporters on Monday after his meeting with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri.
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner on Sunday left Lebanon without any breakthrough and after warning of the danger of violence if the eight-month political standoff is not resolved through talks.
BEIRUT (AP)--U.N. peacekeepers conducted a major military exercise with live ammunition in southern Lebanon on Monday, the peacekeeping force said in a statement.
TOKUSHIMA, Japan : Lebanon, Taiwan and Jordan on Monday advanced to the second round of the Asian men's basketball championship, keeping their Olympic dreams alive for 2008.
Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said in Beirut on Sunday that Madrid wanted to help Lebanon end the political crisis that has paralysed the country since November.
THE field hospital set up by the Qatar Red Crescent (QRC) in Beddawi refugee camp in northern Lebanon to help the Palestinian refugees displaced from the Nahr Al Bared camp has received a total of 7,800 patients, the QRC said yesterday.
TYRE, Lebanon, July 25, 2007 (AFP) - A soldier serving with the UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon was killed in an explosion on Wednesday during demining operations in the south of the country, a UN spokeswoman told AFP.
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- France's visiting foreign minister succeeded Sunday in bringing together rival Lebanese factions who have had no contact for months but said he had not reached a breakthrough to ease the country's political crisis.