BBC News | Lebanon tribunal names new suspect in 2005 Hariri killing Reuters Judges at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon in The Hague secretly indicted Hassan Habib Merhi on July 31 but gave the Lebanese government time to attempt to arrest the suspect before making the warrant public. They announced it on Thursday after ... Lebanon Hariri: Fifth suspect indicted for murder Special Lebanon tribunal indicts fifth suspect in Hariri assassination |
Washington Post | Uprooted again: Syrian refugees in Lebanon head to Germany euronews More than 100 Syrian refugees, who crossed the border from their war-torn country into Lebanon, are heading to Germany for temporary resettlement. Aisha Bakkar, who fled from Aleppo, said she did not want to go to Europe. “No, I'm not happy. This is ... Lebanon cannot do this anymore without help: UNHCR Syrian refugees fearful as food aid reduced in Lebanon As Syrian refugee influx into Lebanon swells, backlash is burdened by ... |
Lebanon Debt Defies War Turmoil to Lead Region: Riskless Return Bloomberg With war in neighboring Syria, unrest at home and one of the world's highest debt burdens, Lebanon doesn't look like a safe haven -- unless you're a bondholder. Lebanese government bonds, rated five levels below investment grade at Standard & Poor's, ... |
Press TV | Lebanon charges 12 over bombing, assassination plots Press TV A military court in Lebanon has charged 12 people with planning bombings and assassination of prominent figures in the country. A judicial source said on Thursday that the defendants include three people who are already in custody for allegedly ... Lebanon charges 12 over bomb plots Lebanon issues warrant for defected Syrian colonel Terrorists entering Lebanon disguised as Syrian refugees! |
National Post | WFP Launches E-Cards for Syrian Refugees in Lebanon with MasterCard's ... National Post As part of its massive humanitarian response to the Syrian crisis, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is rolling out an innovative electronic voucher programme in Lebanon that will allow hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees to meet their ... EDL workers threaten 'painful' strike if demands not met |
Lebanon Should Be Neutral Al-Monitor During the third session of a series of presentations organized by the Issam Fares Center for Conferences, under the title “The Possibility of Neutrality for Lebanon,” Abdullah Abu Habib presented us with a big challenge: How to preserve Lebanon's ... |
The Daily Star | Priest serving child molestation sentence in Lebanon monastery The Daily Star BEIRUT: A Lebanese priest convicted of child molestation by the Vatican is currently carrying out his sentence of solitary penitence in a monastery in Lebanon, sources close to him confirmed to The Daily Star Wednesday. But the case of Mansour Labaki ... |
Lebanon woman hit in face after refusing to hand over purse PennLive.com A man with a gun struck a woman in the face after she refused to give him her purse just after midnight Oct. 10 in the 1100 block of Brandywine Street, Lebanon police said. The woman said she was seated in her parked vehicle when a man started pounding ... |
Lebanon cannot do this anymore without help: UNHRC Ottawa Citizen (blog) Kelley has been in Lebanon since May 2012, and was in Geneva working for the UNHCR before that. She's worked for the Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board and is the author of The Making of the Mosiac: A History of Canadian Immigration Policy. |
Aljazeera.com | Lebanon rebukes Syria for cross-border raid Aljazeera.com Local officials said the attack was carried out on Monday night by Syrian warplanes that fired at an area in the Arsal region of Lebanon, which has regularly been targeted by cross-border strikes. In a statement on Tuesday, Sleiman said "an ambulance ... |