CAIRO: Bikyamasr.com received an official media statement from the US State Department, stating, The United States condemns in the strongest terms what appears to be an assassination attempt targeting Lebanese politician Samir Geagea, the leader of the Lebanese Forces party, on April 4. While we do not know who was behind the attack at this [...]
CAIRO: The Lebanese army has intercepted two vehicles carrying weapons, with their suspected destination being Syria, a Lebanese security sources told German press agency dpa on Wednesday. The army stopped the vehicles in al-Qaa after suspicions were raised that it was carrying weapons. The area witnessed heavy clashes between Syrian government troops and rebels on [...]
CAIRO: At least three students have been killed and several others injured when a wall collapsed at school in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli on Saturday, the country’s state news agency NNA reported. Red Cross volunteers at the scene said the dead included an 8-year-old boy. They also said eight students were injured in [...]
Beirut (dpa) – Shortly after news spread about a massacre in the Homs neighborhood of Karm al-Zeitoun – and that women were raped and children slaughtered – Asma decided that she had to escape no matter at what cost. Along with her three daughters and two sons, Asma was smuggled into Lebanon on Monday night [...]
CAIRO: At least one person was killed and 7 others injured when a building collapsed in Lebanon’s capital Beirut on Friday evening, Voice of Lebanon radio reported early Saturday morning. The building was largely housing foreign laborers in the country. The 13-storey building was part of the Tabarja beach complex still under construction. One Indian [...]
BEIRUT (dpa) – Armed Syrian opposition members will not be allowed into Lebanon, a Lebanese army commander told a magazine Friday. If true, the policy would be a rejection of a request made by the United States, which is trying to pressure the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to end nearly a year of [...]
BEIRUT: Beirut City Centre, Majid Al Futtaim Properties’ first shopping mall development in Lebanon, is on-schedule for opening in early 2013 as planned. The USD 300 million project is located in Beirut’s Hazmieh district, and will redefine the retail landscape by introducing more than 40 unique brands and an integrated leisure concept. With a total [...]
CAIRO: French journalist Edith Bouvier, who was injured while reporting in Syria, was smuggled late Thursday out of the province of Homs, Syria and into Lebanese territory, activists in northern Lebanon told German press agency dpa. “She is now inside Lebanese territories and in a safe place,” Abu Imad, a Syrian activist said. She is [...]
CAIRO: A wounded British journalist has been smuggled out of Syria and into bordering Lebanon, activists in the northern part of Lebanon told German press agency dpa on Tuesday. Paul Conroy arrived at a Beirut hospital, where he is currently receiving treatment for injuries sustained while reporting in Syria. However, a number of online activists [...]
CAIRO: Three Lebanese citizens have been sentenced to death for spying for Israel, Lebanon’s Annahar newspaper reported on Friday. The military court said that one of the three convicted, Moussa Ali Moussa, had delivered information about top Hezbollah officials to Israel, judicial sources told the newspaper. According to the prosecution, Moussa was in touch with [...]
Wadi Khaled, Lebanon (dpa) – Since the start of a pro-democracy uprising in his country, Abu Abed, a Syrian taxi driver, has been plying between the dissident Syrian province of Homs and this northern Lebanese border area for a high-risk type of business. Abu Abed, not his real name, transports reporters to Homs and Syrians [...]
Beirut (dpa) – Hezbollah leader Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah on Thursday denied any links to the attacks that targeted Israeli diplomats in Bangkok, New Delhi and Georgia. “We have nothing to do with the attacks on the Israeli officials earlier this week,” Nasrallah said of his pro-Iranian movement. Israel has accused Iran of being behind the [...]
Wadi Khaled, Lebanon (dpa) – When Um Mustafa, a 60-year-old grandmother, fled Syria for northern Lebanon she said she was counting on God’s mercy to protect the sons she left behind. Her three sons are fighting Syrian government troops in the volatile city of Homs. “Who knows what will happen to my boys. I am [...]
Beirut (dpa) – An explosion ripped through an area in the northern port city of Tripoli late Friday, causing panic hours after clashes broke out between armed Lebanese over Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, a security source said. The blast occurred near Al Jinan University in the mainly Muslim-Sunni neighborhood of Abi Samara, causing material damage [...]
Lebanese troops were Friday deployed en mass on the border with Syria over reports that arms were being smuggled into the Syrian province of Homs, a Lebanese Army source told German press agency dpa. “This measure is aimed at protecting the Lebanese borders,” said the source who requested anonymity. A resident in the Lebanese border [...]
Beirut (dpa) – A thick carpet of fragrant eucalyptus leaves is spread across the floor of an art gallery in Beirut. In the middle sits a headless figure, a likely victim of the Arab Spring uprisings. “The scent coming from the eucalyptus gives hope,” said Lebanese artist Randa Ali Ahmad. “Eucalyptus is known to be [...]
A Lebanese judge on Friday charged with negligence the owners of a building that collapsed in Beirut at the weekend, killing 27 people. If found guilty they could face between 15 and 25 years in prison. The five-story residential building in the Ashrafieh neighborhood was built in the 1960s. The collapse took place due to [...]
The Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED) signed a deal with Lebanon, worth $37 million, for the execution of a water desalination project in the western Beqaa region on Wednesday. The project is part of a $300 million donation made by Kuwait in 2006, and will provide drinking water to some 50 villages affected [...]
Bangkok (The Straits Times) – Thai officials are scrambling to downplay the terrorist threat in the capital, even though the US and Israel are maintaining their alerts warning citizens against travel to Thailand. Thai police yesterday pressed charges against suspected terrorist Atris Hussein. The police had initially wanted to deport Atris, who was arrested last [...]
CAIRO: Egyptian real estate tycoon Hisham Talaat Mustafa has had his case ordered for a retrial for his role in the murder of a Lebanese pop singer. Mustafa is currently serving a 15-year sentence for ordering the murder of Suzanne Tamim in Dubai. The retrial will take place at the court of appeals on February [...]
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