4 December 2008
Libya protested Wednesday before the UN Security Council over Israel's interception of one of its cargo ships attempting to offload aid in Gaza.
4 December 2008
The number of attacks in Iraq has declined to the lowest level since 2003 despite a recent spate of high-profile bombings, the No. 2 U.S. commander in Iraq
said Wednesday. Army Lt. Gen. Lloyd Austin blamed several attacks over the past few days on al-Qaeda in Iraq.
4 December 2008
A 31-year-old Palestinian was seriously wounded in Jerusalem early Wednesday in a stabbing that he said was perpetrated by religious Jews.
4 December 2008
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has acknowledged publicly for the first time that declining oil prices are damaging the country's fragile economy and
will force his government to make painful spending cuts, state media reported Wednesday.
3 December 2008
An Israeli air strike killed two Palestinians on Tuesday in the southern Gaza Strip, where mortar bombs were fired at Israel earlier, witnesses and hospital officials said. According to Reuters, the Israeli army confirmed the air strike in the town of Rafah, which wounded four people, and said gunmen had launched six mortar bombs across the border.
5 November 2008
The second session of Lebanon's national dialogue is scheduled to begin at Baabda Palace at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, but dealing with a proposal by Hizbullah
and its March 8 allies to expand the number of participants could delay discussion of the agenda's top item - a new national defense strategy.
5 November 2008
Future Movement MP Ahmad Fatfat stressed Tuesday the importance of rearranging "internal Sunni ranks, especially in light of the uncertainty of the situation
globally and regionally."
5 November 2008
Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Butros Sfeir said on Tuesday that the current situation in Lebanon was "not so good," adding that Lebanon can be safeguarded,
"if the Lebanese double efforts to strengthen peace."
5 November 2008
Former President Amin Gemayel said on Tuesday that he had prior knowledge of a possible link between an alleged terrorist network that was recently arrested
in the North and the assassination of his son, former Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel, who was gunned down by unknown assailants in November 2006.
5 November 2008
Lebanon's rival political leaders gather on Wednesday for a second round of talks to resolve lingering disputes but analysts and participants say a deal is a
long way off given deep-seated differences.
5 November 2008
Banque du Liban Governor Riad Salameh said Tuesday that the body was in a position to subsidize medium-term loans for small- and medium-size enterprises
(SMEs) in Lebanon - with conditions.
