Crisis talks between rival Lebanese leaders hung in the balance on Monday after the Hizbullah-led opposition rejected a Qatari p
Crisis talks between rival Lebanese leaders hung in the balance on Monday after the Hizbullah-led opposition rejected a Qatari proposal aimed at ending a crisis which took Lebanon to the brink of civil war. The rebuff threatened to derail the talks with majority representatives on their third day.The Qatari hosts had put forward compromise proposals calling for the immediate election of a new president by parliament and the formation of a unity government while postponing discussion of a proposed new electoral law.But the Syrian- and Iranian-backed opposition refused to postpone discussion of a new electoral law, while stressing that it remained committed to a deal brokered by the Arab League in Beirut last week which paved the way for the Doha talks."The Lebanese opposition stresses its adherence to... (firstly) agreeing on the represent ...
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Middle East Airlines (MEA) is still determined to expand its fleet despite losses the company incurred during the week-long closure of Rafik Hariri International Airport, the company's chairman, ...
This is not the first time that a major crisis in Lebanon has affected the students of the popular program ‘Star Academy.’Three years ago when the Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Al Hariri was assassina ...
Sunday night was not Riyadi’s night as the team suffered from a huge blow when their captain and key player Ismail Ahmad got severely injured (he will be out for the rest of the season), giving the op ...
European medical authorities have approved the first pre-pandemic bird flu vaccine, produced by GlaxoSmithKline PLC, media reports say.The ruling from the European Medicines Agency makes Prepandrix, which targets the H5N1 virus, the first vaccine to receive a license for pre-pandemic use in all 27-member European Union states. Glaxo, which has already spent some $2 billion developing the vaccine, has orders from Switzerland and the United States for the vaccine based on the bird flu virus from V...
Researchers at the University of Virginia claim the increasing reactive nitrogen in the environment greatly affects climate change. Although carbon dioxide is known as the greatest challenge to the climate change, scientists believe nitrogen may be as serious as CO2."The public does not yet know much about nitrogen, but in many ways it is as big an issue as carbon, and due to the interactions of nitrogen and carbon, makes the challenge of providing food and energy to the world's peoples without ...
Until recently I have held back from watching any Arabic news on television, or even reading an Arabic news paper. That has been the case since 1980. I moved to the US with my family to get away from the destruction that imprisoned us from living our lives as a sovereign Lebanese nationals. I turned the key to the off position and closed my past because of the terror we lived under when we were kids.It took me years to even look back. We lost our identity because no one knew of what a Lebanese w...
Lebanese designer Elie Saab presented his collections in Paris for the fifth consecutive year since becoming a member of the French Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture in 2003.
In the same year he presented his first haute couture collection in Paris and started collaborating with Spanish bridal company Pronovias. Saab's first ready-to-wear collection was introduced in the French capital in 2006.
Elie Saab was born in Beirut, Lebanon, on July 4th 1964. He was only six years old, when he first ...
Burma has begun official mourning for victims of Cyclone Nargis, as the junta starts to accept limited outside help. Eighteen days after the storm struck, flags were lowered to half-mast to mark the tens of thousands of people killed.The move could be a sign that Burma's leaders now recognise the scale of the disaster, ...
Development campaigners have accused the UK government of making a stealth cut to an £800m fund designed to help poor countries adapt to climate change. Ministers said they were proud to have set a moral lead when the Environmental Transformation Fund was launched.The government now says an unspecified amount will go o ...