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Business - Beirut abuzz as life returns to protest zone
By Rima Abushakra
The heart of downtown Beirut was buzzing again as shops and restaurants prepared on Thursday to reopen their businesses with a splash after government opponents ended an 18-month protest that had turned the area into a virtual ghost town.Full Story>> |
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Social - Downtown Beirut sit-in to a sudden end
By George Eid
Suddenly it began and suddenly it ended. Lebanese woke up today on the sound of a sit-in being dismantled. A sit-in that many Lebanese thought would never end at least not before the end of PM Saniora’s government, which was the main condition...Full Story>> |
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Social - Ordinary Lebanese hope for a solution to country's woes
By Paul KATTAN
The violence-weary Lebanese are hoping that their leaders will return home from Arab-brokered talks in Qatar armed with a solution to heal a feud that has plunged the country into deadly chaos. Rival Lebanese leaders are meeting in Doha in a bid to...Full Story>> |
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Politics - Battle lines drawn in Lebanon's cradle of Sunni Islam
By Amer OUALI
In Lebanon's northern port city of Tripoli, the scene of deadly sectarian clashes between pro- and anti-government forces, battle lines are being drawn as tensions simmer unresolved. Lebanon's second city, home to almost 400,000 residents, witnessed...Full Story>> |
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Politics - Mountain villagers shell-shocked by deadly violence
By Rima Abushakra
Shell-shocked residents of the area were still reeling on Monday after the clashes pitting opposition Shiite fighters against Druze supporters of the Lebanese government that left at least thirteen dead. The latest violence in Lebanon was sparked...Full Story>> |
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Social - Sectarian tensions seethe under Beirut calm
By Rima Abushakra
As life slowly crept back to normal in west Beirut on Sunday after Hezbollah withdrew its Shiite militants from the streets, it was clear that deep anger lay beneath the calm with real fears of an irreparable fallout between Lebanon's Sunni and...Full Story>> |
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Politics - Hellish night in Beirut
By Rima Abushakra
Opposition militants have seized control of swathes of west Beirut, including Sunni strongholds and pro-government media outlets, on the third day of fighting that threatens to plunge Lebanon into a full-blown civil war. Convoys of gunmen firing...Full Story>> |
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Politics - Bustling Beirut comes to mid-week standstill Beirut
By Rima Abushakra
The usually bustling streets of Beirut were almost deserted but tense on Wednesday as tyre-burning protesters blocked roads for a general strike in which economic and political woes collided.Full Story>> |
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Business - Smuggling a lifeline for Lebanese villages on Syrian border
By Rita DAOU
Following the 15-year civil war that ended in 1990, successive Lebanese governments have come under international pressure to tackle smuggling --especially of drugs and weapons -- but have met with little success. Many villages near Syria depend on...Full Story>> |
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Social - South Korean UN troops kick up taekwondo storm in Lebanon
By Jihad SEQLAOUI
Her bright red Islamic veil framing her young face and contrasting sharply with her white uniform, Walaa Ayoub kicks up a storm as she practises the taekwondo moves her South Korean trainer has taught her.Full Story>> |
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