BEIRUT - Loyalty to the Resistance bloc leader MP Mohamad Raad stressed on Thursday the necessity to try false-witnesses, to keep the relevant issue active "because, if closed, truth will never be unveiled". "We have heard a lot of statements recently and we don't think they are worthy of comment. We are waiting until these statements turn into actions in the upcoming days, because experience taught us to be patient", Raad said. Read more

BEIRUT - A truck carrying cows capsized on Thursday on Araya road, cauzing heavy traffic jams. No victims were reported. Internal Security Forces units were still trying to open the road and divert traffic towards Aley for cars heading there... Read more

BEIRUT - Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir denounced on Thursday the US Evangelical preacher appeal to burn copies of the Koran, saying that would only deepen the humanitarian division. However, he said, dialogue and rapprochement should be... Read more

BEIRUT - Lebanese Judge Jocelyn Tabet, appointed for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon prosecuting the assassination of former Premier Rafic Hariri, was back on Thursday in Beirut, coming from Paris. Read more

BEIRUT - Labor Minister Boutros Harb left Beirut on Thursday to Larnaca, in Cyprus, as part of a private visit. Read more

BEIRUT - Agriculture Minister Hussein Hajj Hassan left Beirut on Thursday to Iran, within a work visit. Read more

BEIRUT - Change and Reform bloc leader MP Michel Aoun left Beirut on Thursday so to start a private visit to Europe. Read more

BEIRUT - Kartaeb party leader Amin Gemayel left Beirut on Thursday to Rome, within a private visit. Read more