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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Lebanon News.Net http://www.lebanonnews.net/ en-us Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:56:06 -0500 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:56:06 -0500 30 Lebanese army divers on Tuesday resumed search for more victims of the ill-fated Ethiopian plane while the rescue ship USNS Grapple continued hunt for the second black box, a statement released by the... http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32087065&cat=7948506725f8face Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:02:53 -0500 Naharnet http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32087065&cat=7948506725f8face Struger made the comment during a briefing to reporters at the Tyre Rest House during which he announced that UNIFIL spokeswoman Yasmina Bouziane will be replaced by Miraj Singh. http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32087066&cat=7948506725f8face Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:02:52 -0500 Naharnet http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32087066&cat=7948506725f8face Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat has denied that he had told Washington Post columnist David Ignatius in a telephone interview in 2006 that the U.S. went to Iraq and "can do the same t... http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32084843&cat=7948506725f8face Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:35:15 -0500 Naharnet http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32084843&cat=7948506725f8face Prime Minister Saad Hariri said he was convinced with the clarifications of political sources on Syrian President Bashar Assad's controversial statement to The New Yorker. http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32084844&cat=7948506725f8face Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:35:14 -0500 Naharnet http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32084844&cat=7948506725f8face The Lebanese army intelligence in the Bekaa arrested the maternal uncle of debt-ridden Sheikh Mohammed al-Majzoub who has staged his own kidnapping allegedly in a desperate bid to secure a ransom and ... http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32084845&cat=7948506725f8face Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:35:13 -0500 Naharnet http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32084845&cat=7948506725f8face U.S. congressman John Murtha, who died Monday of complications from gallbladder surgery at age 77, was a fierce critic of the Iraq war despite being a staunchly pro-military former marine. http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32084846&cat=7948506725f8face Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:35:12 -0500 Naharnet http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32084846&cat=7948506725f8face Lebanon's Maronites celebrate the 1600th anniversary of St. Maroun's death on Tuesday in two separate masses that will be held in Beirut's Saint George church and in Brad in the Syrian city of Aleppo. http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32082987&cat=7948506725f8face Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:06:57 -0500 Naharnet http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32082987&cat=7948506725f8face Defense Minister Elias Murr is scheduled to meet with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Jeffrey Feltman on Tuesday ahead of talks with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Th... http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32082988&cat=7948506725f8face Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:06:56 -0500 Naharnet http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32082988&cat=7948506725f8face Lebanese President Michel Suleiman on Monday reiterated to Spanish King Juan Carlos his country's commitment to the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701 as well as Lebanon's full supp... http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32082986&cat=7948506725f8face Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:51:22 -0500 People's Daily http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32082986&cat=7948506725f8face Lebanese President Michel Suleiman said Monday that no one in Lebanon is planning to wage any aggression on Israel and Israel does not own any valid pretext to launch any attack, the country's state-r... http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32082700&cat=7948506725f8face Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:51:18 -0500 People's Daily http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32082700&cat=7948506725f8face In a step that would promote and boost the mobile sector in Lebanon, both the Lebanese Ministry of Telecommunications and Orascom Telecom Holding signed up the extension of the management contract of ... http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32080989&cat=7948506725f8face Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:10:26 -0500 AME Info http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32080989&cat=7948506725f8face DUBAI, United Arab Emirates: The Burj Khalifa’s owner said Monday the observation deck of the world’s tallest tower has been unexpectedly shut down, disappointing visitors and marring the ... http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32075212&cat=7948506725f8face Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:22:16 -0500 The Daily Star http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32075212&cat=7948506725f8face BEIRUT: Future Movement MP Nouhad Mashnouq dismissed on Monday media reports that he had been assaulted in the Ain al-Mreisseh neighborhood in Beirut as he attempted to resolve a dispute between fishe... http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32071976&cat=7948506725f8face Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:42:55 -0500 The Daily Star http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32071976&cat=7948506725f8face BKIRKI: The Maronite Patriarch said Monday the Lebanese National Pact was a covenant among the country’s religious minorities rather than a bilateral compromise between Christians and Muslims. http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32071977&cat=7948506725f8face Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:42:53 -0500 The Daily Star http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32071977&cat=7948506725f8face BEIRUT: President Michel Sleiman Monday voiced concern over the latest Israeli warnings to Lebanon’s Hizbullah movement and its backer Syria, saying he could “no longer take them lightly.&... http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32071979&cat=7948506725f8face Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:42:49 -0500 The Daily Star http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32071979&cat=7948506725f8face TEHRAN: Iran said Monday it has formally told the UN nuclear watchdog of its plan to produce higher enriched uranium, sparking fresh warnings by world powers of new sanctions against the Islamic Repub... http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32071980&cat=7948506725f8face Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:42:47 -0500 The Daily Star http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32071980&cat=7948506725f8face KIEV: Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yanukovich on Monday pressed rival Yulia Tymoshenko to concede defeat after his slender victory in a presidential election that could tilt the ex-Soviet state ... http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32071981&cat=7948506725f8face Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:42:44 -0500 The Daily Star http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32071981&cat=7948506725f8face KANDAHAR, Afghanistan: NATO commanders called on the Taliban to surrender as troops dug in Monday for a major assault on one of the last insurgent strongholds in southern Afghanistan, sending thousand... http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32071983&cat=7948506725f8face Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:42:43 -0500 The Daily Star http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32071983&cat=7948506725f8face SEOUL: A senior Chinese official was in North Korea on Monday and a top UN political envoy was slated to arrive a day later in a new push to have the reclusive state return to stalled nuclear disarmam... http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32071984&cat=7948506725f8face Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:42:40 -0500 The Daily Star http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32071984&cat=7948506725f8face JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia: Saudi Arabia’s human rights commission has hired a lawyer to help a 12-year-old girl divorce her 80-year-old husband, the lawyer said, a move activists hope will lead to a ... http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32071986&cat=7948506725f8face Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:42:38 -0500 The Daily Star http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32071986&cat=7948506725f8face MOGADISHU: An exchange of mortar shells between Somali government forces and rebels killed at least nine civilians and wounded 14 others, a human-rights group said Monday. The clashes started late on ... http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32071985&cat=7948506725f8face Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:42:37 -0500 The Daily Star http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32071985&cat=7948506725f8face These falcons are just a few of the 5,000 treated each year at the Abu Dhabi Falcon Hospital (ADFH), which is located just a few kilometers outside the United Arab Emirates’ capital city. http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32071987&cat=7948506725f8face Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:42:35 -0500 The Daily Star http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32071987&cat=7948506725f8face DUBAI: The Gulf kingdom of Bahrain resumed torturing detainees in 2007 after about a decade of not engaging in the “scourge,” US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report released Mo... http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32071982&cat=7948506725f8face Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:42:33 -0500 The Daily Star http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32071982&cat=7948506725f8face ANKARA: Prosecutors in Turkey are seeking life in jail for the father and grandfather of a girl who was buried alive for befriending boys, local judicial sources said Monday. The pair were arrested af... http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32071990&cat=7948506725f8face Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:42:31 -0500 The Daily Star http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32071990&cat=7948506725f8face TEHRAN: Iran’s top reformist leaders on Monday rejected the authorities’ accusation that the opposition movement had links to foreigners and urged people to attend rallies on Thursday mark... http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32071989&cat=7948506725f8face Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:42:30 -0500 The Daily Star http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32071989&cat=7948506725f8face BEIRUT: The flight recorders from the Ethiopian Airlines plane which crashed off the coast of Beirut were transported Monday to France, where investigators hope to unlock the secret of what caused the... http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32071650&cat=7948506725f8face Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:42:27 -0500 The Daily Star http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32071650&cat=7948506725f8face DUBAI: Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the Yemen-based group that claimed a botched Christmas Day attack on a US airliner, on Monday called for US interests to be targeted “everywhere.... http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32071993&cat=7948506725f8face Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:42:27 -0500 The Daily Star http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32071993&cat=7948506725f8face OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Israeli security forces on Monday raided a Palestinian refugee camp in occupied East Jerusalem, arresting 11 people in an operation police said was aimed at putting “some ord... http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32071992&cat=7948506725f8face Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:42:25 -0500 The Daily Star http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32071992&cat=7948506725f8face BEIRUT: A Filipina domestic worker killed her employer’s sister and injured the woman’s seven-year-old daughter with a kitchen knife in the town of Ain Saadeh, the state-run National News ... http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32072006&cat=7948506725f8face Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:42:25 -0500 The Daily Star http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32072006&cat=7948506725f8face The leader of Palestinian Islamist group Hamas met in Moscow Monday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov for talks on efforts to reunify the two main Palestinian independence movements. “... http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32071991&cat=7948506725f8face Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:42:24 -0500 The Daily Star http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32071991&cat=7948506725f8face SIDON: Sidon Municipality is preparing to lay the foundation stone for its first ever medical waste treatment center this week. The project, sponsored by the Spanish Embassy and funded by the Spanish ... http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32071049&cat=7948506725f8face Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:42:23 -0500 The Daily Star http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32071049&cat=7948506725f8face CAIRO: The Number two leader of Egypt’s opposition Muslim Brotherhood and two other top figures have been arrested by police Monday in a dawn sweep targeting members of the nation’s most p... http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32071995&cat=7948506725f8face Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:42:22 -0500 The Daily Star http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32071995&cat=7948506725f8face BEIRUT: Spanish and Lebanese officials celebrated on Saturday the launching of an apiculture (beekeeping) project in Akkar. The center in Deir Dalloum, Akkar, was opened in the presence of Spanish Amb... http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32071651&cat=7948506725f8face Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:42:21 -0500 The Daily Star http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32071651&cat=7948506725f8face OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Palestinian officials demanded on Monday that any US-backed peace talks with Israel focus on border issues and be given a deadline of up to four months. Washington has proposed cir... http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32071994&cat=7948506725f8face Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:42:20 -0500 The Daily Star http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32071994&cat=7948506725f8face BEIRUT: During his first visit in Lebanon as president of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL), Antonio Cassese made the most of the opportunity to highlight the major issues concerning internationa... http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32071529&cat=7948506725f8face Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:42:18 -0500 The Daily Star http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32071529&cat=7948506725f8face OTTAWA: A Canadian court on Monday set a tentative June extradition hearing for Canadian-Lebanese national Hassan Diab, arrested 15 months ago for his alleged role in a 1980 Paris bombing that killed ... http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32071874&cat=7948506725f8face Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:42:16 -0500 The Daily Star http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32071874&cat=7948506725f8face SEOUL: A South Korean court Monday ordered Hyundai Motor chairman Chung Mong-Koo to pay almost $60 million in damages to his company for loss-making deals. The Seoul central district court, ruling on ... http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32071997&cat=7948506725f8face Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:42:15 -0500 The Daily Star http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32071997&cat=7948506725f8face BEIJING: Police in central China have shut down a hacker training operation that openly recruited thousands of members online and provided them with cyber attack lessons and malicious software, state ... http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32071998&cat=7948506725f8face Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:42:14 -0500 The Daily Star http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32071998&cat=7948506725f8face BEIRUT: Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblatt said on Monday that allowing the employees of public institutions to run for office in the municipal elections might lead to the politiciza... http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32072007&cat=7948506725f8face Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:42:14 -0500 The Daily Star http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32072007&cat=7948506725f8face They know it in Paris, Rome and Madrid. There is a big security hole to the south of Europe, the existence of which is confirmed by ongoing hostage crises involving citizens from France, Italy and Spa... http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32071999&cat=7948506725f8face Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:42:12 -0500 The Daily Star http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32071999&cat=7948506725f8face BEIRUT: The United Nations Interim Force for Lebanon (UNIFIL) Director of Political and Civil Affairs Milos Strugar stressed Monday that all parties did not seek war and were committed to a halt of vi... http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32072008&cat=7948506725f8face Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:42:12 -0500 The Daily Star http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32072008&cat=7948506725f8face BEIRUT: Labor Minister Botrous Harb said Monday that the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) should distance itself from political wrangling in order to turn this fund into an efficient entity that p... http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32072003&cat=7948506725f8face Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:42:11 -0500 The Daily Star http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32072003&cat=7948506725f8face Later, as Sully starts to become sympathetic toward those whom he has been sent to betray, he tells the bureaucrats: “If people are sitting on something you want, you call them the enemy.”... http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32072000&cat=7948506725f8face Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:42:10 -0500 The Daily Star http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32072000&cat=7948506725f8face BEIRUT: The consolidated balance sheet of commercial banks operating in Lebanon shows that total assets reached $115.2 billion at the end of 2009, up 22.3 percent from the end of 2008, as reported by ... http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32072004&cat=7948506725f8face Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:42:10 -0500 The Daily Star http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32072004&cat=7948506725f8face BEIRUT: The Internal Security Forces arrested on Monday on the Zouk Mosbeh highway, east of Beirut, an individual charged with several arrest warrants for drug dealing and armed robberies. A statement... http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32072009&cat=7948506725f8face Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:42:10 -0500 The Daily Star http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32072009&cat=7948506725f8face BEIRUT: Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri will inaugurate the 63rd World Newspaper Congress, World Editors Forum and Info Services Expo 2010, in early June, organizers said on Monday. The events, or... http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32071209&cat=7948506725f8face Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:42:08 -0500 The Daily Star http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32071209&cat=7948506725f8face The American people and their openness to Muslim communities will in many ways determine the success of US President Barack Obama’s global engagement initiative, which he launched on his inaugur... http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32072001&cat=7948506725f8face Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:42:07 -0500 The Daily Star http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32072001&cat=7948506725f8face BEIRUT: Telecommunications Minister Charbel Nahas pledged on Monday to provide all the facilities required to make Lebanon and especially Beirut a city center for all broadcasters’ studios which... http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32072005&cat=7948506725f8face Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:42:07 -0500 The Daily Star http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32072005&cat=7948506725f8face There are handshakes, and then there are handshakes. One type of handshake took place recently in Europe, at a security conference in Munich, between Saudi Prince Turki al-Faisal and Israeli official ... http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32072002&cat=7948506725f8face Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:42:04 -0500 The Daily Star http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32072002&cat=7948506725f8face Lebanon and UNIFIL are facing dangerous Israeli threats and the international community has to stop Israel's threats and to force it to implement U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701, President Miche... http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32068787&cat=7948506725f8face Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:56:01 -0500 Naharnet http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32068787&cat=7948506725f8face The Saudi government on Monday urged the international community "for taking a firm stance on the issue of Israeli threats against Lebanon, Syria, and the Palestinians." http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32068788&cat=7948506725f8face Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:56:00 -0500 Naharnet http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32068788&cat=7948506725f8face Phalange Party on Monday condemned "the content of Syrian President Bashar Assad's interview with Seymour Hersh in The New Yorker and the subsequent clarifications 'all together.'" http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32065676&cat=7948506725f8face Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:55:15 -0500 Naharnet http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32065676&cat=7948506725f8face As Mustaqbal bloc MPs Mohammed Qabbani, Ghazi Youssef, and Nuhad al-Mashnouq were inspecting the project under execution by the Public Works Ministry in Manara, fishermen from the neighborhood obstruc... http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32062354&cat=7948506725f8face Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:59:59 -0500 Naharnet http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32062354&cat=7948506725f8face In remarks to a visiting delegation from the Editors Syndicate headed by Melhem Karam, Suleiman hoped appointments in state institutions would be made from within the administrative corps. http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32057421&cat=7948506725f8face Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:33:08 -0500 Naharnet http://feeds.lebanonnews.net/?rid=32057421&cat=7948506725f8face