Pakistan suicide bomber was a woman

A woman covered in a head-to-foot burqa carried out a suicide bombing that killed more than 40 people in Pakistan, government officials said on Sunday, adding to security challenges confronting the U.S. ally. (more…)

Lebanon PM headed to New York on a private visit- update

Lebanon Prime Minister Saad Hariri headed to New York on a private visit on Sunday , according to a statement issued by his press office. The statement did not provide any other details (more…)

Explosion in Palestinian camp in south Lebanon, update

An bomb which targeted a shop owned by a Palestinian Armed Struggle official Rasmi Nasrallah at Ein el-Helweh Palestinian refugee camp exploded at 5 a.m. on Sunday,causing material damage only. (more…)

8 American tourists killed, 19 wounded in Egypt bus crash

Eight American tourists — six women and two men — were killed in a traffic accident Sunday while on a tour bus in Aswan, Egypt, the country’s interior ministry said.

An additional 19 American tourists and two Egyptians (more…)

Ecuador, latest country to recognize a Palestinian state

Ecuador is the latest country to recognize an independent Palestinian state.

The government said on Friday that President Rafael Correa recognized “the Palestine State as free and independent within its borders since 1967.” (more…)

Lebanese shot by Syrians at borders

National Agency Agency reported that Osama A. A.(born in 1982 in Wadi Khaled) was transferred to Yousuf Medical Center in Halba, with gunshot wounds . (more…)

March 14 official calls for an initiative before STL indictment

“Lebanese leaders have about two weeks to create a safety net that will protect Lebanon,”
March 14 General Secretariat coordinator Fares Soueid told LBC TV on Sunday adding that the country is now waiting for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) indictment. (more…)

Chamoun: Jumblatt changes positions to satisfy Hezbollah

National Liberal Party (NLP) leader Dori Chamoun told OTV on Sunday that Jumblatt’s positions “change between one day and the other.”

Chamoun added that Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblatt’s changes in positions are to satisfy Hezbollah. (more…)

Hizballah fears al-’Qaeda’ type attack from Lebanon Sunnis

A day after the radical “Salafist” Sunni preacher Sheikh Omar Bakri was arrested last month, having been sentenced in absentia by a Lebanese court to life imprisonment on terrorism charges, he received an unexpected visitor in his holding cell at Beirut’s police headquarters. Nawar Sahili, an MP from Lebanon’s militant Shi’ite Hezbollah movement — the Salafists’ most powerful local enemy — and a lawyer by training, offered Bakri his legal services. (more…)

Suspected suicide bomber kills at least 45 in Pakistan

Authorities in northwestern Pakistan say a suspected suicide blast has killed at least 45 people and wounded scores. The attack comes a day after Taliban insurgents launched coordinated assaults on security forces in a neighboring district that left 11 soldiers and 24 militants dead. Ayaz Gul has the details from Islamabad. (more…)