Fatfat: Berri cannot throw rocks, his house is made of glass

In a Tuesday interview with Akhbar al-Yawm news agency, March 14 MP Ahmad Fatfat responded on to Speaker Nabih Berri’s statement that the Cedar Revolution “took Lebanon 60 years back.”

Berri “cannot easily throw rocks at us” because his “house is made of glass.” (more…)

NATO: Gaddafi’s reign of terror is coming to an end

NATO on Tuesday welcomed news that several Libyan military officers had defected to Italy, hailing it as proof that support for Moamer Gaddafi was crumbling. (more…)

Passengers stage mutiny aboard Lebanese airline

Passengers ‘mutinied’ on a flight from Heathrow after a thunderstorm left them waiting for take-off for almost seven hours.

Trouble erupted after a Beirut-bound Middle East Airlines plane, with 230 passengers aboard, had to abort a 5pm take-off on Thursday, having already missed its original 1pm departure slot. (more…)

OpEd: Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, silence is golden

Sayyed Nasrallah, you are wrong, very very wrong to call for the support of a criminal repressive regime of Bashar el-Assad

Chamoun: Nahhas was my neighbor. I know he is not normal

National Liberal Party leader Dori Chamoun said on Tuesday that resigned Telecommunications Minister Charbel Nahhas is not “a normal person.”

“Nahhas is not a normal person, he was our neighbor and wasn’t normal,” he told Future News television. (more…)

Syrian opposition to meet in Turkey and form a “transitional council”

With Syrian protests turning increasingly violent in recent days, dissidents have been gathering for a conference in Antalya to discuss a representative body that will draw international attention to the uprising. A discussion has already fueled up some of the Syrian opposition over the meeting, which will select a “transitional council” to represent the Syrian revolution on the international scene. (more…)

Germany’s Merkel lands in India after Iran blocks plane

Iran briefly refused to allow a plane carrying German Chancellor Angela Merkel to India to enter its airspace, forcing the government aircraft to circle over Turkey for almost two hours before giving clearance. (more…)

Berri Must Go.

By Ghassan Karam
If speaker Berri is to act as per the saying by Mahatma Gandhi :“Be the change you want to be in the world” then he would have no problem in supporting dictatorship

Activists insist revolution is far from over in Egypt

The revolution is not over…….That’s the message that a spirited and sizable group of Egyptians are insisting on, upset over the pace and planning of reforms in the nearly four months since President Hosni Mubarak quit amid a wave of popular unrest. (more…)

Hamadeh: Nahhas broke the law, Ogero was right in seeking protection

The parliamentary telecommunications committee headed by MP Hassan Fadlallah held a meeting on Monday to discuss the Adliyeh incident . (more…)