Archive for May, 2011
Palestinian official calls Netanyahu’s speech a declaration of war
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s parameters for a peace deal, outlined in a speech to the U.S. Congress on Tuesday, fell far short of what is needed to resume negotiations, Palestinian officials said. (more…)
Syrian children orphaned By crackdown escape to Lebanon
A bloody crackdown by Syrian troops sent four children fleeing their hometown, sometimes crawling across the mountainous terrain between Lebanon and Syria, in a frantic effort to get to safety. (more…)
Alien weed invasion threatens crops in region
An invasive alien weed, silverleaf nightshade, is threatening cotton and wheat crops in Syria and Iraq and could spread to Lebanon and Jordan, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Tuesday. (more…)
Patriarch Rai: ‘Lebanon is sick , needs treatment’
“Lebanon is sick and needs treatment,” Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rai told a consular delegation on Tuesday stressing that the government crisis has crippled the Lebanese constitutional institutions and led to economic problems (more…)
National dialogue in syria is admission of defeat, interview
Vladimir Ahmedov, a Russian expert in Middle East and North Africa said in an interview that for Syria the idea of a national dialogue is on par with an admission of defeat.
Can the Lebanese Politicians Save the Economy?
By Ghassan Karam
Whenever a country is subjected to some turbulence; social political, economic or natural; its economic performance is bound to suffer. This has always been the case, all throughout history and it still is.
US, UK tell Assad: Stop the killings beatings and arrests
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that nearly 1,000 people had been killed in a crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in Syria and called on President Bashar al-Assad to halt the violence. (more…)
Missouri: Tornado toll climbs to 116; at least 4 killed at hospital
A massive tornado that tore a 6-mile path across southwestern Missouri in the US killed at least 116 people as it slammed into the city of Joplin, ripping into a hospital, crushing cars like soda cans and leaving a forest of splintered tree trunks behind where entire neighborhoods once stood. (more…)
Aoun: I will always side with Hezbollah
Free patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun told Al-Entikad website on Monday said that his relation with Hezbollah is permanent and is based on convictions, adding that he will always side with the resistance because it is a sacred choice. (more…)
1st government-authorized Syria sit-in canceled
BEIRUT – Activists canceled the first government-approved demonstration in the Syrian capital since the government lifted a 48-year-old state of emergency last month, a Syrian official said Monday. (more…)
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