PFLP-GC rocket launchers on 888 hill outrage Jumblatt

Al Jumhouriaya newspaper reported on Monday that the meeting between Public Works and Transportation Minister Ghazi Aridi and Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah is related to the recent strain in Hezbollah-PSP relations. (more…)

Mansour: No Lebanon-Israel deal to discuss maritime border

Foreign Affairs Minister Adnan Mansour denied on Monday the report in Israeli newspaper Haaretz that UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that Lebanon agreed to discuss with Israel its maritime borders in a tripartite meeting. (more…)

Spain offered Assad and his family asylum, report

Spain in July sent a secret mission to Syria in an attempt to find a solution to the current conflict there and offer asylum to President Bashar Assad and his family, Spanish newspaper El Pais reported on Monday. (more…)

Latest crackdown prompts Palestinians to protest against Syrian regime

ELEANOR HALL: Despite the intensified international pressure on his rule, the Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad stepped up his retaliation against Syria’s civilian population over the weekend.

Human rights groups say president Assad’s forces launched an attack on land but also from the sea on the port city of Latakia. (more…)

Jumblatt ministers may quit cabinet over electoral law

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblatt called for preserving the current electoral law in the upcoming parliamentary elections during   an Iftar at al Irfan school in the Shouf region of Mt Lebanon on Saturday. (more…)

Iran to fund an army base near Syria’s Latakia

Iran will fund a multi-million- dollar army base on Syria’s coast to funnel military equipment to the beleaguered regime of President Bashar Assad, Britain’s Daily Telegraph reported on Friday. (more…)

Mubarak to return to court on Monday

The second session of the trial of Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is due to begin on Monday. The hearing will take place at Egypt’s Police academy. Our correspondent Adel EL- Mah-rouky in Cairo has this update. (more…)

MP Aoun for electoral law based on proportional representation

During an interview with MTV on Sunday Change and Reform bloc MP Alain Aoun called for drafting an electoral law based on proportional representation. (more…)

Mikati Cabinet: More Incongruities

By Ghassan Karam
So the Lebanese politicians were not satisfied with the lack of accomplishments by the Sa’ad Hariri led cabinet. That is their privilege.  A new majority was cobbled up in an effort to form a different cabinet. Alas the new coalition could not agree on the cabinet formation for over 5 months and then [...]

Jumblatt opposes changes in electoral law

During an Iftar at al Irfan school in the Shouf region of Mt Lebanon on Saturday Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblatt called for preserving the current electoral law in the upcoming parliamentary elections. (more…)