MP Qabbani: Parliament should vote on cabinet’s electricity bill version

March 14 MP Mohammad Qabbani told Future News television on Wednesday that his Future Movement parliamentary bloc wants the parliament to cast a vote on the electricity plan that includes the amendments that the cabinet made during its September 7 session. (more…)

Obama Making Final Push to Blunt Palestinian Bid

Scrambling to head off a diplomatic clash, President Barack Obama will publicly push for the Palestinians to drop a statehood bid when he addresses the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday.

Obama will follow up his speech with separate meetings with Israeli and Palestinian leaders as he seeks to coax both parties back to direct peace talks. (more…)

Gemayel, Hariri meet in Saudi , agree to unite opposition

Former Lebanese president and current Phalange party leader Amin Gemayel met former Prime Minister Saad Hariri in Saudi Arabia and agreed “to unite the opposition, ” Kuwaiti As-Seyassah newspaper reported on Wednesday (more…)

Obama to meet Abbas and Netanyahu over Palestinian UN bid

US President Barack Obama will urge his Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas to drop a bid for UN recognition of statehood later on Wednesday.

Mr Obama will also meet Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu amid frantic diplomacy aimed at averting a crisis. (more…)

Lebanon, Libya to hold conference in Beirut, says Suleiman

President Michel Suleiman said on Tuesday that Lebanon and Libya agreed to hold a conference in Beirut on November 23 to encourage investment in Libya, a statement from the president’s press office said. (more…)

De Freige: Hezbollah’s March 8 serving Israeli project in ME

“ It is the March 8 coalition that is serving the Israeli project and dividing the Lebanese people ,” March 14 MP Nabil De Freige said in response to Hezbollah Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem’s statement that “the March 14 parties are serving ‘the US-Israeli project’ in the Middle East.” (more…)

Suspected bomb rocks Turkish capital, 15 wounded

A Turkish deputy prime minister says officials suspect a bomb caused a blast that wounded 15 in the capital.

Bulent Arinc says “there is information that a bomb was planted” on the vehicle that exploded in the downtown Kizilay district on Tuesday. (more…)

MP Wannous: Bassil is “a disaster” for Lebanon’s electricity

March 14 MP Badr Wannous said on Tuesday that Energy Minister Gebran Bassil is “a disaster” for Lebanon’s electricity. (more…)

Two fugitives killed in ISF ambush in Beqaa

Internal Security Force (ISF) Information Branch unit prepared an ambush on Monday night for Wael Abbas, who is wanted in the March kidnapping of seven Estonians, Voice of Lebanon radio reported on Tuesday adding that neither of the two men killed in the assault were Abbas. (more…)

The full story behind the abduction of a defecting officer of Syrian army

Lieutenant Colonel Hussein Harmoush fled Syria and took refuge in Turkey then showed up in Syria once again and retracted in a TV interview all earlier anti-regime statements. The mystery is more or less solved as information surfaced (more…)