20 August 2008
A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip landed in southern Israel on Tuesday, prompting the Jewish state to order border crossings with the Hamas-ruled territory
closed temporarily, Israel Radio reported.
20 August 2008
A fire broke out in Egypt's upper house of parliament on Tuesday wounding thirteen people and prompting deployment of army firefighting helicopters,
officials said. "Army helicopters are now trying to put out the fire which has spread," a security official told AFP.
20 August 2008
The Hamas government in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday denied reports it plans to change the list of Palestinian prisoners to be released in return for the
captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
19 August 2008
A suicide bomber on a motorcycle struck a checkpoint in Baghdad manned by U.S.-backed neighbourhood guards on Sunday, killing 15 people and injuring 29,
police said. Among those killed in the attack in the mainly Sunni Adhamiya district of northern Baghdad was a leader of the neighbourhood guards in the area,
Faruq Abu Omar.
19 August 2008
The head of Israel's space agency on Monday played down concerns over Iran's announcement it sent a rocket into space, saying the real threat came from
Tehran's nuclear program.
21 July 2008
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem is to visit Beirut on Monday a week after Lebanon and Syria agreed to establish diplomatic relations between the
adjoining nations.
21 July 2008
Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Butros Sfeir on Sunday called on all leaders of the Maronite community to overcome their desires for power, adding that he had
not stopped contacts with Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun and former Minister Sleiman Franjieh, who is also the head of the Marada movement.
21 July 2008
Justice Minister Ibrahim Najjar said Sunday the International Tribunal to try suspects in the February 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik
Hariri had begun its work, and was "not dependent on the work or identity of the justice minister."
21 July 2008
Malaysia has sent a new batch of peacekeepers (Malcon III) to replace those currently serving with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL),
Malaysia's The Star newspaper reported on Sunday.
21 July 2008
Almost eight years ago, in an effort to boost the competitiveness of air-travel in Lebanon, late former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri's government introduced
an "open sky" policy.
18 July 2008
Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) leader Walid Jumblatt said on Thursday that only Lebanese national unity can protect the resistance, in reference to
Hizbullah.
