12 February 2010
The cabinet has failed to reach agreement over controversial reforms during a session at Baabda palace on Thursday amid insistence by President Michel Suleiman to hold the municipal elections on time, whether reforms to the electoral law were adopted by the government or not.

12 February 2010
The United States has reportedly announced readiness to provide the Lebanese army by 2013 with aircraft designed for light attack to improve its capabilities in reconnaissance missions and counter-insurgency operations. As Safir daily said Friday the Pentagon has proposed to provide Lebanon with Hawker-Beechcraft AT-6 or Embraer Super Tucano planes.

12 February 2010
Health Minister Mohammed Jawad Khalife said in remarks published Friday that "six new bodies of (Ethiopian) plane passengers were identified in the past hours." With Khalife's announcement to As Safir daily, the number of identified victims in the past 2 days rose to 30, in addition to 15 Lebanese and Ethiopian passengers that had previously been identified.

12 February 2010
Paris will send an official invitation to Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Sfeir to visit Paris and believes that Sfeir's trip to the French capital is more pressing than the visit of Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun, well-informed French sources told pan-Arab daily al-Hayat.

12 February 2010
Saudi Culture and Information Minister Abdulaziz Khoja, who has been selected Man of the Year 2009 by the American University of Beirut, met with President Michel Suleiman on Thursday. A delegation from the AUB alumni association accompanied Khoja to Baabda palace and informed Suleiman about the award granted to the former Saudi ambassador.

11 February 2010
Interior Minister Ziad Baroud said nothing will impede timely municipal elections, adding that Cabinet will approve reforms to the electoral law on Thursday or Friday. Baroud said electoral lists had been published online, urging voters to make sure their names were registered and correctly spelled before a Feb. 30 deadline.