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• Relief groups sound alarm over homeless after Lebanon clashes

  - 2008-07-31

  TRIPOLI, Lebanon AFP — Relief groups and officials sounded the alarm on Thursday over the fate of thousands of people made homeless by sectarian fighting in poverty-stricken areas of the north Lebanese port city. "We are deeply concerned about families, many with lots of small children, who were already...

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• Villagers in south Lebanon camp outdoors amid quake fears

  - 2008-07-01

  SRIFA, Lebanon AFP — Hundreds of residents of the south Lebanon village of Srifa have been camping out at night amid fears that a major earthquake will hit the region, their mayor said on Tuesday. Ali Eid said around 300 people from Srifa, a village of 6,000 inhabitants east...

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• Lebanon raises wages on eve of strike

  - 2008-05-06

  BEIRUT AFP — The Lebanese government on Tuesday announced it will increase the minimum monthly wage by 130 dollars, on the eve of a general strike over price rises and amid a deepening crisis with the opposition. Information Minister Ghazi Aridi told reporters that the government decided late Monday...

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• Hundreds protest in Beirut against price rises

  - 2008-05-01

  BEIRUT AFP — Hundreds of Lebanese protested against inflation on Thursday at a May Day rally organised by the communist party, demanding an increase in the minimum monthly wage. Earlier this year Lebanon's General Confederation of Workers CGTL called for the minimum wage to be tripled from 300,000 Lebanese...

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• Rebuild or wait? The Lebanese dilemma

  - 2006-08-06

  NAAMEH, Lebanon AFP — At 75, Alia Mattar is an unshakeable optimist. Already she is looking for stonemasons to repair fissures in her house caused by the shock waves of Israeli bombs hitting Naameh bridge, 15 kilometres nine miles south of Beirut. "What do you expect? You have to...

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• UNICEF starts immunisation programme in Lebanon

  - 2006-08-04

  PARIS AFP — UNICEF said it has started to immunise tens of thousands of children displaced by the conflict in Lebanon amid fears of an outbreak of measles, polio or other diseases. The Lebanese ministry of health -- supported by UNICEF, the World Health Organisation and non-governmental organisations --...

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• Mother and her six children killed in Israeli Lebanon raid

  - 2006-07-29

  NABATIYEH, Lebanon AFP — Fourteen civilians, including a mother and her six children, have been killed in a new wave of Israeli air raids on Lebanon, police said. The seven members of the Kharakeh family were crushed to death along with another man under the rubble of their two-storey...

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• Lebanese ministers visit refugee camp for first time

  - 2006-03-24

  BEIRUT AFP — Three Lebanese cabinet ministers visited the Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camps outside the capital, the first ever such occasion. Education Minister Khaled Kabbani, who headed the group, expressed outrage about the living conditions in the camps. "What we saw in this camp is a...

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• Man pleads guilty in US court to supporting Hezbollah

  - 2005-03-01

  WASHINGTON AFP — A 33-year-old man, Mahmoud Youssef Kourani, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to provide support to Hezbollah, which is designated as a foreign terrorist organization by Washington, the Justice Department said. The department said in a statement that Kourani entered the plea in a federal court in Detroit,...

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• Israeli warplanes violate Lebanese airspace

  - 2004-11-04

  BEIRUT AFP — Israeli aviation violated Lebanese airspace over the south of the country several times, the United Nations office in Beirut reported. "As of 3:45 pm (1345 GMT), eight violations, involving 11 aircraft and three drones, were recorded," said a UN statement, adding that "there have been no...

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