Lebanon News

BEIRUT: Around 24 percent of Lebanese firms will "definitely be hiring" in the next three months, according to a poll conducted by regional job search website Bayt.com and consulting firm YouGov.The percentage is forecasted to significantly increase to 68 percent within a year, the study showed.

BEIRUT: Real advertising expenditures in Lebanon slipped to $174 million in 2011, shedding 3.3 percent from $180 million in 2010, according to a forthcoming report in Arab Ad magazine.

If you thought the title was referring to the Palestinians living in Gaza, or even Judea and Samaria, you were wrong.

Bishop Gregory J. Mansour talks with : Anna Grace Shaia, Ava Nadder and Leanne Siefke; Sarah Flammia, Hannah Roberts, Julia Fabito, Riley Cassidy and Ashley Maust.

A bullet hole in a window in Tripoli, Lebanon, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012. Clashes between pro- and anti-Syria gunmen in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli on Saturday left two people dead and 12 wounded in the latest skirmish between Lebanese factions over the crisis in neighboring Syria.

DAMASCUS: Syrian armour moved on protest centres and a general was gunned down in Damascus on Saturday as the bloodshed showed no signs of abating, even spilling over into Lebanon.

Following are summaries of some of the main stories in a selection of Lebanese newspapers Saturday.

While Lebanese launched demonstrations Friday condemning the Syrian regime's violence, Hizbullah's ties to Assad have left Syrians seeking refuge in Lebanon in a dicey situation, Andrew Bossone reports.

BEIRUT: Israel is ready for possible attacks by Hezbollah aimed at distracting the world from events in Syria, said Israel's foreign minister, as the Lebanese Army accused Israel of violating the border by setting up a barbed wire fence."Israel is ready for any scenario in which Hezbollah in Lebanon carries out provocative operations on the ... (more)

BEIRUT: Middle East Airlines is showing keen interest in acquiring a stake in the troubled Cyprus Airways, an industry source confirmed to The Daily Star Friday."MEA is interested in buying a stake of Cyprus Airways.

Twin car bomb attacks have struck Syria's second city of Aleppo, according to state TV, as up to 10,000 troops are reported to be massing on the outskirts of the besieged city of Homs.

In this undated citizen journalism image provided by the Local Coordination Committees in Syria and accessed on Thursday, Feb.

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Let's face it. Starting at thirteen years old school girls are running around exposing just about everything they have to offer these days, . Why one's bosom bursting out of a shirt five sizes too small is the youth of today's idea of fashion, I don't know.

A 23-year-old Boone County man was arrested this week in a methamphetamine-trafficking case.

They say that a Syrian 10-pound coin, worth less than 2 American cents, is so similar in shape and weight to a Norwegian 20-crown coin that if it's inserted into a vending machine in Oslo, it will produce a can of Coke plus change.

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Following are summaries of some of the main stories in a selection of Lebanese newspapers Wednesday.

BEIRUT: Head of the Lebanese Industrialists Association Tuesday called on the government to speed up the reimbursement of VAT proceeds collected from manufacturers, warning that the delay in doing so is a form of taxation of the industrial sector.

BEIRUT: A recently approved wage increase will cost the Lebanese government some LL1.4 trillion , Finance Minister Mohammad Safadi confirmed Tuesday, adding however that the 2012 deficit would not exceed LL5.25 trillion despite an ambitious plan to boost investments in infrastructure.