The Lede: In Beirut, Time Again to Feed the Meter
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A positive indicator of progress toward normalcy in Beirut are the new parking meters that go into effect on Monday, the first in decades.
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BEIRUT, Feb. 14 -- The scenes have now become familiar in Beirut: tens of thousands waving the Lebanese flag, vows to neither surrender nor submit, speakers and protesters paying respects to dead they recognize as martyrs, pledging fealty to communal leaders and calling for national salvation on...
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Incontri Pellegrini-Confessore e De Giorgi-autorita' Beirut
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BEIRUT, Dec. 3 -- Hezbollah and its allies returned tens of thousands of followers to downtown Beirut on Sunday in an ongoing protest against the government of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora, a startling show of force in its third day that has left parts of Beirut in a schizophrenic mood: upended by...
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BEIRUT -- At the al-Manar television network headquarters, the show goes on: A veiled news presenter is making the final adjustments to her English-language news bulletin, and a political talk show about corruption in Lebanon is going on the air. In the basement, young men are testing a state-of-the-art studio.
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Pakistan Times Executive Editor with PT Foreign Correspondent Fuad Rajab in Gaza City. PARIS (France): Palestinians at home and elsew here got upset by mystification of deviating stories about
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BEIRUT -- A racket filled the air outside Mohammed Jassar's shop in a swath of Beirut devastated in this summer's war with Israel. Hammers delivered a cadence to the clamor of bulldozers, saws and drills trying to rebuild. The noise was almost as loud as the invective these days in Lebanese...
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Workers scrambled to ready ports and the Beirut airport for a renewed flow of passengers and cargo.
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Card. Sfeir says Lebanon has become &quot;a toy&quot; in the hands of the regional powers. According to many politicians and observers the existence of the country is at risk.
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It is Friday night in Beirut's Nova  nightclub. The music is booming, the Lebanese crowd jumping  around and belting out lyrics to favorite tunes. But close your  eyes, and it is hard to remember that this is Lebanon.
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Yossi Vaknin says he's got rocket-dodging down to a science since being forced underground by Hezbollah missiles. Sitting outside public shelter 110, in a tank-top and flip-flops, he smokes a cigarette and glances at his watch. It's almost 4 p.m. "This is their time," he says.
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BEIRUT -- Few places seem to indicate how far this country has come from civil war than the sunny hipness of the Virgin Megastore that fills a blond-stone building in the heart of the new Beirut. Lebanon's largest mosque is being built nearby amid a cluster of lovely churches, a sign that the religious tolerance shattered by years of fighting between Christian and Muslim militias in these same streets is on the rise.
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By Dean Baker, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Sep.
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Riprendono i collegamenti aerei Roma-Beirut
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Chicago Tribune - On an August day in 1982, Yasser Arafat faced one of his bleakest moments. His guerrilla fighters defeated, his commanders in despair, Arafat gathered his nationalist forces at a port in the war-torn city of Beirut.
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Â· Damascus says UN move will destabilise Lebanon  Â· Last chance for parliament in Beirut to end impasse
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Wellington City Council will this week start replacing 1300 parking meters with 300 pay-and-display machines that can accept payments from mobile phones or credit cards.