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Lebanese finance minister expects $3.2 billion budget deficit in 2009

Lebanon's budget deficit is expected to surpass 37 percent of spnding, or $3.2 billion, in 2009 due to mounting losses at the state-owned electricity firm and higher allocations for government employees' wages, Finance...

Daily Star Political News: All sides hail Sleiman's invitation to dialogue

President Michel Sleiman's announcement that national dialogue meetings will kick off on September 16 triggered a flurry of positive responses from all across the political spectrum on Wednesday. Future Movement leader MP...

Secretary-General deplores latest deadly car bombing in Lebanon

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned last night's car bombing in Lebanon that claimed the life of a senior politician and wounded six others, saying it highlights the need for political reconciliation in the Middle...

Killing of Lebanon politician a blow to reconciliation

BEIRUT, Sept 11, 2008 (AFP) - The killing of a Lebanese politician in the first such attack against a pro-Syrian figure jeopardises national reconciliation efforts already undermined by deep rifts between rival factions....

Sunni dynamics shift in the North

The headline in the pro-opposition Al-Akhbar newspaper on Tuesday described the reconciliation in Tripoli as an event that "broke" the authority of the Hariri camp. Hariri not only sought to rally his power base in the...

Lebanese politician killed in car bomb

Beirut: A bomb tore through a car in the hills east of Lebanon's capital on Wednesday, killing a Druze politician who recently helped reconcile rival factions within that minority community, police said. The bomb that...

Lebanon's rival Sunni, Alawite sects agree on reconciliation

BEIRUT, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) -- Lebanon's rival Sunni and Alawite sects have agreed on reconciliation in a bid to curb tensions following their four months of fighting, local newspaper Daily Star reported Tuesday. Alawite...

Leaders ink reconciliation agreement in northern Lebanon

Beirut: Top politicians in northern Lebanon signed a reconciliation agreement on Monday calling for an end to the sectarian violence that has killed and wounded scores in the past three months. The six-point agreement...

Beirut

THE bus from Damascus crawls through traffic down Mount Lebanon. This view suddenly brings Lebanon’s recent history into focus. The drive to the centre provides me with my first lesson in Lebanese politics. There is no...

Accord signed to end north Lebanon bloodshed

A reconciliation accord was signed Monday between Alawites and Sunnis in northern Lebanon's capital of Tripoli aiming to restore state control in the port city and put an end to bloodshed. At least 23 people have been...