Haiti in relief; a reporter’s notebook (The Palm Beach Post)
Haiti in relief; a reporter’s notebook
Steps to revive mortgage lending is need of the hour (Zawya)
Bank of Sharjah relies heavily on investment and commercial banking to make profits and deals mainly in trade, industrial projects and project finance. In the process of finalising a tie-up with BNP Paribas for private banking, the bank expects to post profits of 15 per cent this year.
‘Hezbollah prepared for any surprise’ (Press TV)
Hezbollah Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem has said that the Lebanese resistance movement is ready for any surprise from Israel.
Israeli forces seize a Lebanese shepherd in southern Lebanon (EARTHtimes.org)
Beirut – An Israeli commando force Sunday seized a Lebanese shepherd who was tending a herd of sheep at the edge of the country’s southern border with Israel, Lebanese police confirmed. Police were confirming an earlier disclosure by Shiite MP Qassem…
Israel arrests Lebanese civilian in Shebaa: army (AFP via Yahoo! News)
The Israeli army arrested a young Lebanese civilian in the occupied Shebaa Farms area of south Lebanon on Sunday, Lebanon’s army and the United Nations peacekeeping force in the region said.
Crews continue hunt for black box (BigPond News)
Salvage teams are continuing the search for the black box of an Ethiopian airliner that crashed off Beirut.
Ministers slammed for speaking at meeting with Muslim who justified killing British troops (Daily Mail)
Cabinet Ministers are facing questions after appearing at the same event as a Muslim activist who once suggested the killing of British troops in Iraq was justified.
Nightmare in the Middle East (New York Post)
Whatever planet Earth may find in short supply in 2010, violence and misrule will remain abundant, from the most-recent round of Muslim-vs.-Christian massacres in Nigeria to Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez’s delight in unleashing his thugs on students marching for freedom. But no region — not even sub-Saharan Africa — competes…
Lebanese Academic, Iraqi Artist win Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2010 (Middle East Online)
Mutlaq from Lebanon, Al Husseini from Iraq awarded for best translation, Fine Arts category respectively.
Whitehall’s Sam’s Bistro brings exotic Middle East fare to West Michigan (Slideshow) (The Muskegon Chronicle)
Chronicle photos/Kendra Stanley-MillsSam Naccache, owner of Sam’s Bistro in Whitehall, hugs his granddaughter Selena Cisneros, 6, who came in the restaurant to eat pizza with her family. Cisneros was showing her grandfather her loose tooth. Sam’s Bistro is located at…
