Lebanese News

  • Hezbollah Support Waning, Poll Finds (OfficialWire)
    Support for Hezbollah among the Shiite population in Lebanon is overwhelming, though broad support in the Middle East is dwindling, a poll suggests. A survey conducted by the Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Project found limited support for Hezbollah outside the Shiite demographic.
  • The Middle East's Leading English Language Daily (Arab News)
    RIYADH: The selection of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah as the most popular leader in the Islamic world has been welcomed throughout the Kingdom.
  • Hezbollah support waning, poll finds (UPI)
    WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Support for Hezbollah among the Shiite population in Lebanon is overwhelming, though broad support in the Middle East is dwindling, a poll suggests.

 

Middle Eastern News

  • Palestinian force makes gains in West Bank (AP)

    Palestinian security cadets train with fake guns during a drill at a training base in the West Bank city of Jericho, Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. The Palestinian government in the West Bank has announced plans to hold municipal elections on July 17. It will be the first election in the Palestinian territories since the Islamic militant Hamas wrested control of Gaza from Abbas in 2007, leaving him with only the West Bank. (AP Photo/ Tara Todras-Whitehill)AP - The security men brandished their weapons and ordered the suspicious car to halt, forcing the occupants to get out and put their hands in their air. The suspects were quickly handcuffed, frisked and made to kneel on the ground as the vehicle was swept for explosives.


  • Abbas mulls peace talks; expects U.S. answers soon (Reuters)

    Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a news conference after talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the Chancellery in Berlin February 1 , 2010. REUTERS/Thomas PeterReuters - Palestinian leaders have not set specific terms on which they would accept a U.S. offer to mediate indirect peace talks with Israel, and expect clarification on such talks in a week, President Mahmoud Abbas said on Tuesday.


  • West Bank to hold municipal elections July 17 (AP)

    FILE - In this Monday, Feb. 1, 2010 file photo, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas gestures during a news conference with the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, not seen, in the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany. The Palestinian government in the West Bank has announced plans to hold municipal elections on July 17.  It will be the first election in the Palestinian territories since the Islamic militant Hamas wrested control of Gaza from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in 2007, leaving the Western-backed president in control only of the West Bank. (AP Photo/Gero Breloer, File)AP - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' government decided Monday to hold municipal elections in the West Bank in July, the first voting since Abbas' Fatah movement was trounced by the militant Islamic Hamas in national polls four years ago.


 

United States News

  • Another major storm headed to snowy Mid-Atlantic (AP)

    Kevin McMahon of Washington, uses an oven pan as he slides on the slope of the West Front of the U.S. Capitol, Monday, Feb. 8, 2010, in Washington.  (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - A second major storm in less than a week was blowing Tuesday toward the Mid-Atlantic region, where plows still hadn't touched some roads, utility workers were struggling to restore power and shovels were in short supply.


  • Fires strike 2 more east Texas churches (AP)

    FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2010 file photo, investigators talk in front of the burned Russell Memorial United Methodist Church in Wills Point, Texas. The seventh church fire this year in east Texas destroyed the sanctuary of the church. A federal official says a fire that destroyed a church last week was the eighth case of arson against a house of worship in Texas this year.  (AP Photo/Mike Fuentes, File)AP - A sheriff's dispatcher says fires have struck two more rural east Texas churches, just hours after investigators announced that a blaze last week marked the eighth arson against a house of worship in the state this year.


  • Astronauts inspect shuttle on way to space station (AP)

    Space Shuttle Endeavour lifts-off from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla. Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. Endeavour's  six member crew will deliver a large room with a cupola to the International Space Station. (AP Photo/Terry Renna)AP - Endeavour's astronauts inspected their ship early Tuesday for any launch damage as they raced toward a 200-mile-high rendezvous with the International Space Station.



 
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