BEIRUT (AFP) - Lebanon's top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, 75, was hospitalised in Beirut for internal bleeding on Friday, hospital officials said.
"Doctors are monitoring him closely in the intensive care unit and they said he is stable, but they still cannot make a prognosis," one official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
The grand ayatollah rose in the r [...]
BEIRUT (AFP) - At the age of 13, Marwan learned to hide the little colourful pills in his socks as he strode past his supervisors at school. Two years later, he is a go-to man for ecstasy in the Lebanese capital.
In a good month, Marwan makes 3,000 dollars (around 2,440 euros) selling the tablets to mainly older friends -- 10 times the minimum wage in Lebanon or what he could earn for a s [...]
BEIRUT (AFP) - Hezbollah urged UN peacekeepers in south Lebanon, a stronghold of the Shiite militant movement, to stick to their mandate, following a wave of protests by villagers.
"UNIFIL (United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon) should always carry out its role... in a way so as not to arouse mistrust and worry of citizens as was the case during the latest exercises," Hezbollah's number [...]
BEIRUT (AFP) - A United Nations official on Thursday expressed concern over protests by villagers against UN peacekeeping troops deployed in southern Lebanon.
"I'm very concerned about the incidents that took place and I know that the Security Council members are also concerned," Michael Williams, the UN special coordinator for Lebanon, told a news conference.
Williams, who is scheduled [...]
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