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Tour guides host hike to promote Chouf Nature Reserve

CHOUF: The Chouf Cedars Association organized a tour inside the Chouf Nature Reserve on Sunday to promote rural development and ecotourism in the region. Under the sponsorship of Democratic Gathering leader MP Walid Jumblatt, more than 100 tour guides took part in the three-hour hike near the Chouf village of Baatharan. The trip also included the inauguration of a public library and of a shop that sells local products as well as traditional Lebanese foods in  Baatharan, which is at the heart of the Chouf Nature Reserve.

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Lawmaker accused over decapitated pop star

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — An Egyptian lawmaker and business tycoon was arrested Tuesday in the death of a Lebanese pop singer, Egypt’s chief prosecutor said, accusing the man of paying a former police officer $2 million to kill her.

Hisham Talaat, a lawmaker from the ruling party of President Hosni Mubarak, is accused of ordering the death of 30-year-old Suzanne Tamim, who was found decapitated in her Dubai apartment in July, chief prosecutor Abdel-Maguid Mahmoud told The Associated Press.

The death made waves in Egyptian media in early August and prompted a media ban in Egypt last month, following reports that a high-profile Egyptian figures were involved. Read more

Lebanon’s minimum-wage row on next week’s Cabinet agenda

BEIRUT: The Cabinet is expected to meet next week to look into the proposal of Finance Minister Mohammad Shatah to raise the minimum wage to LL500,000 ($333) amid indications that this suggestion may not be settled in one session. Labor Minister Mohammad Fneish told The Daily Star on Thursday that he would give his opinion about the debate over the minimum wages during the Cabinet session.

“I have listed carefully to the Consumer Price Index Committee as well as to the private sector and the General Labor Confederation (GLC). But I think the differences between the labor unions and the private sector are as wide as before,” the minister said. Read more

Nasrallah reaches out to family of slain LAF helicopter plot

BEIRUT: Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Thursday that his group will not surrender its weapons “as long as Israeli threats persist.” “These weapons will remain because they are used for defense,” Nasrallah said in a televised speech during an iftar hosted by the Hizbullah Support Committee.

Nasrallah also reiterated that Hizbullah will destroy Israel if the Jewish state launches a new attack on Lebanon.

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Dialogue and reconciliation have to go hand in hand, Sleiman tells Lebanese

BEIRUT: President Michel Sleiman said on Wednesday that achieving national unity in Lebanon required reconciliation and true dialogue between the Lebanese. “There will be no reconciliation without dialogue and no dialogue without reconciliation,” Sleiman told a delegation from the Lebanese Press Federation which visited him at the Presidential Palace.

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U.N. peacekeeper killed in Lebanon

BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) — A United Nations peacekeeper working to clear landmines died Wednesday in southern Lebanon, according to a spokeswoman for the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon.

U.N. peacekeepers have had a presence in Lebanon since 1978 after Israel withdrew.

The person died in an explosion as the UNIFIL explosive ordnance disposal team surveyed a field near the village of Aitaroun, where mines are believed to have been planted, according to spokeswoman Yasmina Bouziane. It was UNIFIL’s second mine-related death since 2006, she said.

“UNIFIL medical and explosive ordnance disposal teams were immediately dispatched to the location and an investigation is under way,” she said. Read more

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