Economics and Policy Leading Lebanese business leaders have warned of total economic and financial collapse if the tense political and security situation does not end. More from The Daily Star Lebanon’s budget deficit in the first two months of 2013 reached 16.05 percent compared to 18.1 percent in the same period of last year. More from The Daily Star Southern Libya is rapidly becoming an ungoverned space, home to extremist groups and international smugglers, as a weak government struggles to assert control and overlapping security structures jostle violently for dominance. More from The National Companies and Business Accor Middle East has announced a new hotel brand for the region, Aparthotels Adagio, which will provide apartments with hotel services to particularly cater for corporate clients on extended stays. More from Arabian Business Sales of combat aircraft in the Middle East and Asia will more than compensate for
