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Lebanon's Prime Minister intends to send the controversial salary scale package to Parliament for approval next week in a bid to prevent on open-ended strike by the Union Coordination Committee. …

As Valentine’s Day looms closer, store displays turn red, email inboxes are flooded with wine or chocolate promotions and prices for the day’s favorite mascot — the rose — doubles. …

Economics Lebanon’s Finance Minister Mohammad Safadi has denied media allegations that he has proposed raising the value added tax from 10 to 12 percent. More from The Daily Star   …

The oft-touted promise of great gas wealth under the sea floor off Lebanon’s coast has recently compelled the nation’s eyes toward the western horizon. There is a slowly growing sense …

  In 2005 an exiled former general of the Lebanese Army stepped off a plane in Beirut to meet the throngs of supporters coming to welcome him after 15 years …

It was a Saturday night when the temperature dropped. Beirut’s skies condensed with the thick gray clouds of January. Talk of wild weather started to snowball off the tongues of …

Like most things in Lebanon, it all began with sectarianism. Or, more accurately, with one basketball team’s efforts to break free from the yoke of patronage.  The year was 2001 …

Economics Egypt’s bourse recovered on Wednesday from a four-week low as bargain hunters shrugged off political unrest. More from Reuters   The International Monetary Fund called on Lebanon to implement …

For at least a quarter of a century, development economists have been documenting the close relationship between gender equality and development: poorer regions tend to have less equality, while richer …