Arabic News Weekly Edition for Lebanon, 7/13/1998
Weekly Edition, Lebanon - Week of July 13, 1998
- Lebanese pilots hold one-day strike
The company was able to move several flights, including one on one of its own planes to London and another on a plane leased from a French company to Paris. It found spots for many other passengers in planes affiliated to foreign companies working at Beirut International Airport. Lebanon, Business, 7/18/1998 - A message from Boueiz to UAE's defense minister Lebanon-United Arab Emirates, Politics, 7/17/1998
- Civil marriage in Lebanon opposed by Saudi religious panel
The Saudi committee issues opinion on law that would ease interfaith marriage. Lebanon-Saudi Arabia, Politics, 7/17/1998 - Clashes damage Hadatha houses, air raids target Sujoud
three houses were damaged in Hadatha town. A fire broke out in olive trees and wheat fields in Hadatha and Eita al-Jabal towns. The fires were still raging by 10:00 a.m. yesterday. Lebanon-Israel, Military, 7/17/1998 - UNIFIL - Security Council Lebanon-UN, Politics, 7/16/1998
- Lebanese Premier confers with Arab journalist delegation Lebanon-Regional, Politics, 7/16/1998
- SLA officer dead as Lebanese resistance, Israel trade attacks
Lebanese security sources said that Israeli occupation forces on Wednesday continued attacks against area adjacent to the occupied part of south Lebanon. Israeli artillery shelled the woods of Sujoud, al-Rayhan, Aqmata area and Lweiseh woods in al-Tuffah district. Lebanon-Israel, Military, 7/16/1998 - Report: Secret Israeli plan to withdraw from south Lebanon
In its most recent issue, the Paris-based "al-Watan al-Arabi" magazine said that Israel has drawn up a secret plan to maintain a unilateral withdrawal from south Lebanon, but not to hand it over to the Lebanese authorities. Lebanon-Israel, Politics, 7/15/1998 - Arab Parliamentarians to convene in Beirut on the occasion of Qana massacre
Secretary general of the Arab Parliamentary Union (APU), Noureddine Bouchkouj (Morocco), conferred on Tuesday in Beirut with the speaker of the Lebanese parliament on the possibility of convening the coming session of the APU's council in the Lebanese capital. Regional-Lebanon, Politics, 7/15/1998 - Lebanese prisoner finsihed his term eight years ago but is still in prison Lebanon-Israel, Judicial, 7/15/1998
- Israeli heavy artillery hit towns, damages utility lines
Israeli heavy artillery intensively pounded on Tuesday the area of al-Tasse spring flow and the outskirts of Lweizeh, Jarjou' and Mleita towns in al-Tuffah district in the occupied part of south Lebanon Lebanon-Israel, Military, 7/15/1998 - Israeli shelling injures citizen, peace-keepers
Lebanese security sources said that Israeli heavy artillery from its positions of Aishieh and Zafata shelled the areas of Luweizeh, Sujoud al-Rayhan, Aqmata, Jabal al-Rafee and the Litani and Tasse rivers. Lebanon-Israel, Military, 7/14/1998 - Hariri confers with Egyptian ambassador Lebanon-Egypt, Politics, 7/13/1998