Arabic News Weekly Edition for Lebanon, 6/2/2003
Weekly Edition, Lebanon - Week of June 2, 2003
- Canada abrogates a flight for Canada Air to Lebanon
The Canadian airline establishment "Air Canada " yesterday announced that the Canadian government withdrew from it, for security reasons, permission to carry out the only direct flight between North American and Lebanon. Lebanon-Canada, Local, 6/4/2003 - Explosive went off in a Hizbullah ambulance
Eye-witnesses and security sources said that an explosive went off in an ambulance for the Hizbullah party in the border Lebanese village of Kafer Kalla and resulted in wounding its driver in the first incident of its kind targeting members of the Hizbullah party since the Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon in 2000. Lebanon, Local, 6/4/2003 - Conference about Democracy opened in Beirut
Activities of the International conference on democracy and peace, organized by the United Nation Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO, opened in Beirut on Monday. Regional-Lebanon, Politics, 6/3/2003 - Moussa, Berri review developments Lebanon-Regional, Politics, 6/3/2003
- Berri is the chairman of the Arab parliamentary Union Lebanon-Regional, Politics, 6/3/2003
- Lebanese, Syrian common stances stressed Lebanon-Syria, Politics, 6/3/2003
- Member of Fatah movement assassinated in Ein al-Helweh camp
A Palestinian source in Ein al-Helweh, Lebanon, announced yesterday that a member in the Fatah movement, led by the chairman of the Palestinian Authority Yasser Arafat, was killed on Saturday evening by bullets in Ein al-Helweh camp for the Palestinian refugees. Lebanon, Local, 6/2/2003