Medical Mystery, 8-Year-Old Hussein Balhas From Lebanon Survives Rare Disease Against All Odds, and Looks for Hope and Solutions From American Doctors.
ALO Cultural Foundation coordinates massive effort on behalf of boy LOS ANGELES, Nov. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- It is the year 2000 in Lebanon, and a young mother searches for a doctor to deliver her baby. The first one turns her away after examining the x-ray. Another recommends...

Research and Markets Adds Report: United Arab Emirates Pharmaceuticals and Healthcare Report Q4 2008.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-27 November 2008-Research and Markets Adds Report: United Arab Emirates Pharmaceuticals and Healthcare Report Q4 2008(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "United Arab Emirates Pharmaceuticals and Healthcare Report Q4 2008" report to its offerings. ...

LEBANON - Oct 16 - Hizbullah Basks In Its Authority.
In spite of his modest title of labour minister and his spartan office in a poor neighbourhood of Beirut, Muhammad Fneish speaks with an authority bordering on overconfidence, an attitude that testifies to the power of Hizbullah, the militant Shi'ite group, in Lebanon. Fneish, a senior party official who...

Focus On Lebanon.
With March 8 and March 14 politicians are preparing for the 2009, it was reported on Oct. 11 that more than 300 Iranian IRGC forces had just been deployed to south Lebanon to bolster Hizbullah forces there in anticipation of war. On Oct. 9, Hizbullah deputy head Na'im Qassem...

ARAB AFFAIRS - Oct 14 - Assad Issues Decree To Establish Full Diplomatic Relations With Lebanon.
Syrian President Bashar Assad issues a presidential decree ordering the establishment of diplomatic relations between Syria and Lebanon and announcing the opening of an embassy-level diplomatic mission in Beirut. Presidential Decree Number 358 declared that "diplomatic relations are established between the Syrian Arab Republic and the Lebanese Republic" and...

SYRIA - Oct 14 - Syria And Lebanon Set Up Formal Ties.
Syria formally establishes diplomatic relations with Lebanon, for the first time since both nations gained independence from France in the 1940s. The initiative by President Bashar al-Assad of Syria ends six decades of non recognition and meets a demand by the US that Syria act to help achieve stability...

Lebanon & Syria Establish Diplomatic Ties.
Lebanon and Syria on Oct. 15 announced the establishment of formal diplomatic relations, for the first time since their independence in the 1940s, in a joint statement signed by both countries' foreign ministers in Damascus. The announcement in Damascus came a day after President Assad issued a presidential decree...

ARAB AFFAIRS - Oct 15 - Damascus Says Lebanon And Syria Face Same Militant Threat.
Syria urges Lebanon to cooperate in fighting what it described as a terrorist threat facing the two countries following bomb attack s against their security forces. "The security cooperation must deepen in the face of this common threat", Syrian FM Walid Al Mua'allem told a news conference after meeting...

SYRIA - Oct 14 - Syria To Establish Diplomatic Ties With Lebanon.
Syrian President Bashar Al Assad issues a decree to establish diplomatic relations with Lebanon for the first time since the two Arab neighbours won independence from France in the 1940s. The decree, which formalises decisions taken jointly with Lebanon, encouraged by France over the past few months, instructs the...

Lebanon - 2009 Will Decide If It's A State Or Just A Place For Global Power Games.
*** With Egypt Set To Host 'Final' Reconciliation Talks Between Fatah & Hamas By End-October, Iran Is Said To Have Created A Hizbullah In The Hamas-Ruled Gaza Strip, A Place Where Al-Qaeda Now Has A Base As Well As A 'Higher Shi'ite Council' And Other Gangs, According To A...