Rafik Hariri

A journalist who ignored a court order to take down internet videos that risked exposing the identities of witnesses in the case of Lebanese former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri's assassination was fined 10,000 euros ($11,000) on Monday.

A Lebanese journalist and her television channel are due to go before a UN-backed court today in a trial that critics say raises questions about press freedom, but which prosecutors say is essential to protect vulnerable witnesses.

Gunmen abducted two Turkish Airlines pilots in Beirut today, forcing them from an airport bus in the early hours of the morning and prompting Turkey to urge its citizens to leave Lebanon.

A journalist who ignored a court order to take down internet videos that risked exposing the identities of witnesses in the case of Lebanese former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri's assassination was fined 10,000 euros ($11,000) on Monday.

A Lebanese journalist and her television channel are due to go before a UN-backed court today in a trial that critics say raises questions about press freedom, but which prosecutors say is essential to protect vulnerable witnesses.

Gunmen abducted two Turkish Airlines pilots in Beirut today, forcing them from an airport bus in the early hours of the morning and prompting Turkey to urge its citizens to leave Lebanon.