Beirut - The UN General Assembly will elect Lebanon as a non-permanent member of the Security Council next September, a local Lebanese newspaper reported Monday.

Quoting "political sources in Lebanon," the daily An Nahar said Lebanon will serve a two-year term starting January 1, 2010.

The council has five permanent members with veto power - the United States, Britain, Russia, China and France - and 10 non- permanent members who serve two-year terms and have no power to veto resolutions.

Beirut - Israeli soldiers stormed Thursday a Lebanese ship carrying humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, Lebanese radio reports and organizers said.

According to the reports, the Israeli soldiers boarded the "Brotherhood Ship" and beat up its crew. The reports also said Israeli warships had opened fire on the ship after it entered Palestinian territorial waters.

Organizer Maan Bashour told Deustche Presse-Agentur dpa, that contact was lost with the ship after the Israeli soldiers stormed the vessel off the Gaza coast.

Beirut  - An Israeli gunboat late Wednesday intercepted a Lebanese ship carrying medical aid and other supplies bound for Gaza, the organizer of the Lebanese delivery said.

"The Brotherhood Ship was fired on by an Israeli military boat 20 miles (32 kilometres) off the coast of Gaza and they were asked to divert course," Maan Bashour told Deustche Presse-Agentur dpa.

It remains in the water near the coast of Gaza, he said.

Bashour said the aide ship was loaded with 50 tons of medical supplies, food, clothing and toys and left the port city of Tripoli in northern Lebanon early on Tuesday.

Beirut  - Five rockets were found late Wednesday near Naqoura close to the southern Lebanon border with Israel, a Lebanese army statement said, adding that they were not primed.

Roumieh, Lebanon  - Drama therapy is common in jails in Europe, but the technique was first introduced to inmates in Lebanon by a Lebanese director who volunteered to help prisoners express themselves and communicate with others.

Zeina Dakkash, a Lebanese comic actress and director, introduced what she described as a "pilot project" to Lebanese prisons and took Roumieh central jail, 20 kilometres north-east of Beirut, as her first location this year.

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