Beirut

 - A new Lebanese magazine that Focuses on body art, science and literature and aims to tackle subjects such as eroticism and fetishism, is due to hit the stands in the Arab world next month.

Joumana Haddad, editor-in-chief of Jasad (the Arabic word for body), said the publication aims to break taboos and will provide its writers, researchers and artists with the freedom they deserve.

Beirut - British Foreign Minister David Miliband is to visit Lebanon for talks with President Michel Suleiman, Prime Minister Fouad Seniora and Parliamentary Speaker Nabih Berri, the Lebanese National News Agency (NNA) reported Monday.

The talks with the British official is to take place on Tuesday.

Miliband arrived in the Middle East on Sunday for talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders in a bid to enhance the peace process as Israel prepares for early elections.

Beirut - Syria has rejected four ambassadorial candidates put forward to represent Lebanon in Syria, Lebanon's Naharnet news website reported Thursday.

"The process of exchanging ambassadors between the two countries has come to a standstill," the website quoted an informed source as saying.

Beirut - The Arab League has agreed to review the circumstances surrounding a series of purported confessions of terrorist attacks that were aired by Syrian state television last week.

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