Beirut

A suicide bomber killed at least two people at a Lebanese checkpoint on the main highway from Beirut to Damascus on Friday, official media and a security source said.
      
The attack came as members of the security forces raided two hotels in central Beirut and detained at least 15 people, according to an AFP photographer at the scene.
      

At least 50,000 Syrian refugee children in Lebanon are working, often in dire conditions and for 12 hours a day, to pay for food and shelter for their families, aid organisation CARE said.

More than a million Syrian refugees live in Lebanon, making up a quarter of the country's population, having fled a civil war in its fourth year, which has left more than 160,000 dead.

The flag carrier Bulgaria Air starts seasonal flights Sofia-Beirut-Sofia, which will be regularly performed from July 6 until August 31.

The frequency of the flights will depend on the passenger traffic during the summer season.

Air Serbia will include eight new destinations in Europe, Africa and the Middle East this spring.

Daily flights to the Bulgarian coastal town of Varna begin on May 1st, while departures to Dubrovnik will be launched on May 15th, operating on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.

Government to publish agreement with Etihad

BELGRADE -- The government has received the approval of Etihad to publish the deal on strategic partnership with Air Serbia, says an advisor to Deputy PM Aleksandar Vučić.

The agreement will be made public soon, Siniša Mali said on Wednesday.

BELGRADE - The Serbian government has received the approval of Etihad Airways to publish the agreement on strategic partnership with Air Serbia, and it is a matter of day when the agreement will be made public, Sinisa Mali, advisor of the first deputy prime minister, said on Wednesday.

BELGRADE/BEIRUT - Marko Blagojevic, Serbian Foreign Ministry (FM) secretary general, and Vladimir Maric, head of the Foreign minister's cabinet, met in Beirut Wednesday with Lebanese Foreign Ministry Secretary General Wafic Rehaime, who said that Lebanon has no plans to recognize Kosovo independence.