Beirut - At least two persons were wounded late Friday in a clash between followers of the Western-backed government and supporters of the Hezbollah-led opposition inside the capital Beirut, police sources said.

The wounded were attacked with daggers and pistols in the mainly Sunni-neighborhood of Tarik Jadideh, the police said.

The incident prompted the army to block a road leading to the area. Several people involved in the clash were arrested.

Beirut - At least one person was injured on Friday when a bomb exploded inside the Ain el Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon, Palestinian sources said.

The bomb exploded inside the camp, wounding at least one person.

This comes weeks after another explosion ripped through the camp on September 23, killing one man and injuring four others.

Beirut - Two freelance journalists from the United States are believed to have gone missing on the road between northern Lebanon and Aleppo in Syria, Lebanese media reported Wednesday.

Taylor Luck, 23, and Halli Camella Shmela, 27, who were apparently working for the Jordan Times, last contacted their families on October 1, saying they planned to take a taxi from Tripoli to Aleppo, the Lebanese daily al-Akhbar said.

According to Lebanese security sources, the two had set out from their hotel in Beirut on September 30 for an unknown destination.

Washington - A Syrian military intervention into Lebanon following a series of terrorist attacks would be "unacceptable," the US State Department said Monday.

The Syrian government has reportedly amassed thousands of soldiers near the border area in north Lebanon, prompting worries in Beirut that Damascus was preparing for an incursion.

State Department deputy spokesman Robert Wood said the September bombing attacks in Damascus and the Lebanese city of Tripoli cannot be used as a pretext for military intervention.

Beirut - Lebanese Finance Minister Mohammad Chatah said on Monday the global financial crisis had created worries among the Lebanese but assured them that their money is "safe."

Chatah, who met with Lebanese President Michel Suleiman at the presidential palace in Baabda, said "the Lebanese currency and the banking sector are safe."

Chatah also assured the president that the deposits of the Lebanese and non-Lebanese in Lebanon were secure.

Beirut - A new war between Israel and Lebanon has erupted, but this time it the war is not geopolitical, but rather an issue of cuisine - who has sovereignty over traditional Arab dishes and sandwiches.

The president of the Lebanese Industrialists Association Fadi Abboud, said he is preparing to file an international lawsuit against Israel for allegedly "taking the identity of the some of Lebanese foods" and thus violating a food copyright.