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Owner of expired-drugs warehouse questioned
Beirut :: Lebanon | 1 month ago
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Authorities Thursday questioned the owner of a warehouse where spoiled and expired drugs were discovered this week in the Bekaa Valley. The warehouse, owned by a man identified as Imad B., was raided by the Army in the town of Deir al-Ahmar. Former
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String of unrelated attacks on Syrians leaves one dead
Beirut :: Lebanon | 1 month ago
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A Syrian man was killed in a mugging incident in the Bekaa Valley Tuesday, according to the National News Agency, the latest in a string of unrelated crimes targeting Syrians. Four armed men, seen driving a Grand Cherokee and a BMW, mugged Syrian
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Army arrests suspect in businessman's kidnapping
Beirut :: Lebanon | 1 month ago
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A key suspect in the kidnapping of a businessman was arrested by the Lebanese Army Monday after an investigation into the tit-for-tat abductions that took place in the Bekaa Valley region last month. Security sources told The Daily Star that the
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A very bright idea: solar panels for neglected Bekaa Valley farms
Beirut :: Lebanon | 3 months ago
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In Lebanon's fertile Bekaa Valley, a hobby farmer is sowing the seeds of solar energy, an idea that might help an area starved of affordable electricity. It's important to reduce the cost, says Fadi Jamaleddine, a Beirut-based corporate lawyer.
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Critics question beet subsidy motives
Beirut :: Lebanon | 3 months ago
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The Daily Star Proponents of the sugar beet subsidy point out that the crop can provide stability for farmers. The government has renewed an agricultural subsidy on sugar beets that was revoked 12 years ago, but critics are questioning the timing and
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Northern Bekaa gives cause for concern
Beirut :: Lebanon | 3 months ago
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The Daily Star Lebanese soldiers on armored vehicles stand at a checkpoint in Arsal, at the beginning of the month. Lebanon: Recent reports from Tripoli suggest that yet another round of violence is imminent between rival communities in Jabal Mohsen
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Bekaa residents protest over Syria-bound oil trucks
Beirut :: Lebanon | 3 months ago
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Eleven Syrian tanker trucks loaded fuel Saturday morning from a gas station in Karantina, Beirut, as protestors in the Bekaa threatened to block their way to the border, security sources told The Daily Star. Hundreds of residents, as well as a group
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Man slain in Beirut suburb, Bekaa car accident kills one
Beirut :: Lebanon | 3 months ago
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A murder in a Beirut suburb and a fatal car crash in the Bekaa Valley topped Wednesday's police reports. In the Burj al-Barajneh Palestinian refugee camp south of Beirut, police are still searching for Hikmat Akar, who is suspected of killing a
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Outdoor Bekaa phone ‘central' draws Syrians
Damascus :: Syria | 4 months ago
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The Daily Star A Syrian refugee speaks on his mobile phone in the Bekaa Valley village of Hawsh al-Harimeh. Lebanon: Parked cars bearing Syrian license plates and people strolling and loudly talking on their mobile phones are a sign that one has
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Syrian Violence Spreads to Lebanon
Ārsāl :: Lebanon | 4 months ago
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The Lebanese army issued a statement asserting that, An army patrol was ambushed in the village of Arsal as it hunted a man wanted for several terrorist acts. The wanted man, Khaled Hummayed, was believed to be a member of the jihadist Nusra Front
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