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Rifi announces transition to political career
Aleppo :: Syria | 6 hours ago
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Ashraf Rifi officially announced Sunday his decision to enter Lebanese politics. In a TV interview, Rifi stressed that elections should be held on time, adding that if the elections were to be postponed then this should be due to technical reasons,
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U.N. peacekeeping chief arrives in Beirut
Beirut :: Lebanon | 5 days ago
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A relative sense of calm along a U.N.-demarcated boundary between Israel and Lebanon is a sign of multilateral support for peace, a U.N. official said. U.N. peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous met in Lebanon with President Michel Suleiman and Lebanese
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Lebanon is living a silent revolution
Beirut :: Lebanon | 6 days ago
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The Daily Star Three months ago, I flew to Beirut to attend a landmark event for personal freedoms and human rights in the Arab world, an event that gives hope in coexistence at a time of sectarian strife in the Middle East, an event that announces a
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EU moving toward ban of Hezbollah's military wing
Burgas :: Bulgaria | 8 days ago
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British Labor MP Michael McCann, however, said in a House of Commons debate last week that this falls short of the necessary punitive response to Hezbollah and its chief sponsor, the Islamic Republic of Iran. And they retain a clear and present
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Aid for Syrian refugees failing to materialize: Mikati
Beirut :: Lebanon | 9 days ago
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The international community should give Lebanon the needed assistance to provide aid for Syrian refugees, caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati said Saturday, adding that only limited aid had materialized. This issue [of refugees] is a main priority
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Siniora: Break wall of fear on Hezbollah
Damascus :: Syria | 11 days ago
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Former Prime Minister Fouad Siniora urged action Wednesday against Hezbollah's involvement in Syria, calling for breaking the barrier of fear and for an immediate end to the party's military presence there. I call on all spiritual and political
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A slice of 1950s Beirut in the heart of London
Beirut :: Lebanon | 11 days ago
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Ask a foreigner what image is conjured when Beirut is mentioned and they're likely to paint a verbal picture either of destruction or of glamor, some associating the city with war, others with the 1950s and 1960s glory days, when Beirut described as
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Lebanon: IAF warplanes hover over Beirut
Beirut :: Lebanon | 17 days ago
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Northern Tensions File photo of IAF planes Photo: EPA Lebanese site says violation of airspace by Israeli reconnaissance jets, warplanes has become regular, but last two days' air traffic 'unusually high' Roi Kais Two Israeli warplanes penetrated
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Palestinian, Lebanese kids run for coexistence
Sidon :: MS :: USA | 21 days ago
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The Daily Star The events in Sidon aimed to foster understanding between Palestinian and Lebanese children. Lebanon: More than a thousand children ran through the southern city of Sidon Sunday as part of a race intended to foster coexistence between
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A peek at life in Beirut's defunct Gaza Hospital
Beirut :: Lebanon | 26 days ago
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From the outside, there are few hints that Gaza Hospital ever had a thing to do with medicine. Laundry hangs out the windows of the shabby 11-story building, and it is fronted by assorted shops and a sick cat named Black. Indoors, there are metal
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