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Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | yesterday
Paris Hilton is in Lebanon: she so belongs to that country with its silly, shallow popular culture. Her visit received front page coverage in many newspapers, including L'Orient-Le Jour and Daily Star. She gave a press conference in which she was treated as a visiting dignitary. She said that she feels that she has managed to protect her privacy in the US. One reporter asked her about that point: about...
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Israel At Level Ground (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
IDF Artillery Corps corporal in brief morning prayers, near his unit along the Lebanese border during the Second Lebanon War. (Photo: Dave Bender, All Rights Reserved) ...not that it hasn't been noticed elsewhere, but still: After reporting extensively from bunkers, bomb shelters and hospitals across Israel's northern border with Lebanon throughout much of the 2006 war against Hizbullah, this report...
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Daily Star (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
The Arab news media is not interested in the work of non-governmental organizations or in the message they aspire to communicate. This is the premise that French-based NGO Medecins du Monde (MDM) asked participants to debate at a conference at Hotel Le Meridien on Friday.
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Daily Star (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Alumni of the American University of Beirut gathered on Saturday in the leafy shade of Hyde Park on the Ras Beirut campus to reminisce about their role in a history of activism and protest at AUB, and to rekindle the spirit of the previously popular student tradition. The event - organized as part of a reunion of AUB graduates over several days.
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Daily Star (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Interior Minister Ziyad Baroud admitted on Sunday that the issue of congestion in Lebanon was a "real problem." He told LBCI television that the problem of excessive traffic jams across the country "has never been seriously addressed and it is high time to do so." Baroud added that finding solutions to the traffic problem was "the responsibility of all."
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Israelated (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
Ira SharkanskySent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 12:01 AM An American friend tells me that his friends are worried about those settlements in the West Bank. Forget it. It's all a distraction. The American administration and media have learned from the Arabs. Maybe Obama is an Arab after all. Instead of attending to serious problems at home, he has focused on the image of Israeli evil that others have made...
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YaLibnan (Free subscription) | yesterday
Beirut - The media in Lebanon continues to focus on the Saudi-Syrian negotiations and there is a lot of speculation about the content of these talks , especially with regards to Lebanon. Syrian president Bashar al Assad has reportedly interrupted his vacation in northern Syria and returned Friday to Damascus to meet the Saudi envoys ( Son of king Addullah and Information Minister Abdel Aziz Khoja)...
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Human Security Gateway: All Updates (Free subscription) | 07/04/2009
This research was undertaken in eight countries that are currently experiencing or have experienced armed conflict or other situations of armed violence. The aim was to develop a better understanding of people’s needs and expectations, to gather views and opinions, and to give a voice to those who have been adversely affected by armed conflict and other situations of violence. The eight country...
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Israel & Palestijnen Nieuws Blog (Free subscription) | 07/04/2009
Ik kan dit artikel hartgrondig onderschrijven, zoals geldt voor meer artikelen van Ari Shavit. Het valt te hopen dat het ook in Amerikaanse regeringskringen wordt gelezen. Ik zou er nog aan toe kunnen voegen dat een evenwichtigere houding van de VS de bereidheid tot concessies in zowel Israel als onder de Palestijnen zal vergroten. Juist de eenzijdige focus van de VS (en de rest van de wereld) op de...
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Daily Star (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
Lebanon's fiscal performance report through the end of May showed a decline in the deficit as a percentage of revenue to 29.14 percent compared to 33.56 percent during the same period in 2008. The decrease in the deficit comes on the back of a solid 173 percent year-on-year increase in fuel-tax revenue in May.
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Daily Star (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
Equities on the Beirut Stock Exchange (BSE) rode a mid-week wave of optimism regarding the prospects of a new cabinet, ending the week up 2 percent. Despite a pick-up in trading activity, analysts and traders said the market remained in "wait-and-see" mode pending the announcement of a new cabinet before equities can surge.
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Daily Star (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
"I was shouting, screaming and extremely struggling with this stranger's arms squeezing my head, and his hands covering my mouth while he was trying to snatch my bag." Though this statement may sound like the climax of a movie script, it was made by an expatriate who was violently mugged in Gemmayzeh.
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Daily Star (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
If by naming Beirut as the 2009 World Book Capital the United Nations wishes to encourage the Lebanese to study more, its latest report should be a must-read. Lebanon's fourth National Human Development Report (NHDR), "Towards a Citizen's State," highlights a worrying discrepancy in adult reading rates between urban and rural regions.
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Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
"Offbeat Traveler: Lebanon boasts the world's largest hotel suite." This is the real claim to fame for Lebanon: sex tourism. By the way, what the article does not tell you is this: Brummana (or Broummana) is very popular with oil-rich Gulf Arabs. So years ago, they wanted to build a mosque in the town. The people there were adamant that they would not let them and they did not let them. They...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
Damascus/Cairo - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has removed his brother-in-law Asef Shawkat, suspected of involvement in the assassination of former Lebanese premier Rafik Hariri, from his post as a director of military intelligence, the Syrian web...
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patrickguillard | 04/27/2009
During the next legislative elections scheduled for June 7 the European Union will send an observer mission in Lebanon The EU EOM will consist of some 90 observers and will be led by Mr José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Member of the European Parliament, who also led the previous EU EOM to Lebanon in 2005. This mission represents a further contribution by the European Commission to strengthening...
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patrickguillard | 04/27/2009
During the next legislative elections scheduled for June 7 the European Union will send an observer mission in Lebanon The EU EOM will consist of some 90 observers and will be led by Mr José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Member of the European Parliament, who also led the previous EU EOM to Lebanon in 2005. This mission represents a further contribution by the European Commission to strengthening...
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nadias | 02/21/2009
By Daily.pk The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Israeli intelligence - Mossad - have infiltrated Muslim organizations like Hamas in Palestine, Hizbullah in Lebanon and the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) in Indonesia, says an Indonesian intelligence expert. “It is clear that the CIA and the Mossad have infiltrated such organizations and have done much more than [...] readmore