Jon Slattery (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
A body recovered from the Bekaa Valley could be the remains of Alec Collett, a British journalist who was executed by a Palestinian group in 1986 during Lebanon’s civil war, Timesonline reports today. Collett, a journalist based in New York, was on a writing assignment for the UN Relief and Works Agency, which handles the welfare of Palestinian refugees, when he was abducted in March 1985. The...
Al Ahram Weekly (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Accused of blocking the formation of a unity government and plotting sectarian violence in Tripoli, Egypt is under fire in Lebanon, Omayma Abdel-Latif writes in Beirut
Palestinian Pundit (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
Ray Smith, Electronic Lebanon , 1 October 2009 "Since the end of August, construction equipment in the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared, near the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, has stood unused after the Lebanese State Council granted a two month moratorium for the reconstruction of the camp . Nahr al-Bared, home to approximately 30,000 refugees, was destroyed during a three-month-long...
The centre due to open on Wednesday (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
Borg and Frattini to hold talks with Libya in Rome. S summit in Riyadh where only Libya was missing. Libya Nikon of Leaders and Heads of States of CEN SAD. S Sirte to host next summit in July. Tom Harkin Iowa, Max Baucus Mont. Euro Zone Retail Sales Inch Higher. Bernanke Mounting federal budget deficits menace US future. The fear is not in my mind that there will be a supply crunch but there will be...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
Fatah commander in Lebanon Sultan Abu al-Aynayn said on Thursday there were no political disputes raging in Lebanon's 12 Palestinian refugee camps, local Daily Star reported on Friday. Abu al-Aynayn said all the political parties present in the camps were aware of their "limits" and would not allow another battle to take place in a Palestinian camp, as happened between Islamist group Fatah...
Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | 09/20/2009
You miss a lot from the Western news coverage of the Middle East, nay they miss a lot. They are obsessed with religion and war that much is left uncovered. I would say that the reunion a week ago on Nishan's show, Maestro, was the biggest event during Ramadan. The two singers (Muhammad Jamal is a Lebanese from Tripoli whose family originally came from Nablus), and Tarub is originally circassian from...
Atlas Shrugs (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
Did the ummah (the worldwide Muslim community) ever apologize for 911? Did the ummah apologize for Madrid train bombings, London bombings, Mumbai bombings, Bali bombings, homicide bombings in Israel, jihad in Thailand, Lebanon rout, Darfur genocide, Beslan, etc? State department personnel are supposed to pray with Muslims on the newly declared "interfaith day of service" whatever that means...
Open Democracy (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
The fortieth anniversary of the Libyan "revolution" of 1969 - more accurately a coup d'etat by Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and some of his associates and relatives - brings to mind a conversation I had just after that event with a friend who was (and remains) a senior Algerian diplomat. The Algerian government had been as surprised and bemused as any other about the emergence of this bizarre,...
The centre due to open on Wednesday (Free subscription) | 09/01/2009
Libya has asked the European Union for more help in fighting illegal caitlyn . By Alex Lawler LONDON Reuters An improving economic outlook is driving the rise in oil prices and the rally is expected to continue, Libya. It also decides that veteran pitcher doesn. S defence minister, has resigned over a conflict of interest involving his brother and the defence department, delivering Kevin Rudd, the...
baithak (Free subscription) | 08/23/2009
Just as Mr. Johnson believed he had no choice but to fight in Vietnam to contain communism, Mr. Obama last week portrayed Afghanistan as the bulwark against international terrorism. “This is not a war of choice,” he told the Veterans of Foreign Wars at their convention in Phoenix. “This is a war of necessity. Those who attacked America on 9/11 are plotting to do so again. If left...
France24 (Free subscription) | 08/13/2009
A small bomb in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli wounded three people on Thursday, including a 10-year-old boy who sustained serious injuries. The city is frequently prey to sectarian violence between rival Sunni and Alawite communities.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 08/13/2009
Beirut - Three people were injured on Wednesday when a bomb exploded in the industrial sector of the northern port city of Tripoli, police said. The blast took place in the industrial sector of the Jabal Mohsen area which witnessed last year several ...
Daily Star (Free subscription) | 07/31/2009
Funeral services will take place in Tripoli on Sunday for His Eminence Metropolitan Elias Qorban, Archbishop of the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of Tripoli and Koura, who passed away on Thursday. The archbishop�s body was relayed in a convoy from the Tripoli Archdiocese to Saint Gregory Cathedral, where funeral services will be held on Sunday at 5 p.m.
The centre due to open on Wednesday (Free subscription) | 07/31/2009
Pakistan to export skilled labour to Libya. Edward firms cut oil production share in Libya. Air France plane was it a bomb. S sister, Alejandra, center, and mother, Maureen, leaving the Felix candela Wednesday after the conviction. With the opening up of rail traffic between North and South Korea after years and with the assistance of the US Navy in retrieving NK ships and personnel hopefully a fresh...
Daily Star (Free subscription) | 07/15/2009
The Palestine Red Crescent Society and the Netherlands Red Cross inaugurated the renovation of The Safad Hospital in the Baddawi Palestinian refugee camp Wednesday. Located in north Lebanon, close to Tripoli, the Safad Hospital was heavily affected by the 2007 fighting in the adjacent Nahr al-Bared refugee camp.
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