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Poll registration at ministry ‘a mess’
Sanayeh Street asked the police in front of the Interior Ministry Friday why there was traffic in the area, they received an unexpected answer. "People who want to run for next month’s parliamentary elections are submitting their files," replied one police officer. But the officer also got an unexpected response, as one commuter began to laugh. "Why? Are there elections ...
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Tripoli clashes deal further blow to tourism
BEIRUT: Short-lived hopes for a summer tourism rebound have evaporated as fierce clashes in Lebanon’s second-biggest city and soaring tensions dealt fresh blows to weakened economy. ...
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Tripoli clashes ease Army deployment pending
Al-Jamaa Al-Islamiya supporters carry a banner during a protest in support of the Syrian revolution and against the involvement of Hezbollah in the war in Qusair and against the violence in the city of Tripoli, Friday, May 24, 2013. (The Daily ...
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Lebanon to issue LL5T in Treasury bills with up to 10 years maturity
Treasury bills in June with a maturity period raging from seven to 10 years to help the state meet its financial needs, a banking source said Friday. "The government has enormous dues in June of this year in terms of outstanding bonds and Eurobonds," a banker ...
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Lebanese repatriate $1.2B from Cyprus
Cyprus returned to the country after the island’s Central Bank allowed foreigners to withdraw their money, bankers said Friday. Bankers interviewed ...
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Lebanese ‘madame’ four Syrian women arrested
BEIRUT: A Lebanese "madame" and four Syrian women have been arrested on suspicion of involvement in a prostitution ring in Iqlim al-Kharroub, south of Beirut. ...
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Beirut Designers’ Week launched
BEIRUT: One similarity stuck out among the 70 or so designers who’ve temporarily set up shop on Zaitunay Bay’s posh boardwalk. A commonality more ubiquitous than the trendy metal ear cuffs at every jewelry stand – women made up more than 90 percent of the artists, jewelers and dressmakers on display ...
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Hezbollah says terrorist label would be big mistake
Hezbollah's deputy chief said Friday that the European Union would be making a "big mistake" to label the Lebanese Shiite militant group as ...
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Gunmen face off in Tripoli as sectarian battle escalates
He doesn't feel it, strapped up in his bed at the Nini Hospital, swathed in bandages, two bottles of painkillers pumping into him. He was driving his motorcycle on Thursday night from Badawi past the end of Syria Street - an aptly named thoroughfare that divides Tripoli's two warring neighbourhoods of Bab el-Tebbaneh and Jabal Mohsen - whence came a single sniper's round."It ...
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Lebanon animal ordinance not a committee matter
Since the couple first approached the zoning officer last month, the Lemenzes have addressed the Board of Adjustment, the Planning Board and the Township Committee ...
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Hezbollah EU Making Big Mistake
Hezbollah's deputy chief says the European Union would be making a "big mistake" to label the Lebanese Shiite militant group "terrorist." Sheikh Naim Kassem told Al-Mayadeen TV Friday that such threats "do not concern" or worry the group. He did not elaborate. France this week joined an EU push to declare the group a terrorist organization amid ...
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Syrian regime OKs peace talks amid skepticism
BEIRUT (AP) -- Syria's government has agreed to attend a U.S.-Russian-brokered peace conference, according to Moscow. While this development might seem at first glance to be a step toward ending the civil war, strong skepticism persists on both ...
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Syrian rebel groups plan to attack Hizbollah in Lebanon
ISTANBUL // Syrian rebels are planning to attack Hizbollah in its Lebanese strongholds, in response to the Shiite militant group's growing combat role on the side of President Bashar Al Assad in the Syria conflict. Such attacks would mark a significant escalation and spread of what is fast developing into a highly sectarian, regional war. "It is really a question of when, not if, ...
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US worried Syrian war spilling into Lebanon
United States expressed concern Friday that Lebanon could find itself dragged into Syria's civil war and expressed support for efforts by the country's army to halt an outbreak of ...
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Lebanese leaders call on security agencies to help end violence
Top Lebanese officials Friday called on security agencies to work toward ending fighting in the northern city of Tripoli. The plea was made by caretaker Prime ...
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Hezbollahs role in Syrian conflict ushers new reality for its supporters
Hezbollah honours its dead. In one corner of the martyrs' cemetery in south Beirut, four women shrouded in black sat cross-legged near a new grave, reading from the Qu'ran. Metres away, the yellow flag of the militant group covered a freshly covered hole in a white marble floor. A soft scent of burning incense wafted across the room.Another grave, its concrete seal barely dry, had been ...
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BA pilot praised for averting disaster
Passengers on board a British Airways plane forced to make an emergency landing at Heathrow praised the pilot’s swift and ';calm'; actions and said he had averted potential disaster. The airbus A319, bound for Oslo, left London shortly before 8am and was on its ascent when loud ';popping'; sounds were heard and the engines caught ...
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Resistance of Syria rebels surprises Hezbollah
An-Nahar Daily reported on Friday that 18-year-old Hassan, a Baalbeck native and a Hezbollah fighter, spent three days fighting with the party alongside the Syrian regime in the border town of al-Qusayr. Hassan who was notified of his father’s death in the battles upon his arrival to his hometown said that Hezbollah ...
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Lebanon Police investigating report of gun shots fired
Lebanon City Police are investigating a report of shots fired. Officers were called to the 300 block of East Mifflin Street around 5:48 a.m. on Friday. When they arrived, witnesses told officers they heard 2-3 pops that they believed to be gunshots. Officers found a parked vehicle with a flat tire and leaking radiator in the area, but it is unknown if the damage is related to the shots fired ...
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Nahyan bin Mubarak attends Gala Dinner hosted by American University of Beirut
WAM ABU DHABI, May 24th, 2013 (WAM)--Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Culture, Youth and Community Development, has stressed that the UAE was committed to asserting the role of universities to achieve the socio-economic development in line with the clear vision of President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan in this respect. The remark came during the annual gala ...
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Syria opposition seeks to unify ahead of peace talks
Syria’s fractious opposition scrambled to agree a new leadership on Friday in a bid to present a coherent front at peace talks which the United States and Russia are convening to seek an end to more than two years of civil war. A major assault by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces on a rebel held town over the past week is shaping into a pivotal battle. It has drawn in fighters from ...
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Rai Electoral laws are no excuse to delay polls
Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rai who returned on Friday from a 56-day tour of Latin America called for holding the parliamentary elections on time under any current or new electoral law, stressing that electoral laws must not be used as an excuse to delay the parliamentary elections. "We categorically reject extension (of parliament’s term) and elections must be held under any ...
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Magnitude 8.2 earthquake rocks Russian Far East
A magnitude 8.2 earthquake struck off Russia’s eastern coast on Friday, briefly prompting a tsunami scare but causing no casualties or substantial damage, Russian emergency authorities said. The epicentre of the quake was located at a depth of 385 miles (620 km) in the Sea of ...
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Suleiman cautions Hezbollah over its role in Syria
On the occasion marking the Resistance and Liberation Day , Lebanon’s President Michel Suleiman cautioned the Shiite group Hezbollah on Friday over its militia fighting alongside the regime troops in neighboring Syria : "The resistance is more noble and more important than anything, and should ...
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Geagea calls for a vote on electoral draft laws.
Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea called for convening the parliament in order to vote on the existing electoral draft laws. "There is a natural and logical option [in this deadlock] which is to hold a parliament plenary sessionand put the electoral proposals to a vote," Geagea said in remarks published in An-Nahar newspaper on ...
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Lebanon on the up despite uncertainty over future conflicts
Lebanon has seen strong economic growth since the 2006 war between Israel and Lebanon and the tourism sector, along with construction is experiencing strong signs of confidence from investors. If all goes well, the country may be able to shake off perceptions in the international community of a war-torn and politically unstable country.
The war in 2006 between Hezbollah and Israel had a severe impact on Lebanon. Tourism in 2006 plummeted as international holidaymakers shied away from a country seen as unstable, plagued by an internal lack of security and on the verge of another war, as Israel warned of future military action if the government did not do more to disarm Hezbollah. While some progress has been made in this regard, the greater achievement is the country’s resurgence in the areas of investment, construction and tourism even as the global economy quivers at the edge of a possible second downturn in Europe. Read more
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