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Intercultural Relationship Building Expo Tuesday in Lebanon
Lebanon Link, a resource for the senior community and individuals 18 to 59 with disabilities, has slated an Intercultural Relationship Building Expo for Tuesday, June 18, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. at The Salvation Army, 1031 Guilford St., Lebanon. According to LINK Coordinator Gwen Ward, the event is targeted toward the Hispanic community and will feature a trade show of agency partners that are ...
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Hamas urges former ally Hezbollah to leave Syria
RAMALLAH, West Bank -; The Palestinian militant group Hamas has urged Lebanon's Hezbollah, a former ally, to withdraw its fighters from Syria, signaling growing sectarian tensions over the war ...
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Lebanon Link holding event promoting services to Hispanic community
Lebanon Link, a resource for the senior community and individuals 18 to 59 with disabilities, is holding an Intercultural Relationship Building Expo 4:30-6:30 p.m. June 18 at the Salvation Army, 1031 Guilford St., ...
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Gulf countries feel uneasy over intervention of Hezbollah in Syrian civil war…
JEDDAH - Gulf countries are getting prepared to deport Hezbollah supporters, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) said in a written statement on Wednesday. GCC said that Hezbollah members living in Gulf countries would be deported as the Hezbollah militants had been fighting for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The recent events showed the actual structure and intention of Hezbollah, as the ...
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Iran’s Rouhani calls for moderation lifting sanctions
Iran’s newly-elected president Hassan Rouhani has said he will follow a ';path of moderation';, but that there will be no end to uranium enrichment. In his first news conference, the reformist-backed leader set out how he intends to ...
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Hezbollahs military prowess gives boost to Syrian troops
Syria 's rebels, Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon say they are planning to assist the Syrian government in new military offensives to retake territory from the opposition. A Hezbollah field commander in the group's south Beirut stronghold in the Dahiyeh, and who gave his name as Jaafar, said the movement is training pro-regime residents in towns outside of the contested city of Aleppo ...
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Lebanese swimmer breaks national record
Beirut to Amchit Sunday, breaking the Lebanese record for long-distance swimming. He left Beirut at 4 a.m. and arrived in Amchit at 3:30 p.m., Rizk Public Relations agency said Monday.Nasser's aim was to break a record set by Abdel-Latif Abu al-Hauf for swimming 42 kilometers from the southern city ...
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Residents block Beirut road over arrest of Sheikh
BEIRUT: Residents briefly blocked Beirut's Cite Sportive road Monday afternoon with burning tires to protest the arrest of a prominent Sheikh in the area.The Lebanese Army was able to reopen the road in the south of the city shortly after it was blocked by relatives and supporters of Shiite Sheikh Bilal Jezzini.Jezzini was arrested by ...
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Hamas to Hezbollah Leave Syria and focus on fighting Israel instead.
Palestinian Islamist movement says Hezbollah involvement inflames sectarian conflict in Syria; Saudi Arabia reportedly supplies anti-aircraft missiles to ...
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Dogs from Beirut rescued by Windsor group
Local animal welfare organization For the Love of Paws Animal Rescue welcomed four new dogs to Windsor on Sunday. They came all the way from Beirut, Lebanon. John Dunn, a coordinator with the organization, welcomed the dogs to Canada at the airport in Montreal. They were then trucked to Windsor. "There was laughter, there was crying. It really was a moving experience," he said. ...
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Bangladeshi freed after kidnap by countrymen in Lebanon
BEIRUT: Lebanese authorities rescued a Bangladeshi worker after he was kidnapped by three of his countrymen to demand a ransom, a security source said ...
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Syrian war intensifies Lebanons divisions
- As violence escalates in Syria, residents of the tiny Alawite enclave of Jabal Mohsen in neighbouring Lebanon brace themselves for the next attack. Tensions have long simmered between Alawites in Jabal Mohsen - a settlement atop a hill in the middle of Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli - and the predominantly Sunni neighbourhood Bab al-Tabbaneh nestled at the bottom. But this area ...
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Syrian killed north of Beirut probe launched
Beirut at dawn Monday, security sources said. The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Zine El Abidine Mohammad Musa, 32, was shot and killed outside a car dealership in Jdeideh, Metn, by an unidentified assailant. Local authorities have launched an investigation into the ...
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Charbel warns against strife after Baalbek killings
Bekaa Valley that politicians and religious figures are scrambling to control."The incident that took place yesterday in northern Bekaa is painful and aims at inciting sectarian strife," Charbel told the Voice of Lebanon radio station.Two men from the Jaafar family, one from the Amhaz clan and a Turk whose mother is Lebanese and hails from the Seifeddine clan in Baalbek were killed ...
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Still 2 nights left to get animated in Beirut with regional cartoons
Beirut Animated packs the house (Photo from Beirut Animated Facebook page) Animation occupies a peculiar niche on the pop culture landscape. Most mainstream image consumers prefer the term "cartoon" to "animated film" (fewer syllables, you see). The former suggests a genetic link to "comic books" - as opposed to the more pretentious-sounding (and multisyllabic) ...
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Live Lebanon-UNDP and BBAC join forces with Waterfront City Cares to implement further social development projects in Lebanon
Live Lebanon-UNDP and BBAC (Bank of Beirut and the Arab Countries) have joined forces with Waterfront City Cares to implement their latest social development project as they work together to provide support to Lebanon's most deprived communities. The inauguration took place in Bsaba-Mount Lebanon as they provided invaluable medical care to the ...
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West Africa Analysts - West Africa Attractive Hezbollah Destination
Analysts say numerous factors have made West Africa an attractive target for Hezbollah, a Shi'ite extremist group founded in Lebanon. The presence of the extremist group in the region came into the spotlight this week after the United States announced it was imposing sanctions on four Lebanese citizens accused of aiding Hezbollah in its efforts to expand in West Africa. The U.S. considers ...
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Lebanese budget deficit up 26.02 in Q1
(MENAFN) Lebanese Finance Ministry stated that the country's budget deficit hiked 26.02 percent and reached USD767.6 million in the first quarter of this year, compared to USD655.8 million (22.2 percent)in the same period in 2012, reported The Daily Star.The ministry also said that the rise in budget deficit caused the primary surplus, minus the cost of debt servicing, to fall by 0.16 ...
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Syria Fears for Aleppo after Hezbollah fighters bolster Assad’s forces
Syrian rebels fought back against forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo on Sunday after losing territory to government forces in recent days. Having been driven out of the key town of Qusayr two weeks ago, rebel fighters have been flocking to Aleppo to shore up one of the few remaining opposition ...
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Syria Huge blast at Mezzeh military airport in Damascus
A huge blast has been reported in the western Mezzeh suburb of the Syrian capital Damascus. Syrian state TV said the blast was caused by ';a terrorist attempt to target Mezzeh military airport';. Unconfirmed reports said around 20 soldiers were killed or wounded in the ...
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Lebanon army urges self-restraint after killings
"When the bodies of the four men were found, tension reigned over some towns in Baalbek and Hermel as armed men deployed in a number of towns in these areas," the Army Command said in a statement released on Sunday. "We urge all the citizens and families in the Beqaa toexercise self-restraint and have patience in this critical situation the country is going through," it ...
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Lebanon Killing of 4 Shiites deepens sectarian tension
Four Shiite Lebanese men were killed Sunday in an ambush in a volatile area by the border with Syria, hiking already high sectarian tensions and concerns over the spillover of the civil war raging next door. Gunmen from the families of the slain Shiites took to the streets and set up ...
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Hezbollah condemnsU.S. interference in Lebanon
Hezbollah official condemned Sunday what he called "direct interference" in internal Lebanese politics by the U.S., accusing it of taking sides in the legal battle over extending Parliament’s term. "Intervening so clearly to pressure ...
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Nahhas calls for salvation conference to rebuild state
BEIRUT: A gathering of politicians, intellectuals and civil society activists over the weekend called for a "national salvation" conference that would help rebuild the Lebanese state. "We have entered an era of major changes in the world and in our region," former Labor ...
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Insurance sector faces stagnation in 2013
BEIRUT: Activity in the tourism, real estate and trade sectors stagnated in 2012, Lebanon’s business leaders warned last week, and the insurance sector will follow suit in 2013, according to industry experts. With the economy forecast to expand by less than 2 percent in 2013, growth in the insurance sector is expected to be flat or turn negative by year-end, head of the Lebanese Insurance ...
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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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