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Bill Gates Retakes World’s Richest Title From Carlos Slim
Bill Gates is once again the world's richest person. The 57-year-old co-founder of Redmond, Washington-basedMicrosoft Corp. (MSFT) recaptured the title from The Lebanese-Mexican investor Carlos Slim yesterday, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires ...
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3 Lebanese arrested over attempted sale of rare artifacts
Lebanon for the attempted sale of artifacts that date back to the Roman and Ottoman eras, the police said in a statement Friday. "On [Tuesday] the Judicial Police’s Bureau for Combating International Crimes of Theft was notified of individuals displaying photographs of antiques with the purpose of selling them," the Internal Security Forces said in a statement. "As a ...
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Erdogan Obama say Assad must quit
United States President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan insisted yesterday that Bashar al-Assad must step down amid a flurry of moves to organise peace talks to end Syria's bloody civil war. The two met in Washington as efforts to bring the Assad regime and the Syrian opposition together at an international conference next month gathered pace. At a joint White House ...
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Lebanon Transit to hold public meetings
Lebanon Transit will hold a pair of public meetings from 4-7 p.m. Wednesday at the Lebanon Transit office, 200 Willow St., to discuss its operational plans for the coming fiscal year, which begins July 1. On the agenda will be information about the upcoming budget, which will officially be adopted by the board of directors earlier that day, according to a news release. There are no planned ...
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10 killed in explosion in Turkey near the Syrian border
The governor's office in Hatay province said Friday's blast occurred in Tunisma village when the smuggler set the tank on fire after realizing Turkish security forces had rushed to the scene. Hatay is the Turkish border province where two car bombs exploded in the town of Reyhanli last week, killing 51 people. Turkish authorities have blamed Syrian intelligence for that terrorist ...
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Woman shot to death in Chouf son in custody
BEIRUT: A man was apprehended Friday for allegedly killing his mother in Chouf, in the second family-related crime this month. Malakeh Breish, in her fifties, was found shot dead in ...
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Lebanon Township Committee cant offer horse owners a solution
LEBANON TWP. ' Although they sympathize with the plight of horse owners who'd like to bring their horse to their 1.5-acre property in the township, at this point Township Committee members cannot offer a solution to the problem. Douglas and Annette Lemenze want to bring their horse home to their property on Butternut Road. The horse, which they ...
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Rights groups Syria holds thousands incommunicado
More than two years into the conflict, such accounts have become chillingly familiar to Syrians. Intelligence agents have been seizing people from homes, offices and checkpoints, and human rights activists say the targets often are peaceful regime opponents, including defense lawyers, doctors and aid ...
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Lebanon County man died in motorcycle accident Thursday night police say
SOUTH LONDONDERRY TOWNSHIP - A township man died Thursday night after driving his motorcycle into a trailer hauling a backhoe, police said.Township police said the accident occurred at about 8:45 p.m. along the 1400 block of Mount Wilson Road. Brandon Robert Cline Jr., 37, of Mount Wilson Road, was pronounced dead at the scene by the Lebanon County coroner's office. Police said Cline was ...
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Geneva is Rejected in Syria ... and Lebanon
Does treating Lebanon's deepening political crisis require Lebanon's attendance at the Geneva 2 Conference, which Russia and the United States are preparing for? This small country has become completely attached to the Syrian crisis; everything in Lebanon, from big to small, is linked to what the crisis next door will generate. This is especially after Hezbollah announced its forces ...
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Wrap it up Lebanese singer Pascal goes all prude in new video
Pascal Mashalaani 's latest clip "Ahlam Al Banat" has made it onto YouTube. The clip underwent several modifications with certain scenes being deleted on the singer's ...
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Lebanese travel agencies warn of online scams
BEIRUT: Lebanese travel agencies urged tourists Friday to take their precautions when purchasing their tickets, warning of online scams with the approach of summer. "Be aware purchasing randomly via websites to avoid trouble and losses," said a statement issued by ...
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Senior U.S. military commander in Beirut
The U.S. welcomes the election of a long-time Texas resident as the Syrian rebel prime minister, voicing hopes he can foster "unity and cohesion among the ...
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Four hurt in auto repair shop fire
Firefighters extinguish a fire that erupted in a depot of a residential building in Adonis, north of Beirut, Wednesday, April 3, 2013. (The Daily Star/Hasan ...
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Lebanon hopes Gulf Arabs will reverse slump
Beirut: A new Lebanese government’s best hope of rebooting its battered economy may lie in efforts to persuade wealthy Gulf Arab tourists to return after a boycott last year, but it is a gargantuan ...
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Report Torture evidence found in Syrian prisons
BEIRUT -- A human rights group says it has found documents and physical evidence indicating Syrians were arbitrarily detained and tortured in government prisons in the eastern city of Raqqa.Rebels overran the city in February and facilitated access to Human Rights Watch.The group says its researchers visited Raqqa in late April and inspected security facilities that belonged to the government ...
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UN peacekeepers briefly held by Syria armed group report
Several U.N. military observers were briefly taken hostage by an unknown armed group in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights just three days after Syrian rebels released four U.N. peacekeepers, a U.N. official said on ...
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Berri withdrew his electoral law proposal
Lebanon Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri withdrew his electoral law proposal during the electoral sub-committee's meeting on Thursday after it was rejected by the Future Movement, National News Agency reported. The mixed electoral law presented by Berri called for 50% of the parliament to be elected according to the Orthodox proposal and 50% according to according to the 1960 electoral ...
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Syria ex-minister leads rebuilding plan
In this picture taken on Friday May 10, 2013, Syrian economist Abdullah al-Dardari, a chief economist at the Beirut-based U.N. Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) and a former deputy prime minister in President Bashar Assad's government, speaks during an interview with the Associated Press, In Beirut, Lebanon. Al-Dardari tells The Associated Press in a rare interview ...
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Russia sends missiles to Syria warships near Syria
Russia sent newly advanced supersonic anti-ship cruise missiles to Syria and deployed a dozen or more warships to patrol waters near Syria, U.S. officials said. The delivery of Yakhont, or the P-800 Oniks, missiles demonstrates the depth of Moscow's support for the regime of President Bashar Assad, U.S. officials told The New York Times. But other U.S. officials told The Wall Street ...
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Ex-business partner says Saudi prince helped Hezbollah
Hezbollah launder money must be made public. The documents include charges by Prince Mishal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud's former business partner that the prince and his son, Prince Abdulaziz bin Mishal bin Al Saud, were also involved in smuggling gems from the Democratic Republic of Congo, The Guardian reported. The two princes have accused Faisal Almhairat, a Jordanian national, of embezzling ...
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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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