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Palestinian refugee counsels Syrians
Lebanon for the next several weeks. "I know what it’s like to feel like the ‘other’ and be different in the world. This gives me compassion for people who don’t feel at home," says Ashtan, a warm and outgoing woman who takes an immediate interest and empathy in those around her – an invaluable trait for someone who is working with refugee children as well ...
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Concern over Hezbollahs growing role in Syria after fierce fighting in al-Quasir
Mourners carry the coffin of 18-year-old Hezbollah member Hasan Faisal Sheker after the fiercest fighting this year in the rebel stronghold of ...
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Obama calls for Lebanese elections as scheduled
President Barack Obama speaks during a Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) event at the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation, Sunday, May 19, 2013, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Carolyn ...
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Approved Ashrafieh highway project sparks controversy
Beirut has sparked a dispute between the municipality and civil society activists on whether the project will actually solve the city’s traffic issues. The controversial highway plan, known as the Fouad Boutros Project, pitted local officials against civil society activists after the Beirut Municipality finalized a tender process and transferred funds to the Council for Development and ...
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Army caught in Tripoli crossfire three dead
Lebanese mourners carry the body of a man who was killed after overnight clashes between Sunni Muslim from Bab al-Tabbaneh and Alawite from Jabal Mohsen neighbourhoods in Tripoli, Monday, May 20, 2013. (The Daily ...
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EDL Lights to come back on ‘soon’
Deir Ammar plants had been completed and they expected service to return to normal "very soon." Citizens in Beirut complain that electricity rationing in the capital has ranged between eight to more than nine hours for the last several days, compared to the typical three hour daily rolling blackouts it has experienced since the power crisis started in the country more than eight years ...
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Bank Audi warns over Lebanon’s rapidly increasing public debt
Bank Audi sounded the alarm Monday over a substantial rise in Lebanon’s public debt and budget deficit at the beginning of the year, warning against policies that could further weaken its financial stability. The bank, which made the comments in its economic report on the first quarter of 2013, said the debt-to-GDP ratio had soared since 2011. ...
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Hezbollah in big Syria battle Obama concerned
AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas have fought their biggest battle yet for Syria's beleaguered president, prompting international alarm that the civil war may spread and an urgent call for restraint from the United ...
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Deadly clashes continue in Lebanons Tripoli
Three people have beenkilled and about 40 wounded in two days of fighting in Lebanon'snorthern city of Tripoli, security sources say, assectarian violence spills over from the civil war in Syria. Rocket-propelled grenades and heavy gunfire shook the cityovernight but the exchanges had tapered off into sporadic sniper fire by day time on Monday. Four of the wounded were Lebanese ...
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Syrian Rebels Suffer Setbacks From Fighting in Town Near Lebanon Border
TRIPOLI, LEBANON -- Syrian government troops backed by fighters from Lebanon's Hezbollah movement have been in fierce battles in the rebel-held town of Qusair after weeks of fighting. Many wounded rebels are being treated across the nearby border in northern Lebanon. Eighteen year-old Obeida Abdel Nabi is recovering from a shrapnel wound to his lower abdomen. He was hurt several days ago ...
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Activists say 30 Hezbollah fighters Syrians killed
AMMAN - About 30 fighters from the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and 20 Syrian soldiers and militiamen loyal to President Bashar Assad were killed in heavy fighting with rebels in the town of Qusair, Syrian activists said on Monday.Opposition sources and state media gave sharply differing accounts of the outcome of Sunday's ferocious battles in the town, long used by rebels as a supply ...
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Syrian rebels target Hezbollah militia
NEW: Obama stresses his concern to the Lebanese president over Hezbollah's "active and growing role" Across Syria, at least 62 people have died in violence Monday, opposition says Qusayr is strategically valuable to rebels and government forces Israeli vehicle reportedly seized; Israel calls claim "cheap ...
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Syria dozens of Lebanese Hizbollah fighters killed in battle of Qusair
Dozens of Lebanese Hizbollah fighters have been killed during an all-out offensive on the strategic border town of Qusair in Syria, a development that reveals the militia's unmitigated support for President Bashar ...
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Tensions over Syria convulse Lebanese city again five killed
TRIPOLI, Lebanon (Reuters) - Five people have been killed and about 50 wounded in two days of fighting in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, security sources said on Monday, a spill over of violence from the civil war in Syria. Rocket-propelled grenades and heavy gunfire shook the city on Sunday night but exchanges tapered off into sporadic sniper fire by daytime. Syrian activists say ...
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Activists Hezbollah suffers big losses in Syria
AMMAN/BEIRUT - About 30 Lebanese Hezbollah fighters and 20 Syrian soldiers and militiamen loyal to President Bashar Assad have been killed in the fiercest fighting this year in the rebel stronghold of Qusair, Syrian activists said on Monday.Sunday's reported death toll was the highest for Hezbollah in a single day's conflict in Syria, highlighting the increasing intervention by ...
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Lebanon County high schools set commencement plans
Lebanon County high-school seniors will end one chapter of their lives in the coming weeks when they graduate. The six public and four private high schools in Lebanon County have scheduled their graduation ceremonies, beginning with Lebanon Catholic School on Friday and concluding with Lebanon Christian Academy and New Covenant Christian School on June 8. Following is a list of the ...
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Obama voices concern to Lebanon on Hezbollah role in Syria
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama told his Lebanese counterpart on Monday he was concerned about Lebanese Hezbollah militants fighting in Syria to support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the White House ...
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Maronite leader raps Lebanese interference in Syrian conflict
Maronite Patriarch Bechara Rai has criticized the political leaders of Lebanon in unusually blunt terms, and said that they should address their own nation's problems rather than "interfere in the conflict in Syria." Speaking to an audience in Colombia during a trip to Latin America, the Lebanese prelate noted that "after six years of discussions and wasting time," the ...
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Obama renewed US support during call to Suleiman
U.S. President Barack Obama called Lebanon President Michel Suleiman on Monday to stress the need for the formation of a new government in Lebanon and holding the parliamentary elections on ...
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Hezbollah’s death toll 28 largest in a single Syrian battle
BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Fighting raged for the second day on Monday in the strategic Syrian city of Qusayr, as government forces, backed by Shiite fighters from the Lebanese militant group ...
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Iran Russia Hezbollah Top Backers in Syrian Regimes Success
The protracted fighting in Syria is not happening within a bubble, amid reports of clandestine support for the Bashar al Assad regime from Hezbollah, Iran and Russia, and an ongoing effort to establish an international peace ...
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Saudi princes may face UK court over claim they laundered money for Hizbollah
LONDON // Two Saudi princes will hear this week if they are successful in extricating themselves from answering to accusations in a UK court case linking them, and companies in which they are shareholders, with money laundering for Hizbollah and smuggling gems out of Africa. The challenge is the latest development in a case brought by Global Torch, a company linked to the two princes, in 2011 ...
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Dozens of Hizbollah members killed in Syria activists say
BEIRUT // Fierce street fighting in Qusayr has killed at least 28 members of Lebanon's militant Hizbollah group, activists said yesterday, as Syrian government forces pushed to retake the strategic, opposition-held town near the Lebanese border. More than 70 Hizbollah fighters had been wounded in the fighting around the town, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. If ...
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Lebanon president denies receiving a warning from Israel
Lebanon President Michel Suleiman denied on Monday receiving a warning from Israel that it would destroy Lebanon in case of a Hezbollah attack on the Jewish state. The denial came after an Israeli website reported that Tel Aviv has sent a warning to Lebanon through the U.S. administration that it would "take Lebanon 50 years backwards" if Hezbollah attacked ...
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Lebanese Army Deploys in Northern City Due to Clashes
Beirut, May 20 (Prensa Latina) Violent armed clashes between Sunni Muslims and Alawites were resumed in the Lebanese northern city of Tripoli, where the Army carried out a mass deployment today to contain violence, which has taken four lives so far. According to military and health sources, about 50 people have been injured in the crossed fire a shootings by snipers. Combats began on Sunday and ...
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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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