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Army to detonate Israeli seaborne mine found in Jbeil

Daily Star staff Monday, November 09, 2009 Listen to the Article - Powered by BEIRUT: The Lebanese Army announced that it was planning to detonate two mines, one of which was a seaborne Israeli-made device that was spotted off...

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Lebanese power firm calls for electricity upgrade

E-Aley urges ministers to implement proposed solutions to revolutionize sector By Nayla Baraki Special to The Daily Star Wednesday, November 04, 2009 Listen to the Article - The Electrical Utility of Aley (E-Aley) has proposed...

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Snoubar Season; The Umbrella Pine

A botanical post today.Last weekend was spent in the mountains among the umbrella pines ( Pinus pinea ). Although Lebanon is known for its cedar tree (it’s the one in the flag), I find the umbrella pine much more significant...

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Jumblatt: Lebanon needs to revert to 'core of the Arab world Syria'

SOFAR: Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblatt stressed on Sunday during a reconciliatory gathering with the Syrian Socialist National Party (SSNP) the need to revert to Syria’s Arabism. Jumblatt’s meeting with the...

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Lebanon car-crash fatalities out of control

About 900 people are killed, 12,000 injured and 2,000 permanently disabled each year in Lebanon in road accidents, said head of the Youth Association for Social Awareness (YASA) Tuesday at a conference held in the town of Aley.

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The dark side of tourism in Lebanon

It's like selling goods." Kamal, whose name has been changed at his request, is a 40-year-old pimp based just outside of Beirut, where prostitution thrives, though illegal, in hotels, nightclubs, brothels, private homes,...

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One woman's struggle to achieve independence

By Nayla Baraki Special to The Daily Star Friday, September 04, 2009 Listen to the Article - Powered by EBADIEH: For one woman growing up in the backwaters of a tiny Baabda village in the 1940s, it was a fight to get a high...

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Pair of bears finally freed from grizzly zoo conditions

By Patrick Galey Daily Star staff Tuesday, September 01, 2009 Listen to the Article - Powered by BEIRUT: At the end of a summer in which more than a million tourists flocked to Leba­non, Emirates flight EK 954 to Istanbul on...

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How tourist-friendly is Lebanon?

BEIRUT: “The only thing I miss about the US is uninterrupted electric current,” says Ali, a 20 year old Lebanese-American English Literature student spending his summer break in Lebanon. In one sense Lebanon isn’t a...

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Lion Cub Saved

Members of the Lebanon-based group Beirut for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (BETA) gather around the cage where a lion, found left to die in the sweltering Mediterranean sun, is kept at a centre that specialises in the care...

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