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BEIRUT (AFP) – The school dropout rate among Palestinian refugees in Lebanon is alarmingly high with 50 percent of 17-year-olds and 40 percent of 16-year-olds receiving no education, UN officials warned
From correspondents in Beirut, Lebanon, 08:05 PM IST A Lebanese mother found dead with her three daughters left a videotaped confession that she poisoned the family, local media reported Saturday. Grace Jalakh, 40, said she had...
Lebanese Army commander Gen. Jean Kahwaji has instructed his troops to raise the level of alert along the border with Israel in preparation for "the possible Israeli threat on the homeland," London-based Alquds Alarabi reported...
By Dalila Mahdawi BEIRUT, Nov 21 (IPS) - October and November have been bloody months for Lebanon's migrant domestic workers - over the last five weeks nine women have died. The workers leave their families behind to travel to...
BEIRUT: Lebanon may see parts of its coastline vanish if climate change continues unabated, according to a landmark report on the evolving environment of the Arab world. The Impact of Climate Change on Arab Countries – a...
BEIRUT: Prime Minister Saad Hariri renewed on Friday Leba-non’s commitment to its partnership with Europe. “Lebanon has always been the portal of Europe to the Mediterranean and the portal of the Mediterranean to Europe as...
Analysis BEIRUT: Officials from a dozen donor organizations toured the war-battered Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp near Tripoli on Friday, with construction of new buildings slated to start in the coming days. Formation...
BEIRUT: The Fraser Institute’s annual Index of Economic Freedom in the Arab World ranked Lebanon in second place in 2009 among 15 Arab countries included in the survey, up from fifth place in 2008 and fourth place in 2007, as...
Obama and his pro-Islamic Department of Justice (DOJ), have stabbed the families of the Beirut bombing victims in the back. Just like he did the families of the 911 victims, when he had the DOJ fill a brief to shield the Saudi...
In an interview with Al-Hayat newspaper’s Saturday edition, US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Jeffrey Feltman said Lebanon’s cabinet was formed “domestically,â€_ stressing that according to him, all...
