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Plane crash near Beirut
by LeliaLeb

Till now there are no survivors. These images were filmed at the Hariri hospital where families are waiting for the ambulances to take the corpses to the hospital were DNA tests are being held in order to identifu the [...]

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Beirut and Lebanon are still stuck in an endless summer. Last monday, Beirutis were on the Corniche, walking, fishing, swimming and sun bathing. An incredible weather for January, while ski lovers are still impatiently waiting for the snow to fall on the mountain tops. Here [...]

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This week, the four men arrested in connection with the assassination of Rafik al-Hariri, the former Lebanese prime minister, have been released, after four years without charge.

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Women in Lebanon are really disappointed with this clip

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Apres pres de 4 ans passees en cellule alors qu’ils n’avaient pas ete accuses d’un quelconque crimes, les quatre generaux Jamil Sayyed, Moustapha Hamdane, Ali Hajj et Raymond Azar ont ete liberes hier sur decision du Tribunal International specila pour le Liban charge d’enqueter dans [...]

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A Lebanese journalist with links to militant group Hezbollah has been barred from entering Britain.
Ibrahim Moussawi was due to speak at the London School of Oriental and African Studies, but the home secretary has ruled he should be denied a visa.
Mr Moussawi was editor of [...]

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U.N. peacekeepers on Wednesday found five Katyusha rockets in Wadi Hamoul near the Lebanese border town of Naqoura.
A Lebanese army communiqué said the 122-mm rockets were old and not set to be fired into Israel.
A preliminary report said the projectiles were still usable.
Spokeswoman for the [...]

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Reuters video, click here

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Early this morning, a palestinian faction known as FPLP-CG, and whose commandment is based in Damascus, fired three rockets from a southern village in Lebanon, between Naquoura and Bint Jbeil. Israel didn’t wait long before firing back.
The government in Lebanon as well as Hezbollah agree [...]

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Entre la fiction et le réel, “Sous les Bombes” (Taht El Qassf), film libanais qui représentera le Liban à Hollywood pour les Oscar, connaît un autre grand succès auprès du public égyptien. Compte Rendu.
Dans le cadre du Festival International du Cinéma qui a eu lieu [...]

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