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Plane crash near Beirut

January 25th, 2010 · No Comments

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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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Tags: Lebanon · Mediterranean · Personal · Society · Video

Lebanon is still stuck in an endless summer

January 18th, 2010 · No Comments

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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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Tags: Economics · Environment · Lebanon · Mediterranean · Personal · Photo · Society

Robert Fisk analyzes the action of the UN special tribunal for Lebanon

May 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

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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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Tags: Politics · Video · War & Conflict

When political campaining loses its head and its aim….

May 1st, 2009 · No Comments

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Women in Lebanon are really disappointed with this clip

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Tags: Lebanon · Mediterranean · Politics · Video

Affaire Hariri: Les quatre generaux libanais sont libres

April 30th, 2009 · No Comments

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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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Tags: Lebanon · Mediterranean · Video · War & Conflict

Lebanon journalist UK entry veto

March 16th, 2009 · 1 Comment

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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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Tags: Mediterranean · Politics · Society · Travel · War & Conflict

Five Katyusha Rockets Found in Southern Lebanon

February 4th, 2009 · No Comments

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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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Tags: War & Conflict

Video of the rockets that hit Israel from Lebanon

January 8th, 2009 · 1 Comment

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Reuters video, click here

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Tags: Video · War & Conflict

Palestinian factions fire rockets from south Lebanon, Israel fires back

January 8th, 2009 · No Comments

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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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Tags: War & Conflict

Un autre film exceptionnel d’Aractingi

November 29th, 2008 · No Comments

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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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Tags: Arts & Culture · War & Conflict · cinema