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Lebanon

Type: Country

Name: Lebanon

population: 4,461,995

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 12 hours ago - 4 Documents

UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Body found in Lebanon belongs to lost British journalist: report

BEIRUT, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- DNA test results showed that the body recovered by an official British team in Lebanon's Bekaa valley was that of British journalist Alec Collett who disappeared more than two decades ago, daily As-Safir reported on Friday ... [Xinhua News Agency - 12 hours ago]

Entities: Lebanon, Beirut, DNA, UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office

First Reported 15 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 9 Documents

United Nations

Child labor rises as Palestinian children lose faith in learning

- Powered by BEIRUT: Palestinian children in the camps of Lebanon are losing faith in the value of an education, with record numbers leaving school to work. We are facing a big problem here, said Ray Virgilio Torres, the head of the United Nations Childrens ... [Lebanon Daily Star - 3 hours ago]

Entities: Refugees, Lebanon, United Nations, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF/ICEF), Education

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 6 Documents

Lebanon: Body found could be Briton

Alec Collett was missing after being abducted by Palestinian militants in 1985A body recovered in Lebanon could be that of British journalist Alec Collett, who was kidnapped by Palestinian militants more than 20 years ago.A forensics team excavating a ... [Guardian.co.uk - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Lebanon, Abd-al-Rahman Ismail Abdallah Talab, John Plunkett

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 17 hours ago - 6 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

Hassan Nasrallah

LEBANON: Hassan Nasrallah is re-elected head of Hezbollah

Hassan Nasrallah was re-elected head of Hezbollah on Thursday following a congress that also adopted a new manifesto, which is to be revealed in coming days, the militant Shiite party announced.AFP - Hassan Nasrallah was re-elected head of Hezbollah on ... [France24 - 17 hours ago]

Entities: Hassan Nasrallah, Hizballah, Lebanon

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 4 Documents

Lebanon: Suspected Israeli spy detained

Lebanon's Internal Security Forces detained A. Berri, a teacher from the southern town of Tebnine, on suspicion of spying for Israel, media reports said Thursday. An Nahar and al-Akhbar and a-Safir dailies reported the ISF intelligence department had ... [Albawaba - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Lebanon, Detained, Israel, An Nahar

First Reported 22 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 2 Documents

Saad Hariri

Hariri welcomes economic benefits of stronger EU ties

- Powered by BEIRUT: Prime Minister Saad Hariri renewed on Friday Lebanons 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 well, Hariri said. ... [Lebanon Daily Star - 3 hours ago]

Entities: Saad Hariri, Lebanon, Adnan Kassar, European Union

First Reported 3 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 2 Documents (in Environment)

Global warming to hit Arab states

BEIRUT: Global warming will have a severe impact on Arab states where water is already scarce, a regional report warned on Thursday ahead of next month's Copenhagen environment summit.Some of the most feared effects include depletion of agricultural land, ... [The News International - 3 hours ago]

Entities: Global Warming/Climate Change, Copenhagen, Fresh Water, Beirut

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 21 hours ago - 2 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

STL prosecutors visit Lebanon to meet lawyers, academics

Officials from the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) tasked with prosecuting suspects in the 2005 assassination of former Premier Rafik Hariri visited Lebanon last week, the court's Defense Office said Wednesday. FranAois Roux, head of the Defense Office, ... [Individual.com - 21 hours ago]

Entities: Lebanon, Rafiq Hariri, Tribunal

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 3 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

RI sends 1,125 troops to Lebanon

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The Indonesian National Defense Forces (TNI) on Thursday sent 1,125 personnel to Lebanon to replace soldiers who had served in the Indonesian contingent in UNIFIL over the past one year.The 1,125 servicemen were seen off by TNI ... [Antara News - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Lebanon, United Nations, Jakarta, Task Force, United Nations Interim Force In Lebanon

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 10 hours ago - 2 Documents (in Politics)

UNIFIL talks security with Hariri

CommentBEIRUT, Lebanon, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- The United Nations remains committed to monitoring the security situation along the southern border with Lebanon, top peacekeepers said.Italian Maj. Gen. Claudio Graziano, the commander of the U.N. Interim Force ... [UPI - 10 hours ago]

Entities: Saad Hariri, Lebanon, Hizballah

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 2 Documents

Indonesia bolsters UNIFIL contingent

Listen to the Article - Powered byJAKARTA: Indonesia is deploying more peacekeepers to Lebanon to join the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). Some 1,125 army, navy and air force personnel will arrive next week, replacing the current 1,000-strong ... [Lebanon Daily Star - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Indonesia, Peacekeeping, Lebanon, United Nations Interim Force In Lebanon

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 2 Documents

Four Seasons Hotel Beirut to open in December

Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts has announced the launch its Beirut property in December, which will be followed by properties in China, two in the US, and one in Morocco during 2010.Approaching 50 years of operation, with an expanding portfolio of 82 ... [Trade Arabia - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Beirut, Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, China, Venice (Italy), Hangzhou

Quotes

..."Lebanon has always been the portal of Europe to the Mediterranean and the portal of the Mediterranean to Europe as well," Hariri said. "Thanks to its strategic geographic position and historical openness to the countries bordering the Mediterranean, Leba-non always considers Europe as a social, cultural and economic partner" he added

Hariri welcomes economic benefits of stronger EU ties: Business leaders highlight euromed relations [Individual.com - 1 hour ago]

...Some expressed fear that lack of fresh water could undermine peace in the region. "Environmental deterioration forms serious threats to peace in our Arab region and the world as a result of the increase in the conflict around water resource" cautioned Lebanon's Environment Minister Mohammed Rahhal

Global warming to hit Arab states [The News International - 3 hours ago]

On Nov. 2 the Saudi cabinet of ministers fired back: "The kingdom does not permit any party to disrupt the security of the pilgrims or to attempt to divide the ranks of Muslims." The text didn't mention Iran by name, but everyone in the region knew whom the Saudis had in mind...

Reality Check: The Hajj [Foreign Policy Magazine - 7 hours ago]

...'I'm not looking at where they came from,' he said. "I'm looking at how they can help me at work." Proat is no stranger to hardship. He said that he served in the Israeli army, sweeping for mines during the 1982 invasion of Lebanon...

The job market is tough, but not impossible, for ex-cons [Yahoo! Canada - 10 hours ago]

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Blogs

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Hezbollah’s Man in Iran Ali Akbar Mohtashamipou... [The Moderate Voice - 3 hours ago] By most measures, Hezbollah’s Man in Iran Ali Akbar Mohtashamipour should be a hero — yet he now faces some severe critics and staunch enemies there. Why? In ...
Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuff... [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 8 hours ago] The Past Two Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: Increased Tension Over Iran's Program SI Analysis: After an IAEA report suggests that Iran's recently ...
A Third Lebanon War Could Be Much Worse than th... [Michael J. Totten - 10 hours ago] Hezbollah's Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah recently announced that he could hit any and every place in Israel with long-range missiles. That would mean that, ...
Exum & Fontaine on Yemen [Abu Muqawama - 11 hours ago] The trick with bad news in Washington is to release it on Friday afternoon so no one notices. That's the idea behind a new paper I wrote with Richard Fontaine on ...
Yemen’s problems are our problems, but not for ... [The Call - 11/19/2009] By Ian Bremmer When Yemen makes international headlines, it's usually because outsiders look at the unrest there as yet another proxy conflict between ...

Audio/Video

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Congressman Ellison talks to Congresswoman Mazi... [Rep. Keith Ellison - YouTube Channel - 8 hours ago]
Congressman Ellison talks with Ali Awad, of You... [Rep. Keith Ellison - YouTube Channel - 8 hours ago]
Swine Flu Claims Its First Feline Victim [Associated Press - YouTube - 21 hours ago]
Israeli films on Lebanon war [CNN International - YouTube - 11/10/2009]
Israeli films on Lebanon war [CNN.com - Video - 11/10/2009]

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