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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...
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...
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...
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...
By The Daily Star Thursday, October 22, 2009 Listen to the Article - Powered by BEIRUT: 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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
BEIRUT: Far from the wilds of Africa, inside an abandoned cage dumped in a small alley, a two-year-old lion was found clinging onto life on Thursday night in the Beirut neighborhood of Karantina. The lion was said to have been...
