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UN`s Ban details Hezbollah letter on prisoner swap

independent-bangladesh.com     19 mins ago   3 related          

Reuters, United Nations- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday released details of a letter he received from Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah outlining his group's conditions for further prisoner deals with...                

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Israeli planes violate Lebanese airspace, Beirut says

earthtimes.org     2 hrs ago          

Beirut - The Lebanese army said Thursday that Israel Air Force warplanes have violated Lebanon's airspace by flying over Beirut and elsewhere in the country. At least three enemy Israeli warplanes violated Lebanese airspace...                

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Omar Mamlouk joins Layia Hospitality

freepressreleases.co.uk     1 hr ago   1 related          

New bloom hotel management company Layia Hospitality has appointed Omar Mamlouk to the position of Area Director of Sales & Marketing. The Lebanese national brings to the role experience working for a number of international...                

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March 14 Forces Speak of Impossibility of Coexistence with Hizbullah's Arms

sawtbeirut.com     1 hr ago          

The workshop, which was held at the Bristol Hotel by the coalition's general secretariat, was the fourth to be organized by the March 14 movement. "The secret of this movement lies in the fact that it was created by the...                

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Ya Libnan Political News: US abruptly cancels Syrian visitors' meeting

beiruter.com     5 hrs ago   44 related          

Beirut / Washington - In an abrupt about-face, the State Department on Wednesday scrubbed plans to meet with a visiting delegation from Syria, a meeting that could have signaled an easing of tense U.S. relations with Damascus.                

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Daily Star Political News: Berri warns ministerial team to stay on task

beiruter.com     14 hrs ago   6 related          

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said Wednesday that the ministerial statement committee's primary task is to draft a policy platform for the new government, while stressing that the committee, made up of an assortment of...                

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Can Lebanon’s March 14 Reverse the Tide?

beiruter.com     15 hrs ago   2 related          

This week, Lebanon’s new national unity government is slated to announce its ministerial statement (bayan waziri), the policy document that will define Beirut’s working parameters and agenda through the spring 2009 elections....                

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It's All in the Telling

washingtonpost.com     7 hrs ago   2 related          

Hakawati comes from the Arabic verb "haka," meaning to tell, relate, report, give an account of; to imitate, copy; to resemble. Perhaps the major difference between a storyteller and a hakawati is that in English, the emphasis...                

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Festival spirit defies instability in Lebanon

reuters.com     11 hrs ago   2 related          

By Alistair Lyon, Special Correspondent BEITEDDIN, Lebanon (Reuters) - Lyrical notes from the saxophone of U.S. jazz artist Branford Marsalis waft into the cool night air of a mountain palace courtyard in Lebanon. The applause...                

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Daily Star Political News: US wants Lebanon to talk to Israel about Shebaa

beiruter.com     14 hrs ago   3 related          

A US initiative to resolve the dispute over the occupied Shebaa Farms is still on the table, and is being considered by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, An-Nahar newspaper's correspondent in Washington on Wednesday...                

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