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| A music of travel and expulsion | ");dw("|
| ");dw(" | BEIRUT: \"It\'s good place for rehearsal,\" Zeid Hamdan gestures to the Achrafieh rooftop outside his studio window and grins. | ");dw("
| Lebanon backtracks on \'arms-free\' Beirut | ");dw("|
| ");dw(" | A chorus of calls for an \"arms-free\" Beirut triggered by a deadly battle outside a mosque last week is fast fading after Lebanon\'s powerful Hezbollah movement warned against any attempt to disarm it. | ");dw("
| Beirut, Lebanon: Middle East luxury special | ");dw("|
| ");dw(" | \'Beirut still has a frisson fizzing through it, its air filled with a heady mix of gunpowder and jasmine, its streets a living collision of history and glamour\' Photo: CORBIS Beirut posseses a party-loving, hedonistic population Photo: CORBIS It is 3am and through my double-glazed windows I can hear men shouting above the sound of revving car ... | ");dw("
| Bassil denies Energy Ministry to blame for budget delay | ");dw("|
| ");dw(" | BEIRUT: Minister of Energy and Water Jibran Bassil responded on Wednesday to the Finance Ministry and its accusations that his ministry was a month late in submitting its budget. | ");dw("
| Lebanon suffers on from the impossibility of change | ");dw("|
| ");dw(" | At the end of July, President Bashar Assad of Syria and King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia visited Beirut together in what was widely perceived as a successful attempt to quell yet another artificially inflated Lebanese political crisis. | ");dw("
| Morocco and Algeria move closer together | ");dw("|
| ");dw(" | Four Caribbean states decided last week to withdraw their recognition of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic that was unilaterally announced by the Polisario Front in 1976 with the support of Algeria, reported Khalid al Sarjani in an opinion article for Emirati daily Al Bayan. | ");dw("
| US Intel: Tehran Pushes Hezbollah to Attack Israel | ");dw("|
| ");dw(" | Western intelligence and Persian Gulf sources report that on August 30, Hezbollah put its forces on a state of war alert and issued a partial call-up of reservists. | ");dw("
| Lebanon sends warrant for suspected spy to Interpol | ");dw("|
| ");dw(" | Lebanon\'s chief prosecutor on Wednesday sent an arrest warrant against a suspected spy for Israel to international police agency Interpol, after reports the suspect, who fled the country last year, may be in France. | ");dw("
| Higher Defense Council vows to increase security measures | ");dw("|
| ");dw(" | BEIRUT: The Higher Lebanese Defense Council decided on Tuesday to tighten security measures throughout Lebanese territories and delegated concerned ministries to implement security measures particular to Beirut and south Lebanon. | ");dw("
| Mneimneh details 5-year plan to improve country\'s public schools | ");dw("|
| ");dw(" | BEIRUT: Education provided in Lebanese public schools will gradually improve based on a five-year plan, said Education Minister Hassan Mneimneh, as he urged media outlets to co-operate in keeping the the public informed of the plan. | ");dw("
| Berri pledges to uphold both UNSCR 1701, right of resistance | ");dw("|
| ");dw(" | BEIRUT: Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri reiterated Tuesday Lebanon\'s commitment to Resolution 1701, stressing that the resistance against Israel was a Lebanese necessity. | ");dw("
| Lebanese juggle schedules to conform with power outages | ");dw("|
| ");dw(" | GHOBEIRI: Electricity outages, paired with this summer\'s extreme heat, have proven to be a huge test to those taking part in the holy month of Ramadan, especially in the southern suburbs of Beirut. | ");dw("
| History and geography are not the property of anyone | ");dw("|
| ");dw(" | Time is not the property of anyone.. Vaclav Havel at one moment believed that time belonged to him. | ");dw("
| Families of the lost seek answers | ");dw("|
| ");dw(" | BEIRUT: The relatives of victims kidnapped during the 1970-1990 Civil War or the long years of Israeli or Syrian occupation gathered on Monday to protest continued secrecy over the disappearances. | ");dw("
| Army details Israeli airspace violations | ");dw("|
| ");dw(" | BEIRUT: The Lebanese Army command detailing violations of Lebanese airspace by Israeli drones on Monday. | ");dw("
| Armed militias: a quandary for Lebanon, US | ");dw("|
| ");dw(" | It started with a dispute over a parking space and erupted into a four-hour street war between Hezbollah and a rival militia, with masked snipers running through alleyways and rocket-propelled grenades exploding in the middle of a Beirut neighborhood. | ");dw("
| Bristol Palin, The Situation among \'Dancing\' stars | ");dw("|
| ");dw(" | In this July 13, 2010 file photo, Mike \"The Situation\" Sorrentino arrives to the Jersey Shore Soundtrack Release Party in New York. | ");dw("
| 48 hours in Lebanon | ");dw("|
| ");dw(" | People swim at the St. Georges Yacht Club in Beirut . The sparkling Mediterranean beckons as you touch down at Beirut airport. | ");dw("
| Merill Lynch boosts Lebanese Eurobonds to \'Over Weight\' | ");dw("|
| ");dw(" | BEIRUT: Merrill Lynch upgraded its recommendation on Lebanon\'s external debt to \'Over Weight\' from \'Market Weight\' in its model portfolio of emerging markets debt and raised Lebanon\'s allocation by 0.4 percentage points to 5.8 percent in August 2010, as reported by Lebanon This Week, the economic publication of the Byblos Bank Group. | ");dw("
| Authorities arrest suspect in murder of Egyptian | ");dw("|
| ");dw(" | BEIRUT: An man was arrested on the Syrian-Lebanese borders on suspicion of being involved in the murder of an Egyptian national. | ");dw("