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9/11 compensation bill tangled up in Beirut victims’ push

An effort to help victims and families of the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing could derail legislation in the lame-duck session to compensate certain families for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Tribune News Service

9/11 compensation bill tangled up in Beirut victims’ push - Roll Call

An effort to help victims and families of the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing could derail 9/11 victims compensation bill.

Roll Call

UNHCR to Remove Obstacles Hindering Return of Syrian Refugees

Filippo Grandi, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), announced on Thursday that the agency is working with Syrian authorities to remove obstacles preventing the return of Syrian refugees to their homeland. During a meeting at the Grand Serail with Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati, Grandi said the UN…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Islamic State group announces death of leader

Beirut (AFP) - The Islamic State jihadist group said Wednesday that its leader Abu Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi has been killed in battle and announced a replacement to head up its remaining sleeper cells.

AFP

Lebanon crisis means 'no football this year' for World Cup fans

Beirut (AFP) - Football fans looking for a respite from Lebanon's crushing economic crisis have found a challenge in simply watching the World Cup after the bankrupt state failed to pay for broadcasting rights.

AFP

Beirut 'neighbourhood watch' echoes troubled past

In the darkness of Beirut's unlit streets, men wielding batons and torches are taking security into their own hands in an initiative they hope will keep neighbourhoods safe but critics see as a worrying echo of Lebanon's troubled past.

Reuters

Syria Kurds fear thaw between Assad regime and Turkey

Beirut (AFP) - Syria's Kurds, bracing for a Turkish land offensive against their autonomous northern region, face an additional threat: being squeezed by warming ties between their foe Ankara and the Assad regime.

AFP

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Lebanon MPs again fail to elect president despite economic crisis

Beirut (AFP) - Lebanese lawmakers failed for a seventh time Thursday to elect a successor to former president Michel Aoun, even though the vacancy is hampering efforts to rescue the stricken economy.

AFP

‘It’s a bit Mary Poppins’: Lina Ghotmeh to design 2023’s Serpentine pavilion

The Beirut-born architect is aiming for the smallest possible carbon footprint with an African-inspired ‘great shelter’ for meeting in Kensington Gardens

The Guardian - UK

Syrian Kurds urge deescalation after Turkish raids

Beirut (AFP) - The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces Tuesday urged the United States and Russia to work for deescalation after Turkey launched deadly cross-border raids against its fighters and threatened a ground offensive.

AFP

Hummus and chill: Doha weekends courtesy of Beirut Restaurant

This family-run place has been a Doha landmark for 67 years and still makes the hummus everyone in town raves about.

Al Jazeera

Washington Increases Aid to Lebanon, Urges Election of President

USAID Administrator Samantha Power concluded on Friday her multi-day visit to Lebanon where she announced additional humanitarian and educational aid and discussed with officials the importance of urgent action to respond to the economic crisis, elect a President and form a cabinet. Power held in Beirut a series of meetings…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Stray Bullet Hits Plane Landing in Beirut, No Casualties

A stray bullet hit a Middle East Airlines jet while landing in Beirut on Thursday, causing some material damage. No one among the passengers or crew was hurt, the head of the Lebanese airline company said. The jet was landing on its way back from Jordan when the bullet hit…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Middle East Airlines plane hit by stray bullet while landing in Beirut, no injuries

A Middle East Airlines (MEA) passenger plane bound from Jordan to Beirut was hit by a stray bullet while landing in Beirut on Thursday, with no injuries reported, MEA Chairman Mohamad El-Hout said.

Reuters

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Surge in starving children in war-torn Syria: charity

Beirut (AFP) - The number of malnourished children starving in northeastern Syria, an area ravaged by more than a decade of conflict, has risen by 150 percent, aid group Save the Children said Thursday.

AFP

After Israel, Lebanon eyes maritime border talks with Syria

Beirut (AFP) - Lebanon wants direct talks to demarcate its maritime border with Syria so it can begin offshore gas exploration, weeks after reaching a similar agreement with Israel, its top negotiator told AFP.

AFP

After Israel, Lebanon eyes sea border talks with Syria

Beirut (AFP) - Lebanon wants talks to demarcate its maritime border with Syria, so that it can begin offshore gas extraction after reaching a similar agreement with Israel, its top negotiator told AFP.

AFP

Children living in 'open air prison' at Syria's Al-Hol camp: MSF

Beirut (AFP) - Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Monday deplored the fate of thousands of children living in "a giant open air prison" at Syria's notorious Al-Hol camp.

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Syria cholera outbreak worsened by regime, Turkey: HRW

Beirut (AFP) - Human Rights Watch Monday accused the government in Damascus and Turkey of exacerbating Syria's deadly cholera outbreak by restricting aid and water-flow to the country's Kurdish-held northeast.

The Guardian - UK

How car-park cricket in Lebanon gives Sri Lankan migrant workers an escape

Sri Lankan workers and a women’s project at a Syrian refugee camp come together for games in an underground car park

Asharq Al-Awsat

Scores of Syrian Refugees Head Home from Lebanon

Scores of Syrian refugees headed home Saturday from eastern Lebanon in the second convoy in less than two weeks as Beirut attempts to organize a mass refugee return to the war-torn country. Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said the “voluntary return” Saturday included 330 Syrians who left from the eastern…

The Independent UK

Scores of Syrian refugees head home from crisis-hit Lebanon

Scores of Syrian refugees have headed home from eastern Lebanon in the second convoy in less than two weeks as Beirut attempts to organize a mass refugee return to the war-torn country

Al Jazeera

Cricket: The unlikely sport helping Syrian refugees in Lebanon

Syrian children in Lebanon pick up sport not traditionally played in the Arab world as part of educational project.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Crisis-Hit Lebanon Faces Power Vacuum without President

Already mired in political and economic crises, Lebanon is now also without a president after Michel Aoun's mandate expired without a successor. Cheered on by thousands of supporters, Aoun left the presidential palace on Sunday, a day before his term officially ended. His six years at the helm were marred…

AFP

Crisis-hit Lebanon faces power vacuum without president

Beirut (AFP) - Already mired in political and economic crises, Lebanon is now also without a president after Michel Aoun's mandate expired without a successor.

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