Ethiopian Airliner's flight recorders sent to France
The flight recorders from the Ethiopian Airlines plane which crashed off the coast of Beirut were transported Monday to France, where investigators hope to unlock the secret of what caused the disaster. A team of specialists left Rafik Hariri International Airport at dawn with the black boxes on Prime Minister Saad Hariri's private plane, the National News Agency reported
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Filipina domestic worker stabs employer's sister to death
A Filipina domestic worker killed her employer's sister and injured the woman's seven-year-old daughter with a kitchen knife in the town of Ain Saadeh, the state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported on Monday. The Filipina housekeeper, who was not identified, stabbed to death Rose Saad, 48, and injured her niece Rosy Marie, who was hospitalized[...] Full story
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Sidon prepares to launch its first medical waste treatment center
Sidon Municipality is preparing to lay the foundation stone for its first ever medical waste treatment center this week. The project, sponsored by the Spanish Embassy and funded by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), will cost around 800,000 euros (around $1,095,500) and cover an area of about 600 meters[...] Full story
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Spain helps beekeeping project get buzzing in Akkar
Spanish and Lebanese officials celebrated on Saturday the launching of an apiculture (beekeeping) project in Akkar. The center in Deir Dalloum, Akkar, was opened in the presence of Spanish Ambassador to Lebanon Juan Carlos Gafo, Economy and Trade Minister Mohammad Safadi, Javier Gila from AIDA Association, the research and management team of the Apiculture Department of the Safadi Foundation[...] Full story
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STL president lectures at USJ about international justice
During his first visit in Lebanon as president of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL), Antonio Cassese made the most of the opportunity to highlight the major issues concerning international criminal courts of law. As former president of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, the Italian jurist knows his subject[...] Full story
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Court sets extradition hearing for 'Paris bomber'
A Canadian court on Monday set a tentative June extradition hearing for Canadian-Lebanese national Hassan Diab, arrested 15 months ago for his alleged role in a 1980 Paris bombing that killed four. The Ontario Superior Court will firm the dates on Friday after lawyers verify that witnesses will be available for three-week hearing. The Crown sought more time to allow France to gather new evidence[...] Full story
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Jumblatt: Don't let public staff run for office
Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblatt said on Monday that allowing the employees of public institutions to run for office in the municipal elections might lead to the politicization of municipal and development work. He wrote ion his party's Al-Anbaa newspaper that he did not want to attack the employees, but instead wanted to avoid politicizing the municipal councils[...] Full story
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UNIFIL official: All parties want to avoid war
The United Nations Interim Force for Lebanon (UNIFIL) Director of Political and Civil Affairs Milos Strugar stressed Monday that all parties did not seek war and were committed to a halt of violations. "UNIFIL did not notice any unusual movements and all parties confirmed that they did not seek war and were committed to halt violations and thus if political will remains that way, calm will prevail," Strugar said[...] Full story
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ISF arrests man wanted for drug dealing, robberies
The Internal Security Forces arrested on Monday on the Zouk Mosbeh highway, east of Beirut, an individual charged with several arrest warrants for drug dealing and armed robberies. A statement by the ISF directorate said Monday security forces arrested a man identified as A.Z. for attempting acrobatic moves on his motor bike and endangering his life and that of other citizens[...] Full story
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Hariri to inaugurate annual gathering for newspapers, news publishers
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri will inaugurate the 63rd World Newspaper Congress, World Editors Forum and Info Services Expo 2010, in early June, organizers said on Monday. The events, organized by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) and hosted by Lebanese newspaper An-Nahar[...] Full story
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