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Nasrallah reaches out to family of slain LAF helicopter plot
Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Thursday that his group will not surrender its weapons "as long as Israeli threats persist." "These weapons will remain because they are used for defense," Nasrallah said in a televised speech during an iftar hosted by the Hizbullah Support Committee. Full Story |
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Lebanon's minimum-wage row on next week's Cabinet agenda
The Cabinet is expected to meet next week to look into the proposal of Finance Minister Mohammad Shatah to raise the minimum wage to LL500,000 ($333) amid indications that this suggestion may not be settled in one session. Labor Minister Mohammad Fneish told The Daily Star on Thursday that he would give his opinion. Full Story |
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Will Israel and America spurn yet another Arab overture?
Israel and its American backers recently missed a historic opportunity when they ignored the Arab peace initiative, which offered normalized relations to the Jewish state in exchange for a withdrawal from occupied land. They would be foolish to miss another one that emerged this week at a four-way summit that gathered the French, Qatari, Turkish and Syrian leaders in Damascus. Continue |
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The World's Most Powerful Celebrities
It is the year of the tween. Coming off a massive concert tour, a hit 3-D movie--and a risqué picture in Vanity Fair--pop star Miley Cyrus (aka Hannah Montana) leads a slew of young stars onto Forbes' annual Celebrity 100 ranking of the world's ultra-famous. Also building buzz, and drawing dollars, from the under-18 crowd were Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe. Full Story |
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Polluted river poses health threat to Bourj Hammoud
A polluted river running through a crowded suburb of Beirut could pose a serious risk to the health of people living nearby, but the government is doing nothing to combat the issue, local leaders said Thursday. The Beirut River runs through Beirut's mostly Armenian district of Bourj Hammoud. Full Story |
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Memories collide with contemporary realities at Venice
Mengistu's blood-drenched Ethiopia is the backdrop for filmmaker Haile Gerima's "Teza," his attempt to reconcile an idyllic childhood with modern realities. "I dream my past, but the present is so powerful that it continues to hijack my sentimental journey to my childhood," Gerima told a Venice Film Festival news conference. Full Story
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Contrast the guns and golds of August
By Joseph S. Nye
China and Russia have just provided the world with sharp contrasts in the use of power. As the French analyst Dominique Moisi recently put it, "whereas China intends to seduce and impress the world by the number of its Olympic medals, Russia wants to impress the world by demonstrating its military superiority - China's soft power versus Russia's hard power." Continue
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Did the Lebanon Examiner help, hurt, or make no difference at all?
The basic function of a daily newspaper is to provide useful information to its readers, a goal so theoretically simple that any child can understand it. Beyond this core purpose, however, the mission grows exponentially more complicated. Decisions must be made, for example, in terms of what subjects and geographical areas should be covered. Full Story |
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