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Montevideo, November 14th 2024 - 17:22 UTC

Tag: Lebanon

  • Tuesday, November 5th 2019 - 09:45 UTC

    Protests all over the world: are we witnessing an emerging global society?

    From yellow-jackets in France, down to the protesters in the streets of Chile, Lebanon and Hong Kong today, the majority are still non-violent

    By Gwynne Dyer – Journalists don’t just travel in packs; they write in packs, too. And what they’re writing this week is endless pipe-sucking ruminations about what’s driving the seemingly synchronized outbreak of protests in a large number of very different countries around the world.

  • Monday, October 15th 2018 - 14:34 UTC

    Key Naseed-Jaber, Quneitra crossings reopened as Syria reaches out to neighbours

    Vehicles begin to again pass through the Nasseb-Jaber crossing between Syria and Jordan

    The strategic Naseeb crossing between Syria and Jordan on the Damascus-Amman international highway was reopened Monday, just one day after both countries agreed to it. The crossing had been closed since 2015 when the rebels took over that area in Syria's southern province of Daraa. Also Monday the only crossing point near the Syrian border town of Quneitra between Syria and the Golan Heights, under Israeli occupation since 1967, was reopened for United Nations observers, four years after closing due to the civil war, following a deal between Israel, Syria and the UN.

  • Tuesday, July 23rd 2013 - 07:29 UTC

    EU puts Hezbollah in terrorism blacklist; Lebanon fears impact in local politics

    Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour: “this will hinder Lebanese political life in the future”

    The European Union agreed on Monday to put the armed wing of Hezbollah on its terrorism blacklist, a move driven by concerns over the Lebanese militant group's roles in a bus bombing in Bulgaria and the Syrian war.

  • Thursday, April 4th 2013 - 16:59 UTC

    Gas starts flowing from Israel's Levant Basin, what now?

    The big ‘bubble’ of gas that could change Middle East geopolitics

    By Jen Alic - The first gas has started flowing from Israel's super-giant Tamar gas-field in the Levant Basin. Where it will go will redraw the Mediterranean energy map and the geopolitics that goes along with it.

  • Wednesday, January 26th 2011 - 20:35 UTC

    Lebanese Tycoon Najib Mikati Become’s Prime Minister

    Lebanon's prime minister-designate, Najib Mikati

    Self-made bilionaire Najib Mikati, attained the backing of enough members of parliament to be named Lebanon’s premier. He is now faced with the challenges of repairing political and sectarian rifts, threatening to tear the country apart.

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