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File - An aid convoy arrives in the Gaza Strip after crossing the border between Egypt and southern Gaza, on March 9, 2009 in the border town of Rafah.
Aid   Gaza   Human Rights   Mideast   Photos		  WorldNews.com 
We Must Learn to Stress Borderless Acts of Goodness
Wed 30 Dec 2009
Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. When Hezbollah leader Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah urged Muslims to be vigilant against "borderless Israeli greed and brutality," it should have... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb)
A Middle East Airlines jet prepares to take off at the old Beirut International Airport runway, close to the city´s southern neighborhood of Burj al-Barajneh, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2001. Earlier this week, planes started landing at a newly built coasta
Aerospace   Business   Photos   Tourism   Transport		  Daily Star Lebanon 
Abboud urges MEA to boost tourism in mountain regions
Tue 29 Dec 2009
Airline to offer promotional deals By Mohammed Zaatari and Carol Rizk Daily Star staff Wednesday, December 30, 2009 - Powered by BEIRUT/ SIDON: Tourism Minister Fadi Abboud held meetings on Tuesday... (photo: AP Photo)
Philippine women make up a large number of the estimated 200,000 domestic workers in Lebanon  Daily Star Lebanon  Tue 29 Dec 2009
Philippines stands by ban on working in Lebanon
Daily Star staff Wednesday, December 30, 2009 - Powered by BEIRUT: The Philippine’s Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) reiterated the total ban on deployment to Lebanon, until the Philippines... (photo: IRIN / Simba Russeau)
Deployment   Lebanon   OFWs   Philippines   Photos
Ban on OFW deployment in Lebanon still on — DFA  The Daily Tribune  Tue 29 Dec 2009
Ban on OFW deployment in Lebanon still on — DFA
By Michaela P. del Callar 12/30/2009 The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) yesterday maintained that that the government ban on the deployment of Filipino workers to Lebanon is still in force. In a... (photo: WN / Aldrin Leyba)
Lebanon   Philippines   Photos   Protection   Workers
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Etihad Airways Khaleej Times Tue 29 Dec 2009
Etihad to increase services to Beirut

ABU DHABI -: Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, will increase its Abu Dhabi-Beirut services from double daily to 18 flights per week from 1... (photo: Creative Commons / lemoncat1)
Aerospace   Arab   Beirut   Photos   Transport
Overseas Workers Welfare Administration( OWWA ) customer service area for Overseas Filipino Workers ( OFW ) in Ninoy International Airport ( NAIA ) located in Pasay City , Philippines , August 31 ,2009. Journal Online Mon 28 Dec 2009
OFWs from Lebanon arrive

By: Cristina Lee-Pisco & Itchie G. Cabayan THE first batch of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs)  from Lebanon arrived yesterday morning, the Department of... (photo: WN / Renzelle Mae Abasolo)
Economy   Lebanon   Philippine   Photos   Society
Supporters of opposition leader Mir Hossien Mousavi set fire to a barricade as they protest in Tehran on Saturday June 20, 2009. The New York Times Sun 27 Dec 2009
At Least 4 Dead as Iranians Fight Police in Streets

BEIRUT, Lebanon - Iranian police opened fire on protesters in Tehran on Sunday, killing at least four people, including a nephew of the opposition leader Mir Hussein... (photo: AP)
Democracy   Iran   Photos   Politics   Protests
Hassan Nasrallah / wam2 DNA India Sun 27 Dec 2009
Hezbollah chief asks Egypt to stop Gaza border wall

Beirut: Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Sunday called on Egypt to stop building a steel wall along the Gaza border that could obstruct tunnels which provide a... (photo: Creative Commons / wa3ad7)
Beirut   Egypt   Gaza   Hezbollah   Photos
Dec 10 2006 anti-government/pro-Syrian rally in Beirut, Lebanon. pro-Hezbollah rally Beirut Khaleej Times Sun 27 Dec 2009
Explosion rocks Hezbollah stronghold near Beirut

Three bombs planted under a car exploded south of Beirut, killing one person and wounding several others in an attack that apparently targeted an official from the Hamas.... (photo: Creative Commons)
Beirut   Bombs   Hamas   Hezbollah   Photos
Lebanese army soldiers secure the Sunni neighborhood of Tarik Jadideh during the funeral procession of Mohammed Shama'a, who was killed during the last few days of clashes, in Beirut, Lebanon Saturday, May 10, 2008. A Shiite Muslim shop owner opened fire on a funeral procession Saturday, killing two people and wounding six others in a Sunni neighborhood, police and witnesses said. The attack came a day after Shiite Hezbollah gunmen seized most of the capital's Muslim sector in the worst sectarian strife since a 15-year civil war ended nearly two decades ago The Guardian Sat 26 Dec 2009
Caught up in Lebanon's motorbike ban

It is been almost three months since Lebanon outlawed the use of motorbikes between dusk and dawn following a series of armed clashes between two-wheeled gangs in Beirut.... (photo: AP / Nasser Nasser)
Crimes   Government   Lebanon   Photos   Society


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A view of a Muslim cemetery on the outskirts of Urumqi in western China's Xinjiang province, Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2009. Robert Fisk: Why did no imams plead for Akmal Shaikh's life to be spared? The Independent
A Lebanese chef, right, prepares a dish of hummus at his restaurant in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008. The latest conflict cooking between Lebanon and Israel is all about food: Lebanese businessmen are accusing Israel of stealing traditionally Middle Eastern dishes like hummus. Food scare grips Lebanese Middle East Online
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter Carter Apologizes to Jews The New York Times
O presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva discursa depois de encontro com o presidente Bashar Al-Assad Israel not interested in peace - Syria's Assad The Star
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Spanish tennis star Rafael Nadal smiles attending the Millionaire Fair in Moscow, Friday, Nov. 28, 2008. Affluent Russians check out expensive toys on sale at the luxurious Millionaire Fair that opened Friday in Moscow. The global financial crisis has hit wealthy Russians particularly hard, with the World Bank estimating it has reduced their wealth by some $300 billion. Nadal 'ready' to start climb to the top Deccan Herald
U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks at Suntory Hall in Tokyo Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009. Obama said in the speech that he welcomes a robust China on the world scene, but he cautioned that all nations must respect human rights, including religious freedoms. Obama could expedite full body scans in U.S. National Post
Ban Ki-moon, right, Secretary-General of the United Nations, and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navanethem "Navi" Pillay, left, speaks during a press conference after the opening of the Durban Review Conference U.N. rights chief urges Iran to curb police excesses The Star
Palestinians stand on their house that was destroyed in January's Israeli military offensive, in Jebalia in the northern Gaza Strip, on October 8, 2009. Hundreds of Palestinians protested against the Palestinian Authority's support for delaying the endorsement of a UN report on possible war crimes committed during Israel's Gaza offensive. Displaced and desperate in Gaza Al Jazeera
Mideast Conflicts
In this Oct. 9, 2007 file photo, a Guantanamo guard watches over detainees, not pictured, in the exercise area at Camp 5 maximum-security facility at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base Bomber's Yemen Link Mires Gitmo Closure CBS News
Michael Jordan's college jersey hanging from the rafters at the w:Dean Smith Center. Even Retired, Jordan Is Still the One to Beat The New York Times
In this image taken from a video posted on extremist Web sites affiliated with al-Qaida on Thursday Dec 21, and reported to be made at an unknown location in Yemen, a man identified by the sites as Mohammed al-Kalwi, right, an al-Qaida activist, delivers a eulogy for militants killed in a Yemeni airstrike on a militant training camp to a large gathering of militants. He warned Yemeni forces against cooperating with Americans. Yemen investigates Nigerian's al-Qaida contacts The Guardian
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