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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.

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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.

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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.

AFP

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.

AFP

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

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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…

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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

The Independent UK

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.

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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…

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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.

AFP

Russia to Donate 25,000 Tons of Wheat to Lebanon

Russia will donate 25,000 tons of wheat to crisis-hit Lebanon, the public works minister said on Monday. Russia would also donate 10,000 tons of fuel oil to Beirut, minister Ali Hamie told Reuters, without elaborating. The Russian embassy in Lebanon did not respond to a request for comment. News of…

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Lebanon president leaves with no replacement, crisis deepens

President Michel Aoun has left Lebanon’s presidential palace, marking the end of his six-year term without a replacement

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Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun leaves office amid crisis

President Michel Aoun leaves office a day earlier than his mandate ends as parliament fails to agree on his successor.

Reuters

Aoun's presidency ends leaving power vacuum in crisis-hit Lebanon

Michel Aoun, the 89-year-old Christian president who presided over Lebanon's cataclysmic financial meltdown and the deadly Beirut port blast, left the presidential palace on Sunday with his term ending, leaving a void at the top of a failing state.

Al Jazeera

Has Lebanon recognised Israel by striking a maritime border deal?

Prime Minister Yair Lapid says Beirut has implicitly recognised Israel, but Lebanon says nothing has changed.

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Tel Aviv Begins Gas Production from Karish

US envoy Amos Hochstein traveled to Beirut on Wednesday to represent his country at the official signing of the historic agreement to delineate the maritime border between Lebanon and Israel and pave the way for offshore energy exploration in the Mediterranean Sea. “Hochstein traveled to Lebanon to finalize the historic…

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Goncourt Academy Announces Shortlist of Winners in Beirut

At Beirut’s Pine Residence, the jury of the Goncourt literary prize has exceptionally announced the names of the four finalists in France's most prestigious literary prize. The name of the winner will be announced, as every year, at the Drouant restaurant in Paris on November 3. Didier Decoin, president of…

AFP

Lebanon presidential hopeful slams Hezbollah's dominance

Beirut (AFP) - Lebanese politician Michel Moawad on Wednesday urged lawmakers to back his bid for the presidency, denouncing Hezbollah's "stranglehold" on the crisis-hit country.

AFP

Palestinians in crisis-hit Lebanon plunge deeper into poverty: UN

Beirut (AFP) - A United Nations agency warned Wednesday that more Palestinians living in crisis-torn Lebanon have fallen deeper into poverty, spelling a "dramatic humanitarian crisis".

Asharq Al-Awsat

Syrian Refugees Return Home as Lebanese Repatriation Scheme Begins

Hundreds of Syrian refugees living in Lebanon returned home on Wednesday, the first day of repatriations organized by Beirut, amid concerns from rights groups that the scheme may involve elements of coercion. Lugging suitcases, power generators, fridges and even chickens, around 700 Syrians who had agreed to cross over gathered…

Reuters

Future unclear for Syrian refugees as Lebanese repatriations begin

Hundreds of Syrian refugees returned home from Lebanon on Wednesday, the first day of repatriations organised by Beirut, their mood more subdued than celebratory amid concerns over a scheme that rights groups say may involve elements of coercion.

Radio France Internationale

Finalists of France's Goncourt literary prize unveiled from Beirut

The jury of France's most prestigious literary prize announced the names of the four finalists from Beirut on Tuesday. The Académie Goncourt was in the Lebanese capital for the first edition of a literary festival organised by the French Institute.

AFP

Michel Aoun, Lebanon's president who 'never gives up'

Beirut (AFP) - When Michel Aoun became president in 2016, putting an end to a two-year power vacuum due to political wrangling, he vowed to be the "strong" president Lebanon so desperately needed.

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