Some 60 historic buildings in Beirut are at risk of collapsing following last week’s devastating port explosion, Lebanese officials have warned, as the UN’s cultural agency promises to lead the international campaign to restore and restore Beirut’s heritage. At least 8,000 buildings, many concentrated in the historic districts of Gemayzeh …
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Thousands of Protestants rocked Lebanon’s parliamentary area on Sunday, demanding the government’s fall in the wake of the catastrophic explosion that destroyed parts of Beirut last week. The violent rally took place around sunset, when an international donor conference launched to fund the enormous cost of recovery decided that the …
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The Lebanese owner of a cruise ship sunk by the enormous explosion that destroyed the port of Beirut is conducting a lawsuit in “all that responsibility”, the country’s landowner said, as anger rages over the disaster. Two crew members of the Queen of the Orient were killed and seven others …
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Hafez Bashar al-Assad, the eldest son of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, is on the latest list of 14 senior officials and entities of the Syrian regime sanctioned by the United States Department of State under the so-called Caesar Act. The appointments, which focus on the “Barbarian First Division of the …
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Seth Rogen has said that he was “fed a wealth of lies about Israel” as a young Jew, fueling controversy over the country’s sometimes-laden relationship with many American Jews. The Canadian-American actor, who attended a Jewish camp and whose parents met at a kibbutz in Israel, said the fact that …
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