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From Piles of Trash Sprout Demands for Change in Lebanon - Wall Street Journal Fri, 04 Sep 2015 15:55:13 GMT

Wall Street Journal
From Piles of Trash Sprout Demands for Change in Lebanon
Wall Street Journal
BEIRUT—Monthlong street demonstrations in Beirut over uncollected trash are fast turning into a broad grass-roots movement aimed at what was unthinkable here just weeks before: fixing a political system long viewed as corrupt by most Lebanese. “I can ...
Lebanon's Uprising Could Shake The Country's Sectarian FoundationsHuffington Post
Lebanon's hot tin roofAl-Arabiya
Activists call for nationwide protests in LebanonYahoo News
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Latest Lebanon protests fail to attract large crowds - Yahoo News Sat, 05 Sep 2015 20:04:21 GMT

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Latest Lebanon protests fail to attract large crowds
Yahoo News
The collective had called Friday for demonstrations in the coastal city of Tyre and in Zrariyeh, both in southern Lebanon. On Saturday around 300 people turned out in Tyre, an AFP correspondent said. "We elected them MPs, and they have become wolves ...
Lebanon's 'You Stink' Movement Calls For Sept 9 Protests In Beirut to Coincide ...International Business Times
The Youthful Protest Movement in Lebanon Gets International AttentionHuffington Post

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Canada returns seized Phoenician artifact to Lebanon - CBC.ca Sat, 05 Sep 2015 09:00:20 GMT

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Canada returns seized Phoenician artifact to Lebanon
CBC.ca
A Federal Court judge finally ruled in May this year that the pendant should be returned to the government of Lebanon, its country of origin, under a 1970 UNESCO convention that requires cultural property to be repatriated if it was exported illegally.

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Communists form guerrilla group in Lebanon to fight back against ISIS - RT Sat, 05 Sep 2015 20:24:50 GMT

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Communists form guerrilla group in Lebanon to fight back against ISIS
RT
Lebanese Communist Party members are taking up the fight against Islamic State and al-Nusra Front in the regions of the country affected by unrest in Syria by forming an ad hoc guerrilla group. Fighters of the Lebanese Communist Party formed a ...

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Color Revolution 2.0 in Lebanon: From Piles of Trash to Piles of Rubble - Center for Research on Globalization Sat, 05 Sep 2015 15:14:08 GMT

Center for Research on Globalization
Color Revolution 2.0 in Lebanon: From Piles of Trash to Piles of Rubble
Center for Research on Globalization
“Spontaneous.” “Genuine.” Defiant.” The US State Department's marketeers have used these labels in attempts to differentiate its latest wave of global “color revolutions” from the now tired, ineffective, and familiar formulas used everywhere from the ...

How Lebanon's #YouStink protests are rippling across the world - Al-Arabiya Sat, 05 Sep 2015 17:01:56 GMT

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How Lebanon's #YouStink protests are rippling across the world
Al-Arabiya
There are from 8 to 14 million Lebanese living outside of Lebanon; almost 4 times the amount currently residing in the country. The #YouStink movement in Paris told Al Arabiya News that “even abroad, Lebanese are fed-up with the situation in Lebanon ...

Redding adventurer plans trek in Lebanon - Redding Record Searchlight Sat, 05 Sep 2015 23:58:54 GMT

Redding Record Searchlight
Redding adventurer plans trek in Lebanon
Redding Record Searchlight
REDDING, California - Joel Stratte-McClure calls himself an “idiot” with a passion for hiking in far-off places. For the past 17 years, the 67-year-old Redding man has been trekking the Mediterranean Coast, and hopes to be done by 2018. He does patches ...

Protesters in Mount Lebanon, Bekaa Valley denounce trash crisis - The Daily Star Sat, 05 Sep 2015 17:02:00 GMT

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Protesters in Mount Lebanon, Bekaa Valley denounce trash crisis
The Daily Star
Separate protests were held Saturday in Mount Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley to demand solutions to Lebanon's ongoing garbage crisis. you've reached a subscriber-only article. Take the trial to enjoy one month access for $1.00 Sign up now and access the ...

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Pedestrian plaza proposed in downtown Lebanon - MyDaytonDailyNews Sat, 05 Sep 2015 23:33:19 GMT

Pedestrian plaza proposed in downtown Lebanon
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Earlier this month, Greg Orosz, a landscape designer and president of Historic Downtown Lebanon Inc., asked the city council to endorse his design for designated outdoor dining areas in front of the Royce Cafe and Coffeehouse and the local Elks lodge ...

Why Lebanon May Be ISIS's Next Target - Huffington Post Fri, 04 Sep 2015 13:20:00 GMT

Why Lebanon May Be ISIS's Next Target
Huffington Post
ISIS, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, is sometimes referred to as ISIL, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. The term Levant refers to the geographic region in the Middle East that includes Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Syria. If ...

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