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A Looming Crisis in Lebanon - New York Times Tue, 03 May 2016 14:53:58 GMT

A Looming Crisis in Lebanon
New York Times
Nowhere is this more apparent than in Lebanon's capital, Beirut. Sparkling buildings and sweeping urban highways rise up out of heaps of rubble that remain a quarter-century after the 1975-1990 civil war. Yet the crumbling edifices of earlier eras are ...

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Classes resume at Lebanon high school after evacuation - Hamilton Journal News Tue, 03 May 2016 17:27:52 GMT

Hamilton Journal News
Classes resume at Lebanon high school after evacuation
Hamilton Journal News
An active criminal investigation is ongoing after a bomb threat at Lebanon High School, according to police. Lebanon police and officers from several surrounding jurisdictions responded to the high school after a note was discovered indicating a bomb ...
Lebanon threats just latest for districts dealing with social mediaMyDaytonDailyNews

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Netherlands grants Lebanon $92M to cope with refugees - Fox News Tue, 03 May 2016 15:57:14 GMT

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Netherlands grants Lebanon $92M to cope with refugees
Fox News
BEIRUT – The Netherlands has granted Lebanon 80 million euros ($92.3 million) until the end of 2017 to help the tiny Arab country cope with hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees. The announcement was made Tuesday by Dutch Prime Minister Mark ...

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Singing For Harmony In Lebanon's Bekaa Valley - Huffington Post Tue, 03 May 2016 17:58:30 GMT

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Singing For Harmony In Lebanon's Bekaa Valley
Huffington Post
Ghinwa Obeid reports from the Bekaa Valley, where a children's choir is teaching Lebanese students and Syrian refugee children about the power of unity. In Lebanon's eastern Bekaa Valley, among the farmland and rolling hills, the U.N. Refugee Agency ...
A generation of Syrian children who don't countReuters
Italy welcomes around 100 Syrian refugees from LebanonThe Daily Star

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Cate Blanchett visits refugee camps in Jordan and Lebanon packed with families fleeing ISIS... as she is named UN ... - Daily Mail Tue, 03 May 2016 16:53:51 GMT

Daily Mail
Cate Blanchett visits refugee camps in Jordan and Lebanon packed with families fleeing ISIS... as she is named UN ...
Daily Mail
Australian screen legend Cate Blanchett has been appointed UN goodwill ambassador to help tackle the global refugee crisis. The honour comes on the heels of the dual Oscar winner's trip to Jordan and Lebanon where she witnessed the horrendous plight ...

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Sally Faulkner prevented from any contact with her children in Lebanon, family source says - NEWS.com.au Tue, 03 May 2016 03:18:18 GMT

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Sally Faulkner prevented from any contact with her children in Lebanon, family source says
NEWS.com.au
The Brisbane mother at the centre of the 60 Minutes child-snatch drama has been blocked from contacting five-year-old Lahela and three-year-old Noah by her estranged husband Ali Elamine in Lebanon, the source said. “No Skype, no photos, blocked on ...
60 Minutes mum Sally Faulkner blocked from contacting her children in LebanonDaily Mail
Australian Journalists charged with Kidnapping in Lebanon out of jail, on leave from Channel NineiMediaEthics
Lebanon child kidnap saga: Sally Faulkner unable to contact childrenTVNZ

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Police blotter: Man wanted in Illinois caught in S. Lebanon - Lebanon Daily News Tue, 03 May 2016 22:03:00 GMT

Police blotter: Man wanted in Illinois caught in S. Lebanon
Lebanon Daily News
Retail Theft: Lucas Fiddner, 29, of 2136 Penn St., Lebanon, was charged with taking $63 worth of merchandise from Wal-Mart, 1355 E. Lehman St., without paying for it at 4:45 p.m. on Friday. Retail Theft: Humberto Resto-Rodriguez, 43, Reading, was ...

Dad of British DJ found dead in Lebanon claims son was murdered in case of mistaken identity - Mirror.co.uk Tue, 03 May 2016 16:25:47 GMT

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Dad of British DJ found dead in Lebanon claims son was murdered in case of mistaken identity
Mirror.co.uk
A DJ found hanging in Lebanon may have been murdered by a criminal gang who wrongly believed he was a spy, his family claim. Lee Harrison, 50, was found hanging in a friend's house last month after sending his father a series of messages saying he ...

Lebanon man accused of sexually assaulting former girlfriend - The Union Leader Wed, 04 May 2016 02:34:19 GMT

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Lebanon man accused of sexually assaulting former girlfriend
The Union Leader
LEBANON — A city man is accused of forcibly raping his former girlfriend at an apartment on Hanover Street, police said. About 6 p.m. Monday, a 40-year-old woman contacted police to report she had been sexually assaulted, allegedly by her former ...

Meeting held in West Lebanon to discuss wildlife refuge expansion - WCAX Tue, 03 May 2016 22:41:46 GMT

Meeting held in West Lebanon to discuss wildlife refuge expansion
WCAX
A public meeting was held Tuesday night in West Lebanon to discuss the possible expansion of a wildlife refuge along the Connecticut River watershed. In 1997, Congress established the Silvio Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge to protect land in ...