Beirut News
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Ali Gumma finally saved enough money to buy a plot of land near Tripoli and was planning to build a family home when he hit a brick wall: He couldn’t find a Libyan bank willing to lend him the money.
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Syria’s opposition fighters must do more to respect the laws of war after an Internet video appeared to show a rebel leader mutilating and biting into the heart and liver of a dead enemy soldier, Human Rights Watch said.
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Syria’s main political opposition has not ruled out attending a U.S.-Russian-sponsored conference that would include members of President Bashar al-Assad’s government, its acting chief said today.
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Exxon Mobil Corp., Petroleo Brasileiro SA and Total SA all obtained tender documents allowing them to bid for exploration licenses off Lebanon, according to the country’s industry regulator.
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Tunisia has approached carmakers including Volkswagen AG and Toyota Motor Corp. to set up an assembly line as the North African nation seeks investments to deliver on a pledge to curb unemployment, an official said.
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The head of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah movement said Syria will supply his group with “game- changing” weapons and his fighters are ready to support any popular resistance to liberate the Golan Heights.
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Libya is seeking to obtain a credit rating from Standard & Poor’s more than two years after the armed conflict against Mummar Qaddafi prompted rating companies to suspend their assessment of the Arab country.
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Syria’s opposition is spurning efforts by the U.S. and Russia to convene talks between Bashar al- Assad’s regime and his opponents in an effort to end two years of warfare and empower a transitional government.
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Lebanon’s Central Bank has no plans to intervene in the nation’s currency or interest rate, Governor Riad Salameh said, even as he forecast a difficult year for the Levant nation.
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Syria’s opposition is spurning efforts by the U.S. and Russia to convene talks between Bashar al- Assad’s regime and his opponents in an effort to end two years of warfare and empower a transitional government.
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