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Lebanese expats send home $7-$8 billion annually

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August 30, 2015

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Lebanese expatriates send back about $7.5 billion to $8bn in remittances to their home country every year, an official says.Almost 85 per cent of these transfers come from a large Lebanese community in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, says the president of the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture of Beirut and Mount Lebanon, Muhammad Shuqair.

BMW’s latest innovation claims to cut down on fuel costs — but it’s only available to drivers in a small town in Oregon

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August 30, 2015

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Jacob Brogan, Slate

The product in question is EnLighten, a smartphone app created by a company called Connected Signals that tells you when the traffic light you’re approaching or waiting at is about to change.

For safety reasons, the app primarily gives audio instructions. But now those with certain BMW models can plug their iPhones into their cars’ consoles to, as the company explains it, “see traffic signal data on the vehicle’s display in real time.”

Beheaded Syriac bishop beatified a century after death

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August 30, 2015

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AFP

A statue of Syriac Catholic Bishop Flavianus Michael Melki, martyred during the "Assyrian Genocide," is seen during his beatification at the Patriarchal convent of Our Lady of Deliverance in Harissa,

Pope Francis on Sunday praised a Syriac Catholic bishop who has been beatified in Lebanon, a century after he his beheading by Ottoman forces during a wave of religiously motivated killings in Syria.Flavien Michel Melki, murdered for refusing to renounce Christianity, was officially recognised by Pope Francis as a "martyr" of the Catholic church earlier this month.

All What you need to Know about #YouStink. Senior Lebanese Official refuses to Stand Down

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August 30, 2015

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By Dana Ballout and Matt Bradley

BEIRUT—A top Lebanese official on Sunday defied demands from thousands of protesters over the weekend to step down, providing potential fuel for a growing antigovernment movement that is coalesced around uncollected trash.

Environment Minister Mohammad Machnouk’s announcement came hours after thousands of protesters gathered in historic Martyrs’ Square in downtown Beirut on Saturday night in the largest show of force yet for the so-called “You Stink” movement. The protesters plan to hold more demonstrations in Beirut in the coming week, but officials have rejected calls for resignations, warning that it would create more governance problems.