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Egypt: Islamists hit Christian churches

CAIRO (AP) — After torching a Franciscan school, Islamists paraded three nuns on the streets like "prisoners of war" before a Muslim woman offered them refuge. Two other women working at the school were sexually harassed and abused as they fought their way through a mob. In the four days since security forces cleared two […]

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May El-Khalil: Making peace is a marathon

In Lebanon there is one gunshot a year that isn’t part of a scene of routine violence: The opening sound of the Beirut International Marathon. In a moving talk, marathon founder May El-Khalil explains why she believed a 26.2-mile running event could bring together a country divided for decades by politics and religion, even if […]

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Blast seen as omen of ‘dark era’ for Lebanon

BEIRUT — Hezbollah’s leader said Friday that he is prepared to go to Syria personally to fight extremist Sunni Muslims whom he blamed for the deadliest bombing in Beirut in at least eight years, an attack that analysts said could herald a new “dark era” of sectarian bombings targeting Lebanese civilians. The car bomb, which […]

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Egypt’s Christians terrified after church attacks

Egypt’s Christians are living in fear after a string of attacks against churches, businesses and homes they say were carried out by angry supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi. As police dispersed Morsi supporters from two Cairo squares on Wednesday, attackers torched churches across the country in an apparent response. "People are terrified; no […]

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Car bomb kills 20 in Hezbollah’s Beirut stronghold

khazen.org rejects these attacks – Our prayers with the wounded and families of the affected in the explosion A powerful car bomb struck the southern Beirut stronghold of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group on Thursday, killing 20 people, wounding 120 and trapping many others inside damaged buildings, witnesses and emergency officials said. The blast, a month after […]

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Suleiman to Visit to Riyadh ahead of Private Vacation to Europe

President Michel Suleiman might head to a short visit to Saudi Arabia ahead of a private vacation that he will spend in Europe, al-Joumhouria reported on Wednesday. According to the report, the president will kick start his vacation on August 18 which will last until the 28th. Meanwhile, the political scene in the country seems […]

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Lebanon offers no asylum for Syrian army defectors

Last week, Lebanese Army Intelligence arrested Mohammad Haji and Hekmat Idris, two Syrian army defectors in Rashaya, a town south of Beqaa near the Syrian border. News reports suggest that Haji and Idris had fled Syria because they no longer wished to take part in the violence there. While an investigation is said to be […]

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Sleiman criticizes Hezbollah’s role in Syria crisis

BEIRUT: President Michel Sleiman called on Hezbollah Monday to avoid intervening in Syria, saying the resources of the resistance belonged to all the Lebanese. “The national capabilities, which are the Army, the state and the resistance, do not belong to a faction or sect,” he added. “They belong to the nation and cannot be biased, […]

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Lebanese Detroit doctor charged in $35M Medicare

A Detroit-area doctor has been charged with bilking the government of tens of millions of dollars by deliberately misdiagnosing patients with cancer and illegally billing Medicare for the treatment. Dr. Farid Fata will remain behind bars until at least Tuesday as a third federal judge considers whether or not to grant him bail. He was […]

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