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Lebanon elections will be postponed

      Lebanon’s Deputy Speaker Farid Makari on Sunday warned that the parliamentary elections set for the summer will not be held on time. “The elections will be postponed till after September for technical reasons,” Makari stated in a press conference. Concerning the electoral law issue, the deputy speaker said the Orthodox draft “cannot be [adopted] […]

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How to Effectively Use Twitter as a Job Search Resource

Follow the industry you are interested in, and participate in communities you care about. Don’t just retweet what others are saying; create meaningful content that people care about. Be a thought leader. Use Twitter as a jumping-off point to your more detailed online profiles — a personal blog or LinkedIn profile, for example. Many companies […]

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Maronite Patriarch in Syria

  Maronite Patriarch Beshara Boutros al-Rai arrived in Damascus on Saturday to attend the enthronement of Syria’s Greek Orthodox leader, Yuhanna X Yazigi, Syrian state television said. The Lebanese National News Agency meanwhile reported that Rai would hold mass at the Maronite cathedral in Damascus later in the evening.   The ceremony for the new Greek […]

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Lebanon minister says Syria’s Abu Ibrahim dead

  BEIRUT: Interior Minister Marwan Charbel quoted Friday Turkish officials as saying the head of the group behind the kidnapping of a Lebanese group in Syria in 2012 has been killed. But a mediator in the case denied Abu Ibrahim is dead. "I have received information from the Turkish side that Abu Ibrahim has been killed […]

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Al-Rahi to Damascus for Inauguration of Greek Orthodox Patriarch of the Levant and Antioch

  Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi revealed his intention to visit Damascus on Sunday to take part in the inauguration celebration of the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of the Levant and Antioch Youhanna al-Yaziji, the An Nahar daily reported Saturday. Al-Rahi’s revelation came following a mass he held in the city of Tripoli on the occasion of Saint […]

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Suleiman Says Instructions Clear on not Deporting Syrians

  President Michel Suleiman said Thursday there are instructions not to deport any Syrian to his home country in accordance with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. “The instructions are not to deport any Syrian to Syria in conformity with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,” said Suleiman on twitter. His tweet came in response to a […]

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Wanted Arsal man had links to Al-Qaeda: Lebanese Army

  BEIRUT: Khalid Hmayyed, the man whose arrest sparked recent clashes between the Lebanese military and gunmen in the eastern town of Arsal, was a member of Jabhat al-Nusra (Nusra Front), a militant Islamist group with ties to Al-Qaeda, the head of Army Intelligence said late Monday.   “The wanted man was very dangerous: a […]

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