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Hezbollah Candidate to Form Lebanese Government

BEIRUT -- The candidate backed by Iranian-allied Hezbollah was designated Tuesday to form Lebanon's next government, angering Sunnis who protested the rising power of the Shiite militant group by burning tires and torching a van belonging to Al-Jazeera. The president appointed Harvard-educated billionaire businessman and...

Phone Records Link Hezbollah to Rafik Hariri Assassination

(Nov. 22) -- The Canadian Broadcast Corp. has conducted an investigation into the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and concludes that phone records implicate Hezbollah in the attack. The CBC draws on sources involved with or privy to details of an ongoing investigation by the United...

Israel Gets Close Look at Archenemy Ahmadinejad

JERUSALEM (Oct. 14) -- "Like a landlord visiting his domain," according to the Israeli Foreign Ministry, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made his flower-strewn progress through southern Lebanon today to deliver a triumphant, tub-thumping speech at the Hezbollah stronghold of Bint Jbeil, just two miles from the...

Is This The World's Smallest Handwritten Quran?

(Sept. 9) -- Islam has a huge following, but it also has one of the world's tiniest holy books. A man in Lebanon says he owns the world's smallest handwritten version of the Quran -- a religious text so tiny it can rest on the tip of his finger. Hassan Abed Rabbo posed for photographers inside his home in Beirut on Sept....

What the Arab World Makes of the Ground Zero Mosque Plans

(Aug. 17) --- As the controversy over the "Ground Zero Mosque" ratchets up, it might be worth taking a look to see just what opinions about the building are actually percolating throughout the Arab world, or at least the Arab press. My old boss, Jamil Mroue, publisher of The Daily Star of Beirut, Lebanon, and a Shiite...

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Lebanon Standoff: Beirut Battle From Alleged Domestic Dispute Leaves 2 Dead

An explosive, eight-hour shootout in west Beirut that apparently erupted after a domestic dispute killed at least two people early Thursday, including a gunman who was firing machine guns and lobbing grenades from his balcony.

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Beirut Clashes: 2 Killed In Street Battles As Syria Conflict Spills Over

Street battles between pro- and anti-Syrian groups in the Lebanese capital killed two people overnight and wounded 15 as the spiraling conflict in neighboring Syria spilled across the border.

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Rahilla Zafar: In Beirut, Tech Entrepreneurs and Investors Mingle at ArabNet Digital Summit

When May Habib attended her first ArabNet Digital Summit last year, the former investment banker from Manhattan was looking for people and funding to make her startup a reality.

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BEING BEIRUT

This is part 4 of 4 of our "My Coachella" Series.

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Diary From Kabul - Beirut and Back!

On my final night in Beirut, we went out to dinner at a restaurant that specialises in Chocolate dishes.

beirut News From the Web

05/30/12 MusicFest NW 2012 taps Passion Pit, Girl Talk, Beirut,... Source: Consequence of Sound Notables on this year's lineup include Passion Pit, Girl Talk, Beirut, Silversun Pickups, Dinosaur Jr., Fucked Up, Hot Snakes, The Tallest Man on Earth, Swans, Sebadoh, J. Mascis, Sloan (performing Twice Removed ) Red Kross, The Helio Sequence, The Men, Purity Ring, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Menomena, Danny Brown, Moonface, Tanlines, Lightning Blot, and Nite Jewel.
05/30/12 Bulgaria's Embassy staff in Syria transferred in... Source: Radio Bulgaria Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nikolai Mladenov announced that the staff of the ban Embassy to Syria has been transferred to Beirut for safety reasons.
05/29/12 This week on Marketplace Middle East Source: La Verne Community Newspaper - La Verne CA Beirut's Zaitunay Bay is one of the latest development projects in the Lebanese capital.
05/29/12 Lebanese hostages in Syria could ignite tensions Source: Boston.com - Boston MA In this Monday, May 28, 2012 photo, Lebanese relatives of 11 Shiite Muslim men kidnapped this week in Syria sit silently inside the office of the religious tour agency Badr al-Kubra in the Bir el-Abed district south of Beirut, Lebanon.
05/26/12 Location of Lebanese pilgrims still unknown Source: Al Jazeera Eleven Lebanese pilgrims abducted in northern Syria have been released and crossed into Turkey, according to Lebanon's interior minister, but questions and confusion still surround their whereabouts.

Background on beirut

Beirut ( ', , Latin: Berytus, , ') is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. As there has been no recent population census, the exact population is unknown; estimates in 2007 ranged from slightly less than 1 million to slightly more than 2 million.

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