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Brussels correspondent for TheNationalNews; former senior Beirut correspondent; before that worked for @Le_Figaro and many others
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EXCLUSIVE: Lebanon's central bank is counting its gold for the first time since...probably the 1960s, when it was initially bought.
Government employees have so far counted 20 % of the estimated 13,000 ingots and 700,000 coins in the bank's vaults.
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It looks like Lebanese Twitter has turned me into a meme.
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I spoke to UN special rapporteur
@FranceskAlbs
about her criticism of EU 🇪🇺 support of the IHRA's definition of antisemitism and why it undermines the recognition of Palestinian victimhood
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BREAKING: the man suspected of having killed last night 2 people in Brussels, a Tunisian national, has been ‘neutralised’ by police in the neighborhood of Schaerbeek, reports
@RTBF
🇧🇪
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Beirut is a ghost city today. Shops are closed, streets are nearly empty, and there's just miles and miles of cars parked on the side of the road, waiting for fuel.
Complete paralysis.
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These headlines are misleading.
We're going from around 1 hour to 0 hours of state-powered electricity a day.
In my Beirut neighbourhood it now costs nearly $200/month to be hooked to a private generator that runs max 13 hours a day.
BREAKING: Lebanon plunged into darkness ‘for days’ as country runs out of electricity
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Supporters of independent candidate Elias Jradeh celebrate at his home in Ebel Al Saqi near Marjayoun, chanting "yalla rise up Hasbaya, yalla rise up Marjayoun" - seems he has won a seat, a first in south Lebanon.
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Let's be clear: to be a critic of Hezbollah means you often wind up dead.
In lebanon to be a critic often means you wind up dead
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Update:
I just spoke to the Sri Lankan Ambassador to Lebanon Shani Calyaneratne Karunaratne on the phone.
She said this controversy is "absolutely shameful".
"We gave this tea to the President and he can do whatever he wants with it as long as the people who get it are Lebanese".
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Respect for the hero of the night: 5 year-old rescue dog Flash.
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Former Lebanese Justice Minister
@Ashraf_Rifi
speaking via video link at a conference on Iran organised in Brussels by
@iran_policy
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A true hero - appreciation tweet to Youssef Malla, civil defense volunteer who saves people day and night 🤍
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‼️ Excited to share that this is my first day as Brussels correspondent at
@TheNationalNews
after 7 years in Lebanon. I'll be covering the EU and also be keeping an eye on all things linked to the Middle East.
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Tripoli: people have started drawing a giant Lebanese flag on the wall of a building near Al Nour Square. Right now they just started the Cedar tree as thousands sing and dance below.
#LebanonProtests
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There's a curfew and I literally just saw a guy on a horse casually walking through Gemmayze in Beirut
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A crowd has gathered here in Gemmayze in Beirut where a Chilean rescue team has detected the shape of two bodies on the 2nd floor of a collapsed building.
They detected pulse and temperature in 1.
The explosion happened 28 days ago. Finding someone alive would be a miracle.
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Happy to announce that I'm now senior correspondent with
@TheNationalNews
in Beirut.
Looking forward to 2021 with a fantastic team
@elias_sakr
@andfinbar
@Aya_Isk
@BrowneGareth
@fatimalmahmoud
and
@RedaMahmoud87
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Lokman Slim's sister Rasha Al Ameer told me that the family will respect his wishes to be incinerated, and scatter his ashes in places he loved.
There will be no religious funeral.
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Families of those killed in the Beirut port blast have launched the hachtag # #نواب_النيترات
#NitrateMPs
to shame the Lebanese MPs who signed a petition that in effect would block the investigative judge from interrogating former MPs and ministers.
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One thing the Lebanese crisis brought is the discovery of the incredibly generous salaries of Lebanese civil servants - with
@AlakhbarNews
reporting that the Lebanese ambassador in Damascus made more than $20k a month.
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Protesters inside the foreign affairs Ministry chanting insults against former foreign minister Gebran Bassil.
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Just stumbled on this amazing picture of Bourj Hammoud in 1910 while researching Lebanon's never-ending garbage problems.
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MP
@fmakhzoumi
thinks an inventory of the central bank’s gold is necessary because he does not trust the BDL or the “political system protecting it”.
“As a citizen of Lebanon, I need to know what’s happening,” he told me.
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Questioned about whether Europe will sanction the IRGC as an entity,
@JosepBorrellF
said this needs a court decision by a member state first.
"you cannot say I consider you a terrorist because I don’t like you"
#Iran
#Europe
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It's been 9 months since the Beirut port explosion that killed over 200 people.
It's also been 3 months since the assassination of intellectual and writer Lokman Slim.
Local investigations have yielded 0 result so far.
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EXCLUSIVE: judge Ghada Aoun tells me that she'll press charges against Riad and Raja Salameh on Monday and send officers to force the governor to come in for questioning.
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THREAD: One year after his killing, it's important to remember that Lokman Slim was much more than just a Hezbollah critic - he was a a publisher, an archivist, a writer, a film maker, and a grass roots activist.
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Am hearing a lot about hotels across
#Lebanon
being full every weekend and charging up to 3 million LBP/night.
That's $235 at the parallel market rate IF you have fresh 💵.
What have I missed? Where is "Lebanon's worst-ever economic crisis" that I write about every day?
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Just spoke to the president of the municipality of the village of Choueya who confirmed that villagers stopped a truck carrying two rocket launchers and said that it had been seized by the army.
Hezbollah said it launched rockets towards Israel this morning.
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Had a worrying chat with Lebanese wheat importers today who told me that 🇱🇧 has been unable to import wheat since the start of the war in Ukraine. People are panic-buying flour. "It's like a rush on the bank".
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.
@andfinbar
and I went to the Bekaa to visit the family of a man who robbed a bank of his own money. Abdallah is in jail, his wife has the 💵and is on the run. The story is incredible and highlights the desperation caused by Lebanon's financial meltdown.
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Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has just invited the media for a press tour at 10pm tonight to prove that there are no weapons near the airport following Israeli accusations earlier today.
That was fast.
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A dozen high school children protest outside the French embassy in Beirut to ask for French support in investigating the Beirut blast that killed their friend Elias Khoury. His mother Mireille entered the embassy to deliver a letter but wasn't received by ambassador
@grillo_anne
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Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah tonight : I never said we should follow the Iranian example. Lebanon is open to all (except Israel). We must try every possible way to avoid economic collapse.
And the electricity just cut in the middle of his speech 😐
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Mediapart: 🇱🇧 central bank governor Riad Salameh opened an office in Paris on the Champs-Elysées without informing the French central bank.
🇫🇷 police found 2 computers in a raid in the office that the BDL paid 4.8 million Euros in rent for over 11 yrs.
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Lebanese politicians have successfully wielded sectarianism, a decade-old tactic, to divide families asking for accountability in the Beirut port probe.
Here's the story, based on 11 interviews w/relatives of those who died + lawyers and analysts.
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Downtown Beirut is already covered in a cloud of teargas and the protests started 1/2 an hour ago.
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Seen in a Beirut taxi today: "Please, no insults or foul language. Please do not talk about politics."
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The French secret service used journalist Olivier Dubois to try to capture an Al Qaida member in Mali, then realised it was too dangerous and that he'd probably be kidnapped.
They didn't bother to tell him though.
Result: He was a hostage for 2 years.
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I'm signing off Twitter for a 2-week break and leaving you with a feel-good story about Ovy the rescued pelican who lives on the Beirut corniche.
Thank you for flagging him
@LinNoueihed
#Lebanon
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What is this?? Heavy smoke rising above Ashrafieh. My taxi driver is panicking.
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This went relatively unnoticed yesterday but it seemingly is a first for a Parliament in Europe: Belgian MPs voted unanimously in favour of a resolution calling on the EU to use its sanctions framework for Lebanon for the first time
@BenAchourMalik2
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I deleted a tweet about the cost of power in Lebanon bcos it wasn't clear.
To clarify: I just paid the equivalent of 6,6 times Lebanon's monthly wage, or $214, to the neighbourhood generator owner.
That only gives me 13 hours of electricity a day over 1 month.
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She came back tonight! Many thanks to all those who offered to help find her ❤️❤️❤️
#PetAlert
I have lost my cat in Geitawi, Beirut.
She ran away yesterday when I was outside Beirut. She was acting strange and afraid since the blast. If anyone sees her please let me know. Thank you 🙏
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#PetAlert
I have lost my cat in Geitawi, Beirut.
She ran away yesterday when I was outside Beirut. She was acting strange and afraid since the blast. If anyone sees her please let me know. Thank you 🙏
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Proud to highlight the work of these brave doctors who choose to stay in Lebanon despite terrible challenges.
Lebanon's doctors refusing to abandon patients by moving abroad amid economic crisis
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Waking up at 5am and making tea with a torch because it's dark outside and there's no electricitry, and feeling a bit chilly for the first time in months
#Beirut
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One year after the blast, no-one knows how many people died.
I investigated why - and found that figures vary from 191 (MoH), to 214 (ISF), to over 250 (activists).
Meanwhile, families of the dead unrecognised by the state get no financial compensation.
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Thousands in Tripoli tonight. Getting here from Beirut took four hours because of roadblocks but we made it.
#LebanonProtests
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A few hundred people in downtown Beirut protesting after the murder of writer, editor, film maker and Hezbollah critic Lokman Slim.
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It's August 10 today. That means
#Lebanon
has been without a government for exactly one year.
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Lebanese Reuters reporter Issam Abdallah reportedly killed by an Israeli strike at the border, other journalists injured.
This was Issam an hour ago. I have no words. No words.
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Bad news for Lebanon's May elections: the president of the committee in charge of supervising them says they are toothless, broke, and a hypocritical attempt at projecting accountability.
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Families of victims of the Beirut blast publish a video saying they support judge Bitar and that Ibrahim Hoteit's statement last night does not represent them.
Lebanon's political parties have succeeded in dividing them.
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She confirmed that she personally gave 1,650 kg of tea to the president. "It's one of the best teas in the world and I'm happy that whoever he gave it to is drinking it," she said.
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In north Lebanon, people are illegally cutting ancient trees because they can't afford fuel for heating anymore.
They know it's disastrous for the environment but they have no choice.
“We are close to losing a national treasure," Fneidek's mayor told me.
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Look who is coming to Brussels at the invitation of France’s far-right to talk about the ‘existential’ threat represented by Syrians in Lebanon and the ‘imminent threat’ they represent in Europe👇
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Ali Mamlouk, Jamil Hassan, and Abdel Salam Mahmoud will be on trial in Paris for war crimes on May 21-24.
“It is important that proof is kept of these crimes in the hope that one day, even if it’s in several decades, there will be accountability in
#Syria
”
@CBectarte
told me.
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Yesterday, I spent a hours in a Beirut-Jbeil bus asking people what they thought about a recent price hike.
What struck me most was the driver's empathy - he let passengers pay whatever they wanted, even if that meant losses for him.
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The outage has been caused by a struggle between the Beirut municipality and the Traffic and Vehicles Management Authority.
They are fighting over control of the lucrative business of Beirut’s parking metres.
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The ceremony for Lokman Slim is ongoing in his garden in south Beirut.
Was told that ambassadors from several European countries + US + Canada attended.
I haven't seen any Lebanese politicians.
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Making an exception to my Twitter break because I'm quite happy that my longest story EVER on Lebanon has just been published.
It tells the story of clan violence in Baalbek, and how it threatens to spiral out of control.
I worked on it a few weeks ago:
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Lebanese pharmaceutical company Pharmaline will import 1 million Covid-19 vaccines from Russia (Sputnik) that should arrive in the next week - 10 days.
MP Nicolas Nahas told me the price will be "very competitive".
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When Lebanon's Prime Minister says that a Lebanese judge investigating central bank governor Riad Salameh (something also happening in France, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein and Switzerland) is "worse than Israel" 😱😱
Great piece by
@MaucourantNada
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I have deleted a tweet saying Raja Salameh was released because it was unclear. He has requested to be released but remains in prison for now. Judge Ghada Aoun is expected to lodge an appeal.
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THREAD - Nobody seems to have noticed that it's been exactly 2 months since judge Tarek Bitar has been unable to continue his investigation into the Beirut port blast.
His probe has been paused 4 times because of political intervention. Here's a breakdown⬇️
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In light of the ongoing bank hostage situation in Beirut, I'm re-upping my January piece on a similar incident. The hostage taker was released with his 💵
Reminder: in the absence of a capital control law, 🇱🇧 banks have no legal basis to withhold money.
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I just spoke to Muhammad Rammal, the owner of the iron factory that we just visited with
#Hezbollah
- to prove there are no weapons here.
He says that his factory has been open for the past 5 years, that he was "surprised" by Netanyahu's accusations, but is proud of
#Hezbollah
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French and Lebanese army working together to clean up the rubble at Beirut port.
The French army is the only foreign army present here - along with a small deployment of Italian soldiers.
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Protesters in Baalbek today made a point to salute Dahieh, Jiyeh, Tripoli, Saida, Beirut, Barja...to show the Lebanese are united in their rejection of their leaders
#LebanonProtests
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Good-bye Beirut, good-bye Twitter, see you both again in a month.
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The Chileans are entering the building. They previously said that they would need hours of careful work to find the survivor. That's it from me. It's 3.37 am.
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This is symbolic. After the election of a new Parliament last week, security forces removed 2 of the cement blocks that surround Parliament. This policeman told me they stopped for today because the electricity cut, but they'll continue removing the blocks tomorrow morning.
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Lebanon is a preview of what happens when people run out of resources they believe are infinite.
Wise words by
@warghetti
Lebanon as We Once Knew It Is Gone
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Just a reminder that families of victims of the Beirut port blast called for a fact-finding mission by the UN Human Rights Council in parallel to the Lebanese probe - now on hold thanks to the intervention of politicians/suspects
It's in session NOW.
Lebanon's not on the agenda.
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The office of the public prosecutor in Munich confirms to
@TheNationalNews
that this is linked to Salameh + entourage.
The 5 suspects saw properties seized in 🇩🇪 worth 28m Euros, in 🇫🇷 worth 16 m Euros, and a building in Brussels worth 7m Euros + over 60m Euros in banks.
BREAKING: Eurojust says France, Germany and Luxemburg froze 120 million euros worth of assets linked to the investigation of a money laundering case in 🇱🇧. No names are given but figures point to central bank governor Riad Salameh and his entourage.
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THREAD: European courts are increasing pressure on the millionaire head of Lebanon's central bank Riad Salameh by requesting judicial co-operation to help with their probes into his wealth and assets in Europe.
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A family dinner scene in Maroun Baghdadi's 1975 "Beirut oh Beirut" - eeringly similar to what people are talking about today, 45 years later👇
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Downtown Beirut 5 mn ago, 1 hour after massive explosion.
Glass is everywhere. Shops are shattered all the way to Sassine.
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My lungs hurt after walking 30 mn in the street in Beirut today. The air was poisonous. What is happening (apart from generators)?
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Dear Twitter Iran/EU experts, does anyone know if an EU court has taken the kind of decision regarding the IRGC that
@JosepBorrellF
is talking about here?
Questioned about whether Europe will sanction the IRGC as an entity,
@JosepBorrellF
said this needs a court decision by a member state first.
"you cannot say I consider you a terrorist because I don’t like you"
#Iran
#Europe
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Exclusive to
@TheNationalNews
: a judicial source told me that the investigation into the killing of Lokman Slim will start again with a hearing on Oct. 21 after a five-month break.
“We have been waiting for this the whole summer,” said
@MonikaBorgmann
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“Even some politicians who privately agree that Israel is practicising apartheid feel they have little to gain by saying that publicly and fear being attacked by Israel-aligned groups," said
@MartinKonecny
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The European Commission should engage with Palestinian and other intellectuals, civil society and scholars who had in the past been excluded, she said.
It should also rely on multiple resources without tying itself to a single definition of anti-Semitism.
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Luxembourg judicial authorities have appointed a judge to investigate Lebanon's central bank governor Riad Salameh for money laundering, a Luxembourg judicial spokeswoman told me today.
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My mind can't even grasp
@MEAAIRLIBAN
prices: over $3000 for a one-way ticket from Marseille to Beirut ?
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I was trying to do an interview of Elias Jradeh but then a whole crowd of people walked in chanting "rise up hasbaya" - Jradeh, a 55 yr old eye surgeon, then managed to continue the interview while the crowd chanted "thawra, thawra."
Supporters of independent candidate Elias Jradeh celebrate at his home in Ebel Al Saqi near Marjayoun, chanting "yalla rise up Hasbaya, yalla rise up Marjayoun" - seems he has won a seat, a first in south Lebanon.
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We just arrived in the Jnah neighbourhood that was pictured in Netanyahu's presentation.
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It's very hard to write about the violent assassination of a friend.
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Striking scene at Beirut Airport just now.
Between 50 and 100 migrant workers from Bangladesh leaving together because of the financial crisis in Lebanon.
They are losing jobs + pay in Lebanese pounds has lost around 30% of its value.
#Lebanon
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This is amazing. My dad just found my grandmother's Norwegian press card from 1945.
She was 18 years old.
She died a few weeks ago, at age 102.
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