Posted By
Najib
Jun 28, 2016 12:15
Google has updated yesterday its mapping application with new, higher-resolution imagery from NASA's Landsat 8 satellite, which means sharper and more detailed photographs for Google Maps & Google Earth. The maps for Lebanon were updated of course and you can clearly see that from the screenshots below. We now have all the streets and alleys even outside Beirut and even pedestrian bridges are showing on the map now as little grey things. The last update…
Posted By
Najib
Jun 28, 2016 09:19
British-Lebanese political talk show host and Former BBC Journalist Liliane Daoud was arrested and deported from Egypt yesterday night. She was the host of ONTV's political show "Headlines". "Eight men who said they were from the border police force took her to an unknown location after taking her telephone and her British passport," Daoud's ex-husband Khaled al-Berri had earlier told Agence France Presse. Daoud also holds a Lebanese passport. The prominent TV talk show host's…
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