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Najib
Sep 28, 2017 06:50
Islamist Cleric Ahmad al-Assir has been sentenced to death for the 2013 Abra clashes that resulted in the death of 18 army soldiers. Assir's brothers and seven other militants were also sentenced to death while Fadel Shaker was sentenced in absentia to 15 years of hard labor. I'm still not in favor of the death penalty and I hope President Aoun won't sign it. Assir just like all other terrorists that killed or clashed with…
Posted By
Najib
Sep 27, 2017 11:34
Twitter has finally decided to increase the character limit for a group of users to 280 characters instead of 140. The reason for this increase is that almost 9% of tweets in English have 140 characters, which makes the character limit a major cause of frustration for these people. It is not the case though for Arabic, and it's not the case for Japanese as well where 0.4% of the total tweets reach the limit.…
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Najib
Sep 27, 2017 10:32
Iraq's Kurdistan vote for independence has resulted in more than 92% of voters saying "Yes" and the Iraqi authorities don't seem too happy about it. They have already ordered the country's Kurdish area to surrender control of its international airports and requested from the Lebanese & Egyptian authorities to halt flights to Erbil, Kurdistan's capital. MEA has complied and its chairman has confirmed "the suspension of all flights to and from Arbil from Friday, upon…
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Najib
Sep 26, 2017 10:18
Cuban-American Artist Jorge Rodríguez Gerada is in Beirut and has just finished the first of a series of large scale works. The mural is near the Beirut Digital District and is a collaboration between Gerada Studio and BAD. Built by Associative Data, for Beirut Digital District. Gerada has been "replacing the faces of cultural icons chosen by advertisers with the faces of anonymous people to question the controls imposed on public space, the role models…
Food
8 years ago
I spotted this morning a Cold Stone sign on one of the shops in M1 building in DownTown Beirut and it looks like it’s opening really soon. Cold Stone Creamery is an American ice cream ...
Critiques
8 years ago
Perla el-Helou, a 22 year old business administration graduate, was crowned Miss Lebanon 2017 last night. I’m not sure if it’s just me, but I thought this year’s candidates were more mature (and beautiful) than ...
Business
8 years ago
An online website (Zipjet) ranked the least and most stressful cities in the world using various factors such as green spaces, public transport, mental health, noise pollution, sunshine hours, air pollution, traffic and race equality. ...
Baladi
8 years ago
A group of Lebanese Montrealers who love to play hockey have decided to get organized and form Lebanon’s first hockey team. There’s still no formal structure but they have already played a couple of exhibition ...
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