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Najib
Sep 22, 2017 11:01
The Guardian published findings from an investigation by Orb Media, and found that "The US had the highest contamination rate, at 94%, with plastic fibres found in tap water sampled at sites including Congress buildings, the US Environmental Protection Agency’s headquarters, and Trump Tower in New York. Lebanon and India had the next highest rates". Sixteen water samples were taken from Beirut and approximately 94% tested positive for microscopic plastic fibers. Overall, more than 80…
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Najib
Sep 21, 2017 04:55
Al Jadeed just tweeted that Jeanne D'arc Zarazir, the actor who played Jacko in the TV Show "3eesh Kteer" has passed away. She was such a funny and lovable character. She will be dearly missed. This video is from her first acting role was in 2010: And here's one of her many stunts where she went to a pharmacy to buy viagra for her husband:
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Najib
Sep 21, 2017 10:35
Lebanon has finally amended its penal law to criminalize all acts of torture. Even though Lebanon had ratified the United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment in 2000, Article 401 of the Lebanese Penal Code did not "cover situations where torture is used other than for obtaining confessions or information" and did not criminalize non-physical forms of torture, such as mental or psychological torture. The new draft law…
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Najib
Sep 21, 2017 09:15
A picture of a foreign worker holding the Arguile pipe for a customer at a beauty parlor has gone viral in the past couple of days. To be honest, when I shared the picture, I made sure the customer and worker's faces are blurred because the point was not to bash them personally, but to show what we've come to in our society, and how Arguile has become a must even in a freaking beauty…
Critiques
8 years ago
Hundreds of millions of dollars were given to Lebanon, Turkey & Jordan: the three countries with the largest number of Syrian refugees, but a 55-page report by Human Rights Watch that tracked pledges made at ...
Travel
8 years ago
Lebanese President Michel Aoun headed to New York on Monday to take part in the UN General Assembly Annual meeting. The president’s flight was a ME001 non-stop presidential flight to New York JFK airport. Lebanese ...
Lebanon
8 years ago
Check out this beautiful video on Tripoli by Hadi Hajar. A 2 minute and 24 seconds video that perfectly sums up Lebanon’s second-largest city. The Citadel, The Rashid Karameh International Exhibition Center, The souks, the ...
Fun
8 years ago
Lebanese tennis champion Ibrahim Bou Chahine has been banned apparently till the year 9999 according to the above screen taken from Ibrahim’s profile on the Lebanese Tennis Federation website. From what I read, Bou Chahine ...
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