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Covering Lebanon and occasionally MENA's conflicts. And currently, the war in Palestine.
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-- A small gathering infront of the judicial palace, protesting the ongoing arrest of the activist Rabih Al Zein.
-- Lebanese banks are forcing even harsher procedures on dispositors, allowing now only 2 dollar bill withdrawals (one each 15 days) instead of 4 each month (once a week).
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-- A small gathering infront of the judicial palace, protesting the ongoing arrest of the activist Rabih Al Zein.
-- Lawyer of activist Rabih El-Zein in front of Justice Palace in Baabda: El-Zein will be released tomorrow on bail.
-- For someone that owns 505 real estates, a cement plant, and billions of dollars, you shouldn't support Bernie.

Bernie is allegedly fighting the likes of you in the USA.

Billionaire warmongers.
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🇱🇧🇦🇺 -- Sad news from Australia, where 3 children from a lebanese family were killed when a car rammed them on the road while they were playing on their bikes.
-- Rebekah: Appalled by the senseless death of four Australian Lebanese children in Sydney. The man allegedly responsible has been charged with 20 offenses included four counts of manslaughter. May their souls Rest In Peace.
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-- After Portugal and Italy (early Jan 2020), another rare sighting of orca whale in the Mediterranean, this time off the coast of Lebanon.
🇧🇩🇱🇧 -- Hundred's of people from Bangladesh are under their embassy/consulate trying to prepare their legal papers to travel and leave Lebanon.

-- They usually get paid by dollars, and then send them through an online transfer office to their home country. But with no dollars given by banks to even the Lebanese, their employers aren't paying them with dollars. And with no dollars they can not send anything outside Lebanon.
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The value of the Lebanese Lira to 1$:

-- 2.3 in 1974

-- 2.73 in 1976 (1 year after the civil war starts)

-- 3.64 in 1980 (2 years after Israel's first invasion)

-- 5.49 in 1982 (The year Israel invaded lebanon again and reached Beirut)

-- 18.10 in 1985

-- 529 in 1988

-- 928 in 1991 (End of the civil war)

-- 1712 in 1992 (Post civil war when Rafic Al Hariri laid his control over Lebanon's economy and rebuilding effort)

-- 1527 in 1997

-- 1507 in 2000 (Year of liberation from Israeli occupation)
-- The minister of economy just withdraw the license of "La Vie", and ordered it to remove all of its products from the market.

Reason is unknown.
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-- Mayor of Marjayoun gifts Lebanese ISF $500,000 check.

It's kinda ironic if you remember what happened in 2006.
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-- Picture released by Israel's Channel 12 news shows just how bad the flooding was. Eight F-16 fighter jets were damaged, but all are expected to be repaired and return to operational duty by next week.
-- Israel Air Force: damage to infrastructure & equipment is estimated at NIS 30 million. Five of the damaged planes have returned to the skies, another 3 are still being repaired. Hatzor base commander will leave his position, 3 other senior IAF officers will be reprimanded.