100 days on, Beirut tent city has air of normality
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Central Beirut has acquired an eerie air of normality in the midst of the abnormal.
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in Paris as the relieved government basks in a national wave of joy at their safe release. military airport outside the capital on Wednesday one day after they were freed by Iraqi militants.
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Progress is slow but sure as New York continues to rebuild after 9/11.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - Lebanese troops tightened the noose around al Qaeda-inspired militants at a Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon on Monday, where the army made major advances after a month of fighting.
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The presidential election process in Lebanon has finally been put on track after much speculation regarding an amendment to the Constitution in order to give President Emile Lahoud another term.
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Workers scrambled to ready ports and the Beirut airport for a renewed flow of passengers and cargo.
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BEIRUT, Dec. 10 -- Hezbollah and its allies turned out the biggest crowds yet in downtown Beirut, sending hundreds of thousands of followers to the gates of the government headquarters Sunday in a feat of mobilization and discipline described by some leaders  as the last mass protest before the...
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The Hideout in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, is convivial without being loud, intimate without being claustrophobic.
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The arrest last month of Neameh Qayssamani, a newly elected member of the municipal council in Lebanon, and dozens of other men in the Chouf Mountains recalled a fearful time most people believed had passed forever.
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The opposition inside and outside Lebanon of giving President Emile Lahoud three additional years is gathering momentum. A report by the Beirut-based An Nahar daily on Monday said that the UN Security Council
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Eric Creuly's bedroom is a khaki tent on the banks of a Paris canal. His kitchen is a barbecue made from a metal barrel, and his living room is a set of mismatched chairs where he and friends smoke and watch the pleasure boats pass.
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Reem Haidar was so impressed by Hassan Nasrallah that she begged for one of the Hezbollah leader's robes as a keepsake. Last week, her dream came true; his aides delivered one to her home in Beirut.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - An uneasy calm settled over a Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon on Friday after the Lebanese army and Islamist militants declared an end to 33 days of fighting in which 172 people were killed.
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A measure of normalcy began to return to this resort community Thursday, even as crews battled an unpredictable mountain wildfire for a fifth day. Sunbathers ventured to some beaches, and the smoke lurking in the mountains largely cleared.
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A second plane of American evacuees from battle-scarred Lebanon landed early Friday outside Washington, bringing travelers eager to be home after days of heavy bombings and house-shaking explosions.
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BEIRUT, Feb. 14 -- The scenes have now become familiar in Beirut: tens of thousands waving the Lebanese flag, vows to neither surrender nor submit, speakers and protesters paying respects to dead they recognize as martyrs, pledging fealty to communal leaders and calling for national salvation on...
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Time never stands still, but there are some places that seem to withstand its effects better than others.