[Published here on April 22, 2017]
Beirut (AFP) – Lebanese activists ramped up their campaign to scrap a controversial law allowing rapists who marry their victims to go free, with a dramatic installation on Saturday along Beirut’s sunny seaside.
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Avoiding risky sea journey, Syrian refugees head to Italy ‘pronto’ | AFP
[Published here on March 19, 2017]
Beirut (AFP) – Just before midnight in a sleepy district of Beirut, dozens of Syrian refugees huddle in small groups around bulging suitcases, clutching their pinging cellphones and one-way tickets to Italy.
“Torino! Pronto! Cappuccino!”
They practise random Italian words in a schoolyard in the Lebanese capital’s eastern Geitawi neighbourhood, waiting for the buses that will take them to the airport, and onwards to their new lives in Italy.
Lebanon rescues 3 Siberian tiger cubs en route to Syria | AFP
[Published here March 18, 2017]
BEIRUT: An animal rights group in Lebanon is caring for three dehydrated, maggot-infested Siberian tiger cubs that were rescued on their way to a zoo in neighboring war-ravaged Syria.
Balloon, camera, action: mapping a Palestinian camp in Lebanon | AFP
[Published here on February 19, 2017]
Burj al-Shamali (Lebanon) (AFP) – Equipped with an inexpensive camera and a big red balloon, Firas Ismail — a 20-year-old Palestinian refugee in southern Lebanon — is not your typical urban planner.
Lebanon gives teeth to big cat protection efforts | AFP
[Published here on July 20, 2016]
Beirut (AFP) — The death of a baby lion cub kept as a pet in Lebanon has inspired a major government-backed campaign to halt mistreatment and trafficking of big cats in the country.
In first, civil campaign vies for power in Beirut vote | AFP
[Published here on May 5, 2016]
Beirut (AFP) – Armed with a 10-point platform and a shot of ambition, an unlikely alliance of Lebanese citizens will for the first time take on Beirut’s powerful political class in Sunday’s municipal elections.
To flee Lebanon’s trash crisis, family heads to Syria | AFP
[Published here on April 4, 2016]
Naameh (Lebanon) (AFP) – Imagine living near a trash dump so putrid that you would rather move to war-torn Syria.
