http://www.zawya.com/ en-us Copyright 2013 Zawya Ltd. All rights reserved. Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:51:10 GMT 20 144 76 http://www.zawya.com/rssnews/ http://www.zawya.com/images/ui/img-logo-zawya.png http://www.zawya.com/story/MAWAQiFs_First_SteelStructure_Inaugurated_in_Abu_Dhabi-ZAWYA20130620064704/ Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:47:00 GMT Press Release ZAWYA20130620064704 Open 20 June 2013 BEIRUT: Car thefts in the Bekaa Valley and arrests for heroin possession topped Wednesday’s police reports. The National News Agency said that three separate incidents resulted in the theft of vehicles in the city of Zahle and the... http://www.zawya.com/story/Four_arrested_in_Bekaa_Valley_for_car_theft-DS20*06*2013_dsart*220971/ Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:45:20 GMT The Daily Star DS20-06-2013_dsart-220971 Open 20 June 2013 Today is World Refugee Day. The windy resort of Lough Erne in Northern Ireland this week must have felt far from the millions of Syrians whose lives have been ripped apart by conflict. Yet many of the G-8 leaders meeting there have seen the... http://www.zawya.com/story/Lebanon_must_not_be_left_to_face_Syria_crisis_alone-DS20*06*2013_dsart*220942/ Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:45:20 GMT The Daily Star DS20-06-2013_dsart-220942 Open 20 June 2013 BEIRUT: The courtyard of the U.N.-run Yarmouk primary school in Burj al-Barajneh was packed, not with students blithely running in between classes, but with newly arrived Palestinian refugees from Syria coming to claim cash distributions... http://www.zawya.com/story/Double_refugees__strain_UNRWA_resources_as_numbers_surge-DS20*06*2013_dsart*220940/ Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:45:20 GMT The Daily Star DS20-06-2013_dsart-220940 Open The conflict in Syria has driven up goods handled by the Beirut Port 18% through May this year, with revenues soaring by nearly 26%, said an organization that represents 45 shipping agencies. http://www.zawya.com/story/Beirut_Port_thriving_on_Syrian_demand-DS20*06*2013_dsart*220936/ Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:45:20 GMT The Daily Star DS20-06-2013_dsart-220936 Open Syrian refugees in Lebanon who have opened up illegal businesses represent a growing drain on the economy, the caretaker social affairs minister said Wednesday. Wael Abu Faour made the comments during a ministerial meeting to discuss the government's efforts to deal with the effect of the Syrian refugee crisis on Lebanon's economy. http://www.zawya.com/story/Illegal_Syrian_businesses_hurt_economy_minister-DS20*06*2013_dsart*220941/ Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:45:20 GMT The Daily Star DS20-06-2013_dsart-220941 Open 20 June 2013 BEIRUT: While the anti-smoking law has substantially curbed smoking in public as well as advertising for tobacco products, companies are still violating the law with sponsorships and promotions, advocates said Wednesday. “In a lot of... http://www.zawya.com/story/Antismoking_event_honors_progress_calls_for_stricter_implementationa-DS20*06*2013_dsart*220943/ Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:45:20 GMT The Daily Star DS20-06-2013_dsart-220943 Open 20 June 2013 The political isolation of President Vladimir Putin at the G-8 summit in Ireland was a noteworthy moment in the Syrian crisis. With the Obama administration planning to arm the rebels, Putin could begin paying a heavier political price for... http://www.zawya.com/story/Russia_may_lose_its_strong_Syria_card-DS20*06*2013_dsart*220950/ Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:45:20 GMT The Daily Star DS20-06-2013_dsart-220950 Open 20 June 2013 Critics are correct when they argue that President Barack Obama doesn't have a strategy for military victory in Syria. The reality is that despite his decision last week to arm the opposition there, Obama is still playing for a negotiated... http://www.zawya.com/story/Barack_Obama_is_not_after_a_military_defeat_of_Bashar_Assad-DS20*06*2013_dsart*220951/ Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:45:20 GMT The Daily Star DS20-06-2013_dsart-220951 Open 20 June 2013 ARSAL, Lebanon: Residents of Arsal condemned Wednesday the killings of three Lebanese and a Turkish national, after a previously unknown Syrian rebel group claimed responsibility for the weekend ambush. A statement issued from the town of... http://www.zawya.com/story/Unknown_Syrian_rebel_group_claims_responsibility_for_weekend_ambush-DS20*06*2013_dsart*220969/ Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:45:20 GMT The Daily Star DS20-06-2013_dsart-220969 Open 20 June 2013 ABRA, Lebanon: Residents in Abra were coming to terms Wednesday with the violence that quickly engulfed this eastern suburb of Sidon as supporters of Salafist preacher Ahmad Assir and pro-Hezbollah gunmen clashed Tuesday evening. Some who... http://www.zawya.com/story/Sidon_picks_up_the_pieces_after_clashes-DS20*06*2013_dsart*220968/ Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:45:20 GMT The Daily Star DS20-06-2013_dsart-220968 Open 20 June 2013 WASHINGTON: For a measure of the snail’s pace of President Barack Obama’s decision-making on Syria, look at two dates: Aug. 18, 2011, and June 14, 2013. One marks the first of several calls for President Bashar Assad to... http://www.zawya.com/story/Obama_on_Syria___too_little_too_late-DS20*06*2013_dsart*220964/ Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:45:20 GMT The Daily Star DS20-06-2013_dsart-220964 Open 20 June 2013 In a continuation of the hazy wording of the G-8 communique on Syria, U.S. President Barack Obama said Wednesday that he could not and would not reveal the exact forms of military aid his government would be supplying to the opposition. This... http://www.zawya.com/story/The_US_waffles-DS20*06*2013_dsart*220956/ Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:45:20 GMT The Daily Star DS20-06-2013_dsart-220956 Open 20 June 2013 BEIRUT: The first public trial of former Minister Michel Samaha and two Syrian army generals, accused last year of plotting terrorist attacks in Lebanon, will commence Thursday. A judicial source told The Daily Star that the trial, to be... http://www.zawya.com/story/Samaha_trial_over_bomb_plot_to_begin_Thursday-DS20*06*2013_dsart*220970/ Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:45:20 GMT The Daily Star DS20-06-2013_dsart-220970 Open 20 June 2013 BEIRUT: Retired Brig. Gen. Adib Alam was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor and stripped of his civil rights Wednesday for having spied for Israel. The Military Court under Brig. Gen. Nizar Khalil convicted Alam for “dealing with... http://www.zawya.com/story/Retired_general_sentenced_to_15_years_for_spying-DS20*06*2013_dsart*220972/ Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:45:20 GMT The Daily Star DS20-06-2013_dsart-220972 Open 20 June 2013 BEIRUT: Nine Israeli soldiers crossed a technical fence adjacent to Lebanon’s southern border in the Wazzani region late afternoon Wednesday, according to the National News Agency. The NNA said the soldiers’ incursion was backed... http://www.zawya.com/story/Israeli_soldiers_cross_technical_fence-DS20*06*2013_dsart*220973/ Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:45:20 GMT The Daily Star DS20-06-2013_dsart-220973 Open 20 June 2013 BEIRUT: President Barack Obama said Wednesday reports the United States was ready to go to war in Syria were exaggerated as government troops backed by Hezbollah clashed with rebel forces around a Damascus suburb that is home to a revered... http://www.zawya.com/story/Obama_United_States_not_ready_to_go_to_war-DS20*06*2013_dsart*220981/ Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:45:20 GMT The Daily Star DS20-06-2013_dsart-220981 Open Speaker Nabih Berri will throw his weight behind a fresh bid to form a Cabinet after the Constitutional Council's failure to meet automatically put the extension of Parliament's term into effect, political sources said. http://www.zawya.com/story/Berri_to_throw_weight_behind_Cabinet_efforts-DS20*06*2013_dsart*220982/ Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:45:20 GMT The Daily Star DS20-06-2013_dsart-220982 Open 20 June 2013 BEIRUT: The organizing committee of the Baalbeck International Festival is considering staging its 2013 event in a different venue or venues, due to security concerns. The oldest of Lebanon's summer festivals, Baalbeck was launched in 1956... http://www.zawya.com/story/Baalbeck_Festival_organizers_mull_over_change_of_venue-DS20*06*2013_dsart*220932/ Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:45:20 GMT The Daily Star DS20-06-2013_dsart-220932 Open 20 June 2013 BEIT SHABAB, Lebanon: Fawzi Fakhoury's hands are calloused and brown. Hours of shaping tough clay and standing in front of a burning wood oven have stained them shades darker than the rest of his body and toughened them so they are like... http://www.zawya.com/story/Meet_the_last_potter_in_Beit_Shabab-DS20*06*2013_dsart*220923/ Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:45:20 GMT The Daily Star DS20-06-2013_dsart-220923 Open