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Judge questions Ogero officials in illegal internet case

The head of the state-owned telecommunications company Ogero and two other officials testified Thursday as witnesses in investigations into country’s the unlicensed Internet case. A source told The Daily Star that Mount Lebanon’s Investigative Judge Rami Abdallah questioned Abdel-Moneim Youssef along with Ogero’s IT director […]

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Judge cancels release of former Lebanon MP

Mount Lebanon’s Accusatory Body Thursday rejected a decision to release former MP Hasan Yaacoub on bail, who is accused of being involved in the kidnapping of Hannibal Gadhafi. A source told The Daily Star that the head of the body Judge Elias Eid cancelled a […]

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The ‘sick man’ of the international system

When Francis Fukuyanna declared the “End of History” at the turn of the century, he certainly overlooked the Middle East, where history has had a future – and a bright one indeed. At the beginning of the 20th century, nationalism made headway in the Middle […]

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The World Reaps What the Saudis Sow

Saudi Arabia has frustrated American policy makers for years. Ostensibly a critical ally, sheltered from its enemies by American arms and aid, the kingdom has spent untold millions promoting Wahhabism, the radical form of Sunni Islam that inspired the 9/11 hijackers and that now inflames […]

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Why is the law of the Orthodox meeting?

Lebanon suffered, and what is still, from a long-life crisis even more than a quarter of a century. Causes are the imbalance in the application of the Charter, the Constitution and the national accord document, exceeding the Taif Agreement, which led to a significant imbalance […]