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Lebanon on brink of World Bank $150 million food loan

4 months ago
Lebanon is close to reaching an agreement with the World Bank in which the international agency would give the crisis-hit country a $150 million loan for food security and to stabilize bread prices for the next six months, the economy minister said Tuesday. Amin Salam said talks with the International Monetary Fund were progressing in […]
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Official: Syria donors conference pledges 6.9 billion euros

2 years ago
Almost 7 billion euros were pledged today to support war-torn Syria at a donor conference in Brussels. Around 60 countries and international agencies gathered to drum up financial aid for the Arab nation as the corona-virus and economic chaos wreak even more havoc in a country shattered by a conflict now in its 10th year. […]
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No food for foreigners

4 years ago
Jorg Sartor does not like to turn newcomers away from his food bank, especially single mothers like the young Syrian woman with her 5-year-old son who had waited outside since before dawn. But rules are rules. And for the moment, it is Germans only. ““The whole country is up in arms about this one little […]
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A Sharp Rise In The Rate Of Arrivals Reaching The Greek Island Of Lesbos

7 years ago
The Levant News  - - More than 3,000 Syrian and Afghan refugees, soaked and exhausted, reached the Greek island of Lesbos within hours on Wednesday, a sharp rise in the rate of arrivals via the dangerous sea crossing from Turkey. They were the latest wave of at least 430,000 refugees and migrants, a record number, […]
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Pope Francis' Meeting With Syrian Refugees

7 years ago
The Levant - - "There are wars, refugees who are escaping in this wave of migration away from wars," Pope Francis on Saturday told reporters aboard the plane taking him from Rome to Havana to start his nine-day trip to Cuba and the United States. Pop described how he became emotional when he met the family of […]
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Where Hope and Death are Equal: The Tragedy of Syrian Refugees

7 years ago
The Levant News --  By Mirvat Sibaii --    Desperate of the harsh reality, they departed from their homeland to the unknown, running away from life of fear and worry, hoping to get a chance to live in peace and dignity. Certainly, they risk their lives, but hope is stronger than death by drowning or […]
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