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Les plages pour femmes, prochain fleuron du tourisme balnéaire ?

Sat, 25/07/2009 - 11:33am — wafa

Plusieurs millions de dollars ont été investis depuis 2006 dans des plages strictement réservées aux femmes.

Liban - Tourisme Depuis 2006, les plages exclusivement réservées à la gent féminine connaissent un essor particulier.

WTO ruling favors US, says China breaking commerce rules Victory comes amid pressure on Washington to be tough on Beijing

Sat, 25/07/2009 - 11:32am — wafa

GENEVA: The United States has largely prevailed in a trade dispute with China over restrictions on the sale there of American CDs, DVDs, books and computer software, two officials familiar with the ruling have told The Associated Press. The confidential verdict from the World Trade Organization (WTO) victory comes as the administration of President Barack Obama is being pressed to be tough over trade rules with China, whom many Democrats in the US Congress blame in part for America’s soaring trade deficits and lost manufacturing jobs.

USAID completes expat project

Sat, 25/07/2009 - 11:32am — wafa

BEIRUT: The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Lebanon mission firector, Denise A. Herbol, attended the results ceremony for the “Profiling Expatriate Prospects for Local Development Partnership” project, a US Embassy statement said Friday. This $15,000 USAID project, implemented by Relief International in partnership with the Lebanese Emigration Research Center, is part of USAID’s $19.9 million “Municipal Capacity Building and Service Delivery” program. The project empowers Lebanese municipalities by creating a database of Lebanese living abroad who are interested in establishing economic partnerships with their home villages. Over 150 emigrants have already contributed or are willing to contribute to their villages’ economic development.

Why did the CIA kill its assassins plan?

Fri, 24/07/2009 - 9:53am — wafa

When the CIA’s alleged assassination program surfaced this month, the first reports focused on what hadn’t been done: Congress hadn’t been briefed, supposedly on orders from Vice President Dick Cheney, and the program hadn’t actually resulted in any “hit team” attacks on Al-Qaeda operatives.

The first failing upset House Democrats, and they demanded an investigation. But the second issue is in some ways more interesting for what it reveals about the bureaucratic and legal culture in which the CIA operates.

Public debt biggest challenge facing next Lebanese cabinet

Fri, 24/07/2009 - 9:52am — wafa

Natacha Yazbeck

Agence France Presse

BEIRUT: Even before the next Lebanese cabinet takes shape, it faces a considerable hurdle: a staggering national debt that will top $50 billion this year. “The next government in­herits a dual legacy,” said economist Charbel Nahhas. “On the one hand, it is inheriting a massive rise in liquidity, so it will not face immediate financial stress or be in need of external financing,” he told AFP.

“On the other hand, it will also inherit a massive public debt and structural problems linked to public deficit, low investment and the high rates of migration of skilled people.”

US pledges $30 million for rebuilding Nahr al-Bared

Fri, 24/07/2009 - 9:52am — wafa

BEIRUT: The United States has pledged $30 million to the rebuilding of a Palestinian refugee camp destroyed in a battle between Islamists and the Lebanese army, a UN refugee agency said this week. “The amount of $25 million (18 million euros) will be allocated toward the reconstruction of Nahr al-Bared camp and $5 million toward the Relief and Early Recovery Appeal,” said the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). The grant raises to $71.8 million the amount donated by the US to the north Lebanon camp, which was almost completely destroyed in a 15-week battle between the army and an Al-Qaeda inspired militant group in 2007.

Venezuela rejects US drug report, Hizbullah charges

Fri, 24/07/2009 - 9:50am — wafa

CARACAS: Venezuela rejected on Tuesday a US government report that said it was not cooperating fully in the war on drug trafficking, saying such accusations had to stop if bilateral relations were to improve. The country’s Foreign Ministry also rejected allegations made by a senior Israeli diplomat that Venezuela harbored cells of Hizbullah.

Dorit Shavit, the head of Latin America and Caribbean affairs at the Israeli foreign ministry, told Colombian newspaper El Tiempo that the presence of Hizbullah had in­creased in recent years in Ve­nezuela’s northwestern Guajira region and on the Caribbean island of Margarita.

Venezuela’s Foreign Ministry called the statement absurd.

Pour les réfugiés palestiniens, le droit au retour dans un cercueil

Fri, 24/07/2009 - 8:35am — wafa

Reportage

« Revenez lorsque vous serez morts ! »

En Afrique du Sud, les oubliés de l’après-apartheid crient leur colère Social Les plus pauvres ont multiplié ces derniers jours

Fri, 24/07/2009 - 8:34am — wafa

Social Les plus pauvres ont multiplié ces derniers jours les manifestations, parfois violentes, dans les townships pour réclamer des logements décents et un meilleur accès aux services publics.

« On est en colère parce que la municipalité ne tient pas ses promesses. On veut des maisons, un hôpital, des emplois décents », s'emporte Mandla Sibanyomi, 43 ans, qui a manifesté ces derniers jours dans son township en Afrique du Sud et se dit prêt à continuer.
Cet employé d'une centrale électrique habite la ville de Balfour, située à 80 kilomètres au sud-est de Johannesburg et théâtre d'émeutes de dimanche à mercredi.

Une quinzième université privée inaugurée en Syrie

Fri, 24/07/2009 - 8:33am — wafa

Échos de Syrie
La quinzième université privée de Syrie, l'Arab Private University for Science and Technology (APUST) a ouvert ses portes le 16 juillet. Elle est basée à Hama, dans le centre de la Syrie, où est implantée une grande part de l'industrie pétrolière et gazière du pays.
L'APUST possède actuellement deux facultés, celle de l'ingénierie pétrolière et celle de l'ingénierie chimique qui accueilleront quelque 200 étudiants. L'université projette d'inaugurer bientôt des facultés de gestion, d'ingénierie informatique, de télécommunications et de sciences médicales.