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...“There are people who have stopped farming,” said Rafiq al-Gogary, a farmer. “The costs are high and there is no profit margin....
...Smart reads Money trail “Don’t eff this up rafiq,” private equity tycoon Arif Naqvi wrote in an email....
...Arif Rafiq, president of political risk firm Vizier Consulting, said: “The Biden administration is throwing a Hail Mary pass....
...Iran held the position when the cartel’s influence was far less significant than today: Fuad Rouhani was secretary-general from 1961 to 1964....
...Here, the mecca is Agial gallery in west Beirut, which was started “in a cellar” in 1989, when the violence was at its peak, according to owner Saleh Barakat....
...The Hariri foundation, a charity founded in 1979 by Rafiq Hariri, the assassinated former Lebanese prime minister, has survived the death of its billionaire benefactor....
...The present Sunni-led coalition with Christian and Druze parties crystallised around the Future movement of assassinated former premier Rafiq Hariri....
...Hizbollah overran west Beirut on Friday in a devastating show of force that left the Sunni-led coalition of Fuad Siniora reeling....
...Saleh Aridi, a senior member of the Lebanese Democratic Party, which is allied to the militant Shia group Hizbollah, was killed on Wednesday night when a bomb exploded as he started his car at his house...
...The US, however, remains unconvinced that the regime, accused of the 2005 assassination of Rafiq Hariri, the former Lebanese prime minister, deserves to be rewarded at this time....
...Syria was the power broker in Lebanon for several decades but it was forced to remove its troops from Lebanon in 2005, in the wake of the assassination of Rafiq Hariri, the former Lebanese prime minister...
...The western-backed Sunni, Druze and Christian coalition government of Fuad Siniora has a tiny majority after the Gemayel defeat, ahead of the forthcoming selection by parliament of a new president to replace...
...The US withdrew its ambassador last year after Damascus was linked to the assassination of Rafiq Hariri, former Lebanese prime minister....
...But with the Syrian regime ostracised by Washington and most of Europe because of suspicions that it was behind the assassination of the former Lebanese prime minister, Rafiq Hariri, there is little prospect...
...That followed a fraught time for the regime, which faces a United Nations investigation into the alleged involvement of top Syrian officials in the killing last year of Rafiq Hariri, the former Lebanese...
...The country is bracing for a United Nations report due out by the end of this week, on the February killing of Rafiq Hariri, Lebanon's former prime minister....
...Fahd was close to Rafiq al-Hariri, the recently assassinated Lebanese prime minister who made his fortune in Saudi Arabia....
...Arafat sent Fuad Shubaki, his bursar, around the world to make these payments. Not all the money went to the declared causes....
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