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Beyonce and Madonna are among the stars participating in the telethon on Friday for Haiti. Coldplay, Jay-Z, Rihanna, Springsteen, Sting, Mary J Blige, Bono of U2, Stevie Wonder, Alicia Keys and Christina Aguilera are also among the dozens of artists who will play for “Hope for Haiti”. The Lebanese singers are not participating yet...
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The Haitian government announces 75,000 dead, 250,000 wounded and one million homeless, a week after the earthquake. This is the first official provisional results of the Haitian authorities while the U.S. military had estimated that the number of dead could reach 200,000 deaths. Few Lebanese survivors came back from Haiti by MEA airlines to Lebanon According to...
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The population of Port-au-Prince now struggle just to survive, the urgency now is to avoid a massive health catastrophe: without access to safe water, sanitation, risk of epidemics increases. Injured and sick patients were waiting unattended for days Nearly a week after the earthquake, “it is as if a bomb had exploded,” testified the U.S. ambassador...
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Five days after the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti, killed tens of thousands of dead, and “one of the worst humanitarian disasters in decades,” as described by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. The international rescue teams became involved in that race to rescue people, to revive under the rubble of collapsed buildings in the Port-au-Prince, while...
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Dr Abi Saab: “the measures taken is not enough, Haitians are frustrated, is this the largest rescue operation that rich countries can make? we can’t figure it out” With thousands of Haitians began to fear the possibility of another quake, frightened of the gangs of looting yesterday to leave the Port-au-Prince, the devastated capital in...
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The U.S. military has a strong presence in Haiti, with the deployment of thousands of troops, warships including a nuclear aircraft carrier, and medicalized broken teams to crisis situations. The United States has established a powerful military force in Haiti This action is to help victims of the earthquake. Barack Obama promised on Wednesday morning a...
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Between 40,000 and 50,000 people perished in the quake. These are the first official figures given on Thursday in Panama, by Xavier Castellanos, director for the Americas of the International Federation of Red Cross. According to the UN, 300,000 people lost their housing in Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital, where 10% of homes were destroyed in...
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Tuesday 23:53, Lebanon time, when the earthquake struck… A Lebanese mother whose son with his family lives in Haiti, couldn’t sleep at that time, she had an unusual headache, she opened the TV to pass the time and suddenly she saw a report about the earthquake, lately she received a phone call, his son and...
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Lebanon has the highest production of CO2 compared to its surface area in the region, the CDM projects proposed by Lebanon does not propose to limit the CO2 production by industries (e.g. cementeries of Chekka), neither the permissions to introduce bio or electrical cars, private wind turbine power stations etc.. All what politicians want...
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In Lebanon, the media are fully controlled by the authority, nothing is published without their permissions. The past and present concerned ministers pretend that they are making their best to keep the liberty of the media and increasing the power of official media so far. As an example, Tele Liban and Radio Liban both...
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Is it a final step or the beginning? A draft or reality, what it seems that it was a very clear draft that contains unclear substances. The draft was circulating in Bella Center on Friday afternoon, the world should at least cut its total greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent by 2050, says the...
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Things are going faster than negotiations, CO2 emissions are not produced by politicians! most of poor countries are maintaining dictatorship and corruptions, industries does not change manufacturing processes to stop definitely CO2 emissions into the atmosphere. Would say enough corruption in politic and economic fields! Behind the scene people have some questions to ask: 1-...
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According to studies led by the French CNRS (NATIONAL CENTER FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH), on oceans well of global carbon, the absorption capacity of CO2 of the southern ocean, previously estimated at 500 million tons a year, would be ten times less. Every year, 10 billion tons of CO2 are injected in the atmosphere by...
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Lettre envoyée par le président du MOREP à “THALASSA, VOYAGE EN PHÉNICIE” Monsieur/Madame. J’étais surpris au début de votre émission THALASSA L’EXPÉDITION : VOYAGE EN PHÉNICIE du 11-12-2009 par la mention : “Le Liban était considéré une province Syrienne jusqu’en 1920 (…) quand la France (…) a créé l’état du Liban”. Je vous fais...
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Climate changes, deforestation, sea, water, air, CO2 emissions, air pollution, chemical use in agriculture etc.. had never been considered by rich countries. Are people not fed-up from unreasonable industries and unlimited destructive evolution? Is it not time to work for global cooling instead, not time to plant forest reserves, animals and whatever in nature;...
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