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Beirut Night Life:
As part of the festive of Batroun International Festival 2010, the hottest Lebanese Diva Haifa Wehbe along with the Lebanese comedy phenomenon Bassem Fghali held a memorable night in Batroun, in Northern Lebanon. The crowds sang along the Lebanese beauty and enjoyed the best of her hits. Bassem was another twist of [...]

NOW Lebanon:
Environment Minister Mohammad Rahhal visited a factory in the Batroun district village of Kubba to inspect its ecological standards as per his ministry’s strategy, NOW Lebanon’s correspondent reported on Tuesday.
Rahhal also called for the cabinet to issue an environmental decree to avoid any upcoming problems in Lebanon’s ecology.

Beirut Night Life:
The Batroun International Festival 2010 presented the Gregorian National Ballet ‘Sukhishvili’ as part of this years program. The show was attended by H.E Lebanese Minister of Tourism Fadi Abboud, H.E Lebanese Minister of Electricty & Water Gibran Basil and a number of senior officials.

Special to The Daily Star:
Excavations at Tell Fadous-Kfarabida reveal secrets and lifestyles of inhabitants of coastal trading village

KFARABIDA: The site of Tell Fadous-Kfarabida was nearly destroyed by a bulldozer in 2004. Fortunately for posterity, an American University of Beirut (AUB) graduate student spotted pottery shards and the remains of an ancient wall amid the [...]

NOW Lebanon:
The National News Agency (NNA) reported on Tuesday that 19-year-old Selena George Issa was found near the Chekka tunnel in North Lebanon severely beaten.

Beirut Night Life:
The Batroun International Festival 2010 organizing committee announced the program for this summer. The announcement was made in attendance of H.E Fadi Abboud, Minister of Tourism, H.E Gebran Bassil Minister of Water and Energy, and H.E Ms. Nada Sardoock, Director General of Ministry of Tourism.

iloubnan:
BEIRUT- “Batroun will regain its tourist aspect” said Tourism Minister Fadi Abboud during the launching of “Batroun International Festival” at the ministry of Tourism in Hamra in the presence of Energy Minister Gebran Bassil.

The Daily Star:
In Batroun, preliminary results indicated the victory of the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM)-backed electoral list in the city while March 14 Forces were leading in most of the district’s towns.

NOW Lebanon:
In a town that will see “the mother of all battles,” the mood is anything but militant.
Just days before Sunday’s municipal elections in Batroun, the atmosphere was as calm and breezy as the sunny, late-spring day. Near the center of town, in fact, hung a left-over, billboard-sized advert from last year’s parliamentary elections.

NOW Lebanon:
Labor Minister Boutros Harb told the Voice of Lebanon radio station on Monday that “Batroun is not real estate that is possible to buy and sell.”