by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Jun 5, 2009 | Looks Like Beirut
From Portland,Oregon to across the Atlantic at Sandy Cove, Kinmel Bay, we have a new “Little Beirut”: The roads around Sandy Cove, Kinmel Bay, are so bad that pensioner Bob Ashcroft, 89, has been tipped off his motorized scooter three times. … Mr...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | May 5, 2009 | Lebanese Abroard
A very sad story is making the rounds in the UAE press: A woman who lost her unborn baby in a Dubai road crash has been convicted of manslaughter and ordered to pay blood money, in the first such ruling in the UAE, local newspapers reported on Monday. The court found...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Feb 1, 2009 | Society
The country that had left us with claustrophobic roads and evil roundabouts is back, this time, they plan to tame the streets of Beirut: …six [French] officers […] have been in Beirut for the past two weeks as part of a cooperation project between the...