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Al-Monitor
February 26, 2018
The tripartite meetings, which include representatives from the Israeli army, the Lebanese army and UNIFIL, have been organized once a month near UNIFIL headquarters in Naqoura since 2006. These past few weeks, the meetings have been more frequent to address tensions caused by the new wall.
The Arab Weekly
February 24, 2018
Lebanon's endpoint, 123km out to sea, follows a cartographic rule of being equidistant between three locations on shore — the Akrotiri Peninsula in Cyprus, the promontory of Haifa in Israel and Ras Naqoura on the Lebanon-Israel border. Further, Lebanon's line appears to have been tacitly accepted byÃâà...
Asharq Al-awsat English
February 13, 2018
President Michel Aoun met on Monday Speaker Nabih Berri and Prime Minister Saad Hariri at the Presidential Palace in Baabda to discuss the latest Israeli threats, including the separation wall that it started to build in Ras Naqoura last week, and Beirut's plans to explore Bloc 9, which Tel Aviv claims isÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
February 8, 2018
... a wall along its border with Lebanon. Beirut says the $28m wall will destabilise security in the already volatile region. Lebanese leaders also say that despite Israeli threats, they are pressing ahead with offshore gas and oil exploration. Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr reports from Naqoura in southern Lebanon.
Xinhua
February 8, 2018
BEIRUT, Feb. 8 (Xinhua) -- Lebanese Public Works and Transport Minister Youssef Fenianos announced Thursday a project to establish an international port in south Lebanon's Naqoura to "revive the villages bordering the south." It was a "resistance project to face Israeli ambitions," Fenianos said at aÃâà...
The Daily Star
February 8, 2018
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The Daily Star
February 8, 2018
Public Works and Transport Minister Youssef Fenianos Thursday announced a project to establish an international port in south Lebanon's Naqoura to “revive the villages bordering the south.” you've reached a subscriber-only article. Sign up now and access the full breadth of The Daily Star content inÃâà...
Smithsonian
January 31, 2018
Last week, Naqoura beach, in Lebanon, looked as if snow had come to the hot Mediterranean climate. But the frothy white beaches aren't blanketed in frozen water. As Nourhan Nassar reports for Stepfeed, they're covered in sea foam. This excessive amount of sea foam isn't a unique phenomenon.
UNIFIL
October 3, 2017
The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) today held a ceremony to commemorate the International Day of Peace at its headquarters in Naqoura. Peacekeepers representing the 41 national contingents in UNIFIL were joined at the event by representatives of the local authorities, religiousÃâà...
