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Illustrative: UNIFIL peacekeepers patrol near the village of Mais el Jabal, along the southern Lebanese border with Israel, August 26, 2020. (Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP) Beirut- Asharq Al-Awsat
UNIFIL is currently studying a request presented by the Lebanese authorities to help deal with an oil spill that may have originated from a ship passing near the Israeli coast and has now reached the southern shores of Lebanon.
UNIFIL spokesperson, Andrea Tenenti, told the National News Agency that in relation to the oil spill and tar deposited in parts of the coastline in south Lebanon, UNIFIL has been contacted by local authorities to see what help can be provided within our available capabilities and equipment.
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For Maral Najarian, moving to Armenia was supposed to be a dream come true.
The 49-year-old Lebanese-Armenian moved last August from economically shattered Lebanon, hoping to find a better future and financial stability in a place she felt an attachment to.
But on arrival to Yerevan, Armenian authorities encouraged her to sign up to a settlement programme in the disputed area of Nagorno-Karabakh, which soon after she set up home there became embroiled in a ferocious six-week conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Both sides agreed to a Russian-brokered ceasefire on 10 November - but that same day, Najarian and family friend Viken Euljekian went missing on their way out of Nagorno-Karabakh.
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File photo of Caretaker Foreign Minister Charbel Wehbe, a former advisor of president Aoun, a key ally of the Iranian backed Hezbollah militant group
Caretaker Foreign Minister Charbel Wehbe on Monday sent a letter to all Lebanese embassies around the world asking them to encourage expats to provide medical assistance for crisis-hit Lebanon amid a surge in coronavirus cases.
In his letter , Wehbe asked the embassies to seek assistance from Lebanese expats and civil and international bodies capable of providing much-needed assistance at the level of medical equipment, and all kinds of medicines, especially those related to confronting the coronavirus pandemic.