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Israel says strikes in Syria target arms for Hezbollah
JERUSALEM — With three airstrikes against Syria since January, Israel has inserted itself forcefully into the "Arab Spring's" most intractable conflict, heightening fears that Syria's civil war could spiral into a regional conflagration. The...
Tags: Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Manufacturing and Engineering, Government, John McCain
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The Sunday Conversation: Peter Sellars
Theater director Peter Sellars, a UCLA professor of world arts and cultures, will be honored by the Santa Monica Museum of Art at its 25th-anniversary Precognito Gala on May 9. Why are you based in Los Angeles instead of New York, which has a larger...
Tags: Museums, Entertainment, Arts, Arts and Culture, Fine Artists
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Syria blames Israel for predawn blasts near Damascus
BEIRUT — Huge explosions were reported in Damascus early Sunday, just two days after a reported Israeli airstrike in Syria targeting surface-to-air missiles possibly destined for neighboring Lebanon and the militant group Hezbollah. Syrian state...Tags: Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, U.S. Department of Defense, Government, Human Rights
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Syria blames Israel for new explosions in Damascus
BEIRUT -- Huge explosions were reported early Sunday in the Syrian capital, Damascus, and state-run media blamed Israel for a strike on a defense research facility outside the capital. State television said Israeli rockets had targeted a research...
Tags: Israel, National Government, Government, Richard Nixon, Weaponry
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Game of Chance
RedEyeThe breakout success of the Chicago rap scene last year—headlined by the buzz and controversy of Chief Keef--;exposed America to new faces creating sounds unfamiliar to the current rap landscape. Played-out narratives of cars, women, and money...Tags: Entertainment, Kanye West, Entertainment Events, Concerts, Theater
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Arab hip-hop's El Rass takes on rap and revolution
BEIRUT — When Mazen El Sayed, a.k.a. El Rass, picks up a microphone, his provocative phrasings may lock in on any number of targets: Islamic clerics, the West, Arab regimes, social inequities. "We are all made from the same steel," the Lebanese hip-...Tags: Entertainment, Poetry, Religion and Belief, Islam, Music
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U.N. withdrawing staff from Syria, citing danger
BEIRUT -- The United Nations said Monday that it is temporarily withdrawing some of its international staff from Syria because of deteriorating security conditions, especially in the capital, Damascus, where rebel mortar attacks have escalated in recent...
Tags: United Nations, Bashar Assad
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Syrians on both sides of conflict condemn killing of cleric
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.BEIRUT — Both sides in the Syrian conflict on Friday denounced the killing of an esteemed Sunni Muslim cleric and prominent supporter of President Bashar Assad in what authorities called a suicide bombing that left scores dead at a Damascus mosque....Tags: Christianity, Islam, Jerusalem (Israel), Bombings, Religious Conflicts
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U.S., Russia split on disputed chemical weapons strike in Syria
BEIRUT -- The United States and Russia stood behind their respective allies Tuesday as each side in the Syrian conflict accused the other of launching a devastating chemical attack outside the northern city of Aleppo. Washington has backed the ouster of...
Tags: Pakistan, Weaponry, Bashar Assad, Jay Carney, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Setting L.A. Times stories to song: The week's Column One features
L.A. NOWCalling all lovers of good storytelling and good music (and not necessarily in that order). So you don’t have to do all the work, here’s a curated list of the week’s offerings of the signature Times feature called the Column...... -
Kim Ghattas discusses Hillary Clinton and 'The Secretary'
As Hillary Clinton kept up a famously grueling travel schedule during President Obama's first term, she was trailed all the way by Kim Ghattas, a native of Beirut who is now a foreign correspondent for the BBC. In "The Secretary: A Journey with Hillary...Tags: The Wall Street Journal, Trips and Vacations, John Kerry, The Washington Post, USA Today
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Crafted in Beirut
As awash as the Western world is in craft beer, it's easy to forget that much of the globe has no such bounty. It can be a struggle in many countries to find anything beyond a bunch of similar-tasting light lagers.
Mazen Hajjar felt that was the case six...
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