BEIRUT, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Lebanon's largest firm by market value, Solidere (SOLA.BY) (SOLB.BY), posted a net profit of $83 million for the first half of the year, the company said on Thursday.
This represented a 37 percent rise compared with the same period last year, the real estate firm said in a statement.
WASHINGTON/ABUJA (Reuters) - The Obama administration admitted on Monday that air travel security failed when a Nigerian man with suspected ties to Islamic militants allegedly was able to smuggle deadly explosives onto a U.S.-bound flight in an attempt to blow it up.
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