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Beirut ranked as one of world's best cities Date: Tuesday, July 12, 2016 By: The Daily Star Source: The Daily Star BEIRUT: Lebanon’s capital Beirut has been ranked among the world’s best cities, according to a New York-based travel magazine. Even with its recent garbage crisis, a volatile security situation, a two-year-long presidential vacuum and an ongoing Syrian refugee crisis, the Mediterranean city came out at number 12 in a readers-chosen survey conducted by Travel and Leisure, becoming the only Arab or Middle Eastern city to make the list this year. Beirut came in above the Cambodian city of Siem Reap, but just below the historic Italian city of Rome. Other cities making the list included Italy's Florence, Japan's Kyoto, Spain's Barcelona and South