{"id":23496,"date":"2018-11-27T22:23:29","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T22:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23496"},"modified":"2018-11-27T22:23:29","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T22:23:29","slug":"unicef-warns-of-dire-winter-risks-for-1-million-children-in-middle-east-and-north-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23496","title":{"rendered":"UNICEF warns of \u2018dire\u2019 winter risks for 1 million children in Middle East and North Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"75\">\n<p>\nBEIRUT: Police are investigating the death of a British radio host whose body was found at his home outside Beirut.<\/p>\n<p>\nGavin Ford, who joined the Lebanese station Radio One in 1995, was found dead on Tuesday at his home in the town of Beit Meri, east of Beirut.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe cause of his death was unclear. However, police told Arab News that \u201cFord was likely killed for personal reasons.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nRadio One announced Ford\u2019s death on its Facebook page on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\nFord\u2019s daily breakfast show turned him into one of the station\u2019s most popular broadcasters.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cWe are heartbroken to announce the passing of our dear Gavin Ford, a member of our team for many joyful years,\u201d Radio One said.<\/p>\n<p>\nLebanon\u2019s national news agency said the security services were not ruling out a criminal investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\nTributes poured in on social media for Ford, one of Lebanon\u2019s most-loved radio hosts for years.<\/p>\n<p>\nFord had been living in Lebanon for 22 years in a house in Beit Meri, close to the radio station where he worked. The town, 17 km from Beirut, is in a mountainous area with a Christian majority and is popular with visitors in summer.<\/p>\n<p>\nAs Radio One\u2019s management expressed its condolences to Ford\u2019s family, a British Embassy spokeswoman told Arab News that \u201cthe embassy is in contact with the Lebanese authorities. We are examining the reports related to the British citizen and our staff are providing help to his family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nShe refused to comment on the cause of Ford\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe national news agency said that a forensic doctor had examined Ford\u2019s body as part of the police investigation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT: Police are investigating the death of a British radio host whose body was found at his home outside Beirut. Gavin Ford, who joined the Lebanese station Radio One in 1995, was found dead on Tuesday at his home in the town of Beit Meri, east of Beirut. The cause of his death was unclear.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":23497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}