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Reuters
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Up to 200,000 people could still be displaced in Lebanon nearly three months after the Israel-Hezbollah conflict ended, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said on Tuesday...
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Yalibnan
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Israeli fighter jets staged mock raids over Hezbollah strongholds in Beirut and two southern towns on Tuesday in the heaviest show of air power over Lebanon since an August cease-fire ended the war between Israel and the guerrillas...
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Haaretz
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Israel has acknowledged for the first time that it attacked Hezbollah targets during the second Lebanon war with phosphorus shells. White phosphorus causes very painful and often lethal chemical burns to those hit by it, and until recently Israel maintain..
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BBC News
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The first families have returned to the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in Lebanon, the scene of months of fighting between soldiers and Islamic militants.
Clutching plastic bags of possessions, the families waited patiently at the camp entrance to be searc..
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BBC News
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Banks, schools and government offices are closed in Lebanon, as the country mourns an anti-Syrian MP who was killed in a car bombing in the capital Beirut.
Antoine Ghanim, of the Maronite Phalange party, died with at least six others in the blast in th..
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BBC News
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Lebanon is stepping up security ahead of two by-elections, one a key test of support among the deeply divided Christian community.
Polls open on Sunday to replace two assassinated anti-Syrians, Walid Eido and former minister Pierre Gemayel.
Former P..
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Al Jazeera
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In south Lebanon, a 40-member force made up of the Fatah group pf Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, and three Palestinian Islamist factions deployed at the northern entrance of Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp.
Ain al-Hilweh was scene of deadly cl..
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BBC News
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Israel's parliament, the Knesset, is holding an extraordinary session to debate a damning report on the handling of last year's Lebanon conflict.
The study was highly critical of PM Ehud Olmert, prompting calls for him to quit from cabinet ministers, i..
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SF Gate
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Nepalese soldiers are teaching computing skills to the women of Houla, a Shiite Muslim village a little more than a mile from Lebanon's southern border with Israel.
Elsewhere in the southeast part of the country, troops from Spain meet their Lebanese c..
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CNN
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Tens of thousands packed into a city square Wednesday to mark the second anniversary of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri's assassination as hundreds of troops were deployed a day after bus bombings killed three people. Troops in full combat gear and..
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Yahoo News
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Lebanon canceled Independence Day celebrations and people huddled around televisions to watch the live broadcast Wednesday of dignitaries paying last respects to a Christian politician whose assassination threatened to push the country's political crisis..
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BBC News
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French troops serving in Lebanon have been only seconds away from firing on Israeli aircraft, the French defence minister says...
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Reuters
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Syria and Iran on Thursday dismissed a U.S. accusation that they are trying to topple Lebanon's government with their Lebanese ally Hezbollah...
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Yahoo News
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Monday invited the Lebanese prime minister to begin peace talks following..
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