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 the mainly Christian Sin al-Fil district.
World leaders have condemned the assassination, while several Lebanese politicians blamed Syria for the bomb.
Lebanon is poised to choose a successor to pro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud.
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