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• Top Syrian general assassinated: reports

  - 2008-08-03

  BEIRUT AFP — Arab media reported on Sunday that a brigadier general thought to be the Syrian regime's liaison with Hezbollah in Lebanon has been assassinated. The reports came almost six months after the killing in a Damascus car bomb of top Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughnieh, which the...

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• Israel parliament adopts law on 'enemy' travel

  - 2008-06-30

  JERUSALEM AFP — The Israeli parliament passed a law on Monday banning any citizen who has visited an "enemy" country in the previous seven years from standing for election to the legislature, triggering the anger of Israeli Arab MPs. Fifty-two members of the 120-seat parliament approved the law at...

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• UN seeks to rebuild devastated Lebanon refugee camp

  - 2008-06-12

  BADDAOUI, Lebanon AFP — The UN agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA will seek 450 million dollars for reconstruction after a camp was devastated during fighting last year between Islamists and the army, an official said on Thursday. Hoda Samra told AFP "we will ask for 450 million dollars to...

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• Israeli MPs discuss election disqualification law

  - 2008-06-11

  JERUSALEM AFP — Israeli MPs have passed the first reading of a bill that would forbid any citizen who had visited an enemy state in the previous seven years without permission from standing for parliament The text, adopted late Tuesday by a vote of 63-16, with three abstentions, was...

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• Would-be Lebanon bomber had fake ID: Palestinian official

  - 2008-06-02

  SIDON, Lebanon AFP — A would-be suicide bomber who was shot dead at the weekend outside a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon was carrying a false identity card, a senior Palestinian official said on Monday. The Lebanese army said 28-year-old Palestinian Mahmud Yassin al-Ahmed was shot dead on Saturday...

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• Mubarak holds talks in Saudi on Lebanon crisis

  - 2008-02-24

  RIYADH AFP — Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak held talks with Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah on Sunday on ways to solve Lebanon's deep political crisis, state media reported. They held talks in Riyadh on "the current crisis in Lebanon and the Arab efforts to solve it," the official SPA news...

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• Bush blames Lebanon stalemate on Syrian interference

  - 2008-01-04

  WASHINGTON AFP — US President George W. Bush Friday laid blame on Syria for the stalemate that has prevented Lebanon from choosing a new president, saying Damascus was "thwarting the will of the Lebanese people." In an interview with international media, Bush said that on his trip next week...

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• Hezbollah guerrillas stage military exercises in southern Lebanon

  - 2007-11-05

  MARJAYOUN, Lebanon AFP — Hundreds of unarmed Hezbollah guerrillas staged military-style exercises in southern Lebanon at the weekend which the media said on Monday were to prepare for any new war with Israel. Hezbollah sources told AFP that the Shiite militia group staged "manoeuvres" on Saturday and Sunday along...

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• Lebanon launches mobile phone privatisation

  - 2007-11-02

  BEIRUT AFP — Debt-laden Lebanon, where mobile phone calls are among the most expensive in the world, on Friday launched the privatisation of its mobile network, a process expected to be completed early next year. Telecommunications Regulatory Authority president Kamal Shehadi and Ziad Hayek, president of the Higher Council...

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• Lebanon set to privatise mobile phone network

  - 2007-11-01

  BEIRUT AFP — Debt-laden Lebanon, which has among the highest phone bills in the world, is preparing for the privatisation of its mobile network expected to take place early next year. The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority is holding a press conference on Friday to set the date for applications to...

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