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• Israeli cluster bomb kills British deminer in Lebanon

  - 2007-10-11

  TYRE, Lebanon AFP — A British member of a demining team was killed on Thursday by a cluster bomb dropped by Israeli forces during last year's war in Lebanon, officials said. The 36-year-old was killed in the village of Kunin, some 30 kilometres (20 miles) southeast of the city...

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• Power supply hit as fighting rages at Lebanon camp

  - 2007-08-04

  NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon AFP — Lebanese artillery blasted Islamist positions inside a Palestinian refugee camp on Saturday as ongoing fighting prevented repair teams from reaching a nearby power plant knocked out by Katyusha rocket fire. A soldier was killed in the fighting, the army said. And a woman...

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• UN team to report on alleged arms smuggling to Lebanon

  - 2007-05-28

  BEIRUT AFP — A UN team arrived in Lebanon on Monday to check on reports of arms smuggling from across the border with Syria in violation of UN resolutions, a diplomatic source told AFP. The team was due to meet army and security officials controlling border during the two-week...

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• Malaysia delays sending troops to Lebanon until January

  - 2006-11-04

  KUALA LUMPUR AFP — Malaysia has delayed the departure of 360 peacekeeping troops to Lebanon until January, with defence forces still working on logistics and planning the deployment. Malaysia's deputy defence minister Zainal Abidin Zin last month said the troops were expected to depart on November 5, but a ministry...

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• Malaysian heads Syria's probe into UN reports on Hariri murder

  - 2006-10-27

  KUALA LUMPUR AFP — The Syrian government has gathered a team of lawyers to assess UN reports on the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri, a prominent Malaysian lawyer said. Shafee Abdullah said he was asked by Syria to head the legal team to make an independent assessment...

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• Lebanon's ancient ruins suffer from Israeli bombing

  - 2006-09-19

  BEIRUT AFP — Archeologists excavating a necropolis uncovered by construction workers in Beirut only two weeks before war broke out between Hezbollah and Israel had to stop work this summer when Israeli bombs started falling on the country. But Fadi Beayno and his team were lucky. The 300 square meter...

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• Thailand to send medical staff to Lebanon

  - 2006-09-08

  BANGKOK AFP — Thailand will send a medical team to join United Nations peacekeepers in war-torn southern Lebanon, the foreign ministry has said. "Thailand is willing to support the United Nations resolution," the ministry's permanent secretary Krit Garnjana-goonchorn told reporters Friday. He was referring to UN Security Council Resolution 1701...

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• Hezbollah survey of bombed Beirut suburbs almost complete

  - 2006-08-27

  HARET HREIK, Lebanon AFP — Two weeks after Israeli bombs stopped falling on southern Beirut, Hezbollah has nearly completed its survey of the battered suburbs, far ahead of government efforts to assess the damage inflicted by the month-long conflict. Teams from the Shiite militia's reconstruction organization, Jihad Al-Bina, have set...

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• US, Britain should take back seat over Lebanon: Annan deputy

  - 2006-08-01

  LONDON AFP — The United States and Britain should not lead diplomatic efforts over the crisis in Lebanon, the United Nations' deputy secretary-general reported. Mark Malloch Brown told the Financial Times newspaper that the two countries, as "the team that led on Iraq", were poorly placed to lead efforts...

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• Haggard residents emerge from ruins of Lebanon town

  - 2006-07-31

  BINT JBEIL, Lebanon AFP — Wild-eyed doctors with long beards and haggard elderly villagers emerged from the ruins of the flashpoint Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil Monday to welcome the first contact from the outside world in almost three weeks. The first Red Cross convoy, along with a scattering...

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