Lebanon was in mourning on Friday for the funeral of anti-Syrian MP Antoine Ghanem whose assassination has stirred fears of more instability in the tense runup to a presidential vote in parliament.
Lebanon vowed on Thursday to go ahead with a controversial presidential vote after the assassination of another anti-Syrian politician in an attack that plunged the divided country into further turmoil.
Lebanon's Phalange Party called for a two-day strike Thursday, a day after a powerful bomb blast in Beirut killed an anti-Syrian lawmaker and four other people.
Lebanon was plunged into further turmoil on Thursday after the murder of another anti-Syrian politician in a car bombing widely blamed on Damascus that threatens to derail a key presidential vote.
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- Lebanese leaders have vowed to press ahead with a divisive election for president, despite the car-bomb assassination of an anti-Syrian lawmaker.
Lebanon mourned on Thursday an anti-Syrian member of parliament whose assassination plunged the country deeper into crisis and threatened to derail efforts to elect a new president.
Despite divided leadership and tense elections, Lebanon can't afford to ignore its problem of rogue militants.
The murder of another Lebanese lawmaker heightens tensions in Beirut ahead of an upcoming presidential election. Lebanon is a democracy with deep divisions. The election is seen as a test of strength between U.S. influence and the Iran/Syria alliance.
A powerful bomb killed an anti-Syria lawmaker and six others Wednesday in a Christian neighborhood of Beirut, threatening to derail an effort by an already deeply divided Parliament to elect Lebanon's next president in voting to begin next week.
Lebanon was in mourning on Thursday after the murder of another anti-Syrian lawmaker in a powerful car bombing that could derail a key presidential poll and was widely blamed on Damascus.