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Blast in Lebanon Kills at Least 3 - New York Times Thu, 16 Jan 2014 16:26:20 GMT

BBC News

Blast in Lebanon Kills at Least 3 New York Times BEIRUT, Lebanon — A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden car in a town in northeastern Lebanon on Thursday, killing at least three people and wounding more than 20, Lebanon's National News Agency reported. The attack left a row of crumpled ... Lebanon's Hariri trial opens without the accusedCNN International Lebanon May Become 'Center' of Arab World's Sectarian WarsTIME Absent Hezbollah suspects on trial in killing of Lebanon's HaririLos Angeles Times BBC News -Jerusalem Post -Christian Science Monitor all 573 news articles »

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Letter from Lebanon: A Bookshop Burns - New Yorker (blog) Thu, 16 Jan 2014 22:39:56 GMT

New Yorker (blog)

Letter from Lebanon: A Bookshop Burns New Yorker (blog) Just a few miles from the Syrian border and comprising a religiously mixed population, it's become one of the most dangerous places in Lebanon. Sunnis and Alawites—variously at odds since the Lebanese civil war and now feeling the stakes of their feud ...

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Car bomb kills 5, injures dozens in Lebanon - Los Angeles Times Thu, 16 Jan 2014 13:55:32 GMT

Car bomb kills 5, injures dozens in Lebanon Los Angeles Times Such scenes of devastation have become commonplace in Lebanon, where spillover violence from the Syrian war has caused deep anxiety, fanned sectarian tensions and destabilized the nation's fragile political system. A series attacks in Lebanon since ...

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Car bomb kills 5 in Lebanon's Hermel - The Daily Star Thu, 16 Jan 2014 11:05:22 GMT

Car bomb kills 5 in Lebanon's Hermel The Daily Star “[We] shook a stronghold of Iran's party in Hermel with a suicide bombing spearheaded by one of Nusra Front in Lebanon's men in response to what the group is committing as crimes against Sunni women and children in Syria,” the group said in a statement ...

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Lebanon: UN envoy condemns deadly car bombing; Ban welcomes start of ... - UN News Centre Thu, 16 Jan 2014 18:18:18 GMT

UN News Centre

Lebanon: UN envoy condemns deadly car bombing; Ban welcomes start of ... UN News Centre 16 January 2014 – The top United Nations official in Lebanon has strongly condemned today's car bombing in the north-eastern area of Hermel that killed and wounded a number of people and which comes on the same day the UN-backed trial of those ... Politicians condemn Hermel 'terrorist' attackThe Daily Star UN Security Council condemns terrorist attack in LebanonGlobal Times UN envoy condemns Lebanon car bomb attackPress TV Kuwait News Agency all 17 news articles »

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Lebanon: Between War and Peace - National Review Online (blog) Thu, 16 Jan 2014 09:04:22 GMT

Lebanon: Between War and Peace National Review Online (blog) Beirut — For the past four years, Lebanon, known far and wide as the “Switzerland of the Middle East,” has sought to emulate that Swiss neutrality, though surrounded by conflict. However, recent bombings in Beirut have heightened concern among Lebanon ...

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Lebanon PM Rafiq Hariri murder trial opens amid violence - Sydney Morning Herald Thu, 16 Jan 2014 19:52:31 GMT

Sydney Morning Herald

Lebanon PM Rafiq Hariri murder trial opens amid violence Sydney Morning Herald "No one in Lebanon can fail to have been affected directly, or indirectly, by the attack in downtown Beirut that on February 14, 2005, killed Mr Rafiq Hariri," chief prosecutor Norman Farrell said, showing the court a photograph taken shortly after the ...

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At least three dead in Lebanon car bombing - Christian Science Monitor Thu, 16 Jan 2014 13:35:00 GMT

Christian Science Monitor

At least three dead in Lebanon car bombing Christian Science Monitor It was the latest in a wave of attacks to hit Lebanon in recent months as the civil war in Syria increasingly spills over into its smaller neighbor, attacks that have killed scores of people here and bitterly divided the Lebanese. The bomb went off in ...

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Car Bomb Kills 3 in Lebanon - Voice of America Thu, 16 Jan 2014 10:38:17 GMT

Voice of America

Car Bomb Kills 3 in Lebanon Voice of America The bomb went off near a local government building in the center of Hermel, a town at the northern end of Lebanon's Bekaa Valley in a predominantly Shi'ite Muslim area, shattering windows and damaging nearby buildings. The town is located just across ...

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Lebanon car bomb kills four in Hezbollah stronghold near Syria - Jerusalem Post Thu, 16 Jan 2014 09:30:09 GMT

Lebanon car bomb kills four in Hezbollah stronghold near Syria Jerusalem Post BEIRUT - A suicide car bomber killed himself and three other people, and wounded 26 in a Hezbollah stronghold on Lebanon's northern border with Syria on Thursday, residents and state media said. The car bomb went off near a local government building in ...