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American sanctions are hitting the wrong target in Lebanon - Financial Times Wed, 25 May 2016 04:31:56 GMT

Financial Times
American sanctions are hitting the wrong target in Lebanon
Financial Times
Lebanon has been at risk of getting sucked into the vortex of the ethno-sectarian war raging across its border with Syria . With the scars of its own civil war in 1975-90 still vivid, the country is divided on similar sectarian lines to Syria where ...

Lebanon Marks 16 Years Since End of 'Zionist Occupation' - teleSUR English Wed, 25 May 2016 14:43:45 GMT

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Lebanon Marks 16 Years Since End of 'Zionist Occupation'
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Lebanon marked Wednesday the 16th anniversary of Israeli forces withdrawing from southern Lebanon, following years of resistance and struggle by Shiite Lebanese group Hezbollah and affiliated groups against the illegal Israeli occupation of the territory.
Lebanon Marks 16th Liberation Day AnniversaryTasnim News Agency (press release)
Nasrallah accuses rivals of conspiring against Hezbollah in support of IsraelYa Libnan
No more excuses for delaying legislative polls: NasrallahThe Daily Star

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Lebanon County to release defense strategy against threat of base closures - FOX43.com Wed, 25 May 2016 22:38:11 GMT

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Lebanon County to release defense strategy against threat of base closures
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FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa. -- The threat of base closures has Lebanon County leaders organizing a plan of defense to save Fort Indiantown Gap. The Department of Defense is asking congress to consider a new Base Realignment and Closures (BRAC) ...

Opinion: Lebanon – Electoral Escapism From Politics - Asharq Alawsat Wed, 25 May 2016 14:46:36 GMT

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Opinion: Lebanon – Electoral Escapism From Politics
Asharq Alawsat
The Lebanese, indeed, flocked to the polls in cities, towns and villages, first in Beirut and the provinces of Beqaa' and Baalbeck – Hermel (both in eastern Lebanon), followed by Mount Lebanon. Today it is the turn of South Lebanon and Nabatiyeh (both ...
Hariri: 2 years without president is not something Lebanon is proud ofYa Libnan
Security Council concerned over two-year vacancy of Lebanon's presidencyCCTV
UNSC worried over two-year vacancy of Lebanon's presidencyNews Ghana

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What you need to know: Lebanon County graduation information - Lebanon Daily News Wed, 25 May 2016 20:45:00 GMT

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What you need to know: Lebanon County graduation information
Lebanon Daily News
Lebanon Christian Academy seniors will be graduating on Friday, June 3, at 7 p.m. The graduation ceremony will take place at the Open Door Baptist Church auditorium, at 875 Academy Drive, Lebanon. The school will see two of its students graduate this ...

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Even in Lebanon, so long at war, one does not become inured to violence or hate - National Catholic Reporter Wed, 25 May 2016 16:51:59 GMT

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Even in Lebanon, so long at war, one does not become inured to violence or hate
National Catholic Reporter
Last November, a pair of suicide bombers killed more than 40 people in a Beirut suburb -- an act overshadowed by similar attacks a day later in Paris that drew far more international attention. In February 2005, Lebanon's former prime minister, Rafic ...

Lebanon girl, 4, dies after sister succumbs to same rare disease - Cincinnati.com Mon, 23 May 2016 20:01:22 GMT

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Lebanon girl, 4, dies after sister succumbs to same rare disease
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LEBANON - As the sun set Sunday over East Ridge Road, a man put out a smoking barbecue grill. A woman took her dog inside her house. In a rental duplex at the end of the street, a little boy got into his pajamas. And Angel Martin still breathed. Her ...

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S. Lebanon's Shebaa Farms: Still awaiting liberation - Anadolu Agency Wed, 25 May 2016 11:51:10 GMT

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S. Lebanon's Shebaa Farms: Still awaiting liberation
Anadolu Agency
But for the people of Southern Lebanon's Shebaa Farms region, which until this day remains partially occupied by the Israeli military, "Liberation Day" -- commemorated each year on May 25 -- is bittersweet. Located on the border between Lebanon and the ...

On this day: Israel withdraws from Lebanon, ending 18-year ordeal - Jerusalem Post Israel News Mon, 23 May 2016 22:56:00 GMT

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On this day: Israel withdraws from Lebanon, ending 18-year ordeal
Jerusalem Post Israel News
It was 16 years ago Tuesday that the Israeli military officially ended its presence in the so-called "security zone" in southern Lebanon and pulled back to the international border, ending an 18-year presence in Israel's neighbor to the north ...
Lebanon's New Watchtowers on Israel Border Can See Into Kibbutzes, Army BasesBreaking Israel News
Saying It With 'Flowers': Revisiting Israel's Painful, Nameless War in LebanonHaaretz
New Watchtowers on Border Between Israel and LebanonThe Media Line

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Sectarian revenge killing shakes Lebanon - gulfnews.com Wed, 25 May 2016 08:33:00 GMT

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Sectarian revenge killing shakes Lebanon
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Beirut: On a day when Army commander General Jean Qahwajih reiterated the military's renewed commitment to bring home nine kidnapped Lebanese servicemen, Lebanon confronted its sectarian demons when a 20-year-old man, Hussain Mohammad ...
Lebanon revenge killing: Jihadist victim's father kills manBBC News
Family of killed Lebanon soldier murders sheikh's nephewThe Daily Star

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