Posts Tagged ‘lebanese’

Lebanese pilgrims ‘to be freed’

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012

Lebanese Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour announces that 13 Lebanese Shia pilgrims kidnapped in Syria have been found and should be released soon.

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Abductions raise Lebanon tension

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012

Tensions rise after rebels in northern Syria kidnap 13 Lebanese Shia pilgrims on their way home from visiting holy sites in Iran.

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Deadly clashes hit Lebanese port

Sunday, May 13th, 2012

At least two people are killed in sectarian clashes in the Lebanese port city of Tripoli, as tensions in neighbouring Syria spill over the border.

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U.S. hands over Hezbollah prisoner to Iraq

Friday, December 16th, 2011

BAGHDAD — The U.S. military on Friday handed over its last and most controversial prisoner to the Iraqi government ahead of the departure of the remaining few thousand U.S. troops, officials said. The prisoner, Ali Musa Daqduq, a senior member of the Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah movement, is suspected in the killings of five U.S. soldiers in 2007. He was transferred to Iraqi custody after the Obama administration “sought and received assurances that he will be tried for his crimes,” according to Tommy Vietor, spokesman for the National Security Council in Washington. Read full article > >

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Roadside bomb wounds 5 French peacekeepers in south Lebanon

Friday, December 9th, 2011

BEIRUT — A roadside bomb struck a vehicle carrying United Nations peacekeepers in southern Lebanon on Friday, wounding five French soldiers and a Lebanese bystander, officials said. This was the third bombing this year targeting the international force known as UNIFIL, which is deployed to keep the peace along Lebanon’s southern border with Israel. No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks. Read full article > >

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Slave maids

Friday, August 19th, 2011

The women duped into working for Lebanese families

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Indictment in Hariri Assassination Is Published

Wednesday, August 17th, 2011

A U.N.-backed tribunal investigating the killing of a former Lebanese leader released its indictment against members of Hezbollah named in the killing.

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Tribunal Publishes Indictment in Hariri Murder

Wednesday, August 17th, 2011

The 47-page indictment alleges four members of the Shiite militia Hezbollah were involved in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri

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Lebanese bomb blast ‘kills two’

Thursday, August 11th, 2011

An explosion kills at least two people in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, police officials say.

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Italian Peacekeepers Injured in Lebanon Bombing

Friday, May 27th, 2011

A roadside bomb targeted a United Nations convoy near a southern Lebanese port Friday, wounding several Italian peacekeepers and a Lebanese passerby, officials said.

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New indictment in Hariri inquiry

Friday, May 6th, 2011

The prosecutor of the UN-backed tribunal files a new indictment in the investigation of the 2005 killing of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

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Lebanese ‘rage’ at Hezbollah move

Tuesday, January 25th, 2011

There are fresh protests in Tripoli and other Lebanese cities on a “day of rage” declared against Hezbollah’s attempts to form a new government.

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Hezbollah nominee for Lebanon PM

Monday, January 24th, 2011

The candidate of the Shia Islamist movement, Hezbollah, and its allies for the Lebanese premiership wins the backing of a majority of MPs.

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US sends ambassador back to Syria

Sunday, January 16th, 2011

Robert Ford, the first US ambassador to Syria since the killing of Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri in 2005, arrives in Damascus.

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Lebanon ‘Israeli spy device’ find

Thursday, December 16th, 2010

The Lebanese army says it has dismantled two Israeli spy systems planted in the mountains above Beirut following a tip-off from Hezbollah.

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