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  Lebanese footballer dies of bullet wound

  Agence France-Presse . Beirut | Updated at 06:13pm on September 18, 2020

  A prominent Lebanese footballer has died of a bullet wound sustained last month during a funeral for one of the victims of the Beirut port...

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  Firefighters put out new blaze in Lebanon capital

  Agence France-Presse . Beirut | Updated at 10:43pm on September 15, 2020

  Firefighters in Lebanon’s capital said Tuesday they put out a fire at a building under construction, in what was the third blaze to hit the...

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  Hopes dim for timely Lebanon govt as French deadline looms

  Agence France-Presse . Beirut | Updated at 10:21pm on September 14, 2020

  Lebanon’s prime minister-designate on Monday updated president Michel Aoun on talks on forming a new government, but did not submit proposals for a cabinet despite...

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  90 UN peacekeepers contract coronavirus in Lebanon

  Agence France-Presse . Beirut | Updated at 12:08am on September 14, 2020

  Ninety UN peacekeepers in south Lebanon have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, a spokesman for the UNIFIL force said on Sunday, the first reported...

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  Lanka tea storm swirls around Lebanon president

  Agence France-Presse . Beirut | Updated at 01:00am on September 10, 2020

  Lebanon’s president Michel Aoun has come under fire after it emerged that tea donated by Sri Lanka for victims of the Beirut blast was distributed...

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  Hezbollah, Hamas chiefs meet to discuss Israel-Arab ties

  Agence France-Presse . Beirut | Updated at 10:48pm on September 06, 2020

  Leaders of Lebanon’s Hezbollah and the Palestinian Hamas movement, both enemies of Israel, have met to discuss diplomatic normalisation between the Jewish state and Arab...

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  Hopes of miracle fade in search for survivor

  Agence France-Presse . Beirut | Updated at 12:41am on September 06, 2020

  Rescue teams kept up their search for survivors in Beirut Saturday even as hopes raised by sensor readings of a pulse beneath the rubble of...

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  Macron in high-stakes Lebanon reform drive

  Agence France-Presse . Beirut | Updated at 11:57pm on September 01, 2020

  French president Emmanuel Macron pressed his ‘risky’ drive for political change in Lebanon Tuesday, as the former French mandate marked its centenary while teetering on...

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  Lebanon loses defender of heritage architecture Lady Cochrane

  Agence France-Presse . Beirut | Updated at 10:23pm on September 01, 2020

  A veteran advocate of the arts and Lebanon’s cultural heritage, Yvonne Sursock Cochrane died Monday aged 98, four weeks after the devastating Beirut blast in...

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  WFP warns 2.2m Syrians risk hunger

  Agence France-Presse . Beirut | Updated at 10:30pm on August 31, 2020

  Around 2.2 million Syrians risk joining the fast swelling ranks of the hungry and poor in war-torn Syria, the World Food Programme warned Monday. ‘Without...