Salim Yassine
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/ 22 November 2006

Lebanon on knife-edge after assassination

Lebanon was on a knife-edge on Wednesday, with the assassination of another leading anti-Syrian politician adding to fears the country may be again torn apart by civil strife. Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel, scion of one of the country’s most prominent Christian families, was gunned down on Tuesday in an attack that drew condemnation from world leaders.

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/ 30 September 2006

Lebanon: Israel ready to complete pull-out

Lebanon said on Saturday that it had been informed by United Nations peacekeepers that Israel was finally poised to complete its promised pull-out from the south. A government spokesperson said the commander of the UN force in Lebanon had told Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora that Israel would pull out the last of its troops on Sunday.

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/ 29 September 2006

Children face perils of bomblets in Lebanon

From a hospital bed, 14-year-old Hassan tells how half his foot was blasted away by one of the million bomblets that Israel rained on south Lebanon during its war with Hezbollah. "I ran across a small object hidden in the vegetation," the teenager says from his bed in the southern town of Nabatiyah, as he struggles to come to terms with how dramatically his life has been changed.