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Fatenah is an animation film about a young Palestinian woman suffering from breast cancer in Gaza, is now on YouTube
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The U.S. military in Iraq has said that Iraqi forces arrested two people allegedly financing Lebanese Hizbullah operations.
The army said in a communiqué that the two men were seized on Monday during a combined search of a suspected militant safe house in a northern Baghdad [...]

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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
AP
BEIRUT —  A leading school in Lebanon was forced to remove pages from a history book said to describe Hezbollah as a terrorist organization after a Cabinet minister from the militant group complained, a state news agency reported Tuesday.
Hezbollah, which has fought Israel [...]

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By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS (AP) –
NICOSIA, Cyprus — The two couples had never met each other, and probably never would. They had come from opposite sides of a border between longtime enemies.
But Elie Wakim and Nada Ghamloush from Lebanon, and Dimitri Stafeev and Olga Zaytseva from [...]

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BEYROUTH, 2 juin (Reuters) – Petit guide du système de représentation parlementaire complexe en vigueur au Liban, fondé notamment sur l’appartenance confessionnelle.
Les électeurs musulmans sont majoritaires, avec 60,4%, devant les chrétiens, avec 39% (dont 20,9% de maronites), mais ceux-ci séparément sont plus nombreux que les [...]

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By Akiva Eldar, Haaretz Correspondent
The government and settler organizations are working to surround the Old City of Jerusalem with nine national parks, pathways and sites, drastically altering the status quo in the city. The secret plan was assigned to the Jerusalem Development Authority (JDA).
In a [...]

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This week, the four men arrested in connection with the assassination of Rafik al-Hariri, the former Lebanese prime minister, have been released, after four years without charge.

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Apres pres de 4 ans passees en cellule alors qu’ils n’avaient pas ete accuses d’un quelconque crimes, les quatre generaux Jamil Sayyed, Moustapha Hamdane, Ali Hajj et Raymond Azar ont ete liberes hier sur decision du Tribunal International specila pour le Liban charge d’enqueter dans [...]

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Liban. Le film israélien sur le massacre de Sabra et Chatila circule sous le manteau.

BEYROUTH, ISABELLE DELLERBA, LIBERATION
La porte de fer claque. Les retardataires resteront dehors. La galerie d’art beyrouthine, transformée pour un soir en salle de projection, est déjà comble. [...]

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A Lebanese journalist with links to militant group Hezbollah has been barred from entering Britain.
Ibrahim Moussawi was due to speak at the London School of Oriental and African Studies, but the home secretary has ruled he should be denied a visa.
Mr Moussawi was editor of [...]

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