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LEBANON
Nine days of sport and culture in Beirut
Lebanon plays host to the nine-day Francophone Games starting Sunday, an event that it is hoped will improve the country's image abroad. Some 3,000 athletes from 42 countries will be taking part in six sports disciplines and seven cultural events.
11/09/2009 - THE WEEK IN THE MIDDLE EAST

Time to tone down Ramadan in Lebanon?

In this edition: FRANCE 24 checks out the bling in Beirut during Islam's holiest month; shifting Shiite alliances in Iraq; a novel idea of 'tweeting" prayers and wishes to the Wailing Wall.
LEBANON
Woman killed in Beirut clashes
A woman was shot dead by a stray bullet in west Beirut on Sunday, caught in the crossfire between supporters of Shiite parliament speaker Nabih Berri's Amal movement and the majority Future movement.
LEBANON
Hariri is named PM, asked to form new unity government
Saad al-Hariri, the son of slain former Premier Rafik al-Hariri and the leader of a parliamentary majority, has been named prime minister-designate and charged with forming a new national unity government.
LITERATURE
Beirut is this year's World Book Capital
UNESCO, the United Nations' cultural and educational body, has picked the Lebanese capital to be this year's World Book Capital, amid an unprecedented boom in Arab novels across the Middle East.
LEBANON
Senior Fatah official killed in blast
An explosion in southern Lebanon killed Fatah official Kamal Medhat and three other people as they drove near the Mieh Mieh refugee camp.
MUSIC - CONCERT
Beirut-born pop star Mika to play in Lebanon
More than 10,000 tickets have been sold so far and some 15,000 people are expected at pop sensation Mika's open-air concert in Beirut.
HEZBOLLAH - ISRAEL
Israel buries returned soldiers
Israel is burying soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, whose remains were returned in a UN-brokered prisoner swap with Lebanon's Hezbollah. In return, Israel released five Lebanese prisoners, including convicted murderer Samir Qantar.
HEZBOLLAH - ISRAEL
Ex-prisoners get triumphant Beirut reception
Five Lebanese prisoners, including convicted murderer Samir Qantar (left), were personally welcomed by Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah before a roaring crowd in Beirut as Israelis marked the prisoner swap with a somber service.
16/05/2008 - TOP STORY

Lebanon or Hezbollahstan?

The Lebanese government agreed to withdraw two key measures that prompted a violent response by Hezbollah. The humiliating climbdown follows Arab League efforts to end a crisis that had brought Lebanon to the brink of civil war.
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