In Lebanon, DNA may yet heal rifts
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BYBLOS, Lebanon  - A Lebanese scientist following the genetic footprint of the ancient Phoenicians says he has traced their modern-day descendants, but stumbled into an old controversy about identity in his country.
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Sunni-Shi'ite tensions have a long history in Lebanon, but the latest upsurge is fueled by a battle for regional supremacy between powers thousands of miles from Beirut
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The inquiry into the killing of a former Lebanese prime minister has asked several countries to help identify the presumed suicide bomber from a tooth and other pieces of DNA, the chief investigator told the U.N. Security Council on Friday.
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BEIRUT, Nov. 27 -- The evening was tense, as most are these days in Beirut, its Maronite Catholics, Greek Orthodox, Sunni and Shiite Muslims and Druze perched imprecisely between war and peace. Malak Beydoun, a young woman, pulled her car into a parking lot in the Christian neighborhood of Ashrafiyeh. She peered at a billboard overhead, alarmed and then indignant....
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Â· DNA evidence useless, say family sourcesÂ· New spokesman launches vigorous defence of couple
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A tooth found at the crime scene could be the key to solving the suicide bombing that killed Lebanon's former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and 22 others in Beirut last year, the chief investigator in the probe said Friday.
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The presidential election process in Lebanon has finally been put on track after much speculation regarding an amendment to the Constitution in order to give President Emile Lahoud another term.
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PARIS, Jan 25 (IPS) - Representatives of 50 industrial countries and  international institutions have pledged 7.6  billion dollars to a  recovery plan for Lebanon at a donor conference in Paris  Thursday. The  fresh aid certainly buys time for the embattled  government of Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad  Siniora, but it  remains doubtful if it can buy it peace.
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At issue is whether scientists using DNA from aboriginal populations are underselling the risks to donors.
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Tiny Lebanon is enduring, despite snowballing violence and a persistent political crisis.
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Yesterday, Al-Jazeera TV showed a picture of this man Dean Sadek. The Charlotte Observer reports that Sadek and his wife live in the Charlotte area he was born in Lebanon.
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The fighting stopped two weeks ago, but it's still too dangerous for Abdullah Ziaeddine to move back into his war-blasted home, much less start to rebuild. Like hundreds of fields, houses and roads across Lebanon, his yard is littered with unexploded bomblets from an Israeli cluster bomb attack that spewed the small and deadly metal canisters.
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AITA AL-SHAAB, Lebanon  - He passed all his school exams, helped out in his father's sandwich bar, ran a bicycle shop and still found time to train with local Hezbollah guerrillas in this village on Lebanon's border with Israel.
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It was a showcase of Lebanonâs divided soul, and it raised fears of violence between the two sides.
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After HezbollahÂs war with Israel, there was a surge of music, video, sculpture, poetry and theater in Beirut, examining the issues raised by the 34-day war.
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Officials are calling on family members of persons missing since the terrorist attacks in Egypt to give DNA samples which will be cross matched against tissue samples from the bodies as identification efforts continue.
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Lebanon's political divide has reached a dangerous deadlock after pro-Western ministers defied their pro-Syrian rivals to take the next step in ratifying an international court into ex-premier Rafiq Hariri's 2005 murder.