Former Lebanese minister escapes death
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A former Lebanese minister escaped an attempt on his life Friday in an explosion that hit his official car at Beirut&#39;s waterfront, security sources said.
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A huge car bomb on Monday killed  Lebanon's former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri, a billionaire  who masterminded the country's reconstruction from its 1975-90  civil war.
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Anti-Syrian Christian lawmaker Antoine Ghanem was killed in a car bomb explosion in the eastern part of Beirut on Wednesday, security sources said.
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A bomb blast in the Lebanese capital Beirut destroyed the car of former Economy Minister Marwan Hamadeh, wounding him and killing at least one person, a Reuters witness said.
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The funeral is taking place in Lebanon's capital Beirut for an anti-government protester who was killed on Sunday.
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Bangladesh&#39;s main opposition party says party leader and former prime minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed narrowly escaped an assassination attempt yesterday, during an attack on a political rally.
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Lebanese Christian cabinet minister Pierre Gemayel, an outspoken critic of Syria, was assassinated near Beirut on Tuesday, plunging Lebanon deeper into a crisis that threatens to destabilize the country.
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Lebanese industry minister and Maronite Christian leader Pierre Gemayel is shot dead in Beirut, reports say.
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A Shiite legislator escaped an assassination attempt Sunday when a roadside bomb missed his convoy in downtown Baghdad &amp;#151; a day after a female Sunni legislator was kidnapped by gunmen from her car.
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A car bomb exploded in central Beirut on Friday, wounding a former Lebanese cabinet minister in an assassination attempt, top Lebanese and Syrian officials said.
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BEIRUT, 2 October 2004 - A remote-controlled Beirut car bomb wounded a prominent Lebanese opposition politician and killed his driver yesterday, weeks after the former minister quit the government in protest at Syriaâs grip on Lebanon.
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Lebanon's Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel was assassinated near Beirut on Tuesday, security sources said.
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BEIRUT -- A Lebanese lawmaker who had long been critical of the Syrian regime was killed yesterday along with his son and eight people when a bomb exploded near a popular waterfront promenade in Beirut.
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A blast in Beirut on Wednesday killed anti-Syrian MP Walid Eido, one of his sons and two other people who were with him, security sources said.
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GENEVA, Nov 22 (IPS) - The assassination of Pierre Gemayel in Beirut on  Tuesday has interrupted an 18-month  relative safety for  anti-Syrian Lebanese politicians and intellectuals, and signals  the kick-off  of a series of events aiming at totally  destabilising the ailing national government and  dividing the  Christian community in the country -- and possibly plunging the  entire region  into chaos.
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Mahmoud Abbas, the temporary successor to Yasser Arafat, escaped unharmed Sunday when militants firing assault rifles burst into a mourning tent for the deceased
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Lebanese mourned their slain ex-premier Tuesday with noisy street processions, while the country's interior minister suggested a suicide bomber aided by "international parties" may have been behind the assassination of Rafik Hariri.