Assassination deepens Lebanese political crisis
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Anti-Syrian politician Pierre Gemayel's murder comes as Hizbullah campaigns to overturn the government.
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Lebanon began three days of mourning on Wednesday for an anti-Syrian cabinet minister whose assassination, blamed by his allies on Damascus, raised fears of a new spasm of factional violence.
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The inquiry into the assassination of the former Lebanese prime minister is in a Âsensitive and complicated phase,Â the head of the investigation said.
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A leading investigator in the assassination of a former Lebanese prime minister was wounded by a roadside bomb that killed four other people Tuesday. Lt. Col. Samir Shehade, deputy head of the intelligence department in the national police force, was hospitalized in stable condition in the southern port of Sidon.
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INNER Beirut was swamped by soldiers and riot police at the weekend as the Lebanese parliament convened to extend the term of President Emile Lahoud, reappointing the Syrian-backed former soldier for three more years.
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An assassination and continued unrest focus scrutiny on the country's Palestinian refugees
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Lebanon mourned assassinated former  Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri on Tuesday as opposition leaders  bluntly implicated Syria in the murder and Syrian workers were  attacked in the former prime minister's hometown.
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More than two years after the Hariri assassination, Syria's opponents in Lebanon continue to be targets for death.
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Pierre Gemayel, scion of Lebanon's most prominent Christian family and a leading opponent of Syria, was gunned down Tuesday in a brazen daytime hit. The assassination threatened to intensify Lebanon's power struggle between the U.S.-allied government and the Syrian-backed Hezbollah.
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The assassination jolted a nation already paralyzed by political conflict that threatens to topple the government.
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Lebanon's army urged feuding politicians to set aside their differences and resolve the country's political crisis on Friday at the funeral of an assassinated general.
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Mostaqbal, Nabil Ismail) BEIRUT -- As a stunned nation grieved, dozens of angry mourners attacked Syrian workers in the hometown of former prime minister Rafik Hariri, who was assassinated in a huge bomb blast, ...
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Lebanon was plunged into fresh turmoil on Wednesday when a bitter power struggle loomed after the assassination of an anti-Syrian Christian cabinet minister that his allies blamed on Damascus.
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Gunmen on Tuesday assassinated Lebanese Christian cabinet minister Pierre Gemayel, an outspoken critic of Syria, plunging Lebanon deeper into a crisis over ties with its dominant neighbor.
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A car bomb killed an anti-Syrian Lebanese lawmaker and at least six other people in Beirut on Wednesday, just six days before parliament was due to elect a new president, security sources said.
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Rival Lebanese leaders held discussions on Thursday to defuse rising tension a day after the assassination of an anti-Syrian lawmaker threatened to derail efforts to elect a new president.
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Lebanon began three days of mourning on Wednesday for an anti-Syrian cabinet minister whose assassination, blamed by his allies on Damascus, has reignited his country's deep factional rivalries.