Counting the Cost of Destruction in Lebanon
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By Hardev Kaur  THE damage inflicted on Lebanon is unbelievable. It is not just the damage to vital infrastructure but also the environment, the economy and the unseen dangers that threaten the health of its people.
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Events in Beirut expose the divisions of a small state on the faultlines of the Middle East
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The wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and other anti terrorist efforts could cost the country $2.4 trillion over the next ten years, according to a report Wednesday.
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The price of Iraqi Kurdistan's economic growth is environmental damage.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - Four Lebanese soldiers were killed in pitched battles with al Qaeda-inspired militants at a Palestinian refugee camp on Sunday as Lebanon's worst fighting since the civil war entered its 10th week.
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BAZOURIYA, Lebanon -- There are two faces to the UN force today in Lebanon, ensuring a cease-fire that ended 33 days of war with Israel. One has a certain swagger: more than 4,800 soldiers, 14 French battle tanks, four 155 mm artillery guns, 10 Italian amphibious assault vehicles, and an array of armored personnel carriers. The other is a contingent ...
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A statistical look at the Dec. 26 Indian Ocean tsunami disaster:
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Israel bombed and shelled southern Lebanon and sent ground troops over the border for the first time in six years Wednesday after Hezbollah guerrillas captured two Israeli soldiers. The fighting killed eight Israeli soldiers and three Lebanese.
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On Scene: U.S.-backed Prime Minister Fouad Siniora's grip on power is further eroded as hundreds of thousands in Beirut demand his ouster
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In ruined towns along Lebanon's southern border, Hezbollah fighters swerved their motorbikes around flattened houses and sewer pipes protruding from bombed-out roads. One offered up mineral water with a Hebrew label &#151; taken from the stash of some Israeli soldiers who never made it home.
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Lebanon had not even finished burying the dead from 34 days of war when the country's deep sectarian and political divisions split open again. That has shattered the semblance of unity that held, just barely, through the Israeli attacks against Hezbollah.
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PARIS - Three UNESCO World Heritage sites in Lebanon, which include some of the Mideast's most significant ancient ruins, are in urgent need of repair after a month of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, the U.N. agency said Monday.  A team of U.N.
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AP correspondents are in Lebanon and Israel covering the fighting and its effects on the people. Here, in a combined weblog, they convey the impressions and challenges of their assignments.
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TRIPOLI, Lebanon, June 1 -- Lebanese tanks and armored personnel carriers, backed by an artillery barrage, closed in on a radical Islamic faction based in a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon, collapsing a tattered cease-fire after a 13-day siege.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden _ Lebanon's prime minister on Thursday called on world donors to help his country recover after Israeli bombing wiped out '15 years of postwar development' in 34-day fighting with Hezbollah ...
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Many displaced people got their first look last week at homes destroyed by renewed fighting.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates: Lebanon went through such a terrible civil war that after 14 years it still remains so politically fragile that when it finds a political formula that works, it changes the laws to suit the politicians.