Lebanon

June 29, 2000

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Lebanese officials Thursday strongly contested their country's inclusion on recent lists of states allegedly facilitating money laundering, saying it

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Hizbollah movement remains unchanged in ideology and objectives, despite the recent halt in its attacks, a high-ranking Israeli security official said

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A Beirut military court sentenced another 65 Lebanese accused of collaborating with Israel to jail terms of between three weeks and 15 years in prison

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Lebanon has raised 500 million dollars from a five-year Eurobond issue, with local banks the main contributors, Finance Minister Georges Corm was quot

June 28, 2000

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Two Syrians were injured Wednesday when they opened a booby-trapped box containing explosives in Northern Metn, east of Beirut, Lebanese police said. 

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Lebanon hopes a conference soliciting donations for the reconstruction of its south will be held soon, Prime Minister Salim Hoss said Wednesday. "We a

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Hizbollah's military official for south Lebanon, Nabil Qauq, said Wednesday that the group is prepared to use force to free Lebanese prisoners held in

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The World Bank on Tuesday said it granted Lebanon an 80-million-dollar loan to finance infrastructure projects in Lebanese municipalities, reported th

June 27, 2000

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Lebanese President Emile Lahoud said Tuesday he is satisfied that the United Nations has recognized Israeli violations of the border and asked the int

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Legislative elections that had been scheduled to take place in three phases from August 20th have been put back by a week and cut to two phases, Inter

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United Nations peacekeepers were looking into an alleged Israeli encroachment into southern Lebanon Tuesday, working from the Israeli side of the bord

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The UN Security Council on Monday demanded that Israel end violations of Lebanese territory reported by UN troops, said French ambassador Jean-David L

June 25, 2000

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An Israeli soldier was hit in the head with a stone and lightly wounded Sunday by Lebanese demonstrators on the other side of the border, an Israeli m

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Police broke up an anti-Syrian demonstration by 300 people 15 kilometers (10 miles) north of the Lebanese capital, as they tried to erect two symbolic

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The UAE-Lebanon investment promotion and dual taxation treaties have been submitted to the Lebanese parliament for ratification, reported the English