News: Lebanon

We have started to collect the most important news related to Lebanon in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.

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Lebanon: news

Veteran Lebanese journalist dies

Friday, June 8th 2012, 12:12

The veteran Lebanese journalist and politician, Ghassan Tueni, has died aged 86, his family says.
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Lebanon sends troops to port city

Sunday, June 3rd 2012, 7:35
related countries: Libya, Syria
related places: Tripoli

The Lebanese authorities deploy extra troops to the port city of Tripoli to keep the peace after Syria-linked sectarian clashes erupt there.
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VIDEO: Deadly Lebanon clashes over Syria

Sunday, June 3rd 2012, 4:59
related countries: Libya, Syria
related places: Tripoli

At least nine people have been killed and more than 20 hurt in the Lebanese port of Tripoli, in clashes linked to unrest across the border in Syria.
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Deadly Lebanon clashes over Syria

Sunday, June 3rd 2012, 3:54
related countries: Libya, Syria
related places: Tripoli

At least nine people are killed and many injured in the Lebanese port city of Tripoli, as clashes erupt linked to unrest across the border in Syria.
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Bahrain bails leading dissident

Monday, May 28th 2012, 11:42
related countries: Bahrain
related places: Beirut

Prominent Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab is released on bail, after he was arrested on 5 May returning from Beirut.
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VIDEO: Syria unrest fuels Lebanon fears

Friday, May 25th 2012, 21:33
related countries: Syria

The bloodshed in Syria has spilled over the border into neighbouring Lebanon, fuelling fears of a return to the sectarian violence seen the past.
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Lebanese hostage pilgrims freed

Friday, May 25th 2012, 16:09
related countries: Syria

Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati confirms that 11 Lebanese Shia pilgrims kidnapped in Syria have been released after being abducted in Syria on Tuesday.
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Lebanese pilgrims 'to be freed'

Wednesday, May 23rd 2012, 14:33
related countries: Syria
related places: Damascus

Lebanese Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour announces that 13 Lebanese Shia pilgrims kidnapped in Syria have been found and should be released soon.
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VIDEO: Beirut protests at Syrian kidnapping

Wednesday, May 23rd 2012, 5:39
related countries: Syria
related places: Beirut

The kidnapping of 13 Lebanese Shia pilgrims in Syria has sparked angry protests in Beirut, adding to fears that Lebanon is being dragged into the unrest afflicting its neighbour.
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Abductions raise Lebanon tension

Tuesday, May 22nd 2012, 20:40
related countries: Iran, Syria

Tensions rise after rebels in northern Syria kidnap 13 Lebanese Shia pilgrims on their way home from visiting holy sites in Iran.
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Anti-Assad Lebanese cleric bailed

Tuesday, May 22nd 2012, 13:10
related countries: Libya, Syria
related places: Tripoli

An anti-Syrian Sunni cleric whose arrest sparked sectarian clashes in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli is released on bail.
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Clashes over Syria reach Beirut

Monday, May 21st 2012, 10:47
related countries: Syria
related places: Beirut

At least two people are killed and 18 injured in clashes overnight in the Lebanese capital Beirut, the first there since the Syrian conflict began.
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Beirut divisions over Syria emerge in graffiti

Saturday, May 19th 2012, 13:43
related countries: Syria
related places: Beirut

Divisions over Syria spray painted across Beirut
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Five killed in Lebanon violence

Monday, May 14th 2012, 19:13
related countries: Libya, Syria
related places: Tripoli

Five people are killed in sectarian clashes in the Lebanese city of Tripoli linked to continuing unrest in neighbouring Syria, officials say.
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Deadly clashes hit Lebanese port

Sunday, May 13th 2012, 13:28
related countries: Libya, Syria
related places: Tripoli

At least two people are killed in sectarian clashes in the Lebanese port city of Tripoli, as tensions in neighbouring Syria spill over the border.
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Lebanon holds 'Syria arms ship'

Sunday, April 29th 2012, 16:57
related countries: Syria

Lebanon's navy is holding a ship it says was carrying a large consignment of arms and ammunition thought to be destined for Syrian rebels.
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VIDEO: Lebanon seizes 'Syria rebel weapons'

Sunday, April 29th 2012, 1:00
related countries: Syria

Lebanon says its navy has found and confiscated three containers full of arms and ammunition from a ship which was bound for Syrian rebels.
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Bomb blast at Lebanon restaurant

Monday, April 23rd 2012, 11:02
related places: Tyre

At least five people have been injured by a bomb blast at a restaurant in the southern Lebanese coastal town of Tyre, security sources say.
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UN seeks Lebanon maid death probe

Tuesday, April 3rd 2012, 14:01
related countries: Ethiopia

The UN special rapporteur on slavery urges the Lebanese government to carry out a full investigation into the death of an Ethiopian domestic worker.
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Syria clashes spill into Lebanon

Tuesday, March 27th 2012, 10:22
related countries: Syria

Clashes between Syrian security forces and armed rebels have spilled across the border with Lebanon, witnesses and Lebanese security officials say.
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Syrian divisions reflected closely in Lebanon

Friday, March 23rd 2012, 6:33
related countries: Syria

Syrian religious divisions reflected closely in Lebanon
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New Hariri tribunal charge denied

Friday, March 16th 2012, 19:41

A judge at the UN-backed tribunal investigating the killing of former Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri refuses to expand the charges.
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VIDEO: Concern over Syria refugees

Wednesday, March 14th 2012, 0:33
related countries: Syria, Turkey

Human Rights Watch has accused Syria of laying landmines near its borders with Lebanon and Turkey, along routes used by refugees fleeing the country.
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Syria 'laying border landmines'

Tuesday, March 13th 2012, 11:25
related countries: Syria, Turkey

Human Rights Watch says Syria has laid hundreds of landmines on its borders with Lebanon and Turkey, along routes used by refugees.
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Syrian refugees flee to Lebanon‎

Tuesday, March 6th 2012, 13:51
related countries: Syria

Thousands of Syrian refugees have recently crossed into Lebanon, the UN says, amid reports that security forces are committing atrocities in Homs.
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VIDEO: Edith Bouvier returns to France

Friday, March 2nd 2012, 17:53
related countries: France
related places: Homs, Paris

Two French journalists who were caught up in shelling and smuggled out of Homs into Lebanon have been flown back to a military airport outside Paris.
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Hariri suspects face new charge

Friday, March 2nd 2012, 16:04

Prosecutors at the UN-backed tribunal investigating the killing of former Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri want to expand the charges against the accused.
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Syrian conflict spills over border into Lebanon

Friday, February 17th 2012, 10:57
related countries: Syria

Syrian conflict sparks gun battles on Lebanese streets
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VIDEO: Lebanon monitors events in Syria

Friday, February 17th 2012, 8:07
related countries: Syria

As violence across Syria continues, nowhere are events being watched more closely than in neighbouring Lebanon.
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Lebanese clash over Syria unrest

Saturday, February 11th 2012, 19:17
related countries: Libya, Syria
related places: Tripoli

At least two people are killed in the Lebanese city of Tripoli in clashes between supporters and opponents of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad.
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Armed clashes in northern Lebanon

Friday, February 10th 2012, 17:39
related countries: Libya, Syria
related places: Tripoli

There has been heavy gunfire in the Lebanese city of Tripoli, as supporters and opponents of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad took to the streets.
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'Syria spies' arrested in Berlin

Tuesday, February 7th 2012, 13:06
related countries: Germany, Syria
related places: Berlin

A Syrian and a German-Lebanese man are arrested in Germany on suspicion of spying on opponents of President Bashar al-Assad's government.
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AUDIO: Syrian activists targetted in Lebanon

Monday, February 6th 2012, 12:15
related countries: Syria

Paul Wood reports from Beirut on pressure on Syrian dissidents in the Lebanon
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Hariri suspects trial in absentia

Thursday, February 2nd 2012, 10:36

The UN-backed tribunal investigating the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri says it will try the suspects in absentia.
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Lebanon air crash report 'wrong'

Tuesday, January 17th 2012, 12:36
related countries: Ethiopia

Ethiopian Airlines officials bluntly reject an official Lebanese report into the crash of flight ET409 in January 2010, which blames pilot error for the disaster.
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Beirut collapse rescue called off

Tuesday, January 17th 2012, 11:24
related places: Beirut

The rescue operation at a collapsed building in the Lebanese capital Beirut is called off after the authorities rule out the possibility of finding more survivors.
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Fatal building collapse in Beirut

Monday, January 16th 2012, 20:31
related places: Beirut

Rescue efforts continue after at least 25 people are killed as a five-storey building collapses in the Lebanese capital, Beirut.
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