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Who are Lebanon's current presidential candidates?

Speaker Nabih Berri has two presidential candidates: ex-ambassador to the Vatican and former army intelligence chief Brig. Gen. George Khoury and MP Farid Haykal al-Khazen, Kuwait’s al-Anbaa newspaper reported on Friday.

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Israel says targeted Hezbollah operatives in Khiam strike

The Israeli army has claimed that Hezbollah militants were the target of a drone strike that killed a person in Khiam on Thursday and was swiftly condemned by caretaker PM Najib Mikati.

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One killed in Israeli strike on Khiam, Mikati asks committee for 'quick and firm' action

An Israeli drone targeted Thursday the square of the town of Khiam, reportedly killing one person and injuring another, a day after Israeli troops withdrew from the strategic town, handing it back to the Lebanese army.

The Lebanese army had warned civilians to stay out of Khiam until it can clear the area of any unexploded munitions. The strategic hilltop town, located less than 5 kilometers from the border with Israel, saw some of the most intense fighting during the war.

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Neemat Frem officially announces his nomination for presidency

Independent MP Neemat Frem of Keserwan on Thursday officially announced his presidential nomination.

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Amnesty says Israeli strikes that killed 49 Lebanese civilians further evidence of war crimes

Four separate air strikes by Israeli forces, which killed at least 49 civilians and decimated entire families in Lebanon during the latest war, must be “investigated as war crimes,” leading international rights group Amnesty International said on Thursday.

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Geagea willing to run for presidency, floats idea of early polls

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea has said that he is willing to announce his nomination for the presidency “if there is an acceptable number of parliamentary blocs that are willing to endorse this nomination.”

“Nominating oneself is not heroism,” he noted, an in interview with the Hala London TV.

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Berri says Quint gave 'positive' feedback on Jan. 9 session

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has received "positive and encouraging signals" from the ambassadors of the United States, France, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Egypt.

Envoys from the five countries who met with Berri Wednesday have been working for months to facilitate the election of a president, as crisis-hit Lebanon has been without a head of state for more than two years amid deadlock between pro- and anti-Hezbollah blocs in parliament.

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Top US military commander in Mideast visits Lebanon for talks with army chief

The top U.S. military commander for the Middle East was in Lebanon on Wednesday meeting with the head of the Lebanese army.

In the wake of shocking overthrow of the government in neighboring Syria, the two military leaders discussed the security situation in Lebanon, a statement from the country's army said.

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Israel lifts restrictions on outdoor activities in northern Golan Heights

Israel has lifted restrictions on public gatherings and outdoor activities in areas near the Lebanese border in the northern Golan Heights, two weeks after a ceasefire with Hezbollah.

The army’s Home Front Command said it was changing its public safety guidelines to “full activity” from “partial activity.”

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Migrant workers in Lebanon try to return home after alleged abuses and then war

Isatta Bah wakes up from a nap in a crowded shelter on the outskirts of Beirut, clutching her baby, Blessing.

The 24-year-old from Sierra Leone spends her days waiting for an exit visa that could put her and her 1-year-old on a plane back to the West African nation. She wants to reunite with her family after what she called exploitative work conditions and sexual violence, along with the recent horrors of war in Lebanon.

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