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Beirut - Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah late Saturday denied an Iraqi website report that he had been poisoned and then saved by Iranian doctors.

Beirut - The United Nations refugee agency announced Monday that its top honour will go to the world body’s bomb disposal experts for their work in southern Lebanon clearing munitions which have threatened the lives of civilians since the 2006 conflict with Israel.

Beirut - A judge in Lebanon issued Tuesday an arrest warrant for a Hezbollah militant on charges of shooting at a Lebanese army helicopter and killing an army officer.

Beirut - A military investigation into last week’s attack on a Lebanese army helicopter by the Islamic group Hezbollah was likely to expand the hypothesis that there was more than one person involved, judicial sources said Tuesday.

New York - The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday extended the UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon by one year.

Beirut - The United Nations Interim Force in South Lebanon (UNIFIL) Monday denied reports of an Israeli incursion into southern Lebanon.

Beirut/Damascus - French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner on Monday highlighted France’s role in establishing diplomatic relations between Lebanon and Syria and played down the growing animosity between Israel and Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah movement.