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Article: Lebanon declares day of mourning for Tripoli blast victims
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- August 14, 2008
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Lebanon declares day of mourning for Tripoli blast victims
BEIRUT, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Seniora
declared a day of mourning on Thursday across the country in honor
of 17 people killed and some 40 others wounded in a blast in the
northern city of Tripoli, local Naharnet website reported.
Meanwhile, the Lebanese higher defense council is expected to
meet later Thursday to take action against terrorist attacks, the
report added.
"The defense council is bent to undertake measures to confront
terrorist threats" and confront ...