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Sectarian tensions in the Syria conflict have spilled over to neighbouring Lebanon, where Hezbollah fighters support President Bashar Assad's regime.
Lebanese politician Tammam Salam has been named prime minister after he won a sweeping parliamentary endorsement, pledging to bridge the country's deep divisions and shield it from the dangers of Syria.
Chevron and Exxon Mobil are among 50 companies participating in a process to win licences for oil and gas work off the Lebanese coast, says the energy ministry.
At least two shells and one missile fired in fighting in Syria have landed inside Lebanon residents and security sources say, but there have been no reports of damage or injuries.
One million people have fled Syria's civil war, piling pressure on the country's neighbours who are struggling to support them, the United Nations refugee agency says.
The rebel Free Syrian Army, issuing a 48-hour ultimatum, has warned it will target Lebanon's Hezbollah unless the militant group stops shelling territory held by the insurgents.
More than half of the estimated 300 000 Syrian refugees who have fled to Lebanon are not receiving the medical treatment they need because of high costs, Doctors Without Borders says.
The Lebanese Hezbollah movement says Israel is leading an international campaign against it, a day after Bulgaria blamed them for a July bomb attack.
As if the war which drove them out of Syria and the hardships of exile were not enough, refugee women and children are facing domestic violence born of stress, deprivation and frustration.
Lebanon's army chief has warned that the military will "pursue" anyone who attacks it, in an interview after two troops were killed in a clash with Islamists.
Israeli aircraft have struck "centres for scientific research" north-west of Damascus near the Lebanese border, killing two people and wounding five, says the Syrian army.
Having scattered across the Middle East since Israel's creation in 1948, Palestinians consistently have found themselves in the middle of the region's conflicts.
Desperate and unable to provide for his family, a Syrian refugee who has swapped deadly violence in Damascus for destitution in Lebanon hanged himself.
Two people have been killed and six were wounded in the north Lebanese city of Tripoli amid sectarian clashes linked to the conflict in neighbouring Syria.
A Lebanese party coalition blames Syria for the general's killing, demanding the government's resignation.
