Lebanese Druze Leader Walid Jumblatt (L) meets with Lebanese Parliamentary Majority Leader Saad Hariri (R) in Beirut on April 30, 2009. The two leaders discussed the release of the four generals held for nearly four years without charge over the assassination of Hariri's father, Lebanon's ex-premier Rafiq Hariri. Hariri had welcomed the UN court ruling which ordered the release of four men who were detained following the massive February 2005 bomb blast on the Beirut seafront that killed his father and 22 other people, stirring a political crisis and leading to the withdrawal of Syrian troops after a 29-year presence in Lebanon. Getty Images logo Getty Images 6 months ago

Lebanese Druze Leader Walid Jumblatt (L) meets with Lebanese Parliamentary Majority Leader Saad Hariri (R) in Beirut on April 30, 2009. The two leaders discussed the release of the four generals held for nearly four years without charge over the assassination of Hariri's father, Lebanon's ex-premier Rafiq Hariri. Hariri had welcomed the UN court ruling which ordered the release of four men who were detained following the massive February 2005 bomb blast on the Beirut seafront that killed his father and 22 other people, stirring a political crisis and leading to the withdrawal of Syrian troops after a 29-year presence in Lebanon.

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  7. Taymur, the son of Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt, attends a ceremony held by the Shiite Muslim Amal movement in Beirut on August 31, 2009 to commemorate the disappearance of the former head of the Higher Shiite Council in Lebanon, Imam Musa al-Sadr. Sadr, the founder of the Amal movement which played a major role in Lebanon's civil war between 1975 and 1990, vanished while on a trip to Libya in 1978. Lebanon issued last year an arrest warrant for Libyan leader Moammer Kadhafi over Sadr's disappearance, thirty years earlier.
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  10. Palestinian and UN vehicles take a flooded street following heavy rains in the al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City on October 29, 2009. Hamas said it will ban the organisation of elections in its Gaza Strip stronghold after president Mahmud Abbas called for a vote in the Palestinian territories.
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  13. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon speaks during a press conference at the United Nations headquarters in New York, October 28, 2009. Ban Ki-Moon condemned the 'despicable and brutal' attack on a UN guesthouse in Kabul, which left five UN staff dead, but said the UN remained committed to Afghanistan.
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