Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah (screen-C) delivers a speech to supporters gathered in southern Beirut on May 25, 2009 during a festival marking the ninth anniversary of Israel's withdrawal from southern Lebanon after a 22-year presence. A report that Hezbollah was behind the 2005 assassination of ex-premier Rafiq Hariri is a dangerous claim which could spark civil strife as Lebanon prepares to hold crunch elections, analysts believe. Germany's Der Spiegel news magazine reported on May 23 that the UN commission probing the Hariri murder had new evidence that Hezbollah special forces "planned and executed" the Beirut car bombing on February 14, 2005. Getty Images logo Getty Images 6 months ago

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah (screen-C) delivers a speech to supporters gathered in southern Beirut on May 25, 2009 during a festival marking the ninth anniversary of Israel's withdrawal from southern Lebanon after a 22-year presence. A report that Hezbollah was behind the 2005 assassination of ex-premier Rafiq Hariri is a dangerous claim which could spark civil strife as Lebanon prepares to hold crunch elections, analysts believe. Germany's Der Spiegel news magazine reported on May 23 that the UN commission probing the Hariri murder had new evidence that Hezbollah special forces "planned and executed" the Beirut car bombing on February 14, 2005.

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  9. Two Indonesian UN peacekeepers stand next to a huge portrait of Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on the border with Israel in the southern Lebanese village of Adaisseh on September 12, 2009. UN peacekeepers were monitoring the Lebanese border with Israel on September 12, a day after rockets launched from south Lebanon slammed into Galilee, but the situation was 'calm,' a spokeswoman said.
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  13. Afghan opposition candidate Abdullah Abdullah (R) shakes hands with United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon (C) as United Nation's special envoy to Afghanistan, Kai Eide (L, background) looks on prior to a meeting in Kabul on November 2, 2009. UN chief Ban Ki-moon flew into Kabul on November 2 to meet President Hamid Karzai over the Afghan election crisis with organisers to announce whether or not to scrap the poll after the only challenger pulled out. The surprise visit from Ban accompanied a diplomatic push to ensure the November 7 one-horse race does not take place, despite the initial insistence from some officials that it is too late to halt the process.
  14. 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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