Israeli public radio says officials have confirmed that two bodies handed over by Israel starts exhuming bodies of 190 Hezbollah fighters ...
Fighting resumes for a second day in Tripoli ...
Anger as Syrian anthem played for Lebanese football team ...
Ebadi calls on media to foster peace ...
Israeli spy to return to Lebanon ...
Hezbollah seizes large parts of Beirut ... the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah as part of a prisoner swap are those of Israeli soldiers captured in a cross-border raid in 2006.
The abduction of the two soldiers, Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, sparked an invasion of Lebanon by Israel that lasted more than a month. Under the terms of the deal, Israel will release five Hezbollah prisoners and hand over almost 200 bodies of Hezbollah and Palestinian fighters. The prisoner swap has been coordinated by the International Committee of the Red Cross. The Lebanese cabinet has declared Wednesday a national holiday.
(Deutsche Welle)
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