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| Blast kills Lebanon army general | |
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| At least four people, including a Lebanese army general, have died in an explosion near the presidential palace on the outskirts of Beirut. | |
| Dozens were also injured in the blast in the Christian town of Baabda. | |
| Gen Francois al-Hajj was chief of operations when Lebanon's army fought Islamic militants in Nahr al-Bared refugee camp earlier this year. | |
| It comes a day after a parliamentary vote to elect a new president was postponed for the eighth time. | |
| The move prolongs the deadlock between the pro-Syrian backers of former president Emile Lahoud and the pro-Western government of Fouad Siniora. | |
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