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Building anew

Sunday 18 September 1994 23:02 BST
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Beirut - Retired gunmen and Arab dignitaries came together at an emotional concert by the renowned Lebanese singer Feyrouz marking a symbolic start to the reconstruction of central Beirut. President Elias Hrawi and the Prime Minister, Rafik al-Hariri, joined a crowd of 40,000 that watched the first concert by Feyrouz in Lebanon, almost 19 years to the day civil war broke out. Reuter

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