Lebanon

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FOR PUBLICATION RELEASE SATURDAY, MAY 6, 2017, AT 3:01 A.M. EDT. AND THEREAFTER - In this April 18, 2017 photo, Lebanon, Pa., native Scott Church who is a professional photographer is prepping for the trip of a lifetime with his only child, a son, whom Church realizes is growing up way too fast and won't want to hang with dad much longer. This dad is turning a Pennsylvania-to-California road trip with his son into a work of art by photographing - for free - as many families as he can. (Michael K. Dakota/Lebanon Daily News via AP)

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ADVANCE FOR SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 2017 - In this undated photo, a note expressing sympathy for the shooting death of Stacey Pennington rests on the ground in the Fairy Garden outside the Gretna Emporium gift shop, which Pennington owned, in Lebanon, Pa. (Michael K. Dakota /Lebanon Daily News via AP)

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In this Jan. 18, 2017 photo, Sulome Anderson, journalist and daughter of former American hostage Terry Anderson, holds a photograph of herself, lower right, with her father shortly after his return from Lebanon at her home in New York. Sulome said a multi-year retracing of her father’s harrowing ordeal repaired their tattered relationship. Sulome describes the quest in “The Hostage’s Daughter,” a recently published book. Her effort to research the 1985 kidnapping of Terry Anderson in Beirut, Lebanon, eventually brought her face-to-face with one of his captors. Ultimately, it led her to see eye-to-eye with her father again. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

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ADVANCE FOR SATURDAY, DEC. 3, AND THEREAFTER - In this Nov. 23, 2016 photo, John Gable, dressed as Santa Claus, holds up two of his other Santa suits while standing in his home in Lebanon, Pa. Gable, who works in customer service and took up his seasonal hobby of portraying Santa Claus in 2005, is such a stickler for detail that he bleaches his brown hair and beard, and learned leatherwork to craft his belt. (Michael K. Dakota/Lebanon Daily News via AP)

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The site where the remains of a Jane Doe were buried is shown after investigators exhumed the body, at Mt. Lebanon Cemetery, Tuesday, May 31, 2016, in Lebanon, Pa. Investigators are hoping to identify a woman who was found dead in the woods along Moonshine Road in Union Township on Oct. 10, 1973 and was buried in the Lebanon cemetery. (Jeremy Long/Lebanon Daily News via AP) THE PATRIOT-NEWS OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT

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In this Monday, Jan. 4, 2016 photo, a Lebanese medical worker checks a Syrian refugee at a Doctors Without Borders clinic at the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon. In a report published Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2016, the New York-based rights group Human Rights Watch said Lebanese residency laws are putting Syrian refugees in danger. The regulations, adopted a year ago, have forced refugees to either return to Syria, where they are at risk of persecution, torture or death, or to stay in Lebanon illegally, leaving them vulnerable to exploitation and abuse. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

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Amnesty International's Charlotte Phillips, center, speaks during a press conference about Syrian refugees' medical treatment, in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday May 21, 2014. Amnesty said tens of thousands of Syrians lack access to hospital treatment in Lebanon, leaving their chronic conditions and serious illnesses untreated. The crisis is due to a lack of funding for medical care for Syrians who fled to neighboring Lebanon, where health care is privatized and expensive, Amnesty said. Some ill Syrians simply have been turned away.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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National Edition News cover for June 20, 2015 - U.S. admits global terrorist attacks up 35 percent: Lebanese police inspectors, investigates the site of a deadly car bomb that exploded Saturday evening near a gas station, in the predominately Shiite town of Hermel, about 10 miles (16 kilometers) from the Syrian border in northeast Lebanon, Sunday, Feb. 2, 2014. A shadowy Lebanese Sunni extremist group late Saturday claimed responsibility for a suicide car bombing in Hermel, a stronghold of Lebanon's militant Shiite Hezbollah group, that killed several people in the latest attack linked to the war in neighboring Syria. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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Mexican-American actress Salma Hayek smiles during a press conference, for her film, "The Prophet," an animated feature film she co-produced, in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, April 27, 2015. In her first visit to her ancestral homeland, Hayek, whose paternal grandfather was Lebanese and immigrated to Mexico, visited the picturesque mountain village of Bcharre in northern Lebanon on Sunday to pay homage to Khalil Gibran, the Lebanese-born poet who wrote "The Prophet," the book on which the film is based. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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Mexican-American actress Salma Hayek poses for photographers next to a poster for the film "The Prophet," an animated feature film she co-produced, on her arrival to a cinema where she gave a press conference, in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, April 27, 2015. In her first visit to her ancestral homeland, Ms. Hayek, whose paternal grandfather was Lebanese and immigrated to Mexico, visited the picturesque mountain village of Bcharre in northern Lebanon on Sunday to pay homage to Khalil Gibran, the Lebanese-born poet who wrote "The Prophet," the book on which the film is based. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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The global risk company IHS Jane's reported Friday, April 24, 2015 on the discovery of a drone airstrip used by Hezbollah in Lebanon. (Image: IHS Jane's)

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In this Monday, Oct. 13, 2014, file photo, Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, speaks during an interview in Lebanon, Ohio. (AP Photo/Al Behrman, File)

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Israeli soldiers secure the Israel-Lebanon border, Wednesday. Hezbollah claims the attack destroyed a number of Israeli vehicles and caused casualties among "enemy ranks." Israel later fired at least 35 artillery shells into Lebanon. (Associated Press)

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Israeli soldiers secure the Israel-Lebanon border, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015. The Lebanese Hezbollah group is claiming responsibility for today’s attack on an Israeli military convoy. Hezbollah claims the attack destroyed a number of Israeli vehicles and caused casualties among "enemy ranks." Israel later fired at least 35 artillery shells into Lebanon. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

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National Edition News cover for December 3, 2014 - Syria refugees go hungry as wealthy nations fail to deliver millions in promised aid: A Syrian refugee woman and her son peel potatoes outside their tent, at a refugee camp in the eastern Lebanese Town of Al-Faour near the border with Syria, Lebanon, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014. Syrian refugees in Lebanon reacted with panic Tuesday to news that the U.N. was suspending aid to 1.7 million refugees due to lack of funds a decision officials said threatens to starve thousands of families and add pressure on already strained hosting countries. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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Lebanon currently hosts over 1.1 million refugees of the Syrian civil war, which equates to about a quarter of all people living within the country. Cutbacks in aid by the U.N., partly due to donor nations not coming through with promised funds, threatens to starve many such refugees. (associated press)

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Cut off: Syrian refugees in Lebanon panicked at news the U.N. was suspending aid to 1.7 million refugees due to lack of funds, a decision officials say threatens to starve thousands of families and add pressure on hosting countries. (associated press)

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In urging action to counter the Islamic State persecution of Middle Eastern Christians, Bechara Boutros Rai of Lebanon emphasizes that religious freedom is a universal right. (associated press)