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Much of Lebanon was in mourning on Thursday for MP Antoine Ghanem, whose assassination a day earlier plunged the country deeper into its 10-month-old political deadlock and threatened to derail efforts to elect the next president. Banks, schools, universities and many businesses  closed a day after a car bomb killed Ghanem.

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