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Slain Hezbollah fighters take centre stage at Beirut's wartime Ashura
With traffic shut down in a Beirut suburb, men and women dressed in black clothing filled the streets to commemorate Ashura. Amid the sea of red, yellow and black flags stood a Hezbollah fighter who had recently returned from the southern border. With his …