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Lebanon observed a national day of mourning on Friday after two suicide bombs the day before killed 43 people in southern Beirut, in an act the United Nations condemned overnight as "despicable". "Unacceptable", newspaper L'Orient Le Jour said in a one-word front-page headline. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon condemned the attacks, urging Lebanon's security services and state institutions "not (to) allow this despicable act to destroy the relative calm that has prevailed in the country over the past year." The explosions were the first attacks in more than a year to target a Hezbollah stronghold in Lebanon, as the Iran-backed group steps up its involvement in the war in neighboring Syria.More...