最新的事件发生在黎巴嫩东部贝卡谷地的偏远地区，此地与叙利亚的边界处来往密切，难以确定边界。黎巴嫩安全和政府官员声称，叙利亚军队进入黎巴嫩领土并开火，杀死一名名叫Ali al-Khatib叙利亚公民。据说这是一个农场主，与一名黎巴嫩妇女结了婚，居住在该地区。至于他被杀的原因，尚无确定的解释。但基于本周早些时候叙利亚坦克在该地附近的武装入侵，人们更加担心叙利亚的国内问题会扩散到黎巴嫩。

Thousands of Israeli Arabs have demonstrated in southern Israel against a plan to move them from their villages. The authorities approved a plan last month to vacate 36 Arab communities that Israel does not recognise. The protesters accuse the government of seeking to build homes for Jewish people on their land.

数千以色列阿拉伯人在以色列南部游行，反对一项将他们从自己村庄驱逐出去的方案。当局上月通过了一项议案，决定清空36个不被以色列认可的阿拉伯社区。抗议者谴责政府试图在他们的土地上为犹太人建设家园。

The French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said Turkey should accept responsibility for the genocide of more than a million Armenians during the collapse of the Ottoman empire. Speaking on a visit to Armenia, Mr Sarkozy said collective denial was unacceptable and Turkey should look its history in the face. Turkey insists that those who died in 1915 were casualties of war, not victims of a deliberate campaign of genocide.