Ceremonies have been held in northern Egypt to mark the 70th anniversary of the battle of El-Alamein, a

turning point

in the Second World War. Veterans, most now in their 90s, from Britain, Australia, New Zealand and other wartime allies, gathered in the Commonwealth war cemetery on the edge of what's the desert battlefield. The second battle El-Alamein represented the first big ally to land victory after three years of German

dominance

. Winston Churchill described the task not the beginning of the end but the end of the beginning.

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The Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati says he's been persuaded to stay in office for the national interest, despite offering his resignation after the car bomb that killed the country's head of intelligence on Friday. Wyre Davies in Beirut has more.

黎巴嫩总理纳吉布·米卡提说，他被劝说为了国家利益继续任职，周五，由于该国情报局长死于汽车炸弹一案他已递交辞呈。Wyre Davies在贝鲁特报道。

Almost immediately after yesterday's bombing in Beirut that has caused for the resignation of Lebanon's Prime Minister Najib Mikati over his government inability to respond in any meaningful way to the attack, that's because a number of key ministers in the coalition government ally to Syria, the very country that's been widely blamed for the outrage. On the streets there have been violent anti-Syria demonstrations particularly in the northern city of Tripoli where at least one person was killed overnight. All eyes are now casting towards the funeral of general al-Hassan's which will take place tomorrow in central Beirut.