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FOUND: Us envoy cuts lebanon trip short amid protests outrage over press comments - What They Never Told You

Protesters hold up Hezbollah flags behind graffiti reading 'Barak is animal', as they demonstrate against the planned visit of US envoy Tom Barrack to south Lebanon in Khiam. [AFP]

US envoy Tom Barrack has cut his visit to southern Lebanon short, according to the Lebanese government’s official news agency.

The altered trip on Wednesday came amid protests against Washington’s push to disarm Hezbollah, as well as continued outrage over Barrack’s recent derision of journalists in the country.

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