Lebanon tensions ease as Shi'ite officials visit Christian area

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Officials from Lebanon's Shi'ite parties Amal and Hezbollah visited a mainly Christian district of Beirut on Friday to help defuse tensions ignited this week by a row involving the country's president and the parliamentary speaker.

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