LANARCA, Cyprus (CNN) — The U.S. ambassador to Cyprus expects nearly 4,000 Americans to be evacuated to the island nation from war-torn Lebanon on Saturday.

BAGHDAD (CNN) — Iraq’s prime minister, whose country is mired in Sunni-Shiite sectarian fighting and a relentless insurgent violence, wants to put another conflict on his busy agenda next week when he meets with the Bush administration and other officials — Lebanon.

BEIRUT (CNN) — The Lebanese Broadcasting Corp. said on Saturday one of its employees was killed and another was wounded in the Israeli airstrikes on transmission towers. The LBC confirmed that Suleiman Shidiyaq was killed on the transmission tower in Fatqa and Charbel Aqiqi was injured in another air strike …