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Vice President Joseph Biden is in Lebanon today…the second highest US official to visit in 25 years. His trip follows a stop by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton earlier this month, prompting the militant group Hezbollah to accuse the US of trying to influence the June 7 elections. The World’s Aaron Schachter reports.

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