11.   President Elias Hrawi flew to Brazil on Monday as criticism grew over proposed plans to offer citizenship to millions of people of Lebanese origin abroad.

12.   Serbs would like to offer Bosnian citizenship to tens of thousands of Serb refugees from neighboring Croatia.

13.   The ministry will now offer citizenship to anyone who meets the same conditions, he said.

14.   Arab East Jerusalem remains markedly separate from the western sector of the city, even though the Jewish state offered Israeli citizenship to its residents after annexation.

15.   It has offered them citizenship if they choose to stay.