Lebanon gives tour of Beirut airport to refute arms claims, amid fears of war with Israel

BEIRUT —  Lebanese government officials took more than 100 foreign diplomats and journalists on a tour Monday of the country’s only international airport in a bid to refute a British newspaper report alleging that the facility was being used to store Hezbollah weapons. The unusual tour followed Sunday’s article in the Telegraph that quoted anonymous airport workers claiming the existence of a Hezbollah weapons cache in the airport, including artillery, ballistic and antitank missiles and explosives. According to the un-bylined Telegraph story, one Beirut airport staffer reported…