Foreigners stranded in Lebanon taken to safety

Hundreds of Americans and Russians were reported still stranded in the heart of Lebanon’s war zone today, after a ship pulled foreign nationals out of a port in the south of the country.

The Cypriot ship Princesa Marissa sailed into the southern port city of Tyre and picked up about 300 foreigners stuck there – a joint effort by the US, Switzerland, Norway and others, said Erik Rattat, a German official involved in the evacuation.