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Seoul, Oct 5 (IANS) A South Korean military aircraft brought 96 nationals home from Lebanon on Saturday, the country's foreign ministry said, in its first evacuation operation amid escalating tensions in the region. The KC-330 military transport plane landed at Seoul Air Base in Seongnam, just south of Seoul, at around 12:50 p.m. (local time), the ministry said. The military jet departed from Beirut on Friday afternoon (local time) after arriving earlier that day. It took off from the southeastern city of Busan on Thursday, Yonhap news agency reported. One Lebanese national, a family member of a South Korean citizen,…