Tension high for Hariri protest
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A mass rally is planned for central Beirut to mark two years since the assassination of former PM Rafik Hariri.
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BEIRUT, Dec. 4 -- The posters went up Monday morning, followed by slogans and chants. And within a day of his death in a street brawl along Beirut's increasingly tense fault lines of sect and politics, Ahmed Mahmoud became the first symbol of the mass demonstrations by Hezbollah and its allies meant...
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Lebanon was marking the second anniversary of Rafik al-Hariri's assassination on Wednesday and anti-Syrian leaders have called for a mass rally to commemorate the killing despite deadly bus bombings.
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Hundreds of thousands of protesters from Hezbollah and its pro-Syrian allies massed Friday in downtown Beirut seeking to force the resignation of Western-backed Prime Minister Fuad Saniora, who was holed up in his office ringed by hundreds of police and combat troops.
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Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri of Lebanon resigned yesterday in a sign of deepening divisions within Lebanon&#39;s fragile government over the
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Algeria suffered a weekend of violent protests against government plans to raise gas prices, local press reports.
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BEIRUT, Jan. 27 -- Protesters angry about electricity rationing clashed with Lebanese troops Sunday in Beirut's worst riots in a year, leaving seven people dead, hospital and security officials said.
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urged protesters to form a &quot;human shield&quot; to protect the house of Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo. the unrest in Ivory Coast, the world&#39;s largest cocoa grower.
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Hundreds of heavily armed police and combat troops unfurled barbed wire and erected barricades around the Lebanese prime minister's office on Friday, girding for a large protest against the Western-backed leader.
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Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri resigned yesterday in a sign of deepening divisions within Lebanon&#39;s fragile government over the decisive role that
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At the second anniversary of Rafik Hariri's assassination, the country longs for stability and peace.
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Hundreds of thousands of Lebanese flooded downtown Beirut on Thursday to mourn a slain Christian politician and vent anger at Syria, gearing up for a potentially explosive fight over power with the Shiite Muslim group Hezbollah and other allies of Damascus.
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Beirut's main streets were shut down and armed guards stood vigilant today as anti-Syrian crowds chanting political slogans and waving the Lebanese flag packed into the capital's largest square in anticipation of the funeral of slain Lebanese Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel. The Christian official was gunned down Tuesday, with many blaming Syria.
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Rival Lebanese leaders held discussions on Thursday to defuse rising tension a day after the assassination of an anti-Syrian lawmaker threatened to derail efforts to elect a new president.
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Lebanon's army is on high alert a day after bloody clashes between troops and Shia demonstrators.
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BEIRUT, Dec. 2 -- Hezbollah and its allies escalated Lebanon's month-long political crisis into a popular confrontation Friday and Saturday, sending hundreds of thousands of supporters into the streets, parking lots and sidewalks of downtown Beirut, vowing to topple the government of Prime Minister...
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Four Lebanese opposition supporters were shot dead in Beirut on Sunday during protests against power cuts, raising tensions in a country gripped by a political crisis.