Thousands of foreigners evacuate Lebanon
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A ship carrying hundreds of evacuees from fighting in Lebanon headed to Cyprus on Monday as European governments stepped up efforts to move their nationals to safety.
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast - France, the United States and other nations launched one of the largest evacuations of Africa&#39;s post-independence era Wednesday, requisitioning commercial jets to fly out thousands of foreigners following attacks on civilians and
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Troops are deployed in Beirut ahead of a mass opposition rally calling for the Lebanese government to quit.
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The families of Islamist militants are evacuated from a refugee camp besieged by Lebanese troops.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - The families of Islamist militants battling Lebanese troops for the past three months are likely to be evacuated from a battered Palestinian refugee camp later on Friday, Lebanese security sources said.
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The evacuation began today of hundreds of Britons from the Ivory Coast, where anti-French rampages have left white foreigners vulnerable to attack.
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Thousands of Lebanese have been pouring into Beirut for a Hezbollah-led protest aimed at toppling the Western-backed government, which has vowed it will not buckle under the pressure.
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Under building international pressure, Syrian troops Tuesday began a phased redeployment from posts in Lebanon, with about 1,000 forces pulling out of bases south of Beirut, Lebanese military sources said.
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France plans an operation to rescue about 400 nationals trapped in southern Lebanon, its defence minister says.
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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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Thousands of people have protested in Lebanon over the death in custody of a man arrested for an alleged al-Qaeda plot to bomb foreign embassies.
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Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis are fleeing the chaos of their homeland only to find themselves unwelcome guests in other Arab countries, threatening a major new refugee crisis in the Middle East.
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Thousands of Lebanese poured into central Beirut on Friday for a Hezbollah-led protest aimed at bringing down the Western-backed government, which has vowed it will not yield to the pressure.
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The center of Beirut was packed today with hundreds of thousands of pro-Hezbollah and allied demonstrators.
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Fears for trapped refugees grow as fighting between army troops and Islamist militants resumes in Lebanon.
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Hundreds of thousands of Hezbollah members and their allies flooded central Beirut on Sunday demanding changes in the government's makeup as soldiers strung more barbed wire around the offices of the Western-backed premier.
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BEIRUT, Dec. 1 -- The radical Shiite Muslim group Hezbollah and its allies escalated Lebanon's month-long political crisis into a popular confrontation Friday, sending hundreds of thousands of supporters into the streets of downtown Beirut and vowing to stay, in smaller numbers, until they topple...