U.N. force vows to pursue Lebanon task despite bomb
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MARJAYOUN, Lebanon  - U.N. peacekeepers will pursue their mission in south Lebanon despite a car bomb attack that killed six members of a Spanish battalion, the UNIFIL force's commander said on Monday.
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A roadside bomb hits a patrol of UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon, but no casualties are reported.
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France is quietly preparing to play a tougher role in the strengthened U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon, rolling out hefty tanks, powerful artillery, and sophisticated radar systems to pinpoint artillery ...
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The French general commanding U.N. peacekeeping forces in Lebanon said Monday his troops would not intervene to disarm Hezbollah, even as French President Jacques Chirac said the militant group should not keep ...
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UNITED NATIONS - Secretary-General Kofi Annan reported that Syria has not pulled its forces out of Lebanon as called for by the UN Security Council, and said he had requested a timetable from Damascus for its âfull implementation.
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Diplomats acknowledged Wednesday that any U.N. Security Council resolution to stop fighting in Lebanon could take until next week, as the United States and France struggled to bridge wide differences on what to do first: send in peacekeepers to disarm Hezbollah or impose a cease-fire.
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Spain's defense minister arrived in southern Lebanon Monday to collect the bodies of six U.N. peacekeepers slain in a car bombing, as the U.N. commander stressed the force remained committed to keeping the peace between Lebanon and Israel.
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The U.N. Security Council approved a statement Sunday expressing "extreme shock and distress" over Israel's bombing of civilians in Qana, Lebanon but stopped short of condemning the attack.
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Israel used a precision-guided   bomb to launch a direct hit on four U.N. peacekeepers killed in   southern Lebanon last July, the United Nations said on Friday   of its probe into the incident.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon AP) &#151; A bomb hit a U.N. peacekeeping force patrol on a coastal road in southern Lebanon on Monday, a Lebanese security official said, the second such attack targeting the force in less than a month.
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Issues including the future roles of the Lebanese army, U.N. forces, and Hezbollah guerillas remain unresolved
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"The UNIFIL mission has been very important in helping to bring about an end to the Lebanon war of last summer and helping to bring security so that the people of Lebanon could return to normal life"  A bomb apparently targeting a U.N. personnel carrier exploded by the side of a road in southern Lebanon on Sunday, killing five peacekeepers and injuring three, officials said.Spanish Defense Minister Jose Antonio Alonso said the five included three Colombians and two Spaniards. The three injured peacekeepers were also from Spain, he said.'The mostly likely cause of this attack has been an explosion of a car bomb or device activated by remote control. It has been a premeditated attack,' he told reporters in Madrid, ruling out that a land mine caused the blast. Read more
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U.N. member nations should insist that Lebanon's Hezbollah group produce evidence that the two Israeli soldiers it abducted a year ago are still alive, a senior U.N. envoy said on Wednesday.
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The United Nations has started work   on trying to secure the release of two Israeli soldiers   kidnapped by Lebanese guerrilla group Hizbollah in July, a   senior U.N. official said on Sunday.
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Lebanese army troops beefed up their  deployment on the Syrian border on Wednesday as European Union  nations debated joining a U.N. force to take over south  Lebanese flashpoints from Israeli troops and Hizbollah  fighters.
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KHIYAM, Lebanon  - A car bomb, "most likely" driven by a suicide bomber, killed six U.N. peacekeepers in south Lebanon on Sunday, a police source said.
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The French general commanding U.N. peacekeeping forces in Lebanon said Monday his troops would not intervene to disarm Hezbollah, even as French President Jacques Chirac said the militant group should not keep a military wing.