7 Dead After Protests in Beirut Over Rationing
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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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Hundreds of people protested British Prime Minister Tony Blair's arrival in Beirut on Monday, angry over his perceived backing of Israel's bombardment of Lebanon.
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Deadly clashes erupted in Beirut on Sunday, leaving at least seven people dead and escalating Lebanonâs deepest political crisis since the end of its civil war in 1990.
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A defiant Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said he would not stand down after Pro-Syrian Hezbollah and its allies called for a mass protest in Beirut on Friday to try to force out the government
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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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Thousands of Lebanese troops and police fanned out in Beirut on Friday to tighten security hours before a Hezbollah-led opposition protest aimed at bringing down the Western-backed government.
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BEIRUT, Nov. 23 -- Allies of a slain Lebanese Christian minister Pierre Gemayel transformed his funeral into protest, pulpit and show of force Thursday, as tens of thousands surged into downtown Beirut to vent their anger against a Syrian government they blamed for his assassination and to press demands at the heart of a crisis as pronounced as any since the end of Lebanon's 15-year civil war....
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Eight Lebanese opposition supporters were shot dead in Beirut on Sunday in some of the worst street violence since Lebanon's 1975-90 civil war, raising tensions in a country gripped by political conflict.
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Seven supporters of an ousted Afghan governor were killed and 20 were wounded on Sunday in clashes with police and US troops after crowds torched UN offices, medics and witnesses said.
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Motorists set fire to petrol stations in Tehran today in an angry backlash against the Iranian government's decision to impose rationing.
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Tears and anger at funeral on fifth day of Beirut protest 05-12-2006 / 19:59 A sea of angry mourners converged on southern Beirut for the funeral of a young Shiite murdered amid mass rallies aimed at toppling ...Comment
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- Security forces opened fire yesterday as thousands of angry government loyalists massed outside a French evacuation post for foreigners, reportedly killing seven people and wounding 200 in violence pitting France against its former prize colony.
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Violence erupted again Friday in the Haitian capital as the decapitated bodies of three police were found, bringing the death toll to at least seven people in two days of protests for the return of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
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Sept. 1. - At least two persons were killed and 46 injured in clashes with police today when people came to the streets to protest against the killing of 12 workers in Iraq by Islamic militants.
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At least seven people die in riots in the Indian state of Rajasthan over affirmative action plans, officials say.
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A stunned nation was in mourning Tuesday, with stores closed and troops at intersections to prevent violence, following the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, whose death raised fears that Lebanon might revert to the political violence of its 1975-90 civil war.
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Thousands of Lebanese troops and police fanned out in Beirut on Friday before a Hezbollah-led opposition protest aimed at bringing down the Western-backed government.