Security tight for Beirut rally
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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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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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On Scene: U.S.-backed Prime Minister Fouad Siniora's grip on power is further eroded as hundreds of thousands in Beirut demand his ouster
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Activists and police are preparing for  a tense standoff and possible violence on New York streets when  hundreds of thousands gather to decry the Iraq war and Bush  administration polices during the Republican convention.
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Anti-Syrian lawmakers gathered at Lebanon's parliament under tight security on Tuesday for a session intended to elect a new president, but an opposition boycott was expected to foil any vote.
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The Lebanese Army, which many credit with holding together the fragile nation, is under siege after firing on a protest last month.
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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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British Prime Minister Tony Blair, whom Hezbollah has called a &quot;killer&quot; over his stance during the Shiite group's war with Israel, is due in Beirut for talks on Monday, and the capital is bracing for protests.
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Hundreds of mourners marched in Beirut on Thursday behind the coffin of an anti-Syrian Lebanese legislator killed in a car bomb attack that increased tension with Damascus and deepened Lebanon's political crisis.
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Columbia University planned Friday to go forward with a speech by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, while the city mobilized security to protect him from protests during his New York visit.
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Pro-Syrian protesters set up tents in Beirut, after a rally calling on Lebanon's government to stand down.
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BEIRUT, Sept. 23 -- Some members of Lebanon's parliament are living in a luxury hotel with tight security. Others rarely leave their homes and frequently change their cars and cellphones to foil potential assassins. Still others are abroad, planning to return just hours ahead of a parliamentary...
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BEIRUT, Nov. 27 -- The evening was tense, as most are these days in Beirut, its Maronite Catholics, Greek Orthodox, Sunni and Shiite Muslims and Druze perched imprecisely between war and peace. Malak Beydoun, a young woman, pulled her car into a parking lot in the Christian neighborhood of Ashrafiyeh. She peered at a billboard overhead, alarmed and then indignant....
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Tens of thousands of flag-waving 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 government was preparing for a possible evacuation of its nationals from Lebanon, who should be ready to leave at short notice, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office has said.
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DECEMBER 16, 2004 -- Jakarta, Indonesia -- Police tightened security at Hilton hotels in this country today after warnings of an imminent terrorist attack.
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JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Ariel Sharon made a dramatic entrance into Israel's parliament yesterday surrounded by a large phalanx of bodyguards, as security officials voiced concern for his safety before a parliamentary vote on his plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip.