French to bolster Lebanon peacekeepers
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French soldiers landed in Lebanon on Saturday, the first reinforcements for an expanded U.N. peacekeeping force tasked with keeping the truce in the Israel-Hezbollah conflict.
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Germany's cabinet approved plans on   Wednesday to send naval and air forces to Lebanon, and Russia   said it would dispatch troops to help rebuild roads and bridges   destroyed in Israel's war against Hizbollah guerrillas.
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A French envoy arrived in Beirut on  Tuesday to hand out invitations to rival Lebanese leaders for a  meeting in France later this month aimed at easing tensions in  the country.
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Lebanon's prime minister said Wednesday he has asked the United Nations to renew the mandate of international peacekeepers in his country, despite an attack last weekend that killed six members of the force.
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The beefed-up peacekeeping force in Lebanon began to take shape Saturday as 1,000 Italian soldiers started moving in, the first large contingent of international troops dispatched to help safeguard a cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas.
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BEIJING -- China will increase its peacekeeping force in Lebanon to 1,000 and double the humanitarian aid it has pledged, Premier Wen Jiabao said yesterday .
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President Emile Lahoud appointed  pro-Syrian Omar Karami as Lebanon's prime minister on Thursday,  a move likely to strengthen Syria's role in Lebanon despite  international pressure on Damascus to pull out its troops.
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President Jacques Chirac announced Thursday that France will send 2,000 soldiers to southern Lebanon and hopes to retain command of the U.N. peacekeeping force, as a top European Union official said international troops could start deploying within days.
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Italian troops begin arriving in Lebanon to strengthen the United Nations peacekeeping force.
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Lebanon said on Thursday Syria would  redeploy some 3,000 troops from the outskirts of Beirut east  toward the Syrian-Lebanon border, in an apparent bid to ease  U.S.-led pressure over its influence on Lebanon.
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More than 200 French military engineers  landed at Beirut port on Saturday, the advance group of a  battalion which will reinforce U.N. peacekeepers in south  Lebanon and open the way for Israel to pull out all its troops.
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The number of U.N. peacekeepers in   Lebanon has grown to about 5,000, a spokesman said on Tuesday,   reaching a level which the United Nations sees as sufficient   for Israel to complete its withdrawal from Lebanon.
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France mobilized Friday to send urgent aid to Lebanon, the Red Cross managed to get relief supplies to the south &#151; and Israel agreed to allow a safe corridor crucial to ensuring that food and medicine reaches those in need.
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Some 140 Belgian soldiers flew to Beirut   on Wednesday to join a U.N. peacekeeping force monitoring a   truce between Israel and Hizbollah guerrillas in south Lebanon.
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Proposed rules of engagement for an expanded U.N. force in southern Lebanon would allow troops to open fire in self-defense, protect civilians and back up the Lebanese army in preventing foreign forces or arms from crossing the border, according to a U.N. document obtained Tuesday.
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The number of U.N. peacekeepers in  Lebanon has grown to about 5,000, a spokesman said on Tuesday,  reaching a level which the United Nations sees as sufficient  for Israel to complete its withdrawal from Lebanon.
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France is ready to open up in a &quot;spectacular way&quot; to Syria if it stops meddling in Lebanon, Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said in a newspaper interview Sunday.