Hezbollah Chief Rallies Protesters
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BEIRUT, Dec. 7 -- Hezbollah's leader, Hasan Nasrallah, vowed Thursday to keep protesters in downtown Beirut until a new Lebanese government is installed, but insisted that his group and its allies would not provoke another civil war in Lebanon.
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Activists, claiming a groundswell of anti-war sentiment not seen since the US-led invasion of Iraq, have staged a mass protest against the conflict in Lebanon and demanded a ceasefire.
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BEIRUT -- Hundreds of Hezbollah supporters from across southern Lebanon began marching toward Beirut yesterday for a rally to showcase the group's insistence that it won't disarm.
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Hundreds of thousands of pro-Hezbollah demonstrators pressed their call for the Lebanese government to resign.
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Leader Hassan Nasrallah says Hezbollah is ready for "open war" with Israel at a Beirut funeral for a senior militant.
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BEIRUT -- In a dramatic day of dueling statements, Hezbollah's leader called on his supporters and allied forces to pour into Beirut today to bring down the US-backed government, a move Prime Minister Fuad Saniora compared to a coup attempt. He insisted that the government would fall only through a vote of parliament, not a show of force in the ...
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BEIRUT -- The radical Shi'ite Muslim group Hezbollah and its allies escalated Lebanon's month-long political crisis into a popular confrontation yesterday, sending hundreds of thousands of its supporters into the streets of downtown Beirut.
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Thousands of Hezbollah supporters set up camp in the heart of Beirut on Saturday, starting an open-ended sit-in with a carnival atmosphere intended to pressure the U.S.-backed government of Fuad Saniora into ...Comment
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Hezbollah's leader on Saturday threatened more attacks on central Israeli cities, a day after guerrillas for the first time fired a rocket powerful enough to reach the outskirts of Tel Aviv.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad defended his nation's human rights record on Monday as hundreds of people gathered outside the U.N. and Columbia University to protest appearances by the hard-line leader
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair began his first visit to Lebanon as angry demonstrators gathered in the heart of Beirut to protest his stance on Israel's month-long war with Hezbollah.
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BEIRUT, Dec. 4 -- The posters went up Monday morning, followed by slogans and chants. And within a day of his death in a street brawl along Beirut's increasingly tense fault lines of sect and politics, Ahmed Mahmoud became the first symbol of the mass demonstrations by Hezbollah and its allies meant...
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A fiery Islamic leader called on his fellow Israeli Arabs and Muslims around the world Thursday to rise up in protest of Israeli construction work near a holy site in Jerusalem.
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Lebanon's pro-Syrian Hezbollah-led opposition is set to protest in central Beirut on Friday aiming to bring down the U.S.-backed government, which has vowed it will not yield to the pressure.
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BEIRUT, Dec. 9 -- As morning clouds hovered overhead Saturday, Fadil Ayyash wiped eyes that were bleary from just two hours of sleep over two days in the city-within-a-city that Hezbollah's protests in downtown Beirut have become.
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Hundreds of thousands of protesters thronged central Beirut on Sunday ahead of a rally called by the Hezbollah-led opposition, bidding to oust Lebanon's Western-backed government.
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Prime Minister Fuad Saniora denounced Hezbollah and its leader on Friday in an unusually personal attack, a day after the guerrilla group's chief renewed his pledge to bring down the U.S.-backed government.Comment