Troops seal off downtown Beirut
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Police and army troops sealed off downtown Beirut Tuesday to secure a parliamentary session to elect a new head of state, a vote shadowed by assassination of a lawmaker and expected to be blocked by a Hezbollah-led opposition.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - Lebanese troops rained down artillery and tank fire on a Palestinian refugee camp on Monday, pressing ahead with an assault to crush al Qaeda-inspired militants dug in there.
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Medicine, food and other humanitarian relief piled up in Beirut on Saturday, with only a trickle making it to the tens of thousands of Lebanese trapped in the war zone in the south.
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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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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - Lebanese troops pounded suspected positions of Islamist militants at a Palestinian refugee camp on Saturday but the group vowed it would not give up.
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A French ship docked in Beirut Saturday carrying 200 troops and some 100 military vehicles bound for the U.N. peacekeeping force monitoring the cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas.
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With Israeli rescue workers pulling out, the Egyptian military sealed off a bombed luxury hotel today to clear more debris and collect evidence for investigators tracing the explosives and vehicles used in the attack that targeted
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon-- Lebanese helicopters and tanks pounded suspected positions of Al Qaeda-inspired militants to dislodge them from their hide - outs at a Palestinian refugee camp yesterday, but the group vowed it would not surrender.
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BEIRUT -- Troops in armored cars guarded Sunni Muslim neighborhoods in the capital yesterday after the shooting death of a young Shi'ite man. Shi'ite leaders urged the victim's family to avoid revenge, fearing sectarian violence that could detonate Lebanon's political crisis.
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At least four people are killed after an explosion hits Beirut's waterfront, Lebanese security sources say.
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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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Security is tight in Beirut amid fears that anti-government protests led by the Hezbollah militia may turn violent.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti  - Haitian police and U.N.  troops moved into a slum neighborhood on Sunday and cleared  street barricades that paralyzed a part of the capital.
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Lebanon's army deployed more soldiers in Beirut on Monday after the killing of a pro-Syrian Shi'ite Muslim demonstrator raised fears anti-government protests could turn into sectarian violence.
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Two buses are hit by blasts near the Lebanese capital Beirut, killing nine people, local officials say.
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Military experts on Wednesday dismantled a bomb that was placed near a popular public beach in a southern Lebanese city, security officials said.
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Syria has withdrawn some of its troops from three key positions in Lebanon, according to Lebanese officials. They say Syrian soldiers have left the northern town of Batrun, as well as Beirut&#39;s southern suburbs and airport.