Mass evacuation from Lebanon peaks
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LARNACA, Cyprus  - Ships and aircraft scooped more   exhausted people fleeing the fighting in Lebanon to safety in   Cyprus on Saturday in a mass international effort that has so   far evacuated more than 25,000 people.
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Tens of thousands of people have fled recent fighting in southern Afghanistan, the UN refugee agency says.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - Lebanese troops fired at positions of al Qaeda-inspired militants entrenched in a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon on Friday with the heaviest shelling in 13 days of fighting.
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The latest bombardment was the heaviest in months and shook the entire city, locals said. There was no immediate. children and non-fighting age men to flee, but said they would arrest any man under 45 trying to enter or leave the city.
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Fears for trapped refugees grow as fighting between army troops and Islamist militants resumes in Lebanon.
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BEIRUT -- Up to a million unexploded cluster bomblets from Israel's war with Hezbollah are now the biggest threat to civilians in south Lebanon, where they litter streets, homes, and orchards, UN agencies said yesterday.
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SWAT, Pakistan - Hundreds of civilians used a cease-fire yesterday between government forces and militant supporters of a pro-Taliban cleric to flee a scenic valley where fighting has killed more than 100 people.
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The State Department said Friday that Americans in Lebanon should consider leaving when it is safe to do so, and officials made contingency plans for the evacuation of people who cannot leave on their own.
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Lebanon's government says militants entrenched in a refugee camp must surrender or face more military action.
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Syrian forces started redeploying from  the outskirts of Lebanon's capital Beirut toward the eastern  Syrian-Lebanese border on Tuesday, Lebanese officials said.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - Advancing under a blanket of artillery and tank fire, Lebanese troops overran positions held by al Qaeda-inspired militants at a Palestinian refugee camp on Friday and 18 people were killed.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - Lebanese troops bombarded positions of al Qaeda-inspired militants entrenched in a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon on Friday with some of the heaviest shelling in 13 days of fighting there.
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Westerners fled by land, sea and air Monday as Israel sent ground troops into Lebanon briefly and Hezbollah rockets knocked down a three-story house in northern Israel. However, there were signs of movement on the diplomatic front to end the worst fighting in 24 years.
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Thousands of people were evacuated on Friday from their homes in Apex, North Carolina, after a chemical fire sent a toxic cloud over the Raleigh suburb, emergency officials said.
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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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The fighting stopped two weeks ago, but it's still too dangerous for Abdullah Ziaeddine to move back into his war-blasted home, much less start to rebuild. Like hundreds of fields, houses and roads across Lebanon, his yard is littered with unexploded bomblets from an Israeli cluster bomb attack that spewed the small and deadly metal canisters.
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The Syrian army carried out Saturday a limited redeployment in Lebanon, pulling army intelligence troops out of the Beirut airport, the southern suburbs of Beirut and northern Lebanon, a Lebanese army officer told AFP.