Spain OKs sending troops to Lebanon
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Spain's Cabinet on Friday approved sending 1,100 troops to the expanded U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon, calling it a "legitimate" mission to help maintain peace in the region.
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Syria has indicated it is  willing to allow the United Nations to take custody of the  disputed Shebaa Farms area claimed by Lebanon but which is  under Israeli occupation, a Spanish diplomat said on Wednesday.
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"The UNIFIL mission has been very important in helping to bring about an end to the Lebanon war of last summer and helping to bring security so that the people of Lebanon could return to normal life"  A bomb apparently targeting a U.N. personnel carrier exploded by the side of a road in southern Lebanon on Sunday, killing five peacekeepers and injuring three, officials said.Spanish Defense Minister Jose Antonio Alonso said the five included three Colombians and two Spaniards. The three injured peacekeepers were also from Spain, he said.'The mostly likely cause of this attack has been an explosion of a car bomb or device activated by remote control. It has been a premeditated attack,' he told reporters in Madrid, ruling out that a land mine caused the blast. Read more
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Italy, which is expected to lead a U.N.  peacekeeping force in Lebanon, said on Tuesday it would provide  2,000 to 3,000 troops for the force provided Israel did not  violate the U.N.-brokered truce.
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Spain's defense minister arrived in southern Lebanon Monday to collect the bodies of six U.N. peacekeepers slain in a car bombing, as the U.N. commander stressed the force remained committed to keeping the peace between Lebanon and Israel.
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European Union nations will make a renewed attempt Wednesday to raise troops for a U.N. peacekeeping force in south Lebanon, but many remain wary of committing soldiers without safeguards to ensure they don't get sucked into the Middle East conflict.
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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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Four Spanish UN peacekeepers are killed by an explosion in southern Lebanon, officials say.
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Turkey became the second Muslim country to commit troops to Lebanon to monitor a tense cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah after a parliament vote in favor of the deployment despite widespread protests.
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Spain pushed for a return to normal relations with Morocco on Thursday, two months after a controversial visit by King Juan Carlos to two Spanish enclaves on Morocco's Mediterranean coast that Rabat claims as its own.
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Spain opposes separation as EU countries are expected to formally recognise independent state
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Israel's defense minister said Sunday that Israel would accept a temporary international force, preferably headed by NATO, deployed along the Lebanese border to keep Hezbollah guerrillas away from Israel.
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MARJAYOUN, Lebanon  - U.N. peacekeepers will pursue their mission in south Lebanon despite a car bomb that killed six members of a Spanish battalion, their commander said on Monday.
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Across the globe, at least 15 nations are considering sending troops to an eventual U.N.-mandated international force in southern Lebanon &#151; including Malaysia, Indonesia and Norway.
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France will send its first troop battalion and a shipment of tanks and heavy armor for the strengthened U.N. force in Lebanon next week, the French defense minister said Thursday.
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The U.N. force in Lebanon will soon receive the first real boost in weapons and manpower: one battalion each of Italian and French troops with heavy armor, including tanks and artillery, officials said Thursday.
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Syria on Wednesday opposed deployment of an international force along its border to prevent arms shipments to Hezbollah, and Israel called the situation in Lebanon "explosive." A cease-fire was further shaken by artillery shells and explosions that killed three Lebanese soldiers and an Israeli.