Beirut rally piles pressure on U.S.-backed govt
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Hundreds of thousands of chanting protesters swamped Beirut on Sunday in a Hezbollah-led rally that marked a leap forward in the opposition's drive to unseat Lebanon's Western-backed government.
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BEIRUT -- Thousands of supporters of Lebanon's opposition, led by Hezbollah, paralyzed parts of central Beirut yesterday as the defiant prime minister, Fuad Saniora, won fresh international backing.
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Thousands of Hezbollah supporters gathered in Beirut Friday in what organizers were calling a "victory rally" following the 34-day Israeli-Hezbollah battle that ended last month.
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Dozens of protesters rallied Wednesday in front of the U.S. Embassy calling on American authorities to send back to Romania a Marine who was allegedly involved in a car accident that killed a popular rock ...
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Hundreds of people protested British Prime Minister Tony Blair's arrival in Beirut on Monday, angry over his perceived backing of Israel's bombardment of Lebanon.
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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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Prime Minister Fuad Saniora appealed Wednesday to those who are trying to topple him through mass protests to stop "digging bunkers," return to the negotiating table, and help rebuild Lebanon.
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BEIRUT, Nov. 19 -- In a deepening crisis that has paralyzed Lebanese politics, the leader of Hezbollah urged his well-organized followers to prepare for mass protests aimed at toppling the U.S.-backed government of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora.
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Thousands of Lebanese troops and police fanned out in Beirut on Friday to tighten security hours before a Hezbollah-led opposition protest aimed at bringing down the Western-backed government.
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Lebanese opposition supporters sleep in tents in Beirut, after a mass rally calling for the government to stand down.
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Large numbers of people are in the Lebanese capital Beirut for a march in support of Syria's role in the country.
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The United States is pressing, along with France and other UN Security Council members, for a resolution upholding Lebanon&#39;s sovereignty in the face of Syrian pressure to keep a political ally, Lebanese President Emile Lahoud, in office.
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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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BEIRUT -- In the mix of theater and pulpit that makes for a Hezbollah rally, the group's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, appeared yesterday before hundreds of thousands of supporters for the first time since its war with Israel ended last month.
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Hezbollah's leader called Sunday for a massive rally in Beirut's bombed out southern suburbs to mark the militant group's "victory" over Israel during the monthlong fighting this summer.
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Thousands of Hezbollah supporters packed Beirut's bombed-out suburbs for a rally Friday intended to showcase the group's insistence that it won't disarm.
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Hundreds of thousands of protesters from Hezbollah and its pro-Syrian allies massed Friday in downtown Beirut seeking to force the resignation of Western-backed Prime Minister Fuad Saniora, who was holed up in his office ringed by hundreds of police and combat troops.