German Navy to patrol Lebanese coast
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BERLIN --The German parliament yesterday approved Chancellor Angela Merkel's plan to send a navy force to patrol the coast of Lebanon, effectively making Germany a military guardian of Israel.
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A U.S.-chartered cruise ship was set to leave Beirut on Friday in the last officially scheduled departure of Americans fleeing the fighting in Lebanon, a day after the U.S. reactivated its evacuation operation.
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Germany began its biggest naval operation since World War II on Thursday as eight warships set sail for the eastern Mediterranean to help the U.N. keep the peace in Lebanon.
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A ship carrying hundreds of evacuees from fighting in Lebanon headed to Cyprus on Monday as European governments stepped up efforts to move their nationals to safety.
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Germany has renewed talks on the sale of two new submarines to Israel. The director-general of the Defense Ministry, Amos Yaron, visited Berlin this week and met with his German counterpart, senior Bundeswehr ...
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U.S. Marines ferried 1,200 Americans from a Beirut beach to the USS Nashville on Thursday &#151; the first Marine operation in Lebanon in more than two decades.
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The second main suspect in a failed plot to bomb two German trains turned himself in to authorities in his native Lebanon on Thursday, German federal prosecutors said.
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Australia is to send a patrol ship and aircraft to monitor the actions of Japan's whaling fleet off Antarctica.
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France is quietly preparing to play a tougher role in the strengthened U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon, rolling out hefty tanks, powerful artillery, and sophisticated radar systems to pinpoint artillery ...
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The USS Nashville anchored off the coast of Lebanon Thursday morning prepared to receive some 1,200 Americans fleeing fighting to take them to Cyprus.
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Lawmakers voted Friday to keep the German military committed to the U.S.-led war on terrorism for another year, renewing a mandate under which Germans are involved in maritime patrols in the Mediterranean and off the Horn of Africa.
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Lebanese government forces have been deployed along the border with Israel for the first time in decades.
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Beirut & Berlin- Lebanon's Prime Minister Fouad Siniora met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel who assured him that the deployment of the German navy off the Lebanese coast would indirectly help the Lebanese ...Comment
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SYDNEY, Australia  - A new Australian patrol ship armed with two machine-guns will scour the country's territorial waters in a "deadly serious" mission to stop illegal fishermen from taking Australia's fish, officials announced Friday.
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At least 50 Italian military personnel pulled up on the Lebanese shore in small motor boats Saturday prior to the departure of approximately 800 Italian troops from their destroyer ship poised vigilantly nearby, video of the scene showed.
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The Coast Guard is planning its first operating base in the Arctic as a way of dealing with ships that are already beginning to ply the Arcticâs increasingly ice-free waters.
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By Dominic EvansBEIRUT - Germany's cabinet approved plans on Wednesday to send naval and air forces to Lebanon, and Russia said it would dispatch troops to help rebuild roads and bridges destroyed in Israel's ...