Rice visits Lebanon as Hizbollah and Israel battle
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice   flew unannounced to Beirut on Monday to seek a "sustainable"   ceasefire in Lebanon, where Hizbollah guerrillas were battling   an Israeli tank incursion in the south.
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NAQOURA, Lebanon  - Lebanon's Hizbollah guerrilla  group said on Sunday it sent a small reconnaissance drone into  Israel for the first time in response to repeated Israeli  violations of Lebanese airspace.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice begins a 24-hour Middle East visit on Wednesday to prod Israelis and Palestinians toward narrowing their differences ahead of a conference on Palestinian statehood.
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Intense Israeli bombardment killed 13   people in Lebanon on Friday amid uncertainty as to when U.S.   Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice would return to the region   to push for a lasting solution to the crisis.
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A look at major events between Lebanon and Israel:
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Israeli troops battled Hizbollah   guerrillas across southern Lebanon on Sunday and air strikes   battered Beirut's suburbs as the Israeli army pressed on with   its offensive in the hours until a U.N.-brokered truce begins.
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Israel will allow the opening of safe passages in Lebanon for the transport of humanitarian aid to all areas of the country, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora in Paris on Tuesday and underscored Washington&#39;s support for his embattled government, a spokesman said.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will test the waters for a renewed push on Arab-Israeli peace when she visits the Middle East this week despite what analysts regard as huge obstacles.
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Israeli jets pounded Lebanon and troops   battled Hizbollah guerrillas on Thursday while world powers   struggled for a plan to end a war which Beirut said has killed   900 people and wounded 3,000.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has departed Asia for the Middle East, wagering personal prestige on a bid to sign up Israel and Lebanon to a UN resolution aimed at sidelining Hezbollah.
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Israel called up 15,000 reserve soldiers   but ruled out a full-scale invasion of Lebanon against   Hizbollah, as diplomatic divisions appeared to widen on Friday   over how to end the 17-day-old conflict.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice sought Tuesday to bolster the fragile government in Lebanon, the country that has fared best in a wave of violence and quasi-civil war that engulfed the three Mideast nations where U.S.-backed elections have been held.
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The United Nations said on Monday it was  worried about the possibility of rising tensions on the  Lebanese-Israeli border after Hizbollah sent a surveillance  drone over Israel, and urged Beirut to control its side.
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BETHLEHEM, West Bank, Oct. 17 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice paid an emotional visit Wednesday to the church revered as marking the birthplace of Jesus, before hearing from prominent Palestinians that failure of her new peace initiative could worsen their conflict with Israel.
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US President George W. Bush sent Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice back to the Middle East as he and British Prime Minister Tony Blair called for quickly sending a multinational force to Lebanon.
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BAALBEK, Lebanon  - Israeli airborne commandos   battled guerrillas near a Hizbollah-run hospital in eastern   Lebanon on Wednesday, and officials in the Jewish state said   the 23-day-old war could run for at least another week.