UN: Lebanon sea blockade over
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The UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon says Israel has lifted its sea blockade of the country.
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Israeli ships were leaving Lebanese waters as an international naval force took up positions off the coast.
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Israel rejected a call by U.N.   Secretary General Kofi Annan on Wednesday to lift its air and   sea blockade of Lebanon, saying it would only end the   7-week-old siege once all aspects of a ceasefire were in place.
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Lebanese troops moved on Tuesday into a town wrecked by Israel's war with Hezbollah, as United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan said he hoped for word on the lifting of an Israeli blockade on Lebanon within ...
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Visiting UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on Wednesday thanked all the nations that had worked to help lift Israel's embargo on its neighbor Lebanon.
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Israel prepared to lift its sea blockade   of Lebanon on Friday after an Italian admiral assumed control   of an interim maritime task force to deploy off the Lebanese   coast.
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JERUSALEM -- Israel withdrew the last of its troops from Lebanon early today, the army said, fulfilling a key condition of the UN cease-fire that ended a monthlong war with Hezbollah guerrillas. Military officials said the last soldier exited Lebanon just after 2:30 a.m.
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The air travel embargo ended Thursday, but restrictions will remain at sea until international naval forces are ready.
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The United Nations suspended attempts Tuesday to send relief to southern Lebanon because of heavy shelling in the area, a spokeswoman said, though aid shipments were arriving elsewhere in the country.
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Lebanon vowed on Wednesday to bust   Israel's eight-week-old blockade of its ports and airport   unless it is lifted within two days as envisaged by U.N.   Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
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Israel eased a blockade of Gaza imposed in retaliation for militant rocket attacks, allowing in some food and fuel Tuesday after the U.N. warned that international food aid to the impoverished territory may have to be suspended by the weekend.
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BEIRUT, Sept. 8 -- Israel lifted its eight-week-old maritime blockade against Lebanon Friday, the United Nations announced, and within hours a gleaming white ship pulled into Beirut harbor carrying a load of appliances.
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Lebanon's prime minister called Israel's blockade of the country illegal on Saturday and the parliament speaker urged Arab nations to break the siege.
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Israel will lift its naval blockade of Lebanon within 48 hours, having received assurances international forces will have arrived by then to monitor the seas, government spokesman Asaf Shariv said Friday.
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Â· Damascus says UN move will destabilise Lebanon  Â· Last chance for parliament in Beirut to end impasse
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U.N. peacekeepers asked Israel's army on Wednesday to pull down a new barbed-wire barrier that Lebanon said encroached on its territory, but Israel denied it was on Lebanese soil &#151; a test of the month-old cease-fire.
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The U.N. secretary-general called Wednesday for an end to "foreign interference" that has exacerbated Lebanon's political crisis and said he had received more information that Syria was involved in sending weapons and fighters across the border.