UN hails Israel's Lebanon pullout
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The UN says Israeli troops are out of Lebanon, except for a small contingent in a divided border town.
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Israel lifted its eight-week sea   blockade of Lebanon on Friday after an interim maritime task   force led by an Italian admiral deployed off the Lebanese   coast, the commander of U.N. peacekeepers said.
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Israel said on Wednesday it could   gradually dismantle its blockade of Lebanon as Lebanese and   U.N. forces control entry points to stop Hizbollah rearming,   and the U.N. commander in the south said a breakthrough could   be close.
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Israeli troops should be out of Lebanon   within days, the commander of the U.N. peacekeeping force in   southern Lebanon said after meeting senior Israeli and Lebanese   army officers on Tuesday.
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Israel has made "significant progress" in the gradual withdrawal of its forces from south Lebanon in the month since the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution to end the conflict there, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Tuesday in a report.
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Israel says it has withdrawn all troops from Lebanon, fulfilling a key condition of the ceasefire with Hezbollah.
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The Israeli army will complete a   pullout from Lebanon within a few days, a legislator quoted the   military's chief of staff as saying on Tuesday.
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The withdrawal completes a transfer to the Lebanese Army and international peacekeepers under a U.N. resolution to end the war.
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CHTAURA, Lebanon  - Several Syrian military units  withdrew from Lebanon early on Thursday, part of a larger  Syrian troop redeployment that has been praised by the United  States.
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Israel on Thursday approved a troop  pullback from West Bank cities and the release of 900  Palestinian prisoners, measures crucial to the success of a  summit with the Palestinians in Egypt next week.
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A U.N. commander said on Tuesday Israeli   troops should be out of south Lebanon within days, but Israeli   media said a full withdrawal could be delayed after a meeting   with the U.N. peacekeepers did not reach full agreement.
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ZARIT, Israel  - Israel's army pulled out of south Lebanon early on Sunday to complete a handover to the Lebanese army and U.N. peacekeepers under a ceasefire to end a war with Hizbollah guerrillas, Israeli military sources said.
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told a visiting U.N. envoy Tuesday that Israel will lift its air and sea blockade of Lebanon once an international peacekeeping force is deployed along Lebanon's borders.
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Israel said it would lift its stifling air and sea blockade of Lebanon on Thursday, marking a crucial breakthrough in international efforts to rebuild from the war between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas.
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The international community was scrambling Tuesday to put together a fortified U.N. peacekeeping force for southern Lebanon as Israeli forces began a pullout from the volatile region.
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The UN humanitarian chief denounces Israel's heavy use of cluster bombs in the final days of the Lebanon conflict.
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Israel's parliament ratified Prime  Minister Ariel Sharon's Gaza withdrawal plan on Tuesday, a  pivotal step toward the first evacuation of settlers from  occupied territory Palestinians want for a state.