As UN force grows, Israel lifts air and sea blockade
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The gesture marks a major step in Lebanon's effort to rebuild infrastructure and homes damaged in the 34-day war.
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The United Nations has begun  moving its peacekeeping force acting as a buffer along the  Eritrean-Ethiopian border from Eritrea to Ethiopia after Asmara  cut off fuel supplies, the world body said on Thursday.
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JERUSALEM, Sept. 8 -- Israel lifted its eight-week-long air blockade of Lebanon on Thursday but maintained its sea cordon after determining that not enough international forces had taken up positions along the coast to enforce an arms embargo against the Shiite Muslim militia Hezbollah.
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Move comes after weeks of clashes between Israeli forces and militants
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Israel agreed to allow supplies of some fuel and medicine into the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip starting on Tuesday, easing a blockade that sparked international protests.
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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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UNITED NATIONS  - The Security Council unanimously approved a resolution Friday increasing the UN peacekeeping force in Congo by 5,900 troops and international police - less than half the amount requested by Secretary General Kofi Annan.
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It&#39;s been a long time since Israelis had anything good to say about the United Nations, but last week something positive finally emerged from Turtle Bay, as the Security Council effectively attacked Syria&#39;s occupation of Lebanon.
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Israel's air and sea blockade of Lebanon is about to be lifted, more than three weeks after fighting ended.
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ALEXANDRIA, Egypt  - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi   Annan said on Tuesday he was hoping for "positive" news in the   next 48 hours on whether Israel would lift an air and sea   blockade on Lebanon.
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Three months into their mission of enforcing a cease-fire, U.N. peacekeepers have succeeded so far in keeping the peace at an Israeli-Lebanon border that previously had been a Mideast flashpoint for decades.
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Havana, Oct 28 (AIN) For the 13th consecutive time, the United Nations General Assembly voted Thursday for the lifting of the US economic, financial and commercial blockade against Cuba.
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GAZA CITY - Israel's high court ordered the military yesterday to reroute the separation barrier near the West Bank village of Bilin, scene of sometimes rowdy weekly demonstrations that Israeli and Palestinian activists say helped bring about their rare legal victory.
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Israel will lift its sea and air blockade of Lebanon on Thursday at 1500 GMT, the Israeli government announces.
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DEAD SEA, Jordan  - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi   Annan on Thursday renewed his calls on Israel to lift a   blockade on Lebanon swiftly and withdraw fully from the country   as soon as 5,000 U.N. peacekeepers are in the south.
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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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The United Nations on Tuesday lifted a travel ban on aid workers in Indonesia's tsunami-battered Aceh province, the scene of a decades-long conflict between rebels and government forces that has raised concerns about the safety of relief efforts.