Lebanon government defies bombers
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The Beirut government insists it will hold a presidential vote, despite the killing of an anti-Syrian politician.
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A new emboldened Beirut government is forcing an end to a 10-day stand-off as negotiations fail.
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QASMIYEH, Lebanon  - Israel's government   authorised on Wednesday what it called a severe response after   the Lebanese guerrilla group Hizbollah captured two soldiers   and killed eight others in cross-border attacks.
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Israel's government decided Thursday not to expand its battle with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon for now, but authorized the army to call up 30,000 reserve soldiers in case the fighting intensifies. Lebanese officials estimated a civilian death toll as high as 600.
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The Lebanese government must fully implement a recent U.N. resolution requiring the disarming of the militant Shiite group Hezbollah or Israel will be less reluctant to attack the Lebanese state if Hezbollah resumes hostilities, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said yesterday.
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Sunbathers, swimmers and paddleball players filled Tel Aviv&#039;s beaches Monday, many saying they were determined to defy Hezbollah rocket attacks and support Israel&#039;s offensive in Lebanon.
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Lebanon's government--promoted by the West as a model for Arab Democracy--faces a new crisis
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Until Tuesday, the Ministry of Education remained untouched by the car bombs that erupt daily here. Insurgents had said the place was off limits because of the
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Thousands of supporters of Lebanon's Hezbollah-led opposition paralyzed parts of central Beirut on Saturday as defiant Prime Minister Fouad Siniora won fresh international backing.
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Hezbollah and its backers, not the government, now appear in control of Lebanon&#039;s fate.
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Lebanon's army pressed on with an offensive to uproot al-Qaida-inspired militants, pounding their hideouts in a Palestinian refugee camp with artillery Saturday, a day after sending tanks and armored vehicles to seize positions in the camp's outer neighborhoods.
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Hezbollah on Tuesday shrugged off French accusations that it engaged in terrorism, without threatening to pull out of an all-party conference in France aimed at easing Lebanon&#39;s political crisis.
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Israeli security forces say they have thwarted a suicide bombing planned by the armed offshoot of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat&#39;s political movement.
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BEIRUT -- Lebanon's defense minister declared victory yesterday over the Fatah Islam militant group, saying it had been crushed after a monthlong military assault on its stronghold in a northern refugee camp and only mopping up remained.
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The Lebanese government justified Hezbollah&#39;s launching of a drone into Israeli air space, saying no other steps, including appeals to international bodies, have been effective at stopping Israeli incursions into Lebanese airspace.
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Government buildings are to be provided with defences to stop them being rammed by cars or trucks packed with explosives.
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BEIRUT -- In a dramatic day of dueling statements, Hezbollah's leader called on his supporters and allied forces to pour into Beirut today to bring down the US-backed government, a move Prime Minister Fuad Saniora compared to a coup attempt. He insisted that the government would fall only through a vote of parliament, not a show of force in the ...