Lebanon's political crisis heading for showdown
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Hezbollah will take to the streets next week to try to topple the government, political sources said on Friday, in a move that would stoke tension in a country already reeling after the assassination of a minister.
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Deadly clashes erupted in Beirut on Sunday, leaving at least seven people dead and escalating Lebanonâs deepest political crisis since the end of its civil war in 1990.
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Lebanon's political crisis showed no sign of easing on Sunday, with the pro-Syrian opposition pressing its protest campaign to topple the Western-backed government.
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Rival Lebanese leaders tried to salvage a parliamentary session on Monday which is due to elect the army chief as president, a move that could defuse Lebanon's worst political crisis since the 1975-90 civil war.
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Lebanon's political divide has reached a dangerous deadlock after pro-Western ministers defied their pro-Syrian rivals to take the next step in ratifying an international court into ex-premier Rafiq Hariri's 2005 murder.
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BEIRUT -- One of Lebanon's most pronounced political crises in a generation slid into bloodshed yesterday when assailants showered gunfire on a car carrying an anti-Syrian politician and scion of the country's most prominent Christian family, killing him and a bodyguard and pushing Lebanon a step closer to civil strife.
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BEIRUT, Nov. 19 -- In a deepening crisis that has paralyzed Lebanese politics, the leader of Hezbollah urged his well-organized followers to prepare for mass protests aimed at toppling the U.S.-backed government of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora.
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Seven people were shot dead in Beirut on Sunday in some of the worst internal violence since Lebanon's 1975-90 civil war, raising tensions in a country gripped by a political crisis.
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Card. Sfeir says Lebanon has become &quot;a toy&quot; in the hands of the regional powers. According to many politicians and observers the existence of the country is at risk.
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Lebanon was plunged into fresh turmoil on Wednesday when a bitter power struggle loomed after the assassination of an anti-Syrian Christian cabinet minister that his allies blamed on Damascus.
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The death of a young man may turn the emotional tide against the Lebanese government
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The Lebanese army intervenes to break up clashes between rival political factions in Beirut.
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Lebanon's political groups are meeting in France to try to end a prolonged political crisis gripping the nation.
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Violent clashes broke out Sunday between Shiite and Sunni Muslims in the capital, leaving one man dead from gunshot wounds and 21 others injured at a time when tensions throughout Lebanon threaten the country's fragile sectarian and political balance.
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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 ...
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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 rival parties met in a French chateau Saturday for unusual and long-awaited talks meant to ease a political and sectarian crisis threatening to rip apart their country.