Security tight for Beirut rally
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Troops are deployed in Beirut ahead of a mass opposition rally calling for the Lebanese government to quit.
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BEIRUT -- Troops in armored cars guarded Sunni Muslim neighborhoods in the capital yesterday after the shooting death of a young Shi'ite man. Shi'ite leaders urged the victim's family to avoid revenge, fearing sectarian violence that could detonate Lebanon's political crisis.
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BEIRUT, Dec. 10 -- Hezbollah and its allies turned out the biggest crowds yet in downtown Beirut, sending hundreds of thousands of followers to the gates of the government headquarters Sunday in a feat of mobilization and discipline described by some leaders  as the last mass protest before the...
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Security is tight in the Bangladesh capital as tens and thousands of opposition supporters prepared to rally near the presidential palace to demand a delay of next month's elections.
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Extra security guards around churches in Egypt and Lebanon. Armed officers surrounding at least one. With the tensions over Pope Benedict XVI's remarks on Islam still high, many in the Mideast's large Christian communities are worried about a backlash.
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Lebanon's army is on high alert a day after bloody clashes between troops and Shia demonstrators.
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Thousands of Hezbollah supporters packed Beirut's bombed-out suburbs for a rally Friday intended to showcase the group's insistence that it won't disarm.
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Thousands of Hezbollah supporters poured into Beirut, vowing to stay until the Lebanese government falls.
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Activists and police are preparing for a tense standoff and possible violence on New York streets when hundreds of thousands gather to decry the Iraq war and Bush administration polices during the Republican convention.
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Even before the killing of a key Christian politician, Beirut was primed for trouble. Now, it may be hard to avoid confrontation
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Anti-Syrian lawmakers gathered at Lebanon's parliament under tight security on Tuesday for a session intended to elect a new president, but an opposition boycott was expected to foil any vote.
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Protests continue in Beirut to try to bring down the government as Arab nations renew efforts to mediate.
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Hundreds of Hezbollah supporters from across southern Lebanon began marching toward Beirut on Thursday for a rally to showcase the group's insistence it won't disarm.
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Thousands of Lebanese have been pouring into Beirut for a Hezbollah-led protest aimed at toppling the Western-backed government, which has vowed it will not buckle under the pressure.
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By ZEINA KARAM Saturday, December 02, 2006 Thousands of Hezbollah supporters set up camp in the heart of Beirut on Saturday, starting an open-ended sit-in with a carnival atmosphere intended to pressure the ...Comment
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Hundreds of demonstrators attacked the building of the Lebanese general security at the border with Syria doubting the credibility of the report by the Lebanese authorities on the death of Ismail Muhammad al-Khatib suspected to be a member in al-Qaida
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Throngs of Lebanese came out Thursday for two opposing gatherings: Hezbollah backers for the funeral of a slain militant suspected in hundreds of American deaths, and their pro-Western opponents to mark the assassination of an anti-Syrian former prime minister.