Lebanon awaits lifting of Israeli blockade
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Lebanon emerges on Thursday from a   costly eight-week Israeli blockade of its airport and   territorial waters, which German advisers and U.N. forces will   now help the Lebanese authorities to monitor.
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Israel will lift its naval blockade of Lebanon within 48 hours, having received assurances international forces will have arrived by then to monitor the seas, government spokesman Asaf Shariv said Friday.
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The U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon   said Israel ended its naval blockade on Lebanon on Friday after   an international naval force became operational off the   Lebanese coast.
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Israel struck Beirut airport and   Hizbollah television and began enforcing a naval blockade of   Lebanon on Thursday, intensifying reprisals after Hizbollah   seized two Israeli soldiers and killed eight a day earlier.
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Israel lifted its blockade of Lebanon's international airport on Thursday but said it was keeping a naval blockade in place until an international force deployed off the coast.
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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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Thousands of Lebanese troops tightened security around parliament in Beirut on Tuesday but a session called to elect a new president was set to be postponed after the opposition vowed to boycott it.
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The fishermen in this southern Lebanese port city are back at work now that the Israeli sea embargo has been lifted. But so far their catch has been disappointingly small, and some of them contend their nets are often filled with bombs and missile parts.
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There's a lot of waiting and worrying in Lebanon these days. One year after Israel and the Shiite Hezbollah militia went to war, large swaths of Lebanon still lie in ruins and as rival factions struggle for control over the country.
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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 to withdraw fully from the   country as soon as 5,000 U.N. peacekeepers are in the south.
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The U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon  said Israel ended its naval blockade on Lebanon on Friday after  an international naval force became operational off the  Lebanese coast.
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U.N. peacekeepers asked Israel's army on Wednesday to pull down a new barbed-wire barrier that Lebanon said encroached on its territory, but Israel denied it was on Lebanese soil &#151; a test of the month-old cease-fire.
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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 wants an expanded U.N. force to help monitor the Lebanese border to prevent Iran and Syria from replenishing Hezbollah's weapons, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said Wednesday.
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U.N. peacekeepers on Wednesday asked Israel's army to pull down a new barbed-wire barrier that Lebanon said encroached on its territory, a U.N. spokesman said.
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By ALFRED de MONTESQUIOU  TYRE, Lebanon - The fishermen in this southern Lebanese port city are back at work now that the Israeli sea embargo has been lifted.
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Israel will lift its sea and air blockade of Lebanon on Thursday at 1500 GMT, the Israeli government announces.