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• Lebanese army opens fire after bomb thrown in Tripoli

  - 2008-08-17

  TRIPOLI, Lebanon AFP — The Lebanese army opened fire early Monday after a homemade bomb was thrown in an area of the northern city of Tripoli that has seen bloody clashes since May between two rival factions, an army spokesman told AFP. "The army fired at the place from...

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• US: Hezbollah must end 'disruptive activities'

  - 2008-05-08

  CRAWFORD, Texas AFP — The United States on Thursday demanded that Lebanon's Hezbollah Shiite militant group "stop their disruptive activities" as fierce gunbattles raged in Beirut. "Hezbollah needs to make a choice: Be a terrorist organization or be a political party, but quit trying to be both. They need...

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• US dismisses Hezbollah criticism

  - 2008-02-29

  WASHINGTON AFP — The United States on Friday shrugged off pro-Syria Hezbollah's criticisms of the deployment of a US warship to waters off Lebanon and insisted the show of force meant to promote stability. "On Hezbollah's concerns, I would express some of our own concerns with Hezbollah's actions. So...

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• Israelis shoot two in Lebanon border village

  - 2007-11-10

  JERUSALEM AFP — Israeli troops shot and wounded two suspected Lebanese drug smugglers as they tried to infiltrate the Israeli-held sector of a divided border village, a military spokesman said on Saturday. He said the two Lebanese in Friday's incident in the village of Ghajar were caught transporting a...

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• Forest fires rage again in Lebanon

  - 2007-11-07

  BEIRUT AFP — Fires have destroyed dozens of hectares acres of woodlands across Lebanon, just weeks after earlier forest fires devastated mountainous parts of the country, an army spokesman said on Wednesday. "A total of 1,542 dunums (154 hectares) were destroyed on Tuesday and Wednesday morning, in addition to...

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• Lebanese army opens fire on intruding Israeli jets

  - 2007-10-25

  MARJAYOUN, Lebanon AFP — Lebanese troops opened fire on two Israeli jets flying low over the south of the country on Thursday, the police and army said. "The Lebanese army used anti-aircraft weapons toward two Israeli warplanes that were flying low over the Marjayoun area," said a police spokesman,...

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• Two Palestinians hurt in grenade blast at Lebanon school

  - 2007-10-16

  TRIPOLI, Lebanon AFP — A Palestinian girl was seriously injured on Tuesday when a grenade she was handling exploded at a school in northern Lebanon where Palestinian refugees are being temporarily housed, police said. A spokesman said a man in his 60s who was near the girl, who a...

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• Lebanon opposition says armed militants 'just having fun'

  - 2007-10-05

  BEIRUT AFP — Lebanon's Christian opposition party denied on Friday that some of its members were undergoing paramilitary training, saying that several of them who were detained with weapons were just having fun. "They were just out having fun with real weapons but were not undergoing any military training...

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• Bush to welcome son of murdered Lebanese prime minister

  - 2007-09-28

  WASHINGTON AFP — US President George W. Bush is to host the son of slain former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri on Thursday, a spokesman said Wednesday. Bush will welcome Saad Hariri, the current leader of Parliament leader, amid a deep political crisis in his country, spokesman Scott Stanzel...

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• Lebanon hunts down fugitives after final assault on camp

  - 2007-09-03

  NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon AFP — Lebanese soldiers hunted down fugitive militants on Monday after crushing an Islamist group in fierce fighting that ended a 15-week standoff at a battered Palestinian refugee camp. Nahr al-Bared north of Tripoli fell to a final massive assault on Sunday after 105 days of...

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