Lebanon says to break blockade in 48 hours
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Lebanese Foreign Minister Fawzi Salloukh   said on Wednesday his country would break Israel's blockade by   force if it is not lifted in a 48-hour timeframe indicated by   U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
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With a low-flying passenger jet circling the capital, Lebanon put on a boisterous show Thursday to celebrate the end of Israel's air blockade. But Israel said its closure of Lebanon's ports will remain in force until international forces arrive to watch the seas.
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BEIRUT, Sept. 4 -- The Lebanese government sought to reassert authority over its air and sea borders Monday in the face of a five-week-old Israeli blockade.
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JERUSALEM -- Kofi Annan, the UN secretary-general, said yesterday that Israel's air and sea blockade of Lebanon was a ``humiliation," and demanded that it be lifted. But Israel said that it first needed assurances that forces deployed on the border could stop weapons shipments to Hezbollah.
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The U.N. secretary general said today that he had put in motion a plan that could lead to a lifting of the blockade within 48 hours.
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A draft resolution circulating Saturday among U.N. Security Council members would call for an immediate halt to fighting between Israel and Hezbollah and seek a wide new buffer zone in south Lebanon monitored by international forces and the Lebanese army.
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The U.N.'s deputy humanitarian chief urged Israel on Friday to immediately lift the air and sea blockade on Lebanon to get aid quickly to hundreds of thousands of Lebanese who were caught up in the Israeli-Hezbollah war.
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Lebanon's presidential election has been postponed from Saturday until the end of next week, a senior political source said on Friday, prolonging a power vacuum that threatens to further destabilize the country.
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Israel said on Wednesday it would lift   an eight-week-old air and sea blockade against Lebanon on   Thursday, handing over control to international forces.
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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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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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Lebanon's government says militants entrenched in a refugee camp must surrender or face more military action.
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Iraqi militants holding two French journalists have reportedly set a 48-hour deadline for their new demands to be met, including payment of a five-million-dollar ransom.
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Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa renewed efforts on Tuesday to end a political standoff in Lebanon, which many fear could turn violent as the country faces its worst political split since the 1975-1990 civil war.
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Move comes in anticipation of final assault by Lebanese army after almost two months of fighting.
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NAHR EL-BARED REFUGEE CAMP, Lebanon -- Lebanon's defense minister issued an ultimatum yesterday to Islamic militants barricaded in this Palestinian refugee camp to surrender or face a military onslaught.
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The brown sedan kicks up dirt as it speeds along the small trail and crosses the border from Syria with no security forces in sight &#151; another reminder how hard it will be for Lebanon to keep weapons from being smuggled to rearm Hezbollah.