Lebanon awaits lifting of blockade
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Lebanon emerges on Thursday from an   8-week-old 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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International pressure mounted on Syria  to ease its grip over Lebanon as stunned Lebanese prepared to  bury slain former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri on Wednesday.
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The Lebanese government decided Monday to protest to the U.N. Security Council over Israel's blockade of the country and call on it to force Israel to lift the siege.
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JERUSALEM -- Israel lifted its air blockade of Lebanon yesterday after eight weeks, but maintained its sea cordon after determining that not enough international forces had taken up position along the coast to enforce an arms embargo against the Shi'ite militia Hezbollah.
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The UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon says Israel has lifted its sea blockade of the country.
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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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DEAD SEA, Jordan  - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi   Annan on Thursday renewed his calls for Israel to lift its   blockade of 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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TRIPOLI -- The United States and Arab allies rushed military aid to Lebanon yesterday, boosting its strength before a possible army assault to crush Islamic militants barricaded in a Palestinian refugee camp.
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Security is tight in Beirut amid fears that anti-government protests led by the Hezbollah militia may turn violent.
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TRIPOLI, Lebanon -- Lebanon's prime minister vowed yesterday to wipe out an Islamic militant group barricaded in a Palestinian refugee camp, raising the prospect that the army will either storm the camp, in what would likely be a bloody battle, or dig in for a long siege to force its surrender.
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Relatives of two French reporters held  hostage in Iraq waited anxiously on Wednesday for news of their  fate after a deadline for Paris to scrap a ban on Muslim  headscarves in schools apparently passed without incident.
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Israel will lift its eight-week-old   air and sea blockade of Lebanon at 1500 GMT on Thursday,   handing over control to international forces, Prime Minister   Ehud Olmert's office said.
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International pressure mounted on Syria to ease its grip over Lebanon as stunned Lebanese prepared to bury slain former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri on Wednesday.
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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.
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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 on Thursday imposed a sea and air blockade on Lebanon to cut off supply routes to Lebanese militants, the Israeli military said.
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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.