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/ 13 January 2011
Lebanon’s president called on the Cabinet, which collapsed with the resignation of 11 ministers led by Hezbollah, to continue in a caretaker capacity.
Lebanon faces a political impasse after Hezbollah and its allies toppled the government over a United Nations-backed tribunal.
Lebanon’s government on Wednesday looked set to fall after Hezbollah and its allies warned they would quit unless demands over a UN tribunal are met.
Lebanese and Israeli troops exchanged fire on Tuesday along their tense border in a fierce skirmish which left three Lebanese soldiers.
The discovery of gas reserves under the eastern Mediterranean could mean a huge windfall for Israel and Lebanon, if it doesn’t spark a new war.
Hezbollah has an extensive list of Israeli facilities to target in the event of a new conflict, the militant group’s number two Naim Qassem said.
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/ 6 February 2010
Search teams have identified the location of main segments of the Ethiopian Airlines plane that had crashed off the coast of Lebanon last month.
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/ 26 January 2010
Officials on Tuesday sought to determine why an Ethiopian airliner veered off course on take-off from Beirut before crashing at sea.
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/ 26 January 2010
Rescuers on Tuesday continued the search for victims of the Ethiopian airliner crash off the coast of Lebanon and sought to recover the black boxes.
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/ 25 January 2010
All 90 people aboard an Ethiopian Airlines plane were feared dead after it plunged into the Mediterranean, minutes after taking off from Beirut.
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/ 25 January 2010
An Ethiopian Airlines plane with 90 people on board crashed into the sea shortly after taking off from Beirut in bad weather early on Monday.
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/ 25 January 2010
An Ethiopian Airlines plane with 90 people on board crashed into the Mediterranean sea shortly after taking off from Beirut international airport.
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/ 19 October 2009
Hezbollah on Monday accused Israel of having installed spying devices following the 2006 war between the Jewish state and the Shi’ite movement.
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/ 13 October 2009
Hezbollah is turning Lebanon into a powderkeg, Israeli President Shimon Peres charged on Tuesday a day after a blast in southern Lebanon.
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/ 16 September 2009
Lebanon’s president designated Saad al-Hariri prime minister on Wednesday, asking the politician to form a new government for a second time.
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/ 10 September 2009
Lebanese prime minister-designate Saad al-Hariri on Thursday abandoned an attempt to form a government with rival groups including Hezbollah.
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/ 8 September 2009
Lebanon’s opposition groups formally informed the president on Tuesday of their rejection of a proposed government line-up by prime minister-designate
From nudist beach parties and wild bashes to gay clubs, gambling and showgirls, Beirut is rapidly earning a reputation as sin city of the Middle East.
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/ 26 January 2009
Political leaders in Lebanon on Monday adjourned talks on a national defence strategy — at the heart of which lies the issue of Hezbollah’s weapons.
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/ 19 October 2008
After decades of war, Lebanon and Israel have plenty of tension simmering between them, but the latest source of strife is literally cooking.
A Syrian troop build-up on the Lebanon border has stoked fears that Damascus may be planning to reassert control over its tiny neighbour.
A bomb targeted a civilian bus in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli on Wednesday, killing at 16 people, including seven soldiers.
Grappling with instability is nothing new to organisers, audiences and performers at cultural events in Lebanon.
Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, in a rare public appearance, welcomed five Lebanese freed from captivity in Israel on Wednesday.
Lebanon ended weeks of wrangling on Friday and formed a unity government in which Hezbollah and its allies hold effective veto power.
Lebanon’s Hezbollah said on Wednesday it had agreed to a United Nations-mediated deal to exchange prisoners with Israel.
At least one person was killed and six injured on Saturday in a powerful blast that shook a residential building in the Lebanese city of Tripoli.
United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, on a flying viisit to Beirut, said on Monday she wanted to back Lebanon’s democratic institutions.
Lebanon’s Parliament is set to elect army chief General Michel Suleiman as the country’s president on Sunday, filling a post left vacant for six months by a political crisis that threatened a new civil war. A Qatari-brokered deal last week between rival Lebanese leaders defused 18 months of political stalemate that erupted into fighting this month.
Lebanon’s Sunni Muslim leader Saad al-Hariri pledged on Tuesday there would be no political surrender to what he called a bid by Hezbollah and its Syrian and Iranian backers to impose their will on the nation by force. The Shi’ite Hezbollah group and its opposition allies have routed supporters of the Sunni-led government in Beirut.
Lebanon’s army stepped up patrols on Tuesday as part of a drive to restore order after a week of fighting between Hezbollah fighters and pro-government gunmen. Hezbollah, the Shi’ite Muslim movement backed by Iran and Syria, and its opposition allies have routed supporters of the Sunni-led government in Beirut and hills to the east.
Clashes resumed in Lebanon’s northern city of Tripoli on Monday and security sources said at least 36 people had been killed on Sunday in fighting between Hezbollah and its pro-government Druze opponents east of Beirut. A precarious calm prevailed in Beirut, where politicians prepared to meet Arab League mediators.