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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.
Hezbollah-led opposition fighters seized control of pro-government strongholds in Beirut on Friday as gun battles rocked the Lebanese capital for a third day, edging the nation dangerously close to all-out civil war. Gunfire and the thump of exploding rocket-propelled grenades echoed across west Beirut.