Lebanese Protesters

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  Audi Dealership Destroyed In The Beirut Explosion

  The completely destroyed Audi dealership in Beirut, Lebanon shows a result of the massive explosions that rocked the city last week with damages amounting to over $10 billion and counting.

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  Beirut Police Fire Tear Gas At Protesters Pelting Stones Near Parliament

  Lebanese police fired tear gas to try to disperse rock-throwing protesters blocking a road near parliament in Beirut on Sunday in a second day of anti-government demonstrations triggered by last week's devastating explosion.

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  "Execute Them": Lebanon Protesters Demand Revenge After Explosion

  Mock gallows nooses tied to brooms: Lebanese protesters on Saturday clamoured for bloody revenge against a leadership they blame for the massive blast that engulfed their capital.

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  Lebanon Forces Fire Tear Gas At Protestors Near US Embassy

  Lebanese security forces fired tear gas and water cannons on Sunday at demonstrators near the US embassy as they protested Washington's decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

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  Lebanese Activists Intensify Protest Against Controversial Rape Law

  Lebanese activists ramped up their campaign to scrap a controversial law allowing rapists who marry their victims to go free, with a dramatic installation today along Beirut's sunny seaside.

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  Lebanese in Mass 'You Stink' Rally Against Politicians

  Tens of thousands of protesters from across Lebanon staged a mass rally in downtown Beirut Saturday against a political class they accuse of corruption and failing to provide basic services.

• Lebanese Soldier Defects to Al Qaeda in Syria, Appears on YouTube

  A Lebanese soldier has defected to an Al Qaeda group in neighbouring Syria, in the first such incident, in protest at what he said was the injustice against Sunni Muslims in his country.

• Lebanese Bomb Maker Killed, Militant Arrested: Sources

  Lebanese security forces killed a bomb maker and arrested another prominent militant suspect overnight in the northern city of Tripoli, sending armed supporters onto the streets in protest, security sources said on Sunday.

• Protester killed outside Iran's Beirut embassy

  A Lebanese protester was killed outside the Iranian embassy in Beirut on Sunday after gunmen from the Iranian-backed Shi'ite militia Hezbollah opened fire when anti-Hezbollah Shi'ite demonstrators approached, witnesses and officials said.

• Syrian president Assad says 'war targets resistance axis': State media

  President Bashar al-Assad told Iran's foreign minister on Wednesday that the war engulfing Syria is targeting not just it but the "resistance axis," state news agency SANA reported. President Assad's regime, Iran and the powerful Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah refer to themselves as a "resistance axis" in their common opposition to Israel.

• Sudanese storm German embassy, hoist Islamic flag

  Sudanese demonstrators incensed by a film that insults the Prophet Mohammad broke into the German embassy in Khartoum on Friday and hoisted an Islamic flag, while one person was killed in protests in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli.

• Protests erupt over journalists' killing in Syria

  Syrian activists and Lebanese journalists burned the Russian flag at a rally in downtown Beirut on Wednesday evening, in protest over the deaths earlier in the day of two foreign journalists in the besieged Syrian city of Homs.

• Syria's crackdown hits ally Hezbollah's image

  As Syria's crackdown on protesters gets bloodier, it is having repercussions for one of Damascus' most crucial allies, eroding the reputation of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.