The Lebanese army has announced that it has frozen measures taken by the government against the Shi'ite Hezbollah movement, which resulted in fighting that killed more than 35 people.
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Army intervenes in Beirut clashes ... backdown was announced by Prime Minister Fouad Siniora in a televised address. Witnesses say that Hezbollah has begun to withdraw from the streets of the capital, Beirut, and turn it over to the army, ending a crisis which threatened to topple the country into civil war.
(Deutsche Welle)
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