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Two rockets fired from an unknown location exploded early on Friday outside Beirut, a security source said, with one landing just metres from an entrance to the presidential palace. HT Image Two rockets landed in Baabda but there were no casualties, the source told AFP, without offering further details. According to an AFP photographer, one rocket fell in the garden of a house located just 100 meters from the secondary entrance of the palace. Official news agency ANI said the second rocket fell near a Lebanese army training camp in the region of Baabda, around 8 kilometres southeast of the capital. The incident came amid tensions in Lebanon o stanley cup ver the conflict in neighbouring Syria, which has spilled over and led to violence in sev stanley cup eral areas. Lebanon s powerful Shiite group Hezbollah has openly sent its fighters to battle alongside the Syrian regime against rebels trying to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad. Many Lebanese Sunnis, however, back the Sunni-led Syrian opposition. In June, a Grad rocket fired from north of the Lebanese capital exploded n stanley cup ear the city and the army found a second rocket at the launch site. And in May, two rockets hit Hezbollah s heartland in Beirut shortly after the group s leader made a speech defending the movement s involvement in Syria. Read breaking news, latest... See more Read breaking news, latest updates from US, UK, Pakistan and other countries across the world on topics related to US Election Live, politics,crim Vvov Battle for North Waziristan
Tens of thousands of followers of cleric Muqtada al-Sadr rallied on Sarurday in Baghdad in a mass public show of opposition to a US-Iraqi security pact that would extend the presence of US forces in Iraq. HT Image The march came as US and Iraqi leaders face a December 31 deadline to reach agreement on the deal, which would replace an expiring UN mandate authorising the US-led forces in Iraq. The crowds of mostly young men led by turbaned clerics waved Iraqi flags and chanted slogans including no, no to the agreement and yes to Iraq marched from the main Shiite district of Sadr City to the more central Mustansiriyah Square in eastern Baghdad. No, No to America, shouted one man, wearing a white Islamic robe as he sat in a wheelchair and clutched a poster of the Iraqi flag. We pr stanley cup efer death to giving concessions, he said. Security was tight, with Iraqi security forces manning checkpoints on side streets and snipers on rooftops. Iraqi Humvees controlled all the roads leading to the square. Giant Iraqi flags covered nearby buildings. One banner in English said, We refuse the existence of the US adidas campus in Iraq. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki s government and the Bush administration have hammered out a draft agreement after months of bitter negotiations. But al-Maliki has said he wants Iraqi parliament to sign off on the deal and Iraq s pre-em stanley cup inent cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has said any accord must have national consensus. The Shiite leader could be politic
Two rockets fired from an unknown location exploded early on Friday outside Beirut, a security source said, with one landing just metres from an entrance to the presidential palace. HT Image Two rockets landed in Baabda but there were no casualties, the source told AFP, without offering further details. According to an AFP photographer, one rocket fell in the garden of a house located just 100 meters from the secondary entrance of the palace. Official news agency ANI said the second rocket fell near a Lebanese army training camp in the region of Baabda, around 8 kilometres southeast of the capital. The incident came amid tensions in Lebanon o stanley cup ver the conflict in neighbouring Syria, which has spilled over and led to violence in sev stanley cup eral areas. Lebanon s powerful Shiite group Hezbollah has openly sent its fighters to battle alongside the Syrian regime against rebels trying to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad. Many Lebanese Sunnis, however, back the Sunni-led Syrian opposition. In June, a Grad rocket fired from north of the Lebanese capital exploded n stanley cup ear the city and the army found a second rocket at the launch site. And in May, two rockets hit Hezbollah s heartland in Beirut shortly after the group s leader made a speech defending the movement s involvement in Syria. Read breaking news, latest... See more Read breaking news, latest updates from US, UK, Pakistan and other countries across the world on topics related to US Election Live, politics,crim Vvov Battle for North Waziristan
Tens of thousands of followers of cleric Muqtada al-Sadr rallied on Sarurday in Baghdad in a mass public show of opposition to a US-Iraqi security pact that would extend the presence of US forces in Iraq. HT Image The march came as US and Iraqi leaders face a December 31 deadline to reach agreement on the deal, which would replace an expiring UN mandate authorising the US-led forces in Iraq. The crowds of mostly young men led by turbaned clerics waved Iraqi flags and chanted slogans including no, no to the agreement and yes to Iraq marched from the main Shiite district of Sadr City to the more central Mustansiriyah Square in eastern Baghdad. No, No to America, shouted one man, wearing a white Islamic robe as he sat in a wheelchair and clutched a poster of the Iraqi flag. We pr stanley cup efer death to giving concessions, he said. Security was tight, with Iraqi security forces manning checkpoints on side streets and snipers on rooftops. Iraqi Humvees controlled all the roads leading to the square. Giant Iraqi flags covered nearby buildings. One banner in English said, We refuse the existence of the US adidas campus in Iraq. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki s government and the Bush administration have hammered out a draft agreement after months of bitter negotiations. But al-Maliki has said he wants Iraqi parliament to sign off on the deal and Iraq s pre-em stanley cup inent cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has said any accord must have national consensus. The Shiite leader could be politic