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19 May 2013, 19:38 MTV: Intermittent gunshots and the explosion of shells are being heard every now and then in Tripoli and the army has intensified its patrols on the frontiers.
19 May 2013, 19:26 National News Agency: Although clashes have abated, five more people were wounded in Tripoli – Taleb Dib, Sara Qureitem, Bashar Rabah, Abdul Wahhab Salam and Nagham Dib.
19 May 2013, 19:19 VDL (100.5): Hizbullah transported 10 bodies and more than 17 wounded fighters from Syria into Lebanon this evening.
19 May 2013, 19:10 FPM leader MP Michel Aoun: Although we don't know the date of the elections, but I don't usually prefer the extension of terms, as we are the people of change.
19 May 2013, 19:05 Source close to Hizbullah to AFP: At least four Hizbullah members from the Bekaa region were killed overnight in the Syrian town of Qusayr.
19 May 2013, 18:54 MTV: Hizbullah members Hasan Faisal Shukur, Abbas Mohammed Othman, Mohammed Fouad Rabah, Mohammed Qassem Abdul Sater, Hajj Ahmed Wael Raad and Hajj Ridwan al-Attar were killed in Qusayr's battles.
19 May 2013, 18:35 MTV: Reports said a Hizbullah official called Fadi al-Jazzar was killed in Qusayr's battles and contact was lost with a group that was under his command.
19 May 2013, 18:33 Caretaker Interior Minister Charbel to al-Jadeed: Security will be fully restored in Tripoli within two hours.
19 May 2013, 18:15 National News Agency: The casualty toll from the Tripoli clashes has risen to one dead and 15 wounded.
19 May 2013, 17:59 National News Agency: Two more people -- Taleb Habbabeh and Ali Mustafa -- were wounded in the ongoing clashes between Bab al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen.
19 May 2013, 17:58 The army confirmed that an officer and a soldier were wounded in the Tripoli clashes, saying its units are intensifying measures and deployment to restore normalcy in the city.
19 May 2013, 17:54 OTV: Dr. Antoine al-Bustani, the candidate backed by the FPM and its allies, has been elected as the head of the Lebanese Order of Physicians.
19 May 2013, 17:34 Security source to AFP: Two people were killed and six others wounded in the Tripoli clashes.
19 May 2013, 17:10 Sources close to Suleiman and Salam to MTV: The line-up of the new cabinet will not be announced this week.
19 May 2013, 17:04 National News Agency: The intensity of the Tripoli clashes has relatively abated.
19 May 2013, 17:02 Information obtained by MTV: The March 14 forces will push for holding a legislative parliamentary session with the Orthodox and the hybrid laws on its agenda and they will be put to a vote should Berri facilitate this step.
19 May 2013, 16:43 The National News Agency denied a media report claiming that the Lebanese army had defused a booby-trapped car that was set up by al-Nusra Front members with the aim of detonating it in Nabatiyeh.
19 May 2013, 16:39 Al-Mayadeen: A clash erupted in the Ain al-Hilweh camp between the bodyguards of al-Lino and al-Maqdah amid reports of casualties.
19 May 2013, 16:27 LBCI: No one was hurt when a passenger bus came under gunfire on Bab al-Tabbaneh's highway.
19 May 2013, 16:22 NBN: Elie Habib -- the candidate backed by March 8, the Communist party and Miqati -- has been elected as head of the Order of Physicians in the North.
19 May 2013, 16:00 National News Agency: Three more people have been wounded in Tripoli -- Taha Alaa Hussein, Rima Rameh al-Hussein and Yasmine Jamal Tartousi.
19 May 2013, 15:48 LBCI: The army urged politicians to ask the parties to practice restraint because it will not be lenient with any deployment of gunmen.
19 May 2013, 15:45 Young men from Bab al-Tabbaneh to LBCI: We're shooting back at the sources of gunfire in Jabal Mohsen and they started the fighting to deviate attention from the Qusayr battle.
19 May 2013, 15:45 Arab Democratic Party secretary-general Rifaat Eid to LBCI: We won't respond to the sources of gunfire and we were expecting clashes due to the Qusayr battle.
19 May 2013, 15:44 OTV: Mohammed Youssef Ahmed, who was injured in Jabal Mohsen, has died of his wounds.
19 May 2013, 15:41 LBCI: Sniper fire from Jabal Mohsen hit a bus carrying the plate number 162247 in al-Mallouleh.
19 May 2013, 15:40 Sheikh Salem al-Rafehi denied media reports that the Tripoli clashes erupted as news broke that 12 of his supporters were killed in Qusayr.
19 May 2013, 15:33 VDL (100.5): Clashes with light- and medium-caliber weapons are ongoing on the al-Baqqar-Hariri Project frontier and the army is responding to the sources of gunfire.
19 May 2013, 15:32 LBCI: The eastern lane of the Abu Ali roundabout was blocked with rocks as a precaution against sniper fire.
19 May 2013, 15:32 The child Dunia Mahfoud received a gunshot wound to the head in Tripoli.
19 May 2013, 15:30 Al-Jadeed: A bus carrying passengers came under gunfire on the bridge of Abu Ali River in Tripoli.
19 May 2013, 15:28 Future TV: Security reports said Hizbullah transported into Lebanon five of its fighters who were wounded in Qusayr and who all hail from the town of Tayr Debba.
19 May 2013, 15:26 National News Agency: A number of shells hit the vegetable market in Bab al-Tabbaneh and a shop went up in flames.
19 May 2013, 15:26 OTV: An army soldier was wounded in his arm in al-Omari Street in Tripoli.
19 May 2013, 15:23 LBCI: A Lebanese army officer and a soldier were reportedly wounded in the Tripoli clashes.
19 May 2013, 15:12 VDL (100.5): A dispute erupted into gunfire between the Jundallah group and the Hassoun family in Tripoli's Abi Samra.
19 May 2013, 15:11 Al-Mayadeen: The Lebanese army defused a booby-trapped car that was set up by al-Nusra Front members with the aim of detonating it in Nabatiyeh and several members were arrested.
19 May 2013, 15:08 LBCI: Six people have been wounded in Tripoli: Tareq Qassem, Samar Ghiyyeh, Khadija Khaled, Fadlallah al-Masri, Bassam al-Kaaki and Mohammed Ahmed Youssef.
19 May 2013, 15:01 OTV: Arab Democratic Party sources stressed that the party will not respond to gunfire and will let the army restore security.
19 May 2013, 14:58 OTV: The fighting intensified between on the Jabal Mohsen-Bab al-Tabbaneh frontier and three people were wounded in Jabal Mohsen.
19 May 2013, 14:53 MTV: A group belonging to al-Nusra Front surrendered to a Hizbullah group after its leaders fled to the Syrian town of al-Dabaa near Qusayr.
19 May 2013, 14:42 LBCI: The wounded toll from the Jabal Mohsen-Bab al-Tabbaneh clashes has risen to four and the army is responding to the sources of gunfire.
19 May 2013, 14:41 LBCI: Bassam al-Kaaki was wounded as five shells fell on the vegetable market in Bab al-Tabbaneh.
19 May 2013, 14:30 MTV: The army deployed heavily in the street which separates Jabal Mohsen and Bab al-Tabbaneh, amid low-intensity clashes.
19 May 2013, 14:29 MTV: The shooting started in Bab al-Tabbaneh over reports that 12 of Sheikh Salem al-Rafehi's supporters were killed while fighting alongside the Syrian opposition in Qusayr.
19 May 2013, 14:23 National News Agency: The Tripoli-Akkar international highway is witnessing intermittent sniper activity at the Bab al-Tabbaneh point, which made it dangerous for motorists.
19 May 2013, 14:23 National News Agency: The sounds of rocket-propelled grenades are still being heard in Jabal Mohsen and Bab al-Tabbaneh.
19 May 2013, 14:22 MTV: Bilal Youssef, 12, was killed in al-Omari Street in Jabal Mohsen while three wounded people were transferred to Our Lady of Zgharta Hospital.
19 May 2013, 14:22 MTV: Hizbullah announced the death of its member Hatem Hussein who hails from the town of Srifa in Tyre District and was killed in battles in the city of Qusayr.
19 May 2013, 13:53 VDL (93.3): Three people have been wounded so far in the Tripoli clashes: Mohammed Youssef, policeman Ali Rabah and the child Khaled Imad.
19 May 2013, 13:50 VDL (100.5): Clashes with medium-caliber weapons are ongoing between Bab al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen and two people were wounded.
19 May 2013, 13:38 LBCI: The situation is tense in Tripoli amid clashes between Bab al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen.
19 May 2013, 13:32 Al-Mayadeen: The exchange of gunfire between Bab al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen involved volleys of machinegun fire and mortars.
19 May 2013, 13:32 Al-Jadeed: A child was wounded by a stray bullet at the Rashid Karami Stadium.
19 May 2013, 13:29 Al-Jadeed: Sniper gunfire is targeting al-Zahriyeh neighborhood near Bab al-Tabbaneh in Tripoli.
19 May 2013, 13:26 LBCI: Mohammed Youssef was wounded as Tripoli's Jabal Mohsen area came under gunfire.
19 May 2013, 13:26 OTV: Sniper gunfire erupted on the Bab al-Tabbaneh frontier in Tripoli.
19 May 2013, 12:55 OTV: There is a heated battle over the post of the new head of the Order of Physicians and the FPM and its allies are urging doctors to vote heavily.
19 May 2013, 12:49 VDL (100.5): Hizbullah transported the bodies of eight slain fighters into Lebanese territory.
19 May 2013, 12:48 Syrian opposition's Local Coordination Committees: The FSA managed to kill a number of Hizbullah members after targeting one of their headquarters in the Sayyeda Zainab area.
19 May 2013, 12:47 MTV: March 14 won 6 out of 7 seats on the Order of Physicians' Pension Fund and Assurance and Aid Fund.
19 May 2013, 12:46 MTV: According to the preliminary results of the elections of the Lebanese Order of Physicians, four March 14 candidates and four March 8 candidates won seats on the order's council.
19 May 2013, 12:33 British Ambassador to Lebanon Tom Fletcher on Twitter: As (the) Assad regime pounds al-Qusayr, (a) question for those that provided arms, and those in Lebanon making it possible: (is) this what you signed up for?
19 May 2013, 12:14 President Michel Suleiman condemned the rocket attack on the Hermel area which left a number of Lebanese citizens wounded.
19 May 2013, 11:51 Ain el-Hilweh residents organized a march to protest the gunbattles that left one person dead.
19 May 2013, 10:17 VDL (93.3): 6 Grad rockets landed in Hermel. Some of them caused material damage after hitting a residential neighborhood.
19 May 2013, 10:01 LBCI: Four rockets landed in Hermel from the Syrian side of the border.
19 May 2013, 09:59 PM-designate Tammam Salam told his visitors that Lebanon was at a sensitive stage. He called for a wait-and-see approach on the efforts exerted by MPs on the vote law.
19 May 2013, 09:24 VDL (100.5): The Syrian National Council urged the U.N. Security Council to end what it called Hizbullah's invasion of Syria.
19 May 2013, 09:24 VDL (100.5): Hizbullah elite fighters reached the municipal building of the rebel-held town of Qusayr in Syria.
19 May 2013, 09:16 Two vehicles collided on the Zalka highway, without causing any casualties.
19 May 2013, 06:56 Caretaker PM Najib Miqati held a meeting at his Tripoli residence with several ministers and MPs to discuss the measures aimed at controlling the city's security.
19 May 2013, 06:34 MP Elie al-Ferzli to VDL (93.3): LF chief Geagea was the first to adopt the Orthodox Gathering proposal. The return to the 1960 law is an insult to Patriarch al-Rahi.
19 May 2013, 06:28 MP Jospeh al-Maalouf to Free Lebanon radio: We hope that parliament would convene. Any party that rejects attending the session would be against a new electoral law and democratic work.
19 May 2013, 05:49 MTV: Intermittent clashes in Ain el-Hilweh after one killed in gunbattles between rival factions.
19 May 2013, 05:29 Fattoush to VDL (93.3): It is our constitutional duty to avoid vacuum. The extension of parliament's mandate is aimed at thwarting vacuum.
19 May 2013, 05:27 MP Nicolas Fattoush to VDL (93.3) on his proposal to extend parliament's mandate: I made my proposal without coordinating with any side.
19 May 2013, 05:20 VDL (93.3): A man was killed after a car hit him on the Antelias highway.
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