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20 May 2013, 14:17 LBCI identified the slain soldier in Bab al-Tabbaneh as Omar Omar.
20 May 2013, 14:06 LBCI: The army is still deployed in Syria Street and trying to implement its security plan.
20 May 2013, 13:57 MTV: The Interior Ministry extended to May 27 the deadline for submitting candidacies for the parliamentary elections.
20 May 2013, 13:47 LBCI: A soldier was reportedly killed and four others wounded as the army attempted to enter Bab al-Tabbaneh.
20 May 2013, 13:44 Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: 28 Hizbullah fighters have been killed and 70 wounded, three critically, in the unrest in al-Qusayr.
20 May 2013, 12:50 MPs according to LBCI: Berri has not set the date for another electoral subcommittee meeting pending contacts he will carry out over the next two days.
20 May 2013, 12:50 LBCI: The electoral subcommittee failed to achieve any progress during its four-hour meeting.
20 May 2013, 12:47 OTV: A unit from the Third Rapid Intervention Regiment has entered Bab al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen.
20 May 2013, 12:42 OTV: An agreement was not reached at the electoral subcommittee and another meeting will not be held on Monday.
20 May 2013, 12:39 MTV: Contacts are ongoing between Berri and members of the electoral subcommittee and it is unlikely that a session will be held at night.
20 May 2013, 12:39 OTV: The parliamentary subcommittee decided to hold further meetings and Berri would set the date and time.
20 May 2013, 12:35 MTV: MPs left Ain al-Tineh after the meeting of the parliamentary committee.
20 May 2013, 12:32 VDL (93.3): A shell hit a historic mill in Bab al-Tabbaneh, causing no casualties.
20 May 2013, 12:30 The meeting of the parliamentary subcommittee that was held in Ain al-Tineh has ended.
20 May 2013, 12:17 OTV: Army forces prepare to enter the Jabal Mohsen area in Tripoli.
20 May 2013, 12:16 VDL (93.3): The army is preparing to implement a security plan in all areas that witnessed clashes in Tripoli.
20 May 2013, 12:04 PSP chief MP Walid Jumblat rejected to al-Anbaa the use of the arms on the internal scene: Political disputes should only be resolved through dialogue.
20 May 2013, 11:46 PM-designate Tammam Salam held a telephone conversation with Caretaker PM Najib Miqati expressing concern over the latest security breakouts in Tripoli.
20 May 2013, 11:30 The military court tasked military police to carry out the preliminary investigation into the fighting in the northern city of Tripoli.
20 May 2013, 11:27 Former PM Saad Hariri criticized in a statement the president and government's silence over Hizbullah's fighting Syria: Efforts must be exerted to reach agreement on electoral law to avoid vacuum.
20 May 2013, 11:24 VDL (93.3): The fighting and sniper fire in Tripoli intensified and 2 people were injured, raising the number of today's wounded to 3.
20 May 2013, 10:35 The defense ministry froze the issuing of gun licenses in Tripoli starting today until further notice.
20 May 2013, 10:11 MTV: Heavy gunfire in Tripoli after the funeral of Abdul Qader al-Ahmed, who was killed in Sunday's clashes.
20 May 2013, 10:00 Berri at the start of the subcommittee: Everyone should assume his responsibility. If we fail to agree on a vote law then I will admit it.
20 May 2013, 09:45 LBCI: The electoral subcommittee meeting is underway at Berri's Ain el-Tineh residence.
20 May 2013, 09:42 LF MP George Adwan from Ain el-Tineh: We oppose the 1960 electoral law and the extension of the parliament's term. We propose voting on a new law at the parliament.
20 May 2013, 09:32 MP Hagop Pakradounian according to LBCI: As part of the Tashnag Party, we oppose the 1960 electoral law and support extending parliament's term.
20 May 2013, 09:23 LBCI quoting MP Akram Shehayeb: We agree to both the extension of the parliament's tenure or the adoption of the 1960 law. On the condition we don't fall into vacuum.
20 May 2013, 09:22 Mustaqbal MP Ahmed Fatfat stressed his opposition to extending parliament's term, adding that the bloc will not submit their candidacies today.
20 May 2013, 09:20 FPM Alain Aoun from Ain el-Tineh according to LBCI: We oppose the 1960 law and extending parliament's term.
20 May 2013, 09:13 MP Butros Harb from the Baabda Palace: The state institutions should not be obstructed and the country shouldn't fall into any political vacuum.
20 May 2013, 09:11 LBCI: Speaker Berri is holding talks with MP Sami Gemayel at Ain el-Tineh.
20 May 2013, 09:11 VDL (100.5): MP Sami Gemayel arrived at Ain el-Tineh to attend the electoral subcommittee meeting.
20 May 2013, 08:05 MTV: A rocket fell on the wheat market in Tripoli.
20 May 2013, 07:59 LBCI: Heavy sniper fire in the neighborhoods that witnessed gunbattles in Tripoli.
20 May 2013, 07:46 LBCI: The army is carrying out raids in the areas that are witnessing sporadic fire.
20 May 2013, 07:45 Beirut police arrested 6 Lebanese, 2 Palestinians and a Syrian for committing different crimes. They also seized 7 vehicles.
20 May 2013, 07:39 VDL (100.5): Caretaker Environment Minister Nazem Khoury headed to Geneva to represent President Michel Suleiman at the Disaster Risk Reduction conference.
20 May 2013, 07:01 Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: 23 Hizbullah fighters were killed in Syria's Qusayr.
20 May 2013, 06:49 Free Lebanon Radio: A trailer that was disconnected from a truck caused bumper-to-bumper traffic on Dora highway.
20 May 2013, 06:42 ISf detained 127 people for committing various crimes throughout Lebanese territories.
20 May 2013, 06:13 Caretaker Minister Faisal Karami to VDL (93.3): We demand the security forces to implement a security plan to calm the situation in Tripoli.
20 May 2013, 05:32 MP Samir al-Jisr to VDL (100.5): Tripoli remains an explosives box but the only way is for the Lebanese army to take stern measures against gunmen.
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.
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