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Protesters block off only road to Beirut airport
23 Jan 2007 04:13:13 GMT
Source: Reuters

BEIRUT, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Dozens of Lebanese protesters blocked off the only road leading to Beirut's international airport with rubble and burning tyres at the start of a general strike called by the opposition on Tuesday, witnesses said.

They said other protesters cut off roads in several streets in central Beirut, its mainly Shi'ite southern suburb and the southern and northern entrences of the capital.
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A passenger shows his passport to travel agent in Baghdad, January 31, 2007. Violence in Iraq and instability in Lebanon are driving hundreds of thousands of people abroad in an upheaval not matched in the Middle East since the exodus of Palestinian refugees when Israel was created in 1948.