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Blasts Accompany Crippling Lebanon Strike

Casualties unclear as workers demand higher wages amid government crisis

By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff

Posted May 7, 2008 1:04 PM CDT

(Newser) – Explosions and gunfire sounded throughout Beirut today as a politically charged workers' strike turned violent. A Hezbollah-led opposition party had called for a one-day general strike, ostensibly for higher wages, the BBC reports. But things soon turned ugly, with flaming barricades along major roads, and... Read full story »

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