Clashes Between Protesters, Police Resume in Beirut

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Lebanese security forces and the military are again using tear gas and rubber sticks against violent Shiite youths in the area of Martyr’s Square in central Beirut, where order had been briefly restored earlier in the day, an activist said.

The clashes started earlier on Saturday, and law enforcement managed to restore calm by making a truce with rioters who had spent hours trying to break through barricades surrounding protest camps at Martyr’s Square and Ring Bridge.

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