31.   A journalist for the international Arab newspaper Al Hayat has been arrested by the Lebanese army, the second detention of a Lebanese Christian journalist in three days.

32.   A Lebanese army sergeant was killed and a civilian man was wounded in the shell fire, according to police in Nabatiyeh.

33.   A Lebanese army statement said its gunners fired at two Israeli warplanes that flew over south Lebanon villages, forcing them to retreat.

34.   A police statement said Israeli helicopter gunships made nightlong reconnaissance sorties over the region under parachute flares, drawing anti-aircraft fire from Lebanese army positions.

35.   A military prosecutor demanded the death penalty Friday for a former Lebanese army general accused of treason for leading an Israel-allied militia in south Lebanon.

36.   A former Lebanese army commander who lives in exile in France on Friday urged supporters at home to continue protesting the presence of Syrian troops in Lebanon.

37.   A meeting of Lebanese army officers and the U.N. peacekeeping force to plan the deployment of peacekeepers was called off until further notice.

38.   A guerrilla held the crushed skull of a commando by the hair and displayed it for photographers before a Lebanese army soldier intervened and took away the head.

39.   A Lebanese army mediation ended the fighting, in which a Hezbollah guerrilla was also wounded.

40.   A Lebanese army position was targeted and at least one soldier was wounded.