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Time Is Running Out for Lebanon to Disarm Hezbollah, U.S. Officials Warn  The New York Times The Take: Will Lebanon disarm Hezbollah?  Al Jazeera How Lebanon is planning to disarm Hezbollah by the end of the year  PBS Hezbollah ally warns Lebanon faces ‘ball of fire’ as cabinet set to debate disarmament  The Times of Israel Washington Has One Chance to Help Disarm Hezbollah  Foreign …

BEIRUT (AP) — The Lebanese government asked the national army on Tuesday to prepare a plan in which only state institutions will have weapons in the small nation by the end of the year, a move that aims to disarm the militant Hezbollah group. The announcement by Prime Minister Nawaf Salam after a nearly six-hour Cabinet meeting, came shortly after …