TRIPOLI, Lebanon (Reuters) - Six people were killed in clashes in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli and gunmen attacked a cleric in the southern port of Sidon on Monday, security sources said, in violence stoked by civil war in neighbouring Syria.
The overnight clashes in Tripoli ended a week of relative calm after 29 people were killed last month in the deadliest fighting yet between gunmen sympathetic to the uprising against Bashar al-Assad and Alawite supporters of the Syrian president.
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