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Beirut rally attracts huge crowd
The rally is possibly the largest demonstration Beirut has seen.
Chants urging PM Fouad Siniora to quit echoed across the city on the 10th day of protests against his government.
Demonstrators are waving the red, green and white flag of Lebanon.
Fully-veiled Shia women, Christian students wearing t-shirts and fathers hoisting children on their shoulders were among crowds who cheered a series of opposition speakers urging the government`s resignation, the AFP news agency reported.
Lebanese army combat troops sealed off major roads around the two squares where the rally is taking place.
"We will stay for days, weeks or months. Whatever it takes to bring down the government," one protester, Nader Hafez, told Reuters news agency.
The opposition accuses the government of being weak and corrupt, and says it no longer represents the Lebanese people after six Shiite ministers resigned last month.
Under the constitution, the resignation of another two ministers would automatically bring it down.