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 PARIS (AP) - World powers pledged $7.6 billion in loans, donations and other help Thursday for a fragile Western-backed government in Lebanon that faces ruinous debt and paralyzing sectarian street violence.
Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora took a risk by leaving his fortified compound in Beirut to attend a one-day conference on developing ways to help Lebanon recover from last summer's war between Israel and Hezbollah and address its $40 billion in debt.
As the donors met in Paris, government and opposition supporters clashed at a university campus back in Beirut in new violence spilling over from Lebanon's political crisis. The army, struggling to restore order, imposed a nighttime curfew. At least three people were killed and dozens injured.
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