A10 Israel Spurns U.N. Request Israel 's prime minister , Ehud Olmert , rebuffed a request from the United Nations secretary general , Kofi Annan , for even a partial lifting of the seven-week-old blockade of Lebanon to allow Beirut 's airport to resume normal operations .
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