Top Lebanese Sunni Muslim leader Saad Hariri called on Hezbollah's leader Thursday to work with him to end the fighting that has broken out in Beirut between their factions. In a televised appearance, Hariri called on Hezbollah to "pull fighters off the street ... To save Lebanon from hell."

Hariri, the son of a former prime minister Rafik Hariri who was slain three years earlier by a car bomb, also proposed a compromise on government decision that sparked street confrontations between his group and Hizbullah. Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah earlier had said that the government's decision to declare the militant group's military telecommunication network illegal was tantamount to declaring war on his organization. (AP)