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• Top Syrian general assassinated: reports

  - 2008-08-03

  BEIRUT AFP — Arab media reported on Sunday that a brigadier general thought to be the Syrian regime's liaison with Hezbollah in Lebanon has been assassinated. The reports came almost six months after the killing in a Damascus car bomb of top Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughnieh, which the...

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• Shebaa Farms report does not determine sovereignty: Ban

  - 2007-07-11

  LONDON AFP — United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon insisted Wednesday that a UN report on the disputed Shebaa Farms territory, held by Israel, did not decide on ownership or sovereignty issues. That contradicted a senior Israeli official who said on Wednesday that a UN cartographer has determined for the...

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• Will he stay or go? Blair's future on Britain's end-of-summer mind

  - 2006-08-26

  LONDON AFP — The new political season is getting underway in Britain with the same questions that everybody had on their minds when they went on holiday: when will Prime Minister Tony Blair step down, and in what circumstances? Back in London after three sunny weeks with his family in...

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• Oil prices continue falling

  - 2006-08-15

  LONDON AFP — World oil prices slipped lower as a fragile truce between Israel and Lebanon entered its second day. In London, Brent North Sea crude for September delivery fell 22 cents to 74.08 dollars per barrel in electronic trading. New York's main contract, light sweet crude for...

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• European stock markets rebound on Lebanese truce, oil price decrease

  - 2006-08-14

  LONDON AFP — European stock markets have rebounded as investor sentiment was lifted by a UN-brokered truce in Lebanon, weak oil prices and a downgrade to Britain's security threat level, dealers said. London's FTSE 100 index of leading shares rose 0.87 percent Monday to 5,870.90 points, Frankfurt's DAX 30...

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• Blair delays holiday to work on UN resolution for Middle East

  - 2006-08-04

  LONDON AFP — British Prime Minister Tony Blair delayed his summer holiday to work on a United Nations resolution to resolve the Middle East crisis, emphasising that the next two days were "crucial". The premier's office said Blair worked the telephones Friday, speaking to French President Jacques Chirac, Spanish...

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• Oil prices gain slightly: Middle East, Nigeria in focus

  - 2006-08-01

  LONDON AFP — World oil prices have risen by a small amount as the market focused on troubles in the Middle East. Traders meanwhile digested news out of Nigeria, which showed that Africa's major oil producer expects output to be close to three million barrels per day bpd by...

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• Oil prices rise before US inventories

  - 2006-07-26

  LONDON AFP — World oil prices gained slightly before the latest weekly snapshot of US energy inventories and as the market tracked ongoing violence in Israel and Lebanon, analysts said New York's main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in September, climbed 15 cents to 73.90 dollars per barrel...

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• Blair and Bush to meet in Washington to discuss Israel, Lebanon

  - 2006-07-25

  LONDON AFP — British Prime Minister Tony Blair flies to the United States on Friday for talks with President George W. Bush on Israel and Lebanon as international efforts increase to resolve the conflict. But his second visit to the White House in less than two months comes amid...

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• Thousands rally across the world against Israeli attacks on Lebanon, Gaza

  - 2006-07-22

  LONDON AFP — Thousands of people around the world bashed drums, brandished placards and chanted slogans to demand an end to Israel's offensive in Lebanon and Gaza. The biggest rally took place in London where thousands of demonstrators urged British Prime Minister Tony Blair to stop what they described...

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