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• Syrian-backed opposition claims victory in Lebanon poll

  - 2007-08-05

  BEIRUT AFP — Lebanon's Western-backed ruling majority was dealt a blow on Monday in by-elections that split the country's Christian camp in two and boosted the Syrian-backed opposition ahead of a presidential poll. Official results showed the candidate representing opposition leader Michel Aoun winning by a slim margin of...

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• Lebanon inquiry will not demand Olmert resignation

  - 2007-04-28

  JERUSALEM AFP — The report into the failures of last summer's war against Hezbollah, due to published on Monday, reportedly will not call for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's resignation. Channel 10 television said the Winograd Commission report, of which it had obtained a copy, denounces the "precipitous and...

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• Zapatero sees happy end to Endesa saga

  - 2006-09-12

  MEERSBURG, Germany AFP — Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has dashed hopes he might announce an end to a tug of war over a German group's bid for Spanish electricity supplier Endesa at a meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel. But Zapatero said he believed there would still be...

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• Ottawa pledges to help Lebanon's battered fishing industry

  - 2006-08-30

  OTTAWA AFP — Ottawa pledged two million Canadian dollars (1.8 million US dollars) to clean up oil spills caused by war off the coast of Lebanon and to help its fragile fishing industry recover. "Canada is responding to the needs of the people in Lebanon, who are now trying to...

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• 'British' night vision goggles found in Hezbollah command bunkers

  - 2006-08-20

  LONDON AFP — Night vision goggles that were apparently made in Britain were found in the Shiite militia Hezbollah's command bunkers in southern Lebanon by the Israeli Defence Forces IDF, a spokesman for the Foreign Office told AFP. "The Israeli Defence Forces, we understand, have found some equipment in...

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• Mediterranean oil spill prompts crisis meeting

  - 2006-08-15

  ATHENS AFP — Officials from the United Nations, European Union and a maritime organization are set to meet in Greece Thursday to map out a strategy for containing a massive Mediterranean oil spill caused by the conflict in Lebanon. Nearly 15,000 tons of leaked oil from the Jiyyeh electric...

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• Lebanon's climb to reconstruction, steep but manageable: No political price for trade pact with US: UAE

  - 2006-08-01

  Lebanon's climb to reconstruction, steep but manageable BEIRUT AFP - Lebanon has a dauntingly steep path to climb towards reconstruction and a chance, though no guarantee, of recovering from the economic devastation caused by Israel's offensive, economists have said. Traditional oil-rich allies in the Gulf have raised hopes by pledging...

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• Saudi points finger at Hezbollah in Lebanon crisis

  - 2006-07-14

  RIYADH AFP — Regional powerhouse Saudi Arabia has indirectly accused Hezbollah of provoking Israel's onslaught on Lebanon, distancing itself from the Shiite militant movement amid fears of a wider regional conflict. While not explicitly naming the Lebanese Shiite militia, a Saudi official source quoted by the official SPA news...

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• Aoun makes bid for Lebanon's disputed presidency

  - 2006-03-02

  BEIRUT AFP — Christian opposition leader General Michel Aoun announced his bid for Lebanon's disputed presidency by claiming support from both the Muslim and Christian sides of the religious divide. "I have a good chance if the criterion of representativeness is respected," Aoun, 71, told AFP in an interview....

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• Church says Lahoud presidency dividing Lebanon

  - 2006-03-01

  BEIRUT AFP — Lebanon's influential Maronite council of bishops headed by Cardinal Nasrallah Sfeir warned that pro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud's extended term in office was dividing the nation. "The situation in Lebanon is worrying as the population is divided in two factions: those who want the departure of the...

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