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• Lebanon's Hariri blasts Syria and Iran, calls for mass rally

  - 2008-02-07

  BEIRUT AFP — Majority leader Saad Hariri blasted Syria and Iran on Thursday for interfering in Lebanese politics and urged a massive turnout for a rally on the third anniversary of his father's assassination. "On February 14, we will all go down to Martyr's Square to say in one...

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• Emotional tribute to Sharon two years after stroke

  - 2008-01-04

  JERUSALEM AFP — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert paid an emotional tribute to his mentor and ex-premier Ariel Sharon on Friday, two years after the political giant slipped into a coma following a massive stroke. "I am nostalgic for the long hours that we passed together, for the sound...

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• Lebanon majority plans petition to vote army chief as president

  - 2007-12-03

  BEIRUT AFP — Lebanon's ruling majority is planning to draft a petition to amend the constitution in order to elect army chief General Michel Sleiman as president, Telecommunication Minister Marwan Hamadeh said on Monday. "We are planning to draft a petition for the constitutional amendment," Hamadeh, an MP and...

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• Former US diplomat pleads not guilty over anti-Arab slurs

  - 2007-08-31

  WASHINGTON AFP — A retired US diplomat who served in the Middle East has pleaded not guilty to two charges of making threats against Lebanese and Arabs, sources close to the case said Thursday. Patrick Syring was indicted on August 15 for willful intimidation and making threats by allegedly...

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• Dissident former MP slams Syria elections

  - 2007-04-20

  BEIRUT AFP — Dissident former MP Maamun Homsi, who fled into exile in Lebanon earlier this year, called on Syrians on Friday to boycott this weekend's parliamentary elections which he dubbed "illegimate." "It's the security services that have been out campaigning... while intellectuals, politicians and law-abiding citizens languish in...

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• Britain provides warship for UN Lebanon force

  - 2006-09-09

  LONDON AFP — Britain is to provide a destroyer warship as part of the United Nations-backed peacekeeping operation off the Lebanese coast. "The UK is pleased to be able to assist the UN by providing HMS York to support its Lebanon maritime operation," a Ministry of Defence spokeswoman told AFP...

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• US shows little concern over UN delays on Mideast

  - 2006-08-09

  WASHINGTON AFP — The United States showed little public concern over divisions plaguing the UN Security Council on a delayed resolution on the Middle East crisis, insisting a solution was still in sight. The State Department said it understood Lebanon's problems with the draft, but also what was possible...

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• Tutu calls for immediate ceasefire in Middle East

  - 2006-08-08

  CAPE TOWN AFP — South African Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu has called upon Israel and Lebanon to immediately cease hostilities, saying the conflict was "the best way to recruit suicide bombers." "The very first thing is a ceasefire," the archbishop said Tuesday when asked about a solution to...

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• Detained dissident referred to court in Syria

  - 2006-05-16

  DAMASCUS AFP — A prominent Syrian opposition activist, detained for signing a petition calling for a radical reform of Syria's ties with Lebanon, was referred to court, a human rights group said. Ammar al-Qorabi, president of the Human Rights Association in Syria, said Michel Kilo was referred to court,...

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• Syria arrests dissident over Lebanon petition

  - 2006-05-15

  DAMASCUS AFP — A prominent Syrian opposition activist has been arrested after signing a petition calling for a radical reform of Syria's relations with neighbouring Lebanon, a human rights group said. Michel Kilo, a 57-year-old writer and political analyst, was arrested in Damascus on Sunday, according to the president...

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