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• Israel's Lebanon cluster bombs legal: army

  - 2007-12-24

  JERUSALEM AFP — Israel's use of cluster bombs in last year's war against Hezbollah was legal and conformed to international conventions, a long awaited army investigation said on Monday. "The Israeli army in most cases used cluster bombs in uninhabited sectors where there were no civilians and from where...

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• UN Security Council considers Hariri murder court

  - 2007-05-18

  UNITED NATIONS AFP — Three key Western members of the UN Security Council on Thursday circulated a draft resolution to set up a proposed international court to try suspects in the murder of Lebanese ex-premier Rafiq Hariri. The binding text, a copy of which was obtained by AFP, is...

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• Western powers circulate draft on creation of Hariri murder court

  - 2007-05-17

  UNITED NATIONS AFP — Three key Western members of the UN Security Council on Thursday circulated a draft resolution aiming to help set up a proposed international court to try suspects in the murder of Lebanese ex-premier Rafiq Hariri. The text, a copy of which was obtained by AFP,...

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• UN 'will push through Hariri tribunal': law officer

  - 2007-04-21

  BEIRUT AFP — The United Nations will push through an international court to try suspects in the murder of former Lebanese premier Rafiq Hariri if the political deadlock in Beirut continues, the UN's top legal adviser warned in comments published Saturday. "If the statutes of the tribunal laid out...

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• Hariri wants UN to find ways to impose tribunal

  - 2007-04-03

  BEIRUT AFP — The son of the murdered Lebanese leader Rafiq Hariri handed in a petition on Tuesday requesting that the United Nations establish an international tribunal on the assassination of his father. Saad Hariri delivered the petition which was signed by 70 Lebanese members of parliament to the...

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• Families of captured Israeli soldiers seek UN chief's aid

  - 2007-02-27

  UNITED NATIONS AFP — The families of two Israeli soldiers captured in July by the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah asked United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday to do his utmost to obtain their release. Speaking to reporters after meeting with the secretary general at UN headquarters in New...

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• French UN commander denies early Lebanon handover

  - 2006-12-28

  BEIRUT AFP — The French general commanding the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Lebanon has denied any early transfer of command to the Italy military as reported by Italian media. "I categorically deny these allegations. This information is incorrect," General Alain Pellegrini said in a statement Thursday. "No precise date...

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• Israel attacked UN post in south Lebanon with precision-guided bomb - UN

  - 2006-09-29

  UNITED NATIONS AFP — An Israeli air attack on a UN base in south Lebanon that killed four peacekeepers last July involved the use of a precision-guided bomb, the United Nations said Friday. "The UN patrol base at Khiam was struck by a 500 kg (1,102-pound) precision-guided aerial bomb," a...

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• Thailand to send medical staff to Lebanon

  - 2006-09-08

  BANGKOK AFP — Thailand will send a medical team to join United Nations peacekeepers in war-torn southern Lebanon, the foreign ministry has said. "Thailand is willing to support the United Nations resolution," the ministry's permanent secretary Krit Garnjana-goonchorn told reporters Friday. He was referring to UN Security Council Resolution 1701...

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• Six states call for cluster bomb ban

  - 2006-09-07

  GENEVA AFP — Six states have formally called for cluster bombs to be banned following the recent conflict in Lebanon. Austria, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand, Sweden and the Vatican made the call during an international review conference on the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons which ended here late Wednesday, conference...

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