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• Muslim majorities turning backs on terrorism: survey

  - 2007-07-24

  WASHINGTON AFP — Fully 70 percent of Palestinians believe suicide bombing is justified but support for terrorism is falling in the wider Muslim world, according to a comprehensive US survey released Tuesday. The Pew Research Center said its annual "Global Attitudes" report also showed that the United States' image...

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• US mulling more military aid to Lebanon: White House

  - 2007-06-04

  ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE AFP — The United States may provide Lebanon's armed forces with more military aid in their battle against Islamists holed up in a northern refugee camp, the White House said Monday. "There are some additional items that are already under consideration that we are talking...

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• US vies to boost war-torn Lebanon via trade pact

  - 2006-11-30

  WASHINGTON AFP — The US government signed a trade pact with Lebanon in a step that officials hailed as promoting the economic and democratic success of the embattled country. The Trade and Investment Framework Agreement TIFA was signed in Beirut by Lebanese Minister of Economy and Trade Sami Haddad and...

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• US, France in new Mideast resolution talks

  - 2006-08-09

  UNITED NATIONS AFP — The UN ambassadors for France and the United States held new talks in a bid to overcome divisions on a Security Council resolution calling for an end to hostilities in Lebanon, a diplomat said. The two sides are seeking agreement on whether to change their...

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• US, Britain should take back seat over Lebanon: Annan deputy

  - 2006-08-01

  LONDON AFP — The United States and Britain should not lead diplomatic efforts over the crisis in Lebanon, the United Nations' deputy secretary-general reported. Mark Malloch Brown told the Financial Times newspaper that the two countries, as "the team that led on Iraq", were poorly placed to lead efforts...

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• Israeli air strike provokes shock, fury

  - 2006-07-31

  BEIRUT AFP — An Israeli air strike that killed 52 Lebanese civilians, mostly sleeping children, spread shock and fury from the United Nations to the streets of Damascus and Baghdad. The attack on Qana in southern Lebanon also piled pressure on the United States and Britain to stop the...

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• Bush, Erdogan discuss Turkey's concerns over Kurdish rebels

  - 2006-07-22

  CRAWFORD, United States AFP — The United States, firmly in support of Israel's strikes in Lebanon, grappled with Turkey's warnings that it is losing patience in the face of attacks by Kurdish rebels based in Iraq. US officials fear that any Turkish raid on the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party...

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• France accuses US of blocking Mideast truce

  - 2006-07-21

  PARIS AFP — French Defence Minister Michele Alliot-Marie has accused the United States of blocking a United Nations call for an immediate ceasefire in the Middle East. "The United States doesn't want to arrive at this solution immediately," she told French radio RMC Info on Friday. "And that's...

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• Bush extends US sanctions against Syria

  - 2006-05-09

  FORT LAUDERDALE, United States AFP — US President George W. Bush extended a ban on US exports of certain items, including military equipment, to Syria, and continued freezing the accounts of Syrians supporting terrorist organizations. The executive order extends for one year sanctions first issued on May 11, 2004,...

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• US renews support for independent Lebanon

  - 2006-02-14

  WASHINGTON AFP — The United States marked the anniversary of the assassination of former Lebanese premier Rafiq Hariri with a new pledge to keep his country free of Syrian influence. Washington also renewed its call to the Lebanese government to disarm militias in the country but appeared to give...

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