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Crisis talks between rival Lebanese leaders seemed to be heading for failure on Tuesday, following the Hezbollah-led opposition’s refusal of two proposals put forward by Arab mediators to end a political feud that nearly drove the country to a new civil war. "You are talking about
By David Nitkin The White House is staying on the offensive against media reports it considers misleading. A day after White House counselor Ed Gillispie dispatched a sharply worded email letter to NBC News president Steve Capus about the editing in a weekend interview with President Bush, the...
Sudanese soldiers battled former southern rebels Tuesday in the oil-rich region of Abyei despite a five-day old cease-fire, U.N. and southern officials said. Clashes erupted there last week between Sudan's Arab-dominated army and the Sudan People's Liberation Army, an ethnic African militia —...
By Nadim Ladki DOHA (Reuters) - Qatari-led mediators gave rival Lebanese leaders one more day on Tuesday to reach a deal aimed at ending a political crisis which brought their country to the brink of civil war. Qatar's minister of state for foreign affairs Ahmad Abdullah al-Mahmood said the...
BEIRUT, 20 May 2008 (IRIN) - Lebanon needs a new law banning sectarian prejudice and incitement, to help heal rifts that widened after last week's fighting between opposition and pro-government forces, the Beirut-based Khiam Rehabilitation Centre said.
BEIRUT (AP) — Arab mediators on Tuesday gave rival Lebanese factions holding crisis talks in Qatar a deadline of another day, and two different proposals on how to break their country's 18-month political deadlock. A Qatari official hosting the Lebanese, minister of state for foreign affairs...
Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou raises his fist in support of Taiwan during his inauguration ceremonies Tuesday, May 20, 2008, in Taipei, Taiwan. Taiwan's new president on Tuesday tied improved political relations with rival China to Beijing's progress toward democracy _ a condition the communist...
A faith-based media group Christian Media Center has called for a review of Liberia-Libya diplomatic relations in the face of the startling revelations by former president, Moses Blah that Libya trained and financed the rebels of the National Patriotic Front of Liberia in 1989.
Almost as soon as Lebanon's leaders boarded planes for Qatar on Friday for talks to resolve their most dangerous political showdownn since the end of the civil war, the Lebanese took a collective sigh of relief. Those tensions came to a head earlier this month, when Hizballah and allies fighters...
Arab mediators on Tuesday gave rival Lebanese factions holding crisis talks in Qatar a deadline of another day, and two different proposals on how to break their country's 18-month political deadlock. A Qatari official hosting the Lebanese, minister of state for foreign affairs Ahmed bin Abdullah...
