German MPs back Lebanon force
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The German parliament authorises the deployment of a navy contingent as part of UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon.
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The first cracks in Israeli support for the war in Lebanon emerged Thursday, with leading intellectuals and mainstream politicians criticizing the government's decision to send more soldiers into Hezbollah territory.
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QASMIYEH, Lebanon  - Israel's government   authorised on Wednesday what it called a severe response after   the Lebanese guerrilla group Hizbollah captured two soldiers   and killed eight others in cross-border attacks.
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The Lebanese cabinet has approved a bill that will allow President Emile Lahud to seek re-election, despite Western and domestic opposition to such a move.
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BEIRUT -- The Arab League won vital Syrian support yesterday for its efforts to end a standoff between Lebanon's government and a Hezbollah-led opposition that has been rallying hundreds of thousands in central Beirut, an envoy said.
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The deployment of European troops to Lebanon and Afghanistan comes under the spotlight and there are mixed views on how the EU should deal with a national unity government in the Palestinian territories. In Austria and Germany, papers are dismayed at a fall in the number of students receiving university degrees.
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The German Parliament on Thursday overwhelming approved a one-year extension of the Bundeswehr&#39;s Afghanistan mandate. The decision comes a day after a grenade attack on a German camp in Kunduz injured five.
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Germany approved sending 2,400 troops to patrol the waters off Lebanon on Wednesday, the countryÂs first deployment to the Middle East since World War II.
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MPs in Beirut vote to extend the Lebanese president's term despite a UN warning to Syria not to interfere in Lebanon.
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Turkey's parliament is to take a controversial decision on whether to send troops to Lebanon.
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BEIRUT: Lebanon and Germany kicked off the German Performance Festival at the Beirut Port area Thursday night to spur trade and cultural exchange.
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Germany accepts its Holocaust guilt and stands side by side with Israel, its president tells the Israeli parliament.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel vowed on Wednesday to keep German peacekeepers in northern Afghanistan and resist attempts to transfer them to the more violent south.Comment
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Anti-Syrian lawmakers gathered at Lebanon's parliament under tight security on Tuesday for a session intended to elect a new president, but an opposition boycott was expected to foil any vote.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday that Germany would not send combat troops to an international peacekeeping force in Lebanon, but was contemplating offering help securing the country's coast.
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HAMBURG -- The decision by Munich prosecutors to press charges against CIA counterterrorism operatives for kidnapping a German citizen, Khaled el-Masri, won widespread applause last week from German politicians and the public. "The great ally is not allowed to simply send its thugs out into Europe's...
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Lawmakers voted Friday to keep the German military committed to the U.S.-led war on terrorism for another year, renewing a mandate under which Germans are involved in maritime patrols in the Mediterranean and off the Horn of Africa.