European FMs launch new bid to end Lebanon crisis
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The foreign ministers of France, Italy and Spain meet Lebanese leaders on Saturday to discuss the long-running political crisis that threatens to scuttle the country's presidential election.
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The United Nations has urged European countries to provide troops to a peacekeeping force in Lebanon as the Beirut government moved ahead with a historic deployment of army troops to the south to shore up a fragile truce.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said   on Friday European nations would provide the backbone of a   15,000-strong United Nations peace force for Lebanon and he had   asked France to lead it.
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Thursday's EU-Russia summit in The Hague provides the European press with a new angle for its continuing focus on the political crisis in Ukraine.
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The European Commission is to draw up plans to bolster co-operation in the fight against terror.
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Commitments by EU leaders for 7,000 troops in southern Lebanon has helped to restore the bloc's credibility, but how the enlarged operation will function in practice and whether it will lead to lasting peace are quite different matters, European papers said.
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European Union foreign ministers were set to push on Friday for a revival of the Middle East peace process and discuss how the bloc could play a greater role in peace-brokering moves.
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Lebanese opposition parties join forces for the first time to counter Syria's influence over Lebanese politics.
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Beleaguered European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso began work today facing growing calls for action against two of his new 24-strong team.
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European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana urged Lebanese leaders on Monday to find a quick political solution to their four-month-old power struggle as he started a visit to the Middle East.
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By Dominic EvansBEIRUT - Germany's cabinet approved plans on Wednesday to send naval and air forces to Lebanon, and Russia said it would dispatch troops to help rebuild roads and bridges destroyed in Israel's ...
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Italy, which has offered to send the largest contingent, made a plea Wednesday for more European troops to an expanded U.N. peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon.
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The EU has told Italy to end the crisis that has left mounds of rubbish in Naples within a month or face court action.
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Five EU states signed an accord creating a new European military police force deployable to crisis situations worldwide, the latest tool in Europe's developing security arsenal.
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Top U.S. and European officials agreed Wednesday on the need for urgent action to halt the fighting in Lebanon and on the creation of a multinational force to keep the peace. But the two sides had starkly divergent views of what that means.
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The United Nations appealed to  Europeans on Friday to commit soldiers to the first wave of  3,500 troops for a U.N. force in Lebanon and the United States  urged France to be among the key contributors.
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European Union foreign policy chief  Javier Solana arrived in Beirut on Monday at the start of a  three-nation Middle East tour aimed at easing tensions in  Lebanon and the region.