French and Syrians talk as Lebanon crisis drags
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A top aide to the French president telephoned Syria's foreign minister on Monday, a day after Nicholas Sarkozy announced suspension of diplomatic contacts with Syria over its role in Lebanon.
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France will have no more contact with Syria until Damascus shows willingness to let Lebanon end its long-running political crisis and find a new president, President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Sunday.
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A parliamentary session to elect a new president was delayed Sunday after talks between Syrian officials and Lebanon's feuding factions failed to break a presidential deadlock.
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Diplomatic efforts to reach quick agreement on a U.N. resolution aimed at ending the escalating Israeli-Hezbollah conflict faltered Wednesday over differences between the United States and France on the timing of an Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.
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The French Government has held crisis talks on the fate of two French journalists held hostage in Iraq amid growing uncertainty over whether their kidnappers have demanded a ransom.
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Lebanese PM Hariri hints his government will soon resign, bringing to a head the political crisis over Syria's influence.
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For the United States and France, Lebanon is no Iraq. After clashing over the U.S.-led ouster of Saddam Hussein, French and American officials are &#151; in the words of a French diplomat &#151; working "hand-in-hand" in the aftermath of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri's assassination.
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Germany and France backed away from their call to set a firm deadline for Turkey over its troubled EU candidacy as they warned Syria not to destabilise Lebanon.
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France has called for an EU-wide debate after a Lebanese television station accused of spreading anti-Semitic propaganda for the Muslim militant group Hezbollah was pulled from a French satellite television network following a French ruling banning it.
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The German and Saudi foreign ministers called on Syria to help clear the way for the election of a new Lebanese president, the German Foreign Ministry said Friday.
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Lebanon&#39;s political factions including the pro-Syrian opposition Hezbollah on Saturday began two days of talks in France to try to ease the deadlock paralysing the nation.
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Lebanon was plunged into fresh turmoil on Wednesday when a bitter power struggle loomed after the assassination of an anti-Syrian Christian cabinet minister that his allies blamed on Damascus.
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WASHINGTON - The United States bluntly told Syria to stay out of the political crisis in Lebanon that came to a head on Wednesday with the resignation of Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri.
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The foreign ministers of France, Italy and Spain on Saturday reiterated their commitment toward ending a long-running political crisis in Lebanon that is blocking the election of a president.
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Syria said on Wednesday it was suspending diplomatic cooperation with France on ending the political crisis in Lebanon, after similar action by Paris.
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"I've said several times... that it's time for Israel to make gestures which would show that peace is possible, including ending settlements"  France will have no more contact with Syria until Damascus shows willingness to let Lebanon end its long-running political crisis and find a new president, President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Sunday. via New Straits Times
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The French government held crisis talks on the fate of two French journalists held hostage in Iraq Wednesday amid growing uncertainty over whether their kidnappers had demanded a ransom and two-day deadline.