Arab League unveils Lebanon plan
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The Arab League backs Lebanon's army head as the next president at crisis talks on the country's future.
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Last month, Khamel Ali Abdallah kissed his wife and six children goodbye, then put them on a bus to his native village in south Lebanon for summer vacation. He was supposed to join them a week later, but war between Hezbollah and Israel broke out.
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PARIS -- Rival Lebanese politicians yesterday opened French-sponsored talks aimed at establishing a framework for ending an eight-month-old political crisis that has threatened to plunge Lebanon into chaos.
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JERUSALEM -- The 22-country Arab League will send envoys on a historic first mission to Israel this week to discuss a sweeping Arab peace initiative and how it might prop up Mahmoud Abbas, the embattled Palestinian president.
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The Lebanese government approved on Saturday plans for a special international court to try suspects in the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri.
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Move comes in anticipation of final assault by Lebanese army after almost two months of fighting.
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The Arab League is trying to defuse a crisis between Riyadh and Tripoli over an alleged Libyan plot to assassinate the Saudi crown prince.
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The head of the Arab League arrived in Beirut on Tuesday facing an uphill struggle to mediate an end to a political standoff between Lebanon's government and the Hezbollah-led opposition.
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The Lebanese government approved on Saturday plans for a special court to try suspects in the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri, official sources said.
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The head of the Arab League said Saturday that he was leaving Lebanon after failing to get the country's feuding politicians to agree on a plan to elect a new president and end the deepening political crisis.
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Key players in the search for Middle East peace have reached understanding on a plan that could lead to a comprehensive settlement.
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Qatar became the first Arab country Monday to commit troops to monitor a tense cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah, pledging 200 to 300 soldiers to a U.N. peacekeeping force. Pakistan's prime minister toured devastated south Beirut and considered a similar offer.
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The Arab League has formally asked its members to re-establish full diplomatic relations with Iraq. A draft resolution presented to the meeting of Arab foreign ministers in Cairo, called on the League&#39;s 22
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The leader of Lebanon's parliamentary majority and the parliament speaker of the opposition met late Thursday for the first time in four months, a move that marked the first tangible step toward ending a political crisis that has divided the government and paralyzed the nation.
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Arab foreign ministers decided Monday to send a delegation to the United Nations to represent Lebanon's interests at the Security Council, an aide to Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora said.
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Saudi Arabia's king on Monday invited Lebanon's president to an Arab summit next month amid signs in this fractured country that his Western-backed political opponent, Prime Minister Fuad Saniora, might not be asked to attend.
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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 war against Hizbollah guerrillas.