EU's Solana seeks end to Lebanon power struggle
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European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana said on Monday he would push for a political solution to the four-month-old power struggle in Lebanon as he started a three-nation Middle East tour.
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BEIRUT - Lebanon on Monday asked the Arab League to help it counter a UN Security Council resolution, aimed implicitly at its powerful neighbour, Syria, which called for Beirutâs sovereignty to be respected and foreign troops to be withdrawn from the
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Batasuna, the banned political wing of the Basque separatist group ETA which has ended its ceasefire, urged the European Union Wednesday to play a greater role in Spain&#39;s Basque Country conflict.
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EU foreign affairs chief Javier Solana said he was confident that Israel would work with Europe to ensure a Palestinian leadership election in January goes ahead throughout the occupied territories.
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European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana said his talks on Saturday with Iran's nuclear chief were constructive and he hoped for another round in three weeks.
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Palestinian leaders on Monday tried to end a bloody standoff between the Lebanese army and Islamist militants holed up in a refugee camp - the battleground for Lebanon's worst fighting since the civil war.
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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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Protests continue in Beirut to try to bring down the government as Arab nations renew efforts to mediate.
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The European Union is attempting to position itself as a key global player by agreeing to lead a United Nations force in southern Lebanon.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium  - European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana said Tuesday he sees no immediate need to change EU relations with Syria over the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri.
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Incoming European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso on Thursday sought to ease conflict over his proposed executive team, as the turmoil threatened to cloud solemn ceremonies for the signing of the European Union's proposed constitution.
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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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RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin went &quot;too far&quot; in a warning to the West not to adopt a colonial attitude toward Ukraine&#39;s election wrangle, EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana has said.
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Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Monday he wants the upcoming meeting of key Mideast players to agree on a package to stop the Israeli-Hezbollah fighting and ensure lasting peace between Israel and Lebanon.
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The resignation of their billionaire Prime Minister, Rafiq Hariri, has left the Lebanese worried about the future of their country as it becomes entrenched in a stand-off with the UN.
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The European Union called Lebanon's  institutional crisis unacceptable and said on Tuesday it should  elect a president as soon as possible.
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Javier Solana, the EU's foreign policy chief, is due to start a Middle East tour, travelling first to Lebanon.